Angelina Jolie talked to Reader’s Digest about her efforts to help her newly adopted son, 3-year-old Pax Thien adjust to life in a family, after spending his early years in an orphanage.  The newest addition to the Pitt-Jolie clan has been with the family almost two-months now, since being adopted from Vietnam back in mid-March and is beginning to adapt to his new life.  But the transition has had challenges and some funny moments.  The things most kid’s take for granted growing up in a family with a mom or dad, or hopefully both, were quite foreign to little Pax. 

Baths have taken on a new meaning for Pax, Jolie explains:

“Pax is almost three and a half and has never made a real decision for himself because everybody does everything in a group in the orphanage. There were all these things he’d never had. The first time I gave him a bath, he was suddenly laughing, out of his mind. He took five baths in one day. We’d be talking and he’d take his clothes off and run into the bathroom.”

I have to say though, that’s very normal for 3-year olds.  My son’s 3 1/2 and he takes great joy in dropping his pants in the yard, so it’s great to see Pax doing normal toddler boy things. Angelina also talked about the first couple of days home with Pax after leaving his “institutionalized” life behind.  His new mom, an international celebrity devoted some special attention to him hoping to make him feel more comfortable and secure in his surroundings.

Nighttime rituals settled in pretty quickly Jolie says:

“The first two days, he cried a lot. I hired a translator, and he would explain what was going on. The first night, I slept alone with him. I was expecting him to wake up and scream, but he woke and just stared at me. I handed him a stuffed animal, and we walked around the room pointing at things. By day three, he didn’t want me to put him down. I think he got used to the reality that somebody loves you and that’s what a mommy is.”

Angelina also talked about her and Brad’s decision to have a biological child, despite her early choice not to:

Before I met Brad, I always said I was happy never to have a child biologically. He told me he hadn’t given up that thought. Then, a few months after Z came home, I saw Brad with her and Mad, and I realized how much he loved them, that a biological child would not in any way be a threat. So I said, “I want to try.”

Does Brad bring out the best in Angelina?  Angie thinks so:

“He encourages the right things. If I’ve had a full day and just really been a hands-on mom, he’ll make a point to let me know that’s something he’s proud of. If I’m writing an Op-Ed, he’s the first person to want to read the drafts. I could be dressed up in the sexiest outfit for a photo shoot, and by his behavior, he’ll let me know that’s nice, but it’s nothing as sexy as when I’m home surrounded by the kids or reading books, educating myself. He slows me down to kind of get it right, to relax into the strength of my family and the love.”

With all these kids, how do they make time for themselves? Angie reveals her secrets:

“Right now, that’s our problem! We hang out. We try to talk over the swing set. We’ll have a date night once everybody is settled…..Especially now with Pax; he still gets scared if I’m gone more than a few hours. But we’ll get them occupied with a movie and popcorn and try to run off and lock the door for a bit. “

Ewww, TMI!

How do they cope with all the negativity and gossip that surrounds, and those pesky marriage rumor:

“Our first question is what paper is it in. The New York Times? If not, do we really need to worry? …. There’s no big conspiracy behind our decision not to. We’ve both been married before. Our focus when we got together was family, and we are legally bound to our children. That really seems to be the most important thing.”

Clearly Angelina comprehends the needs of a child and seems quite committed to helping her adopted children feel the love they deserve.  I applaud her efforts, I just hope in her quest to save the world, her own biological child is getting what she needs from her mother as well.  Even in the best of circumstances with a family of normal people (non-celebrities) taking care of four kids can be challenging at best and very stressful at worst.  I am sure the Pitt-Jolie family have an army of people to help them though, and certainly someone’s looking out for Shiloh while her mom tends to the needs of her adopted siblings.

And there’s some more good news, Pax Thien Jolie will soon have a new surname, as Angelina has almost completed the required legalities to change his last name to Jolie-Pitt like her other children.  Even if she employed some rather stealthy techniques.  Jolie is like genius or something; a mad, child-saving, homewrecking, gorgeous genius!

Looks like she’s flipping Brad the bird!

Just kidding. Good to see these two attention-whores hanging out in Prague. I hear Prague in the spring is like Paris in the Fall.

No, I didn’t, that was a false. Just like the love these two share.

Ok Brangelina fans, do your worst.

Us Magazine is quoting a source as saying that Angelina Jolie gave her one-time co-star and reported former flame, Oliver Martinez a lapdance while the two were out together for an afterparty to celebrate her directorial debut in the documentary, A Place In Time.

Martinez participated in the film with Jolie and previously on the movie Taking Lives - when the two are said to have had a fling before Jolie hooked up with current partner of two years Brad Pitt.

From the Us Magazine story titled, Angelina Gives Ex Lapdance While Brad Babysits:

After an official bash at Hotel Gansevoort – where the star drank wine and, a source tells Us, was “really outgoing and very chatty” – Jolie headed to a small VIP afterparty at nearby eatery Gin Lane. Encouraged by a group of drummers, the actress eventually began waving her arms around. But it wasn’t until Jolie started dancing for Martinez that things got really wild.

“She turned to him on the banquette and was shaking it in front of him. She was giving him a lap dance, ” another reveler tells Us. “She was looking over her shoulder, tossing a glance his way.” As another partygoer describes it, “It was very, very flirty.” “When she is with someone she knows, she might appear to be flirtatious, but it’s just affection.”

Where was boyfriend Brad Pitt? Should he be worried about the couple’s recent outing? When are Brad and Angie going to see each other next? For more details on Angelina’s recent flirtation and how it will affect her relationship with Brad, check out the current issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands this week.

I would LOVE to believe this story. Why? Because I have made it no secret that I think Angelina is some kind of man-eating she-devil with the moral fiber of an ethnic-cleansing third-world-leader. This story is like low-hanging fruit, ripe for my brutal picking.

But after dealing with Us Magazine recently and unraveling a blatant fabrication that they refused to acknowledge, their mode of operation hast has become abundantly clear to me. Us Magazine, like some mainstream media sources, have ZERO interest in the facts and are in the business of selling magazines even if it destroys lives.

Do I suffer from some sort of crippling naivete? Is it so wrong for me to want to find safe harbor in the MSM — the last vestige of credibility — in a field that lives and breathe untruths and misrepresentations. I have genuinely formed opinions about people I don’t know based on news items I have taken at face value. Some people will brush off my incredulity as silly. Many times I have heard “Well, those are tabloid rags, you don’t really believe what they write do you?” Yes, in fact I do. I don’t read the OBVIOUS sources full of outrageous claims. I assume(d) that a magazine like Us is believable. I assume they fact-check. I assume they know what libel is.

Yes, I know I am screaming into a vacuum of non-interest. Whatever, I hope this one’s true, because I would love to believe that Angie Jolie is a dirty two-timing whore. But really, who gives a crap. It’s a headline worth repeating whether it’s true or not.

Actor Jon Voight told the “No Spin Zone” host Bill O’Reilly that he is fascinated by his daughter Angelina Jolie.

This should come as no surprise considering the two have been estranged since 2002 when Voight made unfavorable remarks about Jolie in an interview suggesting she had “serious mental issues.”

Despite having given birth to her biological daughter Shiloh with partner Brad Pitt, adopting three children and losing her mother to cancer earlier this year, Angelina has continued to keep her father at arms lengths. Perhaps this fascination stems from the alienation, or it could be that Voight, like the rest of the world, just can’t seem to figure the gorgeous actress out.

Angelina, an Oscar-winning actress, is extremely famous for two reasons: her humanitarian work and her home-wrecker status. These two symbolic actions don’t co-exist favorably. Whether she and her partner of two years, Brad Pitt, want to admit it or not, it’s clear they forged an unmistakable bond while Brad was still married to actress Jennifer Aniston. It doesn’t matter when they consummated the act (something they both allege happened after he was separated from his wife) or before - a high profile marriage of two extremely likable celebrities was left in shambles. Symbolically it divided people into two camps. Pro-Angelina vs. Pro-Jennifer.

Then, almost miraculously and with strange coincidence, Angelina embarked on a crusade to bring awareness of the plights of the poor and down-trodden, most especially children, to the eye of world. Truly noble and kind-hearted. Almost the only possible next move of someone wanting to overhaul their image of temptress to saint. I’m not judging, I’m just saying is all.

I applaud her efforts to help children, few things are more important. But I also value the importance of honesty and staying true to your dignity. Breaking up a marriage is NOT cool any way you slice it. Shame on Brad most of all.

So back to Bill O’Reilly and Jon Voight’s fascination.

Here’s what they had to say:

Bill O’Reilly: “Now, your daughter, Angelina Jolie. You know, we checked her out. I don’t know whether you know this or not. Big investigation on her. And we found out she walks the walk, that she gives all the money, millions of dollars and this and that. She has become, I believe, the most interesting celebrity in the world. In your opinion, why?”

John Voigt: “Yes, she is fascinating. She’s fascinating to me. She’s my daughter. I’m completely fascinated with her. And I have a great admiration for all the work she does and in her humanitarian effort. I think she’s quite stunning, of course. Very attractive gal. And she, for whatever reason, she has a certain charisma.”

O’Reilly agreed, “In the acting — in the acting profession, you’ve known them all. Some people have charisma and some don’t. She obviously has it.”

Can’t disagree, Jolie is both charismatic and fascinating.

But then again, so is Tom Cruise.

 

The tabloids can’t seem to make up their mind.  One minute, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are splitting, the next minute they are madly in love.  Then there are reports that a journalist lied about Pitt defending Angelina, and now, the couple’s spokespeople are of course stating they are still happily together.

It makes it difficult to know where the truth in all this conjecture and speculation really is. 

What we do know is that Brad and Angelina as a couple have four children under the age of five, we know that three of those children are adopted, 5-year-old Maddox, 2-year-old Zahara, 3-year-old Pax and their one biological child, 11-month-old Shiloh.

We also know that as of yet, none of the three children Angelina Jolie adopted have been officially adopted by Brad Pitt, though he has submitted a petition to adopt both Zahara and Maddox and they do have Pitt as their surname. Only their daughter Shiloh, 11 months, is officially Brad Pitt’s child.  As of yet, no petition has been filed for Pax on behalf of Pitt, but in fairness, there may be a waiting period for Angelina Jolie’s paperwork to be finalized in Pax’s native country Vietnam. 

Another thing we know is Angelina told the press in Vietnam at the time of Pax’s adoption her intentions were to stay at home for a while and mother and nurture her expanding brood, when in fact within the first days of returning back home with Pax, Maddox and Zahara, she flew to Chicago for a screen test for her new movie Wanted, which will begin shooting in Prague in May.

And what about those children?  Maddox had been enrolled in school for two months when the couple moved to New Orleans at the beginning of the year, and has since been uprooted again and is now back in L.A. living in their Los Feliz home.  The two pre-schoolers, Zaraha and Pax are being dropped off at studio lot daycare center.  Sure, kids are resilient, but only when they have a constant and stabilizing force in their lives to balance all the uprooting and moving around.  Who is their constant?  Brad?  He’s been working on his film, The Curious Case of Bejamin Button, and Angelina’s getting ready to begin her new film — not too mention all her globe-trotting as UN Ambassador and various charitable works.

Obviously, Angelina and Brad want it all: a multi-national family, thriving movie-careers, to save the world and have mind-numbing sex lives.  Who wouldn’t?  But the reality is, no one can have it all.   Not regular folks, not movie stars.  Throw in the estrangement of Angelina and her father Jon Voight, the death of her mother,  the disapproval Brad’s parents have towards Angelina, and then Angelina’s own unwillingness to marry Brad — and that’s a lot of issues to deal with.  

The couple’s spokeperson tells In Touch: “Their plan is to always be together, with the kids, too.”

Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans.  Both In Touch and Life & Style are reporting the couple got into a heated exchange on the phone while Angelina was doing a photo shoot for St. John’s which they say “raised eyebrows” on set and Angelina was mad when the call ended. She then refused to take anymore of Brad’s calls. 

The L&S article says that Brad has had enough and in fit of anger, let out some suppressed feelings that have been building up over the tension within the relationship:

According to a friend of Brad’s, he yelled at Angie, “I don’t love you anymore — you’re not the woman I fell in love with!” Then, after calming down, says a friend of the couple, Brad quietly asked her, “Why are we doing this? We’re both unhappy — let’s walk away before it gets worse.”

There are also reports that Brad and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston have been communicating throughout all this turmoil and she is providing him a shoulder to cry on and a place to crash if he needs it. Hmmm….

Clearly, something is amiss, and the fact that the couple released a statement tells me that are trying to do some damage control.  If they make to the end of the year as a couple, I will be amazed.  But they sure aren’t going to break up now.  Not with promotions for their latest movies Oceans 13 and A Mighty Heart coming out. 

Can’t afford bad press during movie promotion time can we?

The Tittle-Tattle has excerpts from an interview with Angelina Jolie in the UK’s Ok! Magazine, where she talks about her sexual precociousness, which dates back as early as kindergarten:

“I was a member of a group called the Kissy Girls. I was very sexual in kindergarten. I created a game where I would kiss the boys and give them cooties. “Then we would make out and we would take our clothes off. I got in a lot of trouble!”

Hmmm.. Angelina also goes on to talk about losing her virginity and how she began her ritual of self-harming:

“I had started having sex with my boyfriend and the sex and the emotions didn’t feel enough. I was no longer a little girl. In a moment of wanting to feel closer to my boyfriend I grabbed a knife and cut him. He cut me back. We had an exchange of something and we were covered in blood, my heart was racing. Then whenever I felt trapped, I’d cut myself. I have a lot of scars. “It was an age when I felt adventurous and after a few beers things happened.”

Here’s where I would put in some kind of snarky insight, but you know, I think we can all draw our own conclusions about what this implies about Angelina’s inclinations. But the good news is, when Angelina adopted her first child, five-year-old Maddox, she claims she was fundamentally changed as a person:

“It had something to do with becoming a mother. That was the biggest change in my life and made me feel complete. I learned to accept responsibility for myself, my children and my partner.”

I have no doubt that Angelina was changed by becoming a mother when she adopted Maddox. We can see the transformation as she progressed from an uncomfortably sexual being, bordering on predator. I don’t mean like a pedophile, but rather how she stalked her prospective conquests like some kind of caged lion, until she either devoured them whole, or they limped away broken and scarred. I truly feel that if Angelina Jolie sets her sights on a man, there isn’t one in the universe who could resist. She’s single-minded in her efforts and gets what she wants. Brad didn’t stray from Jennifer, he was captured alive.

But the new Angelina has replaced her addiction of overt sexuality and male manipulation with a new addiction: adopting children.

While it’s reasonable to assume that on the surface, Angelina was moved by the lost souls of poor and orphaned children, deep down this collecting children has come to replace the emptiness she feels in her soul. An emptiness she once filled with controlling the emotions of men, cutting, heroin and acting.

Let’s be clear, addiction in whatever form is as dangerous as addiction to drugs, sex or any other all-consuming activity. If you merely adopt to fill some void, where does it end? Unless she plans to fund an orphanage of her own, staffed with highly dedicated surrogate moms, even she must admit that all her children need the same time and attention as any other child would. So far she has not shown a commitment to her brood.

Angelina at her core is pathological, while father Jon Voigt may be a deadbeat, its possible he’s on to something about her mental state.

Brad Pitt, perhaps tired of seeing his mate smeared in the tabloid magazines, shot back with some criticism of his own when he ran into a reporter for the Daily Mail while at a hotel with some friends. Us Magazine, one magazine who’s given Jolie a fair bit of criticism for her seemingly addiction to adoption has the story:

“You know what it’s like to be on the cover of every magazine, having your personal life dissected with all the lies, all the rubbish?” he asked the writer, taking a swig from a bottle of beer. “It’s hell. Certainly, pick on me — but why pick on Angelina? That’s so low. She’s such an amazing woman - like Supergirl, in every way.”

Pitt, 43, quickly apologized: “I’m sorry if I seem to be taking my frustration out on you.”

It’s good that someone is defending Angelina, as she seems to be gaining more detractors lately than allies - and this for a woman who’s been on a one person crusade to rid the role of orphans — by adopting them. A man who claims to have known Brad for years, Jim Cruse wasn’t so kind about the journey Angelina has taken Brad on:

“Brad always said he wanted a family. But you should be careful what you ask for. He got four kids in two years, all under the age of six. It’s no picnic.” Cruse also took issue with Jolie’s attitude that she can “have it all” and balance being a working mother, a loving partner, and a U.N. ambassador. I don’t think she’s ever really been content,” says Cruse. “ If you ask me, this thing about her ‘wanting it all’ is just another way of saying she’s never happy. The truth is that she makes no excuses for who she is. She thinks of herself as a survivor.”

Yikes! Perhaps we aren’t reading Brad’s message correctly. Maybe when he says Angie’s a “Supergirl” he’s talking about the XTC version of “Supergirl.” Here’s a little food for thought from Andy Partridge and the boys about ’supergirls.’

That’s really super Supergirl
How you saved yourself in seconds flat
And your friends are going to say
That’s really super Supergirl
How you’re changing the world’s weather
But you couldn’t put us back together
Super Supergirl
How you stopped the universe from dying
But you’re never going to stop me crying
Super Supergirl
I’m here in your Fortress of Solitude
Don’t mean to be rude
But I don’t feel super

 

If you read this site with any regularity, then you are aware that I have long suspected that Angelina Jolie has serious, very serious mental issues.  Whether they stem from her chaotic upbringing with divorced Hollywood parents, her strained relationship with her philandering father or her A-Type personality gone out of control - that’s hard to say.  But what does seem obvious is that while Angelina has shown tremendous concern for third-world orphans (she’s adopted three in less than three years) she demonstrate a serious blind eye towards her biological daughter 11-month-old Shiloh.

Finally, the major celebrity magazines are catching on.  This week’s Life&Style Weekly is reporting that Brad Pitt was so fed up Angelina’s overt preferential treatment towards her adopted children that he fled their Hollywood Hills home for their Los Feliz home to send a message to Angie to not take the two of them for granted.

TMZ outlines the latest rift from Life&Style:

The magazine says that after Angie came back from Vietnam, Brad noticed that she “appeared to forget” about Shiloh while she lavished affection on the adopted kids, Maddox, Zahara, and the newest addition, Pax. What’s more, family insiders claim that it’s mainly Brad that takes care of Shiloh…Brad got so fed up that he packed a bag and ditched Angie and the rest of the brood to stay in their Los Feliz home while Angie stayed in the Hollywood Hills.

Article Update: The National Ledger has more details from the article in L&S:

“Two days after Angie returned,” says a friend of the couple, “Brad said to her at one point, ‘Don’t you want to hold your daughter?’ Angie just asked, ‘Why? She’s fine with you.’ That practically tore Brad’s heart out,” the insider dished to the mag.

The weekly entertainment magazine also cites a Pitt family insider that claims, “Angie never rocks Shiloh to sleep or feeds her, and Brad’s the one who gets up in the middle of the night with her.” 

The insider also charges even more stunning behavior. According to the report, since Shiloh’s birth in Africa last May, friends have grown increasingly concerned that Angie, 31, hasn’t shown the baby the affection she gives to her adopted children. “Angie doesn’t change Shiloh’s diapers or hold her when she cries,” the friend says. “One time Shiloh was having a tantrum and Angie just told Brad to quiet her down because she was upsetting the other kids.”

Also, the source is cited as a Pitt family insider - that can be taken two ways.  It’s not news that Brad’s family isn’t keen on his mate, they don’t really like how Angelina swooped in and snatched Brad from Jennifer Aniston, whom they loved and still do, so yes there are sour grapes there, but on the other side of that is that they are keenly aware of what goes on in the house of Brangelina and perhaps are concerned about baby Shiloh. If even a portion of this story is true, it’s horrifyingly awful.

Here’s where the naysayers start in with their “do you live with Angie and Brad,” “Of course Angie loves her Shiloh!,” “these magazines are just trying to start trouble,” and so on and so forth.  To which my answer is, where there’s smoke there’s fire.  Do I believe every tabloid story I read?  No, those are the one’s I don’t even bother to report on.  But this issue with Angelina and Shiloh has been going on for some time now and I firmly believe that if there weren’t some kind of problem, we wouldn’t be hearing about.

You don’t hear about Tom Cruise favoring Suri over his two adopted children?  And he’s pretty much a confirmed whackadoodle.  In some ways Tom and Angelina are similar.  On screen they are incredibly talented, beautiful and oft-times likeable, but then off screen their neurotic, controlling, insecure and indiosyncratic personality traits rear their ugly heads - AND BOOM!  Pyschoville. 

All that said, I think Tom Cruise, Scientology and all, is a better person than Angelina Jolie.  She’s a self-mutilating, sexual deviate, serial homewrecker.  Tom’s just a misguided guy with a Christ complex - disturbing yes, tragically flawed, probably - but not self-loathing enough to despise his own child.  Quite the opposite.

People who don’t love the children they create are the worst kinds of humans.  In fact, they’re subhuman. 

Remember, as PretzelHilton says, you read it here first.  Brad’s not going to put up with this forever.  He hasn’t officially adopted Pax and there may be a reason.

 

Last week Us Magazine came out with a rather tame article criticizing Angelina Jolie’s recent behavior.  The front cover was dire and extreme, but when you read the actual article - which I did - the tone was much more tempered and even-handed than I had hoped.  Gawker even went so far as to accuse Us Magazine of being jealous for having been left on the sidelines of Jolie’s latest adoption frenzy of 3-year old son Pax Thien.  I think jealous isn’t the right word.  Perhaps disgusted, jaded or weary might be better terms - but jealous seems so obvious an emotion.  Surely a major celebrity mag would have more at stake than to want to appear merely “jealous” of one of their competitors. Have they learned nothing from Jennifer Aniston?! 

If so, then count Star Magazine green with envy and following suit.  Their next issue paints an even starker picture for Brangelina, with bold headlines like, “Angelina Walks Out On Brad!…and Dumps The Kids!” According to Page Six, a snippet of Star’s allegations against Angie:

But wait, there’s more…

Is Angelina Jolie afflicted with the newest addiction, Third World Orphanitis, or TWO for short? According to the new buzz she is. Apparently the actress and mate of actor Brad Pitt isn’t satisfied with the rainbow of colors she sees as she peruses her bounty of babies, and is now hoping to add another adopted child by the end of the summer — another African girl to make Zahara feel more comfortable. And what about Shiloh and her need for balance? An Angelina quote on the subject of race and Shiloh:

“Should you balance the races, so there’s another African person in the house for Zahara, after another Asian person in the house for Mad? We think so. Shiloh has Brad and me to look at.“

I love that, always giving Shiloh the short-end of the stick. What if Shiloh doesn’t want to look at your annoying mugs? Sure Brad and Angie may be the most beautiful humans on earth, but shouldn’t she have a bio-sibling to bond with? Angelina is as nutty as a BabyRuth.

TMZ seems to think the story is NOT true after talking to her lawyer Robert Offer, who claims to have been involved in all her previous adoptions and has not been informed of any new adoptions in the works.

Yeah, well, sure he’d say that, considering the backlash after she adopted Pax. The blush is off the rose so to speak for Angelina, and her “goodwill” mission to save the world one poor orphan at a time is starting to wear thin. Meanwhile, back at the Brangelina homestead, all four of Angie’s kids are probably wondering where their mommy is, as she prepares to shoot her new movie in Prague. And by now, Shiloh probably thinks her personal nanny is mom, making it that much easier for Brad when he finally grows weary of Angelina’s bizarre and shady behavior and takes her forgotten child and moves on - to much greener and less “crazy” pastures.

photo and source: Associated Content

Editors Note: They really are all so cute, especially the big one with a five-o’clock shadow.