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A sturdy bike is a good way to get around the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. The roads are still pretty rough, the distances between places tend to be too long to walk and too short to drive, and on a bike you can easily stop and chat with the residents who have returned. I moved to New Orleans about a year after Hurricane Katrina, and I’ve ridden my bike out here every month or two to see how the rebuilding has been faring. Also, I’ve heard that Brad Pitt likes to bike around when he’s in town. Folks...

EXCERPT [...] BILD: How would you rate your film if you were a critic? Brad Pitt: “Lots of fun! I’m happy with it, because all the actors are great. Each one is a mini star!” BILD: What does your wife Angelina Jolie think? Brad Pitt: “She really likes it. She laughed a lot.” BILD: You play an American soldier who scalps Nazi’s in a hit team and finally kills Hitler. Brad Pitt: “Yes there’s a lot going on in the movie, we had lots of fun. You have some great actors in Germany.” BILD: Who is the real Brad Pitt?...

MOSCOW - Brad Pitt is accustomed to stopping passersby in their tracks. The Hollywood heartthrob's next job is slowing traffic in Siberia , or so Russian traffic police hope. A Russian newspaper reports that cardboard cutouts of Pitt dressed as a traffic cop have been placed by the most dangerous intersections in the city of Omsk. It's the latest move by authorities in their endless battle against speeding. Traffic accidents in Russia are among the highest in Europe. The campaign seems to be working. Omsk officials say accidents are down as star-struck drivers ease off the gas to gaze at...

Looking at yesterday’s Inglorious Bastards premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, we can say only one thing – WOW! What a star studded night it was! There was Angelina Jolie walking the red carpet along with her hubby Brad Pitt. Sharon Stone, Diane Kruger and Dita von Teese showed off their fashion flair too, and Penelope Cruz’s outfit was a show-stopper.

WASHINGTON – First of all, no, Brad Pitt is not short. Yes, he's handsome enough to stand out in any crowd. And, sorry, Angie wasn't with him. From the moment he stepped into the Capitol on Thursday, sunglassed and goateed, Pitt's star power transformed congressional business-as-usual in a way any lawmaker or new president might envy. Pitt's superpowers are such that he and President Barack Obama pulled off an improbably secret meeting on the same topic earlier in the day, White House spokesman Thomas F. Vietor confirmed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was not immune to his charms. Praising Pitt for...

DHP Review: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Nearly two and a half hours pass before The Curious Case of Benjamin Button hits you with any real warmth or poignancy and that’s an awfully long row to hoe in order to finally feel the way the lush trailer promised. The real failure of the film isn’t due to its frustrating lack of a central story and emotional through-line, or even two very unappealing love interests. It fails because wistful isn’t a theme, and other than a series of episodes under the impression they’re more important than they really are, Benjamin...

Hollywood films rarely even attempt the sweep and heartbreak of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a bewitching, at times overpowering movie that seems likely to win about 50 Oscars. There aren’t actually that many Oscars to hand out, but I wouldn’t put it past the Academy to invent some new categories. Based on but greatly expanded from an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, the film by Fight Club director David Fincher proves that this gifted director can deploy all of his visual gifts to create a richly satisfying, emotionally engaging, and more than a bit schmaltzy old-time romance with...

Opening on Christmas Day, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the result of an unexpected cinematic collaboration between scriptwriter Eric Roth, who penned Forrest Gump, and director David Fincher, whose credits include Se7en, Fight Club, and Zodiac. Very loosely based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, and starring Brad Pitt as Button, the film is about a life lived in reverse. Born with the physical features of a man in his eighties, Button grows backward into middle age, youth, and infancy. Fincher and Roth turn Button’s peculiar life, at the center of which is his star-crossed love for Daisy...

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.

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...

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...

Time magazine has published another one of those silly and meaningless lists some in the media occasionally and irritatingly compile to validate their self-importance. It is the 100 “most influential people in the world.” I didn’t make it, but then I don’t make other lists like People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” which must be an oversight. Time never tells us what qualifies these people as influential. Dictionary.com defines influence as, “the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others.” Who on Time’s list fits...

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...

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee met with conservative Christian leader James Dobson Friday as he vied to pick up the Colorado delegates pledged to Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the race. Huckabee's visit comes two weeks after Dobson endorsed him for president. "Personally it was a great encouragement," Huckabee said of the endorsement. "I think it also was an extraordinary boost for our campaign because Dr. Dobson is seen as such a true national leader when it comes to issues of life, marriage and family." Huckabee is an ordained Baptist minister and a former governor of Arkansas. His campaign...

A British al-Qa'eda fanatic who planned to cause "indiscriminate carnage, bloodshed and butchery" on both sides of the Atlantic has been jailed for life. Dhiren Barot, from London, plotted explosions Muslim convert Dhiren Barot was told by a judge at Woolwich Crown Court this afternoon that he must serve at least 40 years before being considered for release. Mr Justice Butterfield told Barot: "This was no noble cause. Your plans were to bring indiscriminate carnage, bloodshed and butchery first in Washington, New York and Newark, and thereafter the UK on a colossal and unprecedented scale." He added: "Your intention was...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hillary Clinton says she supports actor Brad Pitt's efforts to rebuild the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans through his "Make It Right" program. Clinton says the program addresses two important challenges in the New Orleans area -- the need for affordable housing and the need for environmentally friendly development. Pitt was in New Orleans Monday to launch his program, which calls for the building of 150 affordable, environmentally friendly homes. He walked among dozens of hot pink tents representing where the eco-friendly houses will soon be built -- and he called on politicians, foundations, companies...

By ROBIN POGREBIN Thom Mayne of Morphosis in Los Angeles designed a house that would float if the city floods. James Timberlake of KieranTimberlake Associates in Philadelphia created a house with native vines climbing up the side walls to provide shade and coolness. Steven B. Bingler of Concordia in New Orleans envisioned a house with wide front steps ideal for a traditional crawfish boil. Those are three of the designs by 13 architecture firms commissioned by the actor Brad Pitt to help rebuild New Orleans’s impoverished Lower Ninth Ward, one of the neighborhoods hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina in 2005....

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have bought a man-made island in the shape of Ethiopia that is part of an ambitious luxury development off the coast of Dubai, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The Hollywood couple intend to use the reclaimed piece of land to showcase environmental issues and encourage people to live a greener life, the Emirates Today newspaper said. The couple's purchase is part of cluster of 300 islands, shaped like a world map, that is gradually surfacing in waters off the booming Gulf emirate. Representatives of the pair in the US and other reliable sources had confirmed the...

TOKYO - The Japanese distributor of “Babel” is warning audiences the movie may cause nausea or headaches. Gaga Communications has received 15 complaints since the film, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, opened Saturday in theaters throughout the country, company spokeswoman Aimi Ichikawa said Wednesday. Ichikawa said the company was investigating which scenes caused the illnesses, and hasn’t ordered theaters to adjust sound or lighting.

The President of Americans for Truth says the "Today" Show's recent launch of a national musical tour by Cyndi Lauper on behalf of a Human Rights Campaign for transgender equality, is just another example of how the media -- and entertainment industry -- have become an arm of the homosexual agenda. HRC's tour is in support of "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality," according to its website. NBC's Today show launched the True Colors tour, which is no surprise of Peter LaBarbera, whose organization monitors homosexual culture. He says the pattern of the media recruiting celebrities to promote social causes...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie says she and Brad Pitt are disappointed they are not shooting "A Mighty Heart," a film about U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, in Pakistan where he was abducted and murdered in 2002. Security concerns there caused officials to suggest they work elsewhere. So with the exception of a few background scenes shot in Pakistan, "A Mighty Heart" will be made in the western Indian city of Pune. The Oscar-winning actress plays the slain reporter's wife, Mariane. Pitt, Jolie's partner, is the movie's producer. "I am disappointed that we could not shoot the film in Pakistan,...

Los Angeles - Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston's relationship is a thing of the past, if media reports are to be believed. Hollywood funnyman Vaughn split with Aniston at the beginning of September because she was too needy, reports say. The break-up occurred during a phone conversation on September 13, just before the actor left for London to begin work on a new film. Vaughn apparently told an insider that he and Aniston are not together anymore and a friend of Aniston told a US magazine that the two are 100% done. The actor reportedly got scared when he saw...

1 hour, 7 minutes ago Brad Pitt, ever the social activist, says he won't be marrying Angelina Jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped. "Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," the 42-year-old actor reveals in Esquire magazine's October issue, on newsstands Sept. 19. In the article he reflects on "fifteen things I think everyone should know." Though Shiloh, the world-famous daughter of Pitt and girlfriend/earth mother Angelina Jolie, hogged much attention upon her birth in May, Pitt says he "cannot...

New York -- Brad Pitt, ever the social activist, says he won't be marrying Angelina Jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped. "Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," the 42-year-old actor reveals in Esquire magazine's October issue, on newsstands Sept. 19. In the article he reflects on "fifteen things I think everyone should know."

Three months after the RCMP began arresting 18 suspects accused of plotting terror attacks in Canada, an investigation by the National Post has uncovered a web of links to Pakistan. Today, in the first of four parts, the role of a Pakistani training camp is revealed.- - - BALAKOT, Pakistan - A worn footpath climbs from the Kaghan Valley highway into the lush mountains above the River Kunar, on Kashmir's western frontier. The locals all know where it leads. An hour's walk up the steep trail there is a training camp built by Islamic militants called Madrassa Syed Ahmed Shaheed...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- If he's telling the truth, a Jordanian salesman could be the only man on the planet who doesn't know who Brad Pitt is. The 29-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly trying to use an ID card with an Arabic name and Pitt's photo -- which he allegedly downloaded from the Internet. He allegedly forged the card with the Hollywood actor's picture and an Arabic name in an attempt to steal more than $22,000 left unclaimed at an exchange house where his brother worked as a teller, according to a report in the daily Gulf...

[The owner of the "Atlas" movie rights and executive producer is an Atlas Society/Objectivist Center Trustee. So here's the inside scoop!] The effort to film Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged has just taken a big step forward. Daily Variety reports a leaked story that Lionsgate, the independent studio whose movie "Crash" recently won the Oscar for best picture, will be distributing the film. We've confirmed today that a deal is going forward under which Lionsgate will take an option to finance and distribute the film. The executive producers are John Aglialoro, a Trustee of The Atlas Society and The Objectivist Center,...

Variety reports: Lionsgate has picked up worldwide distribution rights to “Atlas Shrugged” from Howard and Karen Baldwin (Ray), who will produce with John Aglialoro. As for stars, book provides an ideal role for an actress in lead character Dagny Taggart, so it’s not a stretch to assume Rand enthusiast Angelina Jolie’s name has been brought up. Brad Pitt, also a fan, is rumored to be among the names suggested for lead male character John Galt.

Angelina Jolie’s first lesbian lover, Jenny Shimizu, revealed steamy details of their first tryst to News of the World, proclaiming that Brad Pitt will never be enough for the superstar because “(s)he loves women too much.” The “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” star - who is due to give birth to her and Pitt’s first child next month - had a highly publicized relationship with the Calvin Klein model in the late ’90s. The pair met on the set of the 1996 film “Foxfire,” when Jolie was just 19. “One night as we sat talking on Angelina’s hotel bed our eyes...

Angelina Jolie has reportedly accused Jennifer Aniston of using an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show last September to turn the public against her and Aniston's former husband Brad Pitt. Jolie's close pal Tonya Hart is quoted in British magazine Star saying the actress was enraged by Aniston's behaviour, claiming she was "milking" her split with Pitt. And the movie beauty even cut ties with Winfrey herself, when the talk show hostess then tried to invite her on the show. Tonya claims Jolie said, "Oh my God, it makes me want to throw up! She shot her mouth off and...

HOLLYWOOD'S hottest couple have reportedly broken up. Brad Pitt is said to have walked out on his seven-month pregnant girlfriend Angelina Jolie. Reports yesterday claimed the couple, nicknamed "Brangelina", had been fighting incessantly over the impending birth of their first child. Earlier, several Hollywood sources claimed that Pitt had been sleeping on the couch in the couple's $70,000-a-month French flat. Pitt, 42, is said to have been under pressure from family to marry Jolie.

Has Brad split from Angelina? April 06, 2006 This article from : News Interactive HOLLYWOOD'S hottest couple has reportedly split. Brad Pitt is said to have walked out on his 7½-month pregnant girlfriend Angelina Jolie. Several reports late yesterday claimed the unbearably beautiful couple, nicknamed Brangelina, had been fighting incessantly over the impending birth of their first child. Earlier, several Hollywood sources claimed Pitt had been sleeping on the couch in the couple's $US50,000-a-month French apartment. Tabloids have been reporting for weeks that the relationship is in trouble with the couple barely photographed together anymore. Pitt, 42, is said to...

He was once renowned as one of Hollywood's biggest womanisers. So when Michael Douglas launches an attack on the state of relationships in Tinseltown, is it a case of the pot calling the kettle black or a former heart-throb getting a bit long in the tooth? The twice-married actor - who raised eyebrows when he married current wife, film star Catherine Zeta Jones, in November 2000 - has made his feelings known about failed showbiz marriages, including those of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton. "I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful...

It looks like Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt is desperate to cash in on the success of gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain, for the actor has allegedly ordered his agents to find him a role that has him playing a gay man in a new movie. According to a source, Pitt became keen to play the part of a gay man after seeing the critical acclaim received by Brokeback Mountain. "Brad has asked his people to find him a script to play a gay man. He's seen the critical acclaim that Brokeback Mountain has won and he wants a piece of...

Uh-Oh! It's another episode in the continuing crisis of watering masculinity down. Respected jewelers, like Tiffany & Co., and mass retailers, like Kay Jewelers, are trying to push a new trend--JEWELRY FOR MEN. Yup, today's Wall Street Journal reports on a Brad Pitt effect. Influenced by girlie-men celebs like Pitt, singer Lenny Kravitz, and actor Orlando Bloom, the Journal claims that, "Once considered a fringe market for rockers, rappers, gay men, and gangsters, men's jewelry is inching toward the mainstream." Say it ain't so. We're not just talking fancy watches, either. Tiffany's now carries "sporty" men's jewelry, including rings, pendants...

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BRAD PITT reportedly is getting ready to marry his ladylove, Angelina Jolie, at pal George Clooney's estate in Italy. Italian papers report that Pitt has asked his ``Ocean's Eleven'' co-star if he and Jolie can wed at the posh villa on Lake Como. Pitt's divorce from Jennifer Aniston is due to become final next month. Meanwhile, Brad is set to give his fans much more to marvel at in the upcoming ``Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.'' The 41-year-old actor reportedly will shoot a nude scene in the film, bathing himself with a washcloth while standing in...

...Whatever the merits of [gender differences elsewhere, in] movies... the classic trope of female vulnerability and male strength has been upended and replaced with the childish and somewhat delusional notion that women can surpass men in every area of competition. One of this summer's biggest movies, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," about a married couple who don't realize that they are both paid assassins, stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and received a lot of buzz for the supposedly heated off-screen romance between the two actors. Less remarked upon, however, was the violence their characters inflict on each other onscreen and...

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Film star Brad Pitt was released on Wednesday from a Los Angeles hospital where he had been admitted for a flu-like illness that turned out to be viral meningitis, his spokeswoman has said. Pitt, 41, was at home on Wednesday afternoon after his discharge and was "doing well," his publicist said in a statement. The actor checked in to Cedars Sinai Medical Center on Monday night, a week after returning from a trip to East Africa. Spokeswoman Cindy Guagenti said on Tuesday that the actor was undergoing tests but was believed to be suffering from...

THE mystery of the Brad Pitt-Jennifer Aniston breakup has been solved, the NY POST reported on Wednesday. Aniston has finally broken her silence to Leslie Bennetts, who will write up the interview for VANITY FAIR. Contrary to early speculation, "She told Bennetts she did want babies with Brad, and that starting a family wasn't the issue... The issue was Brad cheated . . . and she is appalled by the 'family photos' coming out in W." Brad and Angelina Jolie posed with pretend kids as one big happy family in the upcoming monthly. Developing...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - It used to be that no one messed with Tom Cruise. Now the media are having a field day. Why are they beating up on him? Because they can. The energetic superstar used to be invulnerable. He was represented by Hollywood's most powerful talent firm, Creative Artists Agency. His production company, headed by ex-CAA agent Paula Wagner, is housed at Paramount Pictures, where studio chief Sherry Lansing would lavish her biggest budgets on his movies. He was married to Nicole Kidman, one of Hollywood's smartest actresses. And his press was handled by the head of...

The politics of movie stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are similar to their new movie, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." Dreadful. Unfortunately, the torrent of media forcing America to endure both their movie and political endeavors has begun. And the suffering intensifies. "Smith" is half bad high-tech rip-off of "War of the Roses" and half bad shoot-'em-up movie with no plot. And a whole lot of boring. Even if your male significant other is a skank-o-phile and just can't resist the chance to see Ms. Jolie on the wide screen, tell him to skip it. After Jolie dons a black...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie shared a hotel suite duing a recently weekend away it has been claimed. The couple checked into California's exclusive Le Meridan hotel using the names Mr. and Mrs. Pilaf.The stars-- who have been dogged by rumours they were having an affair--were staying at the hotel to promote their upcoming movie 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' with an American magazine. A source told Britains 'The Sun' newspaper, 'Brad and Angelina jointly rented a suite at the Meriden Hotel. It tied in with a publicity shoot for the movie but they registered as a married couple. The room...

LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Aniston filed for divorce from Brad Pitt on Friday, court papers showed. The divorce petition filed in Superior Court seeks dissolution of marriage based on irreconcilable differences. A long-rumored split between the "Friends" star and the "Ocean's Twelve" star was confirmed in January when they released a joint statement saying they were formally separating. The couple married on July 29, 2000, and have no children. It was the first marriage for both. Calls to Aniston's attorney, Robert Kaufman, and to Pitt's publicist, Cindy Guagenti, were not immediately returned Friday evening. In the petition, Aniston requested the...

Terrorism’s American Gigolo: Richard Gere’s Palestinian Bedfellows January 5, 2005 By Debbie Schlussel Printer Friendly When Richard Gere played an “American Gigolo” in 1980, who knew he’d actually become one, twenty-five years later? This week, Gere is pulling tricks for jihadist Palestinian Johns supporting terror. Gere’s not just claiming to speak for “the entire world” in ads for Sunday’s Palestinian elections. He’s co-starring with two Palestinian terrorism supporters, Sheikh Taissir Rajab Al-Tamimi and Atallah (a/k/a Theodosios) Hanna. In an ad sponsored by “One Voice” (more on that group, below), Gere appeals to Palestinian voters: “Hi, I’m Richard Gere, and I’m...

The failure of "Alexander," the newspaper wrote, has "brutally exposed the cultural and moral divide which slices America in two." Uh-huh. "It is being suggested that a film about a global warrior with dyed blond hair and waxed legs was never going to conquer an America fresh out of a presidential election in which gay rights became a major issue." Is there another America they might be talking about? Major issue? Brutally exposed? The last thing an American movie brutally exposed was Kathy Bates in the hot-tub scene of "About Schmidt."

It is so great to win, and win big. I am going to gloat and be a sore winner, because of the abuse I've taken for my positions from so many around me. That being said.... It is now being said that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston are buying a home near Gwyneth Paltrow in London because they don't want to live here anymore. I just won a few hundred dollars in wagers from my very left wing co-workers. I am willing right now...to donate every bit of it to a fund that will buy plane tickets to any liberal...

Katrina Tauchen listened to what was said last night about John Kerry, his military service and the importance of the upcoming presidential election. But the University of Missouri-Columbia freshman said later that what she was thinking was, "Wow, cool, it’s Brad Pitt." Pitt, a Missouri native and MU-student-turned-actor, returned to Columbia last night to promote a movie, but not one he’s starring in. Instead, Pitt promoted a documentary about the Democratic presidential nominee and encouraged the capacity crowd in Jesse Auditorium to cast an informed vote on Nov. 2. "It’s great fun to be home again," Pitt told the mostly-female...

Please boycott the movie "Troy: that releases today. Brad Pitt, a rabid Bush hater and support of "Traitor" Democrat John Kerry needs to take a beating in this movie. If the movie does not do well at the box office Pitt is toast as an actor!