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After spending so much time at the hospital before the birth of Knox and Vivienne and then staying another week after their birth before coming home, it was clearly important for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to spend some quality play time with their four older kids.
Although I’m not thrilled with sneaky photos on private property, there’s no denying that it’s incredibly cute to see Brad, Angelina, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, and Shiloh out in their yard, playing ball and running around. It looks like Mrs. Pitt is there as well, as reports have stated. You can see the photos here.
I rolled my eyes over the fact that they thought maybe Angelina Jolie was holding Vivienne in one of the photos. Who holds a baby like that? Do none of the paparazzi have children? Clearly that was a doll that Angie was holding, maybe one of Shiloh’s dolls. Duh.
Supposedly they’re supposed to be off to Greece, though no one has said why. I can’t imagine them wanting to leave for another country so soon because they are going to be tired for some time, unless it’s a prior commitment they can’t get out of. We’ll see if that’s true or not – maybe it’s just Brad for a movie meeting.
771 days ago
Sorry if this has already been posted. Below is a link to audio excerpts of Angelina Congo travel diary.
http://tinyurl.com/5fdqw7
I am so proud to be a fan of her. She has open my eyes to so many things.
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771 days ago
http://intouchweekly.hollywood.com/
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771 days ago
Bauergriffon’s web site, from which the pics came, has removed the pics and retracted the Greece trip “news”. Good, Brad (or French authorities) have done their job. It is illegal to take such pics in France. We need a similar law here!
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771 days ago
I came across an article on Reuters titled “Brad Pitt threatens legal action against family photos”. I’m glad he has done something about it to protect his family privacy and I fully support him on this. This means we won’t see any more of the family photos taken inside their home in France, but we should feel happy for them as they can now enjoy the privacy they deserve!
Here is the link!
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2329844520080724
Sherry, hope all is well with your daughter!
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771 days ago
They do deserve privacy. But for those who think this Lainey person is a friend, be very careful. She seems to think quite frequently that everything they do is for publicity and control. If you look at what she has today, she basically accuses them of holding back photos to make more money if they do have photos of the twins taken, which to me is not something a friend says. She also accused them in the past of planning on adopting just before the Oscars for publicity, though it did not happen and also getting pregnant for the same reason. She also went after Angelina for not “meeting with Brad’s ex wife” just to embarass her. Again, not something a friend says.
Like all gossips, she should be taken with a grain of salt, just like US Weekly (a terrible article this week), Intouch and all the other tabloids.
Just my opinion of course. Thanks.
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771 days ago
All good points to think about, Terry. Yet, I think Lainey is on the friendly side even if she doesn’t gush over Angelina and Brad like she does over Gwyneth Paltrow, for example. Even with Gwyneth, Lainey points our her foibles. And have you read her posts about X, whom Lainey openly detests and whose opportunism and fame***** is constantly exposed? Did you read her Cannes posts about how the JPs looked and the Pitt Porn? (Nothing like Pitt Porn, she says.)
Yes, Lainey has said that Angelina and Brad are masters at working the media, and that she admires that ability, and she’ll alway buy/believe whatever they’re selling. She says some things a fan wouldn’t say – but then her credibility would be shot down as an independent blogger. This way, people believe the (IMO) overwhelming positive things she posts about the Jolie Pitts. About some of your examples, I don’t remember reading things that way @ Lainey’s. (My daily thing is to check Pittwatch first, then Lainey’s.)
If I took what Lainey posts about her mom and Chinese culture literally, I’d be howling with outrage. I give her a pass because 1) Lainey’s Chinese (I’d never give this leeway to any non-Asian), and 2) it’s her mom she’s talking about (a la Margaret Cho). It’s satire with an edge and affection.
I think Lainey’s more on the tongue-in-cheek parody side, not the vicious malice of the National Ledger, for example.
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771 days ago
My post about Terry’s comment on Lainey is under mod. (10 of 18/19?)
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771 days ago
I lurk here all the time, but have never posted until now.
I love seeing pictures of the happy family, but I also feel bad that I’m snooping on private moments. I can’t imagine what it’s like to live with cameras everywhere. Even when you think you’re alone and isolated from the cameras, you’re not.
I think it’s awesome the way that Brad jumps so quickly to protect his family and their privacy.
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771 days ago
I agree with you Terry. I don’t know why the other person said that they were the next friendliest Brad and Angelina website to this.
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771 days ago
I just went through the comments over at JJ. There was a youtube link to videos of 12-year old AJ singing Stand By Me & Purple Rain in a school skit….too cute. And oh my god she had that amazing smile already back then. I love it.
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771 days ago
Here are the links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMiWRyIMsrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_UT4IPkWss&NR=1
And Angie as a nun for New York New York.
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771 days ago
We all agree about Pittwatch. There’s room for disagreement (which is totally OK) about a lot of other things, whether it’s Lainey, Jon Voight, whatever. :-) Hopefully my post (under moderation right now) will help in clarifying my opinion.
Not 100% sure, but I think it was Sherry who said she liked popsugar. I did too at first. For a while now, I (my own opinion) have considered popsugar, JJ, perezhilton, and jezebel more or less equivalent in the pro/con Angelina and Brad department. Meaning they’re all spotty and inconsistent on positive/negative coverage of the Jolie Pitts. Love JJ’s photos, but he and Perez have run things straight out of the tabs without question, e.g. the in vitro thing. Jezebel, for all its grrrll power attitude, more often than not is way biased against Angelina in a not-good-snarky way – and I’ve called them on it. What I’ve said about perez and JJ goes for popsugar too. Those are just my observations/experience.
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771 days ago
;-) My post about Rach’s post is under moderation (11 of 20, I think). Hopefully, both of my comments about Terry’s and Rach’s posts about Lainey will be out in a timely way – soon (crossing my fingers).
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771 days ago
Actually, I don’t like Lainey. She does not know anything about Brangie. Lately, she has lost her mind with stupid twins photos theories. May be they won’t sell. Who knows?
I know US Weekly is a waste of time but US Weekly story sicks to me. They are morons. But unfortunately, there are many idiots who believe this kind of stupid story. US Weekly= IN Touch=Life and Style=OK
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770 days ago
I think we can all agree that this site is very consistent and for the most part, those not dedicated to Brad and/or Angelina are spotty at best. I totally agree about Perez, Popsugar etc. Sometimes good, sometimes not so much. Lainey’s whole column today was just bad from start to finish.
She believes and has stated many times that US and Janice Min are always right in what they say and she intimated (though there is nothing wrong with invitro) that Brad forced Angelina to have it to have a bio son. Which means they would have had to manipulate the process and even they are not that powerful. Plus, when would this have happened? They were only in New York for the first week of October and in sight every day (US says it happened in NYC in October) and then Angelina started work in LA immediately.
Invitro, again is not the issue. But to state that Brad forced Angelina to go through such an invasive procedure to have something he has stated clearly in the past made no difference to him (he said he wanted girls) is abhorent. But this is now the talk of the blogs with Lainey leading the way. Now she has gone again with a story about Jennifer Anniston.
But they all know this couple and any negative story about Angelina especially gets hits and nasty comments. I no longer read comments in most blogs as they show too much ignorance. Not just about this couple, but about alot of things. The internet allows people to speak without consequence, so hatred is easy to show.
Thanks for keeping this one civil.
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770 days ago
Lainey does not know anything about Jolie-Pitts.
She pretends to be all-in know but she is not.
Her colum is popular with her sarcastic way of writing. We should read her colum just for fun
and should not take it seriously. People should know gossip blogs and gossip magazines exist for mass entertainment and not exist for reporting the truth. The truth is not what we are given by someone but we have to seek through our life.
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770 days ago
RE: Driving with Shiloh in his Lap.
Whilst I appreciate people seeing this as the media having a ‘dig’ at Brad, you must be fair in that it was not safe to do ride with Shiloh on his lap, whether or not it looked cute in the pictures, and that Britney received horrendous flack for this when it happened to her.
It is not fair, simply because Brad is more popular of a parent, to simply put it down to him being right to do it and Britney not.
I hope next time he does remember to put Shiloh in her own seat and where a seat belt.
RE: IVF.
You can actually decide what sex you would like to be inseminated with, so Brad and Angelina could have easily asked for one female and Male.
If it is the case, which I have no idea whether it is or not but I am just commenting, Angelina would have had a few eggs harvested, they would be inseminated with Brad’s sperm and allowed to mature to the stage that it is possible to check for both abnormalities and sex, then they would have been inserted into Angelina.
The process of choosing the sex you wish to be artificially inseminated with is a process that is growing in popularity but it is expensive.
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