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I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. It’s official that Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and all the kids have left New York City. I assume this means that Brad has finished filming his scenes for Burn After Reading, though I could be wrong. However, the family has headed out to Los Angeles so that Angelina can begin work on The Changeling and I can’t imagine he’d want to be flying from one coast to the other on a regular basis.
I’m sure the entire Internet will be loaded down with people complaining that Maddox has no consistency in his education. On the one hand, I see where these people are coming from. After all, he does leave new friends behind when he has to switch schools, and I can imagine that must be hard. Still, the education itself is consistent since it’s always the same school (Lycee Francais), which was designed specifically for children of people who travel a lot, and he always has his parents with him. If he always stayed in one location, he’d end up being without either his mom or his dad for months on end, so it’s pretty understandable that they want to keep the family unit together as much as they possibly can. It must be hard making those kinds of choices, especially when people are contantly criticising.
I hope to be able to update you all with new photos out of L.A. as soon as possible.
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Thanks Sherry!
Enya,
What ever. Pax has adjusted. He is fine. he use to sleep with Mom&Day, and take his pants off all the time. Now he seems to be adjusted to the Jolie-pitt way of life.
Clever, ligaya! We always have to bear in mind that BA’s detractors take every opportunity to pounce on what they say, poring over these with a fine-tooth comb. Nitpicking and twisting words around.
Goodness, maybe from now on, BA should have a lawyer draw out a long, iron-clad thesis for every question ask of them! They try to answer questions casually, spontaneously and generally. There’s no time to go into every details that would satisfy the “non-fans”.
I don’t recall Angie saying specifically that she’ll take a year off after Wanted. I doubt she meant Wanted, she might be referring to Changeling.
Regardless of what she said, I’m sure the critics will have something negative to say even if she did take the year off right after Wanted! Desperation screams out of their pathetic and futile attempts to bring this couple down.
Okay Brad, how about you give me US$20 000. I am begging you. Just give me the money, don’t make me beg too much.
FOR me I THINK ITS OKEY, these couple i admire is nomadic family and besides i dont think so it will affected to their children especially maddox for sure he knows how busy his parents and they are so close to each other im really impress to angie and brad as a couple they want only to protect their childrens. thanks sherry!
P.S. Don’t be alarmed when Angie doesn’t fall off the face of the earth in 2008 (Brad mentioned a summer vacation). She said she’d take a year off from working – from making new films. But she still has to meet obligations in her contracts – meaning she has to do publicity & premieres for Wanted, The Changeling and Kung Fu Panda. Brad will probably want her at his side for his premieres, too. Not to mention their humanitarian work, her U.N.H.C.R. Goodwill Ambassador and Council on Foreign Relations responsibilities. Angelina is still spokesmodel for Shiseido & St. John (she donated her $12 million pay to charity, over & above the third of her income she donates annually). And it would be safe to predict the paparazzi will continue to follow her everywhere. Just saying.
Enya (lovely name, btw), didn’t you read Angie’s interviews at Cannes earlier this year when she and Brad were promoting A Mighty Heart & Ocean’s 13? Or the previous thread that went over this question extensively? Paraphrasing my earlier post, Angie said in those interviews (among other things) that after Cannes she had two months worth of work to finish on Wanted. Then the family would take a month off (remember the vacation with Mariane & Adam Pearl in France, the amusement park, bowling?), and she had another two months work on The Changeling – all happening according to Angie’s statements.
Enya (lovely name, btw), didn’t you read Angie’s interviews at Cannes earlier this year when she and Brad were promoting A Mighty Heart & Ocean’s 13? Or the previous thread that went over this question extensively? Paraphrasing my earlier post, Angie said in those interviews (among other things) that after Cannes she had two months worth of work to finish on Wanted. Then the family would take a month off (remember the vacation with Mariane & Adam Pearl in France, the amusement park, bowling?), and she had another two months work on The Changeling – all happening according to Angie’s statements.
Don’t be alarmed when Angie doesn’t fall off the face of the earth in 2008 (Brad mentioned a summer vacation). She said she’d take a year off from working – from making new films. But she still has to meet obligations in her contracts – meaning she has to do publicity & premieres for Wanted, The Changeling and Kung Fu Panda. Brad will probably want her at his side for his premieres, too. Not to mention their humanitarian work, her U.N.H.C.R. Goodwill Ambassador and Council on Foreign Relations responsibilities. Angelina is still spokesmodel for Shiseido & St. John (she donated her $12 million pay to charity, over & above the third of her income she donates annually). And it would be safe to predict the paparazzi will continue to follow her everywhere. Just saying.
Did not Angelina say, she would take a year off, to take care of Pax? To me, it seems, they use the moment of popularity to push their acting careers. Both, they are making a movie after movie…
Thanks *ambeach*
Presumptious and VERY selective in the way some people comment on regarding Brad and Angie’s choices for their children. most of their OWN words are discarded.
Amen, ambeach. The topic has been so exhausted. What it comes down to is that even though we get to see pics of this family and hear some news, we still don’t know what goes on in their personal lives, and that includes the kind of education their children are receiving. We should just wish them the best. :)
loves bampzs…..I can’t agree with you on very much that you said. To say that Shiloh is “slow” or needs ” some energy” or that she just is there and doesn’t respond is WAY overboard to me. She is a 17 month old child. What on earth do you want her to act like if I may ask? The one thing you keep saying that really makes me uneasy is the importance that you put on people’s attractiveness. You talk as if beauty is the only thing that matters in life. You say that people would not have all that attention if they were not beautiful/attractive. I don’t know how you were raised but I sure wasn’t raised to believe that all the “attractive” people or people worth knowing were the “beautiful” people. I know plenty of people who are VERY attractive and I wouldn’t give them the time of day.
it’s funny how everyone puts their two cents in (including me) about how someone should educate their children. Do you/me see any other celebs being torn apart about their child/ren being in/out of school or home school. We have no idea if AJ/BP don’t have tutors travelling with them and home schooling all the children. Didn’t I read somewhere that both the boys are learning their native languages – meaning they do have private tutors. Let’s worry about our own children and not be so critical of others when we only see a glimse of them from afar.
I am not worried about the very young Pitt-Jolie children. The oldest is only 6. I agree with ligaya and irma. Every family is unique unto itself. Will they have trouble with the kids?, probably. Most of us go through rough patches with children no matter how we raise them! So they need to enjoy them now. As they (the children) get bigger, they(the parents) will hear opinions and criticism from them, just like other parents do. Children can always tell you exactly what you did wrong. (smile) For the present they are doing what they think is best. Raising a family is challenging under most circumstances. I just wish them the best!
Carrie, I’m not talking just about opinion. There are also studies that have concluded that nomadic mobility as children is not the automatic path to doom & destruction as adults. I’ve never seen a study which said stability (as defined by a married nuclear hetero family living in the same house/neighborhood & going to one elementary/middle/high school) was the guaranteed path to a stable, happy life. In fact my (and my colleagues’) training & experience of over 30 years working in the mental health field have involved more patients from ‘stable’ backgrounds than not. Even so, I’m not concluding that ‘stable’ backgrounds cause mental illness.
My husband was formerly a trained childcare worker/preschool teacher. Here is his take: “Children quickly adjust to new playmates in daycare centers so there is very little trauma associated with moving. My experience is with preschoolers. As children get older, the moving round would get more problematic – especially for teenagers where friendships are deeper than just playmates. My feeling is that moving around is probably OK up to age 10 and maybe to age 13, but difficult after that.”
My husband was formerly a trained childcare worker/preschool teacher. Here is his take: “Children quickly adjust to new playmates in daycare centers so there is very little trauma associated with moving. My experience is with preschoolers. As children get older, the moving round would get more problematic – especially for teenagers where friendships are deeper than just playmates. My feeling is that moving around is probably OK up to age 10 and maybe to age 13, but difficult after that.”
Carrie, I’m not talking just about opinion. There are also studies that have concluded that nomadic mobility as children is not the automatic path to doom & destruction as adults. I’ve never seen a study which said stability (as defined by a married nuclear hetero family living in the same house/neighborhood & going to one elementary/middle/high school) was the guaranteed path to a stable, happy life. In fact my (and my colleagues’) training & experience of over 30 years working in the mental health field have involved more patients from ‘stable’ backgrounds than not. Even so, I’m not concluding that ‘stable’ backgrounds cause mental illness.
AJ is filming “The Changeling” (Clint Eastwood movie) in LA…look at:
http://dlisted.com/node/16641
YOU’RE SO RIGHT! THAT’S WHAT ANGELINA AND BRAD SAID IN A MAGAZINE INTERVIEW.
Carrie, I agree with you. i would never do that to my kids, make them change scools and friends and schedules every month or so. But it is also true that I don’t know how much of the true world these kids will ever know. Do they really have real friens with whom they can ride bike around the neighborhood? do they really need an education? Anyhow, I love this family and just sit here watching the pictures and read all these comments which I really enjoy, but I guess this is not concerning any of us all.