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Brangelina Brood: And Babies Make Six
A very pregnant Angelina Jolie with partner Brad Pitt in May at the Cannes Film Festival. (Reuters) Over the weekend, Angelina Jolie gave birth to the latest additions to the already too-big-for-a-booth brood they haul around the world. On Sunday, the mega-star -- currently bending bullets in "Wanted" -- apparently laughed and talked (c'est rien!) as fraternal boy-girl twins were delivered via c-section in Nice. Papa Brad Pitt was on hand to cut the umbilical cord, though rumor has it Pitt barred Jolie's kissable brother James Haven from the delivery room. Despite our hard work compiling a list of possible names for the newborns, Brad and Angie settled on Vivienne Marcheline (the middle name a likely tribute to Jolie's mom, Marcheline Bertrand, who died in 2007) for their new daughter and Knox Leon (possibly a tribute to Pitt's favorite gelatin and "Airplane"?) for their son. The inevitable bidding war...
By Liz | July 14, 2008; 10:46 AM ET | Comments (0)
Comment Box: Celeb Parents, the Most Selfish of All?
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie with son Maddox and daughter Zahara stroll in Mumbai in November 2006. (AP) Today in the comment box we expand on a debate hatched in last Thursday's Celebritology Live discussion -- a debate that might have engulfed the chat in a maelstrom of parental opinion-making had it been any other day but a pre-holiday afternoon. As it was, we were able to keep the discussion productive. Let's hope for the same tone below (hint hint). Why open a potential can of worms? Because, from time to time, we need to squirm a bit. Considering the makeshift camp of paparazzi encamped in Nice awaiting the birth of the Brangelina twins, I asked: "Is it selfish for someone like Angelina, who is such a paparazzi magnet, to have kids at all?" Some, like the reader below, were quick to argue that Angie and Brad -- who...
By Liz | July 7, 2008; 10:43 AM ET | Comments (0)
Wednesday List: Name Brangelina's New Additions
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and soon-to-be born twins Womb and Raider. No? (Getty Images) Yesterday when news started leaking that supermom Angelina Jolie had checked herself into a nice Nice hospital to await the scheduled arrival of babies five and six to the Brangelina brood, editor Nancy and I starting batting around potential names for the lucky soon-to-be doted-upon-by-the-whole-world baby girls (at least we think they're girls -- Jack Black never confirmed that bit). Our names were, unprofessionally as is our wont, predicated on the hope that Jolie's jolie tots will enter the world two days hence, on July 4th -- Independence Day on this side of the Atlantic. Here's what we came up with: Yankee and Doodle Dandy and 'works Sparkler and Apple Pie Freedom and Fry Star and Stripe Okay, maybe not. Perhaps something a bit more Francais: Amelie and Asterix Brie and Baguette Jeri and Louise...
By Liz | July 2, 2008; 10:43 AM ET | Comments (201)
Big Time Blame Shifting
Perhaps blameless Angelina Jolie and Tommy Lee should heed the lessons found at coping.org. (Photos: Reuters and Getty Images) (AP) Listen, I would never want you to think that Tommy Lee is some kind of airheaded fool who lucked his way into stardom and money courtesy of a footnote in musical history or that Angelina Jolie is a control freak who considers herself entitled to a strictly-controlled media environment. And neither would they it seems, since the past week saw both stars (who, come to think of it, actually look like cousins) clumsily shifting blame for their missteps onto the convenient shoulders of their management. Is personal responsibility now "out" for the celebrity set or are we to believe that both Lee and Jolie are naive enough to trust their money-making images to the care and feeding of others? In Lee's case, the rocker -- along with his Motley...
By Liz | June 21, 2007; 10:44 AM ET | Comments (66)
Angelina Jolie, Womb Raider?
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie with son Maddox and daughter Zahara stroll in Mumbai, India in November 2006. (AP) It seems that not too long ago, if Angelina Jolie was to be criticized for anything it was for being a wild child who covered herself with tattoos, carried her (ex) husband's blood in a vial worn around her neck and, speaking of necking, laid a pretty serious kiss on her brother James at the 2000 Academy Awards. That was years ago, though, long before Jolie transformed herself into a humanitarian (serving as a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, granting queenly interviews to Ann Curry from Namibia and writing opinion pieces for The Washington Post) and matriarch of a robust family (raising three children with partner Brad Pitt and hardly ever spotted without one of her brood in tow). But news of the impending adoption of another child, this time a 3-and-a-half-year-old...
By Liz | March 14, 2007; 10:43 AM ET | Comments (0)
Angelina Jolie: Purty as a Picture
"Blessed Art Thou" by Kate Kretz. (Source: Kate's Studio) When I saw this painting of Angelina Jolie by North Carolina artist Kate Kretz (on display starting tomorrow at Art Miami 2007), I immediately regretted my lunch of three-alarm Tofurkey chili. There ought to be some kind of warning, you know, because a nice bland broth would've been a lot easier on my churning stomach. See, I pride myself on being a highly creative person who, if I so chose, would produce incredibly relevant, stunning art that would probably change the world in some significant way. I, however, am way too lazy to apply paint to canvas, but feel my hidden talents qualify me to compare this painting unfavorably to a velvet Elvis. To be fair, though, I sought the opinion of a real critic, someone attuned to the peculiarities of the art world, and someone who might interpret an...
By Liz | January 4, 2007; 10:43 AM ET | Comments (80)
Overblown Rumor of the Summer: Brangelina Breakup?
Considering the big headlines of just a couple weeks ago (Pam and Kid Rock, Mel Gibson) and the massive "SoaP" hype hangover, celebrity news sites are somewhat becalmed by a relatively uneventful late August. Cunning marketing execs try to take advantage of the news vacuum to drum up interest in novelty releases, photogs flock to pools and beaches for a few last shots of skimpy Speedos and so-what somehow passes for breaking news. Conditions are therefore perfect for The Overblown Rumor. In this instance, a rumor so anemic Nicole Richie could best it in a cage match is multiplying across the the Web like so many Tribbles. Being a responsible, restrained purveyor of celebrity scuttlebutt, I have no choice but ignore it and return to the distribution of stories of import. Who am I kidding? Brad and Angie (complete with pillow-lips), together forever in wax. (Getty Images) BRANGELINA IS ARE...
By Liz | August 23, 2006; 10:44 AM ET | Comments (0)
Comment Box: What's Brangelina's Sign?
Happy Monday from a rain-soaked Washington, D.C. where the coffee is hot and your comments and questions are center stage. Is it true that Brad and Angelina are planning to sign with their baby? and teach their older children? -- Michelle Lancaster on Baby Brangelina Hi Michelle, I've searched the Web for a story either supporting or refuting this rumor and can find nothing mentioning Angelina and her brood in the same sentence with "sign language." However, Brad Pitt is a different story. He stars with Cate Blanchett and an ensemble cast in the upcoming "Babel" -- described as a "polyglot, multi-everything film" tracing "the various miseries of American tourists in Morocco, a Mexican nanny living in Southern California, two very young Moroccan goat-herders, and a deaf-mute schoolgirl in Japan." The film, which screened at Cannes, does feature sign language and early reviews are positive. Why the need to identify...
By Liz | June 12, 2006; 12:00 PM ET | Comments (0)
