Fed up with Angie and her brood

[Guest]

I'm so sick of Angelina Jolie's family.

There, I've said it. Now let me immediately qualify it.

I don't have a beef with Jolie's acting skills, which are a triumph of commerce and art. She's in two of the year's most successful movies, Wanted and Kung Fu Panda and has a real shot at winning her second Oscar for her sterling performance in the Clint Eastwood drama, Changeling. If Jolie stuck to talking about her movies, I'd have no problem with her. It's her family I'm fed up with. It seems Jolie wants the whole world to know what a great mom she is, because she has acquired four children and has two more on the way.

You can't watch an entertainment show or look at a celebrity magazine these days without getting fawning drivel about Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt and how they've reinvented parenting.

They're teaching their kids a variety of languages and religions because they're big on personal choice. They take their brood everywhere they travel, to Cannes and exotic movie shoots, because the family that plays in five-star hotels together, stays together.

Which is all well and good, but why pretend that this is some kind of model for living, as Jolie often does? The Jolie-Pitts have scads of money and can afford to hire all the caregivers they can squeeze into their Hollywood mansion.

I'd much rather read about how a regular single mom is coping with paying her gasoline bills than how much dough Jolie is splashing out on Vietnamese lessons and politically correct DVDs for her organically reared ankle-biters.

I don't mean to pick on Jolie. The press is every bit as guilty of obsessing about her parenting as she is about promoting it. In the current Vanity Fair cover story about her, one of the most vapid pieces of celebrity piffle I've read in a long while, she has the good grace to point out the situation is a lot different now than when her father, actor Jon Voight, was a rising star.

"In my father's generation, the product was 80 per cent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 per cent. It now seems that 80 per cent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing."

How true! Yet Jolie seems to do nothing to discourage these stories. Whatever happened to saying "Mind your own business" to people who ask nosey questions about personal matters?

Remember when we used to look up to stars because we considered them glittering symbols of the exciting lives we wanted? We adored them because they were different, not because they shopped in the same dollar store as us.

We wanted stars to be special, which is why we were far less fascinated with the quotidian details of their lives. You never saw photos of Cary Grant carrying a Starbucks cup or Audrey Hepburn shopping in Wal-Mart, because the rich and famous didn't do these kinds of mundane things. Maids brewed their coffee and butlers did their errands. And we loved them for it. We envied them, but we wanted them to go right on living like stars.

If Angie wants to turn into the Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe, more power to her. But could she please stop pretending that the shoe is anything but gold-plated?




http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/454059

[Guest]

If Angie wants to turn into the Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe, more power to her. But could she please stop pretending that the shoe is anything but gold-plated?

Great article!

[Guest]

I like this part:

You can't watch an entertainment show or look at a celebrity magazine these days without getting fawning drivel about Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt and how they've reinvented parenting.

They're teaching their kids a variety of languages and religions because they're big on personal choice. They take their brood everywhere they travel, to Cannes and exotic movie shoots, because the family that plays in five-star hotels together, stays together.

Which is all well and good, but why pretend that this is some kind of model for living, as Jolie often does? The Jolie-Pitts have scads of money and can afford to hire all the caregivers they can squeeze into their Hollywood mansion.

I'd much rather read about how a regular single mom is coping with paying her gasoline bills than how much dough Jolie is splashing out on Vietnamese lessons and politically correct DVDs for her organically reared ankle-biters.

[Guest]

I'm so sick of Angelina Jolie's family.

There, I've said it. Now let me immediately qualify it.

I don't have a beef with Jolie's acting skills, which are a triumph of commerce and art. She's in two of the year's most successful movies, Wanted and Kung Fu Panda and has a real shot at winning her second Oscar for her sterling performance in the Clint Eastwood drama, Changeling. If Jolie stuck to talking about her movies, I'd have no problem with her. It's her family I'm fed up with. It seems Jolie wants the whole world to know what a great mom she is, because she has acquired four children and has two more on the way.

You can't watch an entertainment show or look at a celebrity magazine these days without getting fawning drivel about Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt and how they've reinvented parenting.

They're teaching their kids a variety of languages and religions because they're big on personal choice. They take their brood everywhere they travel, to Cannes and exotic movie shoots, because the family that plays in five-star hotels together, stays together.

Which is all well and good, but why pretend that this is some kind of model for living, as Jolie often does? The Jolie-Pitts have scads of money and can afford to hire all the caregivers they can squeeze into their Hollywood mansion.

I'd much rather read about how a regular single mom is coping with paying her gasoline bills than how much dough Jolie is splashing out on Vietnamese lessons and politically correct DVDs for her organically reared ankle-biters.

I don't mean to pick on Jolie. The press is every bit as guilty of obsessing about her parenting as she is about promoting it. In the current Vanity Fair cover story about her, one of the most vapid pieces of celebrity piffle I've read in a long while, she has the good grace to point out the situation is a lot different now than when her father, actor Jon Voight, was a rising star.

"In my father's generation, the product was 80 per cent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 per cent. It now seems that 80 per cent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing."

How true! Yet Jolie seems to do nothing to discourage these stories. Whatever happened to saying "Mind your own business" to people who ask nosey questions about personal matters?

Remember when we used to look up to stars because we considered them glittering symbols of the exciting lives we wanted? We adored them because they were different, not because they shopped in the same dollar store as us.

We wanted stars to be special, which is why we were far less fascinated with the quotidian details of their lives. You never saw photos of Cary Grant carrying a Starbucks cup or Audrey Hepburn shopping in Wal-Mart, because the rich and famous didn't do these kinds of mundane things. Maids brewed their coffee and butlers did their errands. And we loved them for it. We envied them, but we wanted them to go right on living like stars.

If Angie wants to turn into the Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe, more power to her. But could she please stop pretending that the shoe is anything but gold-plated?

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/454059

Then you still have not GRASP the real Angelina Jolie. Why do you think she does not discourage the media from prying into her personal life ?
Because she puts it out there 100%. C'mon with all due respect your piece
was like written by Rip Van Winkle.

[Guest]

You don't make sense. Angelina's film the Changelling hasn't been released so how could she have done a sterling performance in your eyes??? You don't make ANY sense!!


Also, just because they hired a nanny who speaks 4 languages doesn't mean they all speak them. If Jolie spoke French she would be on TV doing French interviews bragging. Pax was emmersed in english and long ago lost his language. there is no way that he has suddenly learned it back and 4 other languages in a few months. Mad is learning French, his second language, along with his classmates when he gets the chance to see them. That is about it.

Bottom line is, if Brad and the family can only understand English, then the help have to speak to them in that language.

ANgelina created this multilingual buzz and it was never more than her ego's creation.

[Guest]

I'm so sick of Angelina Jolie's family.

There, I've said it. Now let me immediately qualify it.

I don't have a beef with Jolie's acting skills, which are a triumph of commerce and art. She's in two of the year's most successful movies, Wanted and Kung Fu Panda and has a real shot at winning her second Oscar for her sterling performance in the Clint Eastwood drama, Changeling. If Jolie stuck to talking about her movies, I'd have no problem with her. It's her family I'm fed up with. It seems Jolie wants the whole world to know what a great mom she is, because she has acquired four children and has two more on the way.

You can't watch an entertainment show or look at a celebrity magazine these days without getting fawning drivel about Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt and how they've reinvented parenting.

They're teaching their kids a variety of languages and religions because they're big on personal choice. They take their brood everywhere they travel, to Cannes and exotic movie shoots, because the family that plays in five-star hotels together, stays together.

Which is all well and good, but why pretend that this is some kind of model for living, as Jolie often does? The Jolie-Pitts have scads of money and can afford to hire all the caregivers they can squeeze into their Hollywood mansion.

I'd much rather read about how a regular single mom is coping with paying her gasoline bills than how much dough Jolie is splashing out on Vietnamese lessons and politically correct DVDs for her organically reared ankle-biters.

I don't mean to pick on Jolie. The press is every bit as guilty of obsessing about her parenting as she is about promoting it. In the current Vanity Fair cover story about her, one of the most vapid pieces of celebrity piffle I've read in a long while, she has the good grace to point out the situation is a lot different now than when her father, actor Jon Voight, was a rising star.

"In my father's generation, the product was 80 per cent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 per cent. It now seems that 80 per cent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing."

How true! Yet Jolie seems to do nothing to discourage these stories. Whatever happened to saying "Mind your own business" to people who ask nosey questions about personal matters?

Remember when we used to look up to stars because we considered them glittering symbols of the exciting lives we wanted? We adored them because they were different, not because they shopped in the same dollar store as us.

We wanted stars to be special, which is why we were far less fascinated with the quotidian details of their lives. You never saw photos of Cary Grant carrying a Starbucks cup or Audrey Hepburn shopping in Wal-Mart, because the rich and famous didn't do these kinds of mundane things. Maids brewed their coffee and butlers did their errands. And we loved them for it. We envied them, but we wanted them to go right on living like stars.

If Angie wants to turn into the Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe, more power to her. But could she please stop pretending that the shoe is anything but gold-plated?




http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/454059

You sound like a loon!!!!1

[Guest]

I'm so sick of Angelina Jolie's family.

There, I've said it. Now let me immediately qualify it.

I don't have a beef with Jolie's acting skills, which are a triumph of commerce and art. She's in two of the year's most successful movies, Wanted and Kung Fu Panda and has a real shot at winning her second Oscar for her sterling performance in the Clint Eastwood drama, Changeling. If Jolie stuck to talking about her movies, I'd have no problem with her. It's her family I'm fed up with. It seems Jolie wants the whole world to know what a great mom she is, because she has acquired four children and has two more on the way.

You can't watch an entertainment show or look at a celebrity magazine these days without getting fawning drivel about Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt and how they've reinvented parenting.

They're teaching their kids a variety of languages and religions because they're big on personal choice. They take their brood everywhere they travel, to Cannes and exotic movie shoots, because the family that plays in five-star hotels together, stays together.

Which is all well and good, but why pretend that this is some kind of model for living, as Jolie often does? The Jolie-Pitts have scads of money and can afford to hire all the caregivers they can squeeze into their Hollywood mansion.

I'd much rather read about how a regular single mom is coping with paying her gasoline bills than how much dough Jolie is splashing out on Vietnamese lessons and politically correct DVDs for her organically reared ankle-biters.

I don't mean to pick on Jolie. The press is every bit as guilty of obsessing about her parenting as she is about promoting it. In the current Vanity Fair cover story about her, one of the most vapid pieces of celebrity piffle I've read in a long while, she has the good grace to point out the situation is a lot different now than when her father, actor Jon Voight, was a rising star.

"In my father's generation, the product was 80 per cent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 per cent. It now seems that 80 per cent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing."

How true! Yet Jolie seems to do nothing to discourage these stories. Whatever happened to saying "Mind your own business" to people who ask nosey questions about personal matters?

Remember when we used to look up to stars because we considered them glittering symbols of the exciting lives we wanted? We adored them because they were different, not because they shopped in the same dollar store as us.

We wanted stars to be special, which is why we were far less fascinated with the quotidian details of their lives. You never saw photos of Cary Grant carrying a Starbucks cup or Audrey Hepburn shopping in Wal-Mart, because the rich and famous didn't do these kinds of mundane things. Maids brewed their coffee and butlers did their errands. And we loved them for it. We envied them, but we wanted them to go right on living like stars.

If Angie wants to turn into the Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe, more power to her. But could she please stop pretending that the shoe is anything but gold-plated?




http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/454059

You sound like a loon!!!!1

Um, that's an article written by a professional newspaper staff writer, hence the link.

It mocks Jolie's parenthood and big mouth. It doesn't praise her.

[Guest]

You don't make sense. Angelina's film the Changelling hasn't been released so how could she have done a sterling performance in your eyes??? You don't make ANY sense!!


Also, just because they hired a nanny who speaks 4 languages doesn't mean they all speak them. If Jolie spoke French she would be on TV doing French interviews bragging. Pax was emmersed in english and long ago lost his language. there is no way that he has suddenly learned it back and 4 other languages in a few months. Mad is learning French, his second language, along with his classmates when he gets the chance to see them. That is about it.

Bottom line is, if Brad and the family can only understand English, then the help have to speak to them in that language.

ANgelina created this multilingual buzz and it was never more than her ego's creation.

Did you not see the link or read the article? I didn't write it. It was written by someone who saw the film at Cannes. He's making fun of Jolie's sense of grandiosity at her parenting skills or lack thereof.

[Guest]

You don't make sense. Angelina's film the Changelling hasn't been released so how could she have done a sterling performance in your eyes??? You don't make ANY sense!!


Also, just because they hired a nanny who speaks 4 languages doesn't mean they all speak them. If Jolie spoke French she would be on TV doing French interviews bragging. Pax was emmersed in english and long ago lost his language. there is no way that he has suddenly learned it back and 4 other languages in a few months. Mad is learning French, his second language, along with his classmates when he gets the chance to see them. That is about it.

Bottom line is, if Brad and the family can only understand English, then the help have to speak to them in that language.

ANgelina created this multilingual buzz and it was never more than her ego's creation.

Did you not see the link or read the article? I didn't write it. It was written by someone who saw the film at Cannes. He's making fun of Jolie's sense of grandiosity at her parenting skills or lack thereof.

It is from the link not seperate from the link. I thought the same thing. I thought it was a loon then the link was for something else. I normally don't click on links.

[Guest]

I'm so sick of Angelina Jolie's family.

There, I've said it. Now let me immediately qualify it.

I don't have a beef with Jolie's acting skills, which are a triumph of commerce and art. She's in two of the year's most successful movies, Wanted and Kung Fu Panda and has a real shot at winning her second Oscar for her sterling performance in the Clint Eastwood drama, Changeling. If Jolie stuck to talking about her movies, I'd have no problem with her. It's her family I'm fed up with. It seems Jolie wants the whole world to know what a great mom she is, because she has acquired four children and has two more on the way.

You can't watch an entertainment show or look at a celebrity magazine these days without getting fawning drivel about Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt and how they've reinvented parenting.

They're teaching their kids a variety of languages and religions because they're big on personal choice. They take their brood everywhere they travel, to Cannes and exotic movie shoots, because the family that plays in five-star hotels together, stays together.

Which is all well and good, but why pretend that this is some kind of model for living, as Jolie often does? The Jolie-Pitts have scads of money and can afford to hire all the caregivers they can squeeze into their Hollywood mansion.

I'd much rather read about how a regular single mom is coping with paying her gasoline bills than how much dough Jolie is splashing out on Vietnamese lessons and politically correct DVDs for her organically reared ankle-biters.

I don't mean to pick on Jolie. The press is every bit as guilty of obsessing about her parenting as she is about promoting it. In the current Vanity Fair cover story about her, one of the most vapid pieces of celebrity piffle I've read in a long while, she has the good grace to point out the situation is a lot different now than when her father, actor Jon Voight, was a rising star.

"In my father's generation, the product was 80 per cent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 per cent. It now seems that 80 per cent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing."

How true! Yet Jolie seems to do nothing to discourage these stories. Whatever happened to saying "Mind your own business" to people who ask nosey questions about personal matters?

Remember when we used to look up to stars because we considered them glittering symbols of the exciting lives we wanted? We adored them because they were different, not because they shopped in the same dollar store as us.

We wanted stars to be special, which is why we were far less fascinated with the quotidian details of their lives. You never saw photos of Cary Grant carrying a Starbucks cup or Audrey Hepburn shopping in Wal-Mart, because the rich and famous didn't do these kinds of mundane things. Maids brewed their coffee and butlers did their errands. And we loved them for it. We envied them, but we wanted them to go right on living like stars.

If Angie wants to turn into the Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe, more power to her. But could she please stop pretending that the shoe is anything but gold-plated?

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/454059

Then you still have not GRASP the real Angelina Jolie. Why do you think she does not discourage the media from prying into her personal life ?
Because she puts it out there 100%. C'mon with all due respect your piece
was like written by Rip Van Winkle.

Um, the quote was made by Angelina Jolie, not the movie reviewer who wrote the article. Did you not see there is a link to this article?

[Guest]

Because the article is ambiguous. I like writers who really stand for a principle whatever it is, put it out there. It sound cautious and fearful of
calling Angelina's mediawh.oring for what she really is.

Read the article again.....in depth and read between the lines.

[Guest]

I'm so sick of Angelina Jolie's family.

There, I've said it. Now let me immediately qualify it.

I don't have a beef with Jolie's acting skills, which are a triumph of commerce and art. She's in two of the year's most successful movies, Wanted and Kung Fu Panda and has a real shot at winning her second Oscar for her sterling performance in the Clint Eastwood drama, Changeling. If Jolie stuck to talking about her movies, I'd have no problem with her. It's her family I'm fed up with. It seems Jolie wants the whole world to know what a great mom she is, because she has acquired four children and has two more on the way.

You can't watch an entertainment show or look at a celebrity magazine these days without getting fawning drivel about Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt and how they've reinvented parenting.

They're teaching their kids a variety of languages and religions because they're big on personal choice. They take their brood everywhere they travel, to Cannes and exotic movie shoots, because the family that plays in five-star hotels together, stays together.

Which is all well and good, but why pretend that this is some kind of model for living, as Jolie often does? The Jolie-Pitts have scads of money and can afford to hire all the caregivers they can squeeze into their Hollywood mansion.

I'd much rather read about how a regular single mom is coping with paying her gasoline bills than how much dough Jolie is splashing out on Vietnamese lessons and politically correct DVDs for her organically reared ankle-biters.

I don't mean to pick on Jolie. The press is every bit as guilty of obsessing about her parenting as she is about promoting it. In the current Vanity Fair cover story about her, one of the most vapid pieces of celebrity piffle I've read in a long while, she has the good grace to point out the situation is a lot different now than when her father, actor Jon Voight, was a rising star.

"In my father's generation, the product was 80 per cent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 per cent. It now seems that 80 per cent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing."

How true! Yet Jolie seems to do nothing to discourage these stories. Whatever happened to saying "Mind your own business" to people who ask nosey questions about personal matters?

Remember when we used to look up to stars because we considered them glittering symbols of the exciting lives we wanted? We adored them because they were different, not because they shopped in the same dollar store as us.

We wanted stars to be special, which is why we were far less fascinated with the quotidian details of their lives. You never saw photos of Cary Grant carrying a Starbucks cup or Audrey Hepburn shopping in Wal-Mart, because the rich and famous didn't do these kinds of mundane things. Maids brewed their coffee and butlers did their errands. And we loved them for it. We envied them, but we wanted them to go right on living like stars.

If Angie wants to turn into the Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe, more power to her. But could she please stop pretending that the shoe is anything but gold-plated?

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/454059

Then you still have not GRASP the real Angelina Jolie. Why do you think she does not discourage the media from prying into her personal life ?
Because she puts it out there 100%. C'mon with all due respect your piece
was like written by Rip Van Winkle.

Um, the quote was made by Angelina Jolie, not the movie reviewer who wrote the article. Did you not see there is a link to this article?

So what was the "journalist's" hesitation to say it like it is....

[Guest]

Because the article is ambiguous. I like writers who really stand for a principle whatever it is, put it out there. It sound cautious and fearful of
calling Angelina's mediawh.oring for what she really is.

Read the article again.....in depth and read between the lines.

He's calling her pretentious and a spoiled know-it-all. That's pretty good for starters.

[Guest]

You don't make sense. Angelina's film the Changelling hasn't been released so how could she have done a sterling performance in your eyes??? You don't make ANY sense!!


Also, just because they hired a nanny who speaks 4 languages doesn't mean they all speak them. If Jolie spoke French she would be on TV doing French interviews bragging. Pax was emmersed in english and long ago lost his language. there is no way that he has suddenly learned it back and 4 other languages in a few months. Mad is learning French, his second language, along with his classmates when he gets the chance to see them. That is about it.

Bottom line is, if Brad and the family can only understand English, then the help have to speak to them in that language.

ANgelina created this multilingual buzz and it was never more than her ego's creation.

Did you not see the link or read the article? I didn't write it. It was written by someone who saw the film at Cannes. He's making fun of Jolie's sense of grandiosity at her parenting skills or lack thereof.

It is from the link not seperate from the link. I thought the same thing. I thought it was a loon then the link was for something else. I normally don't click on links.

Why would a link be plopped in a post unless it followed an article? And couldn't you tell by reading the link (without clicking on it) that it's from an entertainment mag?

[Guest]

It was a wishy-washy article for me whoever wrote it. something like what Brad would write, he knows her B.S. but he walks on eggshells around Ange.