Posted on 07/14/2008 9:55:38 AM PDT by Perdogg
An unnamed charity could be £5m better off today after the birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's twins.
The bidding war has already begun for the first photos of Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline who were born on Saturday night at a French hospital.
French papers have reported that an American magazine has already offered $10m (£5m) for the exclusive images of the new babies - with all the money going to a worthy cause.
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her face looks 30 but her hands look 70.
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KInda makes her a p***. I have nothing good to say about this whole thing.
How catty are you? She’s a beautiful woman. And at least they give it to charity. It’s one of my biggest pet peeves that these celebrities get paid for every life event? Want to throw a birthday party for yourself and invite 300 of your closest friends??? NO PROBLEM...Absolute Vodka will underwrite it. Need a million bucks? Go elope to Vegas, sell your pictures to PEOPLE Magazine and vavoom...you’re a million bucks richer. It’s truly sick.
Ya know..someone’s going to make the money. She didn’t create the system...so what she’s doing is the best possible scenario...she’s controlling it and giving it to a charity. Unlike all the other celebs who pocket it.
YES! Like Charlie Sheen’s “magical” how-many-are-we-up-to-now? wedding a couple of People issues back. What a joke.
Good for Angie...she puts her money where her heart is. Very altruistic.
Worthy is a word that means a different thing to different people.
Spot on post Hildy.
Thanks for the pingaroo Perdogg .. guess the question I posed yesterday has been answered.
Lovely. Adults with illegitimate children are such wonderful role models.
Anyone selling their looks is "out there" to be criticized and is fair game.
She has man-hands and huge feet...but a sexy face.
She could have just ignored the system, and not charged anyone.
She has huge feet? I can’t even see her feet. :)
She has too much ink for my taste.
I suppose that so long as you don't have a hand or foot fetish you should be alright with that?
She has lost too much weight over the past 8 years or so. She looked very good in “Gia”.
Do a free magazine shoot of the babies and let People make an absolute fortune off of the sales? Then the only entity that benefits is People.
Or don’t do any photo shoots and be harassed relentlessly by the papparrazi as they scramble to be the first one to get a pic that will pocket them millions of dollars? Then the only one that benefits is the photographer.
At least her way, there will be people less fortunate than herself who will benefit from the photographs.
Last month they donated $1M to children affected by the Iraq war - $500,000 for school supplies in Iraq and $500,000 to the YMCA Armed Services Operation Hero program.
I’m thinking they can help a lot of people with this $10M.
I love Angelina! She is my favorite hollywood actress!
Gia? WTF was that?!
I actually worked with Angelina on a charity project. She is very nice and while she leans left she is closer to the middle than most of Hollywood is.
Also to not get gross my friend works at the store in the hotel she and Brad were at when they were here in Chicago and there were big ANGELINA IS PREGNANT headlines on one of those rags and they had a laugh together as she was purchasing feminine products. This was over a year ago.
And all the rags had it that the twins were both girls.
If she was my wife she’d have to wear gloves in the bedroom! /s
Welcome to FR!! Are you on the football ping?
Thanks for the info!
My prediction: Angelina Jolie will follow the same politcal path as Bo Derek. Come back in 10-12 years and she will be a born-again conservative.
Yea...she’s got that. I won’t be around when she gets old, but she should age in an interesting manner.
to me, she resembles Valerie Harper in this particular photo...
“A long time ago, but somehow in the future... It is a period of civil war and renegade paragraphs floating through space. There’s cool space battles, and the bad guy is the good guy’s dad. But you don’t find that out ‘til the next episode. And the hot chick is really the sister of the good guy, but they don’t know it and they kiss. Which is kind of messed up. I mean, what if they had done it instead of just kissed? Angelina Jolie kissed her brother. Yeah, she did. You know it, I know it, and her dad knows it. That’s why they hardly ever talk anymore. You can run away to Africa, but you can’t run away from the truth. Oh, by the way, here’s a tip for you: when this is over, go out and rent the movie “Gia.” She’s way naked in it, and makes out with another chick and everything. It’s awesome. I stumbled across it late night on HBO after I had just got back from hockey, and I almost fainted. But I digest... Princess Leia was coming back from buying space groceries when this happened...”
Not yet but would love to be on it although my brain hasn’t wrapped around football with my Cubs being 19 over 500.
Would love to be on the baseball ping as well.
While she’s hardly a conservative she’s much more middle of the road than most of Hollywood.
She has hands?
She might be a wing-nut, but at least the woman went to Iraq herself to have a look-see before making any real judgements.
They were going to get pictures of them one way or another. This way she controls the setting and the pictures, and makes money for charity.
Someone will still snap other pictures, but they won’t be worth anything much since we all have these pictures — which means maybe nobody will spend a lot of time and money trying to get more candid shots.
And since in 5 years nobody will be able to recognize them, it’s not like the privacy of the children is being violated.
That might work for you and me, but for a celeb of Angie's stature; the paparazzi are going to be all over the place trying to get pictures of those kids anyway, then sell them to magazines. So why not let her take the paps out of the equation, get paid for it and send it to charity.
I give Angie credit, she puts her money where her mouth is. Saves a third of her income, spends a third, and gives a third away to charities.
She has a large family and puts her money where the mouth is. Both very good traits
Definately not the hallmarks of most self centered entertainers.
scott says;
Please put rexgrossmansonlyfan on the NFL ping!
She’s very pretty but for some reason she always looks dirty, and icky. Just MHO, of course.
And unlike most liberal celebrities who whine about hunger and AIDS in Africa, she actually goes there and knows what is going on and what they need instead of sitting in their $20 million massion complaining about how evil Bush is. She puts her actions and money where her mouth is, whether or not you agree with her.
It’s the ink.
Another caesarean section. Keepin it *real* for Bradley.
Unlike a lot of Hollywood prima donnas, she might actually do some work with them. When my niece was very young she examined one of my hands in the curious uninhibited way children do such things. “Why are your hands so hard?” she ask. It kind of made me proud to tell her that it was because I worked with tools and metal.
I like that she’s giving the money to charity.
Charity and humanitarian efforts trump trashy personal relationships. OK, I get it now. Whether one considers her a role model or not, public figures are fair game. Does her PR humanitarian work cover up her lack of moral character?
I dunno.
Gotta go now ... I have an appointment for collagen injections in my lips. ;D
I don’t care how much money is donated. She’s still pimping her kids out to the public. And that is NOT a good cause.
Ha. Rumor is she had c-sections because she has the herp. Those gossip blogs can be brutal- to everyone!
It completely baffles me that someone would pay that kind of money for pictures of someone’s kids. For once I would like to see the media idolize a good doctor, engineer, or someone other than the highly exalted “movie star” who actually contributes relatively little to humankind by being pretty or being a good actor.
I read van interview with her last month. She said that she isn’t one of these people who run around shouting peace...give peace a chance..just sit down and talk. She realizes how we must use violence as a means to peace. Sounded pretty good. She’s seen enough to realize the way the world works.
I read van interview with her last month. She said that she isn’t one of these people who run around shouting peace...give peace a chance..just sit down and talk. She realizes how we must use violence as a means to peace. Sounded pretty good. She’s seen enough to realize the way the world works.
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