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PENSACOLA, Fla.—The run-up to Florida's Republican presidential primary has already been weird, thanks in part to an extended debate over whether there should be a colony on the Moon. And on Saturday, it got a little weirder. Stumping at a seafood restaurant here along the Gulf coast, Mitt Romney picked up the endorsement of actor Jon Voight, the star of "Midnight Cowboy" who is perhaps best known these days as the father of actress Angelina Jolie. The actor has long been active in Republican politics, stumping for Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign in 2008 and traveling with Mike Huckabee to meet...

President Barack Obama might be powerful and well-known, but the White House got some Hollywood star power Wednesday: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stopped by for a chat with the chief executive. The actors were spotted in the Oval Office by photographers waiting outside for the president to take off for a trip to Chicago.

Like the discovery of gambling in “Casablanca,” the mainstream media is shocked, shocked! to learn there is chaos and back-stabbing in the Obama White House. The media missed the story for the same reason Capt. Renault missed gambling at Rick’s Cafe: They chose to. A cash kickback did the trick in the film. In real life, the Washington pack turns away from the truth for something less forgivable. Three years after President Obama took office, much of the national press corps remains remarkably uncurious about what has gone wrong inside the land of Hope & Change. Whether still mesmerized by...

Everyone knows President Barack Obama likes a celebrity fix - just ask Johnny Depp. And today, just a day after pictures emerged of his extravagant 2009 Halloween party at the White House, the most powerful man in America was enjoying more VIP company. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie brought some Hollywood star power to Washington D.C. as they stopped by for a chat with the chief executive at the Oval Office.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie travelled to meet some of the thousands of Syrian refugees on the country's border with Turkey. The actress and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), shared fruit and dessert with Syrians who have fled the government's bloody crackdown. Flying in on a private jet, she took boxes of toys for children at a camp in Turkey to which which nearly 10,000 have fled. Jolie spent two-and-a-half hours at camp in Altinozu, 12 miles (20km) away from the Syrian border. She reportedly asked them how they were in Arabic, before speaking with...

Angelina Jolie put a smile on the faces of some wounded warriors she met with last week at Ramstein Air Base in Germany as they prepared to travel back to the U.S. for the first time since being injured. And they clearly put one on hers, too!

She hasn't even been officially confirmed as having the role, but Angelina Jolie is already receiving criticism over her possible portrayal of the legendary Queen of the Nile. Jolie, who turned 35 last week, is caught up in a racially charged debate over whether the role should of been played by a black woman. The Egyptian royal was most famously portrayed Elizabeth Taylor in 1963. The new film's producer, Scott Rudin, previously told USA Today the role is being developed with Angelina in mind as she has 'the perfect look'. But this statement has angered members of the African American...

She hasn't even been officially confirmed as having the role, but Angelina Jolie is already receiving criticism over her possible portrayal of the legendary Queen of the Nile. Jolie, who turned 35 last week, is caught up in a racially charged debate over whether the role should of been played by a black woman. The Egyptian royal was most famously portrayed Elizabeth Taylor in 1963. The new film's producer, Scott Rudin, previously told USA Today the role is being developed with Angelina in mind as she has 'the perfect look'. But this statement has angered members of the African American...

After more than 50 years, Ayn Rand’s seminal novel and ode to free market capitalism “Atlas Shrugged” is finally hitting the big screen this weekend, in the first of a planned trilogy of movies. Independently produced and distributed by entrepreneur John Aglialoro, chairman of UM Holdings Inc, the film “Atlas Shrugged, Part 1″ was budgeted under $10 million and includes a cast of little-known actors (newcomer Taylor Schilling stars as the powerful female industrialist Dagny Taggart). At one time, Algialoro, who optioned the book’s rights 18 years ago, had struck up a partnership with Lionsgate Films to make a version...

Angelina Jolie's Visit To Tunisia Sparks Mini Riot Libyan refugees chanted "Angelina Jolie, we want to die for you!" as the actress made her way through the Shusha refugee camp in Tunisia today, an X17 photographer on the ground tells us. Our photographer reports exclusively: "The people were beyond excited to see her. There were thousands of refugees screaming her name and chanting. The crowd was closing in on her and her security detail; it was intense." The UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador was forced to cancel half of her visit for security reasons. The military was overwhelmed by the crowd and,...

We are in a Cleopatra moment. Three books featuring the notorious Egyptian queen have been published in the past few months of which Cleopatra: A Life by Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer Stacy Schiff is generating bombshell-size buzz. Michiko Kakutani gave Schiff's book a rave in The New York Times, the biography was fodder for Maureen Dowd's op-ed column (NYT), on NPR Tina Brown declared Schiff's book a "must-read" on the subject of women and power, Judith Thurman's round-up (The New Yorker) of the goddess' most recent chroniclers conferred upon Schiff's opus alone the honorific "a work of literature." But the mega-buzz...

It appears that high-tech glitz and A-list celebrity glamor are not the keys to moviegoers’ hearts. Pre-release box office tracking for movies hitting theaters this holiday season has yielded some interesting results. Disney’s long-hyped cyber-reality actioner Tron:Legacy may end up a financial loser. The 3D sci-fi film has been marketed heavily for months en route to its Dec. 17 bow, and many have been suggesting a big opening and leggy theatrical run based on built-in interest from the cult base of its 1982 predecessor. But at this point, tracking suggests Tron: Legacy with as little as $35 million. In the...

While everyone is preparing to give thanks tomorrow, one of America's most famous families, the Jolie-Pitts, have decided to sit this Thanksgiving out. "Angelina Jolie hates this holiday and wants no part in rewriting history like so many other Americans," a friend of the actress tells me. "To celebrate what the white settlers did to the native Indians, the domination of one culture over another, just isn't her style. She definitely doesn't want to teach her multi-cultural family how to celebrate a story of murder." Angelina has been filming her directorial debut, about a Serbian man and Bosnian woman who...

While everyone is preparing to give thanks tomorrow, one of America's most famous families, the Jolie-Pitts, have decided to sit this Thanksgiving out.

It's a holiday and some might say we should be charitable to the unfortunate. By unfortunate usually they mean those that don't have as much as you and I. But one might construe "unfortunate" to mean being gut wrenchingly stupid, too. And when one thinks of the gut wrenchingly stupid one often thinks of the denizens of Hollywood above all others. Still it is awfully hard to be charitable toward such stupidity, I have to admit. Today I have two members of the gut wrenchingly stupid Hollywood set to report upon. It might have been three but the terminal lunacy...

The very gorgeous and beautiful Angelina Jolie and the outstanding Johnny Depp are together in The Tourist their forthcoming movie together. After doing, the spicy Salt Angelina is doing an action thriller movie that is expected to release in December. The movie has not even released yet but the rumors about the movie are very much prevalent even far before the movie is to release. There are many expectations of s steamy sex scene between Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in the movie. The scene is rumored to be scripted like- when Angelina will be taking a shower, Johnny will...

In August's Vanity Fair, Angelina Jolie opens up about her six children and relationship with beau Brad Pitt. The Salt star, 35, admits she dresses Shiloh, 4, "like a little dude. Shiloh, we feel, has Montenegro style. It's how people dress there. She likes tracksuits, she likes [regular] suits. She likes to dress like a boy. She wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boys' everything. She thinks she's one of the brothers." But Jolie says she isn't worried: She was just like Shiloh as a kid. "Shiloh’s hysterically funny, one...

Angelina Jolie is one of the most beautiful women in the world, but her "perfect" looks have some critics complaining she's all wrong for her latest role. Earlier this month producer Scott Rudin got the Internet buzzing with his announcement that he was developing a Cleopatra biopic "for and with Jolie" based on Stacy Schiff's book "Cleopatra: A Life." Schiff raved about the choice, telling USA Today, "Physically, she's the perfect look." But some members of the African American community beg to differ -- they are outraged by the casting decision and say Jolie is "too white" to play the...

Angelina Jolie visited a refugee center in Sucombios province north Ecuador, Friday, June 18. The center houses thousands of refugees who have fled the conflict in adjacent Colombia.

She hasn't even been officially confirmed as having the role, but Angelina Jolie is already receiving criticism over her possible portrayal of the legendary Queen of the Nile. Jolie, who turned 35 last week, is caught up in a racially charged debate over whether the role should have been played by a black woman Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1287505/Race-row-erupts-casting-Angelina-Jolie-Cleopatra.html#ixzz0rDMI1hT4

As celebs including Jessica Simpson, Alec Baldwin and Jessica Alba converged in Washington D.C. Saturday night to hear President Obama show off his comedic skills at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, one highly politicized star was notably absent. Angelina Jolie, who recently returned from a trip to Bosnia where she met with displaced victims of the civil war there, was invited to the party but chose to skip it.Angelina Jolie turns down Obama's dinner invitationWonderwall, May 3, 2010 Related: News, Angelina Jolie By Jennifer Odell As celebs including Jessica Simpson, Alec Baldwin and Jessica Alba converged in Washington D.C....

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Angelina Jolie began two days of meetings with Haiti earthquake victims Tuesday in her role as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. refugee agency. The actress, representing the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, met with U.N. officials in Port-au-Prince and visited an SOS Villages camp for orphans outside the capital, where she was cheered by Haitians yelling, "Angie! Angie!"

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie no more as actors ‘agree to split’ John Harlow THE Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have signed papers paving the way for a legal separation with joint custody of their six children, it was reported last night. The couple, known as Brangelina, have been together since shooting the thriller Mr and Mrs Smith five years ago. They are said to have agreed that the children will live with Jolie. The couple are not married; they said they would marry only when American homosexuals were also able to wed. Even so, documents were filed...

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated over $100,000 to an orphan children charity on Christmas. Called the SOS Children's Villages charity in the US, it is a foster care facility, which enables siblings to stay together during the adoption process, reports contactmusic.com. "We have seen first-hand the remarkable job SOS does to raise orphaned and abandoned children and keep families together," Jolie said in a statement. Her partner Pitt said: "In this holiday season, many of us take for granted that we are surrounded by loving family members. The poor outcomes for foster children indicate that we must do...

Or so sources say, although this report does jibe conspicuously with the details of that blogospheric catnip Us Weekly tossed out last week. Remember that dream I had about debating social security with an Orion girl? This is better: “[Jolie thinks] President Obama is a great communicator but not interested in issues outside the United States,” says a Hollywood insider close to the Oscar-winning actress. “Angelina has worked very hard to get first-person accounts of what is going on in the world with her briefings from the UN, [while] Brad is a ‘Johnny Come Lately.’” Jolie even thinks Obama will...

Or so sources say, although this report does jibe conspicuously with the details of that blogospheric catnip Us Weekly tossed out last week. Remember that dream I had about debating social security with an Orion girl? This is better: “[Jolie thinks] President Obama is a great communicator but not interested in issues outside the United States,” says a Hollywood insider close to the Oscar-winning actress. “Angelina has worked very hard to get first-person accounts of what is going on in the world with her briefings from the UN, [while] Brad is a ‘Johnny Come Lately.’” Jolie even thinks Obama will...

(picture excerpted due to Free Republic rules...Getty Images are banned) Exclusive: Angelina Jolie Not a Fan of Obama Tuesday – November 24, 2009 – 1:07pm Barack Obama does not have Angelina Jolie's seal of approval."She hates him," a source close to the U.N. goodwill ambassador, 34, tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now). See Angelina Jolie's early modeling shots!  "She's into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise," adds the source. See how the Jolie-Pitt kids have grownBut don't expect to see...

Barack Obama does not have Angelina Jolie's seal of approval. "She hates him," a source close to the U.N. goodwill ambassador, 34, tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now). "She's into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise," adds the source. But don't expect to see the Salt actress rally against Democrats on Fox News like her staunch Republican father, Jon Voight. "Angie isn't Republican, but she thinks Obama is all smoke and mirrors," the source says....

ANGELINA Jolie's brother has turned on her after she reportedly told him about having sex with her mother's boyfriend, according to a new biography. author Andrew Morton alleges Jolie slept with Marcheline Bertrand’s live-in lover when she was just 16. the two women struggled to rebuild their relationship after Jolie confessed to the alleged night of passion. "When Ange admitted the story to her brother James just a few weeks ago, even he turned on her. "She has hardly anyone left in life who likes or trusts her."

Sculpture of Angelina Jolie Breastfeeding to Be Shown in Oklahoma Next Month Controversial celebrity sculptor Daniel Edwards has unveiled his latest work: a park-bench-sized statue of Angelina Jolie in the nude, double breastfeeding her twins. This artistic work of public indecency (she's not wearing pants!) is called "Landmark for Breastfeeding" and was inspired by Jolie's cover photograph on W magazine last year. Edwards decided that, in order to encourage more women to breastfeed and to raise global awareness of public nursing, he would depict one twin as African-American and the other as not, since that could totally happen in the...

Angelina Jolie is ultimate lesbian heroine Angelina Jolie is the world's ultimate lesbian heroine according to research released today that ranked the top 20. By Jeni Oppenheimer 10 Jul 2009 Jolie is 34 and has six children who she is raising with her long time partner Brad Pitt. The poll results spanned 2,600 lesbians and showed the Hollywood star as the favourite. "Angelina was the clear winner; and she also has a dark side which many lesbians like to. All of the ladies in the poll appeal to women of all ages," said a spokesman for One Poll who carried...

Watch out, Oprah! This year Angelina has the power. Angelina Jolie nabbed the No. 1 spot on Forbes' 2009 Celebrity 100 list, the magazine announced Wednesday, topping Winfrey who slipped to No. 2 after two consecutive years at the top. According to the magazine, wealth is only one factor in determining the most powerful celebrity, and Jolie's $27 million in earnings last year combined with her fame determined her ranking. (Interestingly, Winfrey grossed $275 million in 2008.) Rounding out the top 5 positions in Forbes' rankings: Madonna, whose Hard Candy tour and $110 million income landed her the No. 3...

THE HAGUE (AFP) – Oscar winner Angelina Jolie attended a war crimes trial in The Hague on Tuesday, hailing the bravery of youngsters who testified against Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga. "Children deserve special protection. Using children in conflict is a heinous crime and destroys the very fabric of a society," said Jolie, who is a goodwill ambassador for the UN's refugee agency. "I imagined how difficult it must be for all the brave young children who have come to testify against him," she said in a statement. Lubanga, 48, has pleaded not guilty to using children under the age...

It’s so sad but even the painfully beautiful people among us still get hung up on body flaws. Angelina Jolie has been complaining lately about the state of her post-natal boobs and belly. “The biggest issues for her are her breasts - which she says are smaller and not as firm as they were before she breastfed three children - and her stomach, which she’s described as ’saggy,’” says a source close to the Oscar-winning star. “She’s frustrated because no matter how much exercise she does, there’s still some skin that wrinkles.” See, this is what happens when you give...

DHP Review: The Changeling Posted by Dirty Harry Friday, October 31st, 2008 I’ll tweak this into a right and proper review this weekend but let me warn off some of you who might be considering a plunk down of ten bucks. The Changeling lacks story focus and at two hours-twenty minutes is about 40 minutes too long. What opens as an intimate, period piece about a mother searching for her lost son slips a gear and goes all Bette Davis with an unexpected change of scope to a much broader palette involving a gruesome child murderer and police corruption. This...

Kate Hudson David Babaii, you know him as the “King of Curl,” the man who’s worked his styling magic on such celebrities as “Angelina Jolie, Uma Thurman, Nicole Kidman, Scarlett Johansson, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gwyneth Paltrow,” earning him the title, “the Hairstylist to the Stars.” David Babai Fun David Babai Fact: He first met Angelina Jolie, when he literally ran into her, while running up the stairs during a photoshoot he was working on.

'Angelina - bank raider' Italian cops easily caught an armed robber after being told the gun wielding raider was Angelina Jolie. Lookalike Annarita Ottonello, 29, staged a bank robbery in Genoa after running into money problems, say police. But she was quickly caught, as she tried to escape by scooter, after police circulated the news that the bank had been ro

Finally, we have a sneak preview of the cover of W magazine, which was photographed by Brad Pitt. The actor pictured his beloved wife Angelina Jolie smiling and breastfeeding her newborn babies. What an idyll!

Angelina Jolie, a mother of six children, glammed it up for The Changeling premiere’s red carpet after a long break, and looked incredibly beautiful.

Brad Pitt is a photographer? What surprising news! Fashion Week Daily reports the new papa photographed Angelina Jolie and family last week at Chateau Miraval in the South of France for the cover of the November W.

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.

General Petraeus gets bigger crowds at his photo-opportunites in Iraq than Angelina Jolie did on her recent visit If Santa ever set up his Christmas grotto in a war zone, it might look something like this. Hundreds of men and women, many of them armed, line up in a marble hall inside one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces, waiting patiently for more than half an hour for their hero to turn up. The object of so much adulation is General David Petraeus, the 55-year-old commander of US and allied forces in Iraq. General Petraeus, widely credited with the military strategy...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's love for children is by no means limited to their own: The couple has donated $1 million to help kids affected by the war in Iraq, the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict announced Wednesday. The organization will distribute the donation, made through the couple's Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to four organizations working on behalf of children who have lost parents, homes and schools in Iraq. Children in the U.S. who have lost parents in the conflict will also benefit. "These educational support programs for children of conflict are the best way to...

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Clint Eastwood is one of our most famous Republicans. Did you talk politics with him on the set? ANGELINA JOLIE: Actually, we don't disagree as much as you'd think. I think people assume I'm a Democrat. But I'm registered independent and I'm still undecided. So I'm looking at McCain as well as Obama. Clint can teach me about things domestically and I'm more aware of some things internationally. So it was less a debate and more things we found interesting. But for the first few weeks I was just too nervous to get into any deep conversation!

Paris, France (BANG) - Angelina Jolie has hinted she is planning to settle in France by enrolling her son Maddox in a local school. The pregnant actress and her partner Brad Pitt, who recently splashed out $70 million on a property on the French Riviera, seem intent on staying in the country and educating their six children there after Angelina gives birth to twins. A source said: "They have enrolled Maddox at a local school in Brignoles, it's the nearest school to their chateau, and he'll carry on where he left off at his French school in New Orleans." "They...

The United Nations, a body devoted to peaceful resolutions to conflict across the world, may regret appointing the actress Angelina Jolie as one of its Goodwill Ambassadors. In an interview in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly to promote her latest film Wanted, in which she plays a hired killer, she says that she advocates political assassination in extreme cases, a complete no-no as far as the UN is concerned. "I am a strong believer that without justice there is no peace," she says. "I'm somebody who's very curious about the International Criminal Court and supportive of following through on...

'I've got my Tomb Raider guns - and I'm not afraid to use them,' says Angelina    Angelina Jolie has revealed she own real versions of the guns she toted in the movie Tomb Raider - and she and partner Brad Pitt wouldn't be afraid to use them. The actress, who is rumoured to have given birth to twin girls Isla and Amelie, says she and Pitt keep a firearm in their house to protect themselves and their expanding brood...    By Martyn Palmer Last updated at 9:48 PM on 31st May 2008A solid gold pendant nestles in the...

Angelina Jolie isn’t the only humanitarian in her family! Not to be outdone, her brother James Haven is set to appear before the Senate on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to lobby about the fight against AIDS and malaria, The Washington Post reports. The 34-year-old will meet with senators Dick Lugar and Barbara Boxer, among others, to discuss the various efforts being employed in this battle. While his sister has had her share of acclaim for her globe-trotting good deeds, James has received less fanfare for his big heart. The actor is on the advisory board of Global Action for Children,...

After years of delays, Ayn Rand's famous novel "Atlas Shrugged" is being made into a feature film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, according to media reports. Lionsgate Films bought the rights to the film version of the 1957 novel, considered in many polls to be one of the most influential books in history. According to Hollywood trade paper Variety, the Mr. And Mrs. Smith co-stars, who are both fans of the Russian novelist, would play the lead roles of Dagny Taggart and John Gault. The story revolves around the economic collapse of the United States sometime in the future...

  Angelina Jolie Makes More Sense than the Democrats on Iraq February 29, 2008 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT <SNIP> Everybody today is raving about a piece in the Washington Post by Angelina Jolie in which she just got back from Iraq. She says, "We have finally reached a point where humanitarian assistance, from us and others, can have an impact."  Her point is to stay, help the Iraqis, especially those who are out of the country, want to come back home, the time is right now, and that the surge is working.  Now, if you read the piece by Angelina Jolie...