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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...