Friday, July 23, 2010

Angelina & Brad buy a home in Italy


Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie buy a home in Italy

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have expanded their property empire by investing in a multi-million dollar mansion in Italy.

The Hollywood couple has reportedly added to their property portfolio by paying $40 million for a luxury villa in the hills of Valpolicella, Italy.

The expansive estate is surrounded by a park and includes two swimming pools with waterfalls and jacuzzi tubs, a cinema room and a well-equipped gym.

Property firm owner, Alexander Proto, tells Sky Italy magazine, "They wanted something more exclusive and in record time to spend the summer vacation in Italy."

The couple and their six children spent several months living in Italy this year while Jolie filmed scenes for her new movie "The Tourist" in Venice. They also own homes in New Orleans, Louisiana and Los Angeles.

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Full "USA today" interview with Angelina!


WASHINGTON — The woman in question is always right in front of everyone's eyes, but still they persist in asking: Who is she?
It applies to both the suspected double agent Angelina Jolie plays in the spy thriller Salt and to the actress herself, one of the world's most famous women — though the world, insatiably, perpetually, wants to know more.

She has obliged the curiosity by defying easy identification.

The gothic, spooky ingénue turned seductive femme-fatale siren turned female action hero, she's also the mother of six, a daring U.N. goodwill ambassador who travels regularly to violent and impoverished nations, and companion to a man who makes the rest of his gender look like cartoon drawings.

Her screen characters have a lot to live up to.

In Salt, opening Friday, Jolie is once again in attack mode as a CIA operative suspected of being a mole for a Russian sleeper cell that is trying to restart the Cold War as something a little more hot. Is she wrongly accused? A traitor playing innocent?

The movie's sinister twists are what intrigued the actress.

"I loved that she wasn't completely good. There's something about that," Jolie says, smiling warmly. "Not to say that's me. But there's certainly a side of me that isn't completely ..." She searches for the word.

"Sane," she chooses. "Or completely 'even' all the time."

Her eyebrows lift, just slightly, over intense eyes. She smiles again.

"We all have our dark sides," she says.

As someone whose identity has shifted dramatically over the years, it's obvious why Evelyn Salt would appeal to her. While the rest of the world questions Salt, doubts her, cheers for her or roots against her, only the woman herself knows her true motivation. Jolie is the same way.

"My evolution, and any extremes in my evolution, has been my personality, out of the nature of what's inside me," Jolie says. "I'm very unaware of my public self. I don't read anything written about me. I don't look at magazines. I only watch the films and premieres if I have to. I still haven't seen some of my films."

"If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person."

In person, Jolie, 35, is delicate in a way that seems the antithesis of her furious screen alter egos.

At a suite in the Ritz-Carlton in Washington neighborhood Georgetown, not far from where she shot many of Salt's chase scenes through the capital, she has trouble sliding a steel coffee table closer to the hotel room couch for her water.

Try to do it for her, however, and you realize —damn, that table is heavy. She purses her lips in a playful smile that seems to ask: Who's delicate now?

The surprising adjective for this iconic screen vixen in real life is ... sweet. Her smile, when it really turns on, is big and goofy. Genuine.

It comes out when she spots a picture of a baby on a stranger's cellphone, reaching out for it: "Is that your daughter? ... Oh. So cuuuuute."

With 2-year-old twins at home, she looks at the picture again and asks, almost conspiratorially, how the baby's hat manages to stay on. When told it doesn't, she leans back on the couch, nodding knowingly.

Liev Schreiber, who co-stars in Salt as a CIA colleague, says parenthood is a surefire way to bond with the enigmatic actress.

"I get uncomfortable and nervous around beautiful women and famous people," jokes the actor, who has two sons with actress Naomi Watts. "So Angelina presented kind of a problem for me. But we bonded very quickly over kids, since we both have children. We'd be shooting and then we'd stop, and she'd be like, 'Oh, you're doing timeouts, too?' ... 'Oh, that — it's just teething, don't worry' "

When talk turns from parenthood to her, Jolie seems a little disappointed. A slight on-the-record formality creeps in, though it loosens whenever the line of questioning does. You might expect her to be guarded about her home life, but she's passionate and eager to talk about it — except when people are cruel.

Then she turns protective.

That's a major part of her identity — warm, but fierce — that she gets from her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died in 2007. Jolie says the performance in her last film, 2008's Changeling, as a mother searching for her missing boy, was inspired by her own mom. "That was very cathartic for me. I wish she would have seen it," Jolie says. "That was very much her: All of her strength was in the way she loved her children. She wasn't a very strong person, but touch her children and she would rise up."

One works, one stays home

After the heavy emotion of Changeling, which earned her an Oscar nomination, Jolie took an extended break, caring for the kids while partner Brad Pitt worked on Inglourious Basterds.

Maternity leave ended, and she returned to the job with Salt — jumping from the tops of moving trucks, making homemade explosives and killing with her bare hands (even while shackled).

It's action escapism, not just for the audience but for the actress. She got to fight in a way normally reserved for guys named Bourne. In fact, the character of Evelyn Salt was originally named Edwin Salt, and Tom Cruise was the actor in mind.

"I grew up with all the guy movies," Jolie says, rattling off a list of her favorites actors: Brando, McQueen, Pacino, "but I didn't have the reference of a woman. Now I have daughters, and a part of me wants them to have that when they grow up."

A heavy rewrite later, and the story of Salt became even darker than it was when a man was supposed to play the role. Instead of a tale of redemption, it became one of vengeance.

"I was surprised a studio was ready to put that big summer movie money into something that had never worked before — a woman in an action movie that isn't fantasy," she says.

Not the Tomb Raider films? "But that's fantasy," Jolie says. "It's odd to think about. It's always some kind of mystical thing — or there's a pairing."

She famously met Pitt during one such pairing — 2005's married assassins action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Long before that, she teamed with Denzel Washington in the 1999 thriller The Bone Collector. It was one of her earliest big-screen roles, and directed by Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger), who reunited with Jolie on Salt.

The changes in her since that time, the Australian filmmaker says, have been extreme. "She was relatively inexperienced," he says. "She was also a complete unknown — a wallflower at my Sunday barbecue when she came to visit. Nobody was talking to this girl who was sitting in the corner. Ten years later? Everyone wants to talk to her."

Director's take: She's fearless

Noyce describes her as fearless, then and now. The difference: "When she was young, she didn't know any better."

It's an assessment Jolie shares.

She seemed reckless and menacing in those early years. "I grew up in front of everybody, really," Jolie says. "The big years of exploration."

In the past, some of her performances have been like auditions for reality. "I got married a few times before I actually got married," says Jolie, who was previously wed to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton. "You do all these odd firsts before you actually do them in life. ... I was a mother in films many times before I was a mother."

Her relationship with Pitt, of course, also was formed on a film set. Jolie says he has been a big part in shaping her identity, too.

"He's definitely made me a better person. I've learned so much from him, as you do when you come together with another person. You both make each other better. You both learn about the best of each other, and recognize the things where you're failing, or where you need to step up. When it's a great partnership, you really are patient with each other," she says. "He's been a huge influence on me. In all ways, from my parenting to my art, to ... everything."

Jolie acknowledges that you also can tell a lot about whom she used to be from her movies and early TV shows.

Her wilder youth also came out in screen choices, such as Girl, Interupted (1999), which earned her an Oscar, and Gia (1998), a true story about the tragic, drug-addled death of a supermodel, which got her a second Golden Globe. (The first was for George Wallace, a year earlier.)

After winning, she dived into the Beverly Hilton swimming pool in her gown. TV crews and photographers gathered. A gorgeous new wild child was born. Later, with Thornton, she was vampish and dangerous. The couple claimed to wear little vials of each other's blood.

"There was a certain madness I was going through," Jolie says. "I learned a lot about myself."

Does she wish she could change those days, or erase them from the public record?

"People tend to sum up times in your life and simplify," she says, shrugging. "I would say there's a way of being bold when you're young that seems very brave. ... What's perceived as tough is a very funny thing. I think to be a parent is one of the scariest, boldest things to do, as opposed to, um, getting a tattoo. ... Much more than jumping into a pool when you're 20."

That crazy girl from long ago isn't gone, just different.

"I see it almost as the flip side. I think I'm finally living completely free and brave. I'm bolder now," she says. "I was a lot less when I was younger."

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Angelina - black leather stunning at Comic-Con


Angelina Jolie talks onstage at the Salt panel during Comic-Con 2010 at California’s San Diego Convention Center on Thursday (July 22).

“My style got meaner and harder and darker, it wasn’t as pretty,” the 35-year-old actress said of comparing this character to her previous films Wanted and Tomb Raider. “I think this is a better action movie than the ones I’ve done.”

As for the weapons she got to use in this movie, Angie shared, “I got to play with just about everything including using a fire extinguisher in a way I’d never used it!”

Salt is in theaters TONIGHT at midnight!!


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20+ pictures inside of Angelina Jolie promoting Salt at Comic-Con…

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Angie & Brad win damages from tabloid, donate all the money


Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Win Damages From Tabloid Claiming Split

Don't mess with Brangelina.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted undisclosed damages from the News of the World at a hearing in a London court on Thursday, UsMagazine.com has confirmed. An insider tells Us: "The money will be donated to the Jolie-Pitt foundation. After tax and fees, every penny will be donated."

Back in January, the British tabloid reported that the couple of five years were planning to separate, divvy up their $320 million fortune and work out custody arrangements for their six kids. Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 35, quickly sued, claiming the paper had made false and intrusive allegations.

"When the News of the World failed to publicly retract the allegations and apologize for them -- thereby leaving their readers in the dark as to the true position — the couple felt they had no alternative than to sue," their attorney, Keith Schilling, told Us in a statement.

"Today's victory marks the end of the litigation brought by Brad and Angelina."

Currently in Los Angeles -- Jolie is promoting her film Salt, while Pitt is filming Moneyball -- the couple did not attend Thursday's hearing.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Angelina: I'm not ready for my kids dating,driving..



Angelina Jolie chats about parenthood and raising her children with longtime love Brad Pitt.
"Brad's an extraordinary father," the 'Salt' actress tells People magazine, on newsstands Friday. "We have each other's backs."
The Hollywood power couple are raising six children -- Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, Zahara, 5, Shiloh, 4, and 2-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne -- and Jolie tells the magazine that there are a team: "They can't go behind one [parent] to the other. … Not one of us is softer than the other."
'Salt,' Jolie's new action movie, hits theaters Friday, July 23.


She pulled her own stunts in her latest flick Salt, but when it comes to fear, Angelina Jolie has one concern: Her kids growing up.

"I'm glad I have a few more years," the Oscar-winning actress, 35, tells PEOPLE TV. "I'm not ready for them driving, dating. I'm not ready for any of it."

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But until Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, Zahara, 5, Shiloh, 4, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 2, get a little older, the Jolie-Pitt team has it figured out. "Our plan is to just have a really, really great relationship with our children, so when they hit that time that they don’t want to talk to us, we've instilled some good values already," she says, "because it will be too late as they're walking out the door."

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Jon Voight: That's my girl!

Jon Voight, Jolie's father, spoke fondly of his daughter at the premiere — "That's my girl," he said proudly, staring at her on the movie poster plastered on the wall behind him.



"You know, I have a big picture in my office that was taken on 'Tomb Raider.' And it's Angie flying on this thing. Now, there's got to be some wires and stuff like that. But she's 80 feet above this pool of water and these gears and stuff like that, and there's a big smile on her face," he said.

"It's kind of scary, but she has fun. She's like a circus performer in some ways, you know what I mean? How do they do that without being scared? I don't know. But she enjoys this stuff. She's athletic, and she enjoys expressing her athleticism in these pictures."

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Angie's £10,000 snake bracelet



Angelina Jolie buys £10,000 Ana De Costa bracelet

Angelina Jolie's striking green eyes lead her to favouring green jewellery.
Ana De Costa has landed her big break in the United States with news that Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie has bought one of her handmade bracelets.

De Costa’s agent in Los Angeles told the London-based designer that Jolie paid £10,000 for a yellow gold bracelet pave set with tsavorites.

The bracelet, which was part of the Mystical Tarot collection that secured a Young Designer of the Year award in 2008, tapped into Jolie’s love of green, and the supernatural, according to De Costa’s agent.

Ana De Costa has been building her brand both sides of the Atlantic since she burst onto the scene two years ago. Her next collection will appear in British Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Grazia, she told Professional Jeweller.

Today, De Costa entirely self-funds the design and creation of her collections but, with recent expansion, she is hoping to secure some sort of investment, particularly for a luxury diamond wedding collection she has planned. “I’d like to find somebody who will provide finance and mentoring,” she disclosed.

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Angie confrims Cleopatra, denies Elizabeth Taylor role



Angie confirmed the rumors she would like to play the most beautiful and seductive woman in history — Cleopatra. “I would be honored. But we haven’t gotten the script yet.”

But one movie you won’t see Angie starring in, is a biopic of Elizabeth Taylor. “I have never heard that before,” she said of rumors that she’s in talks to star as the violet-eyed movie legend. “I don’t think that anybody could be better than Elizabeth Taylor.”

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Angelina - "Salt" premiere interview

Angelina Jolie on ‘Salt’; Feeling Powerful; Almost Breaking Her Arm On Set

Angelina Jolie proved she’s the queen of action movies at the L.A premiere of Salt last night, and while she admitted Brad Pitt loves the film, she told OK! why she won’t let her six kids see the spy thriller.

“I love the action, but it was the first time that I got to do action based on reality and not fantasy, so that was a big relief,” she said of performing her own stunts. “It was the first time I could play with dramatic scenes. A lot of hand to hand combat, but the jumping stuff was hard.”

Were any of the stunts too much? “There was one where I thought I would break my arm in the last kill,” she told OK!. “It got harder and darker.”

So, have any of Angelina’s children seen their mom’s new movie? “No, I can’t show my kids movies where people are trying to kill me,” she told OK!.

However, that doesn’t mean her family weren’t regulars on set. Angelina — who looked stunning in a sequined Emporio Armani strapless mini-dress, nude Ferragamo peep-toe pumps, an Asprey cuff and her own diamond earrings — admitted that Brad came to set “all the time” and “he brought the kids too”.

How does she enjoy juggling her career and motherhood? “When I am home with my kids and I feel like somebody’s mom, but when I am working, I feel powerful.”

She added that diving back into movies was “great”. “I hadn’t worked for over a year. I had two babies. I was home in my nightgown a lot so it was nice to get out and get really aggressive and physical. It was a nice balance.”

Does she share any similarities with Salt? “I can’t tell you because there is so much you can’t say about her, but I think that when she decided to do something that she believes in, she will do whatever it takes.”

But she enjoyed the role. “I had a great time being her,” she said. “She is so many different people.”

The 35-year-old added that she hoped audiences “have a great time and it’s a great ride, but it just will surprise them.”

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Angelina & Brad @ "Salt" premiere in Hollywood


Angelina Jolie: SALT Premiere with Brad Pitt!

Brad Pitt comes out to support his leading lady, Angelina Jolie, at the premiere of her new spy thriller, SALT, at LA’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Monday (July 19).

Brad, 46, looked dapper in his Tom Ford suite while Angie, 35, kept it sexy in a black Emporio Armani dress. She finished off her look with Ferragamo shoes, an Asprey bracelet and earrings of her own!



Angie’s dad and brother, actors Jon Voight and James Haven, also came out to support Angie. How sweet!

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Salt, which co-stars Liev Schreiber, opens everywhere this Friday (July 23)! Angie is expected to make an appearance at Comic-Con on Thursday.

20+ pictures inside of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the SALT premiere…

Monday, July 19, 2010

Brad is working now, and I'm just being a mom


Angelina: Brad and I "Have to Be Very Careful" If We Work Together Again

Don't rule out Mr. and Mrs. Smith 2 just yet.

Angelina Jolie says she would love to work with Brad Pitt on a movie again -- but under very strict conditions.

"Of course, of course," the Salt star told AFP of costarring with Pitt. The couple famously met while making 2005's action flick; at the time, Pitt was still married Jen Aniston.

Now that she and Pitt are partners and parents to six kids, Jolie, 35, explains that the film selection process is dicier.

"I think when you are a real couple, (there are) some things audiences prefer to see real couples do, and some things they really don't like to see real couples do, so you have to be very careful," she explained.

Yet Jolie gushed that she could never get sick of Pitt, 46. "I'd like to do everything with him, I love to be just with him... I don't think it is a risk for us, we have fun doing everything together."

Plus, now that she's a mom, Jolie has curtailed her work schedule -- as has Pitt.

"I only work for a few months and then I take many months off," she explained. "Before 'Salt' we got a year and half off and just traveled and I just was a mom.

Although she's promoting Salt, Jolie explained that she has no film projects for the next five to six months. "Brad's working [on Moneyball] and I'm just being a mom and traveling."

Her favorite spots to travel to: the birthplaces of her adopted kids Maddox, 8 (Cambodia), Zahara, 5 (Ethiopia), Pax, 6 (Vietnam).

"I want to discover everything," she said. "I will always love the countries that my children are from, they will always be special to me."

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Angelina: It's the roughest I've looked


It's the roughest I've looked: Angelina Jolie

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who fulfilled her dream of playing a secret agent like James Bond with "Salt", says there is a whole world out there of lovely, sweet women "that you can't imagine being put in a dangerous situation, but they really are".

Jolie has gone de-glam for her role as Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent in the film.

Known for her research, the 35-year-old star left no stone unturned for this one either.

"We talked to a lot of women in the CIA. One after the other, they are just these lovely, sweet women that you can't imagine being put in a dangerous situation, but they really are," the stunning Jolie, who flies planes and rides bikes in real life, said in an e-mail interaction with the media.

Jolie found that the job takes a toll on the personal lives of women secret agents.

"I talked to a woman. She was a former operative. She said it was such a relief when she left the agency as her whole relationship with her husband changed after years of not being able to communicate anything (to her family), what she did or where she was going. She didn't realise how much it had kept them apart and how difficult it had been until she had a new life," added the Academy award winner.

After interacting with real spies, Jolie feels enlightened.

"When we first approached the idea, we thought it was a bit of a fantasy.

But as we got more information, we discovered it was more real than we could have guessed. Truth really is stranger than fiction," said the actress.

She played an athletic-adventurer in the "Lara Croft" series and a secret assassin in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith".

"It ('Salt') is a bit like the 'Bond' and 'Bourne' (series). I was in a meeting with (Sony Pictures co-chairman) Amy Pascal a few years ago when it came up in conversation that she was getting ready to make one of the new James Bond films. I playfully said, 'I want to be Bond'. That was our little joke, and then she found this project," she said.

Jolie, who will be seen jumping from roof tops, locomotives and kicking people, also has a penchant for action.

"I happen to like heights; so we found these moments where I can use that. Because I'm a girl and I'm light on my feet, we naturally went to styles like Muay Thai (a martial art form), which is very long and beautiful.

"Salt fights aggressively in face-to-face combat. In some action movies that I've done, there's been a temptation to make the action nice because I'm female...(In 'Salt') my character doesn't use her sexuality to get anything. It's the roughest I've looked," she said.

Distributed by Columbia Pictures, the action thriller has been directed by Phillip Noyce, who has teamed up with Jolie again after "The Bone Collector".

Interestingly, she was not the first choice to play the lead in "Salt". Tom Cruise had initially signed for the role but dropped out at the last minute. The script was altered for Jolie.

Her future projects include "The Tourist", "Cleopatra" and a voiceover for Master Tigress in "Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom of Doom".

Also starring Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Salt" releases worldwide July 23.

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