Whatever happens with the Oscars, there’ll be pre-Oscar parties, and one of them will have the strangest combination co-hosts: Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, and Brad Pitt. (Check out the MorphThing image morph above of all three celebs.) If you’ve been hiding under a rock for several years and don’t know, Aniston was married to Pitt before Jolie snagged him away. I’ll put down $25 on Jolie as the winner of the inevitable cat-fight.
Then again, other pals such as Tobey Maguire, Ben Stiller, George Clooney, Don Cheadle and others will be around and would probably stop a catfight.
The party is on Feb 23 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. No idea if it’s an open party.
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If it’s true that Angelina Jolie is pregnant with twins, then she must be the happiest Hollywood celebrity, since she’s always wanted a big family. She and Brad Pitt have one natural daughter and three adopted children.
Tori Spelling is also pregnant again by husband Dean McDermott, and into her second trimester. Son Liam will be one in March, but I guess since the couple quit their reality show Tori & Dean Inn Love, they had some time on their hands.
Given that the WGA writers’ strike has gone on for about three months now, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hollywood has yet another baby boom this year and next.
While in New Orleans helping with rebuilding efforts there, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly took the kids to see The Water Horse and to eat at a KFC and a McDonald’s (at different times). I gotta say that really surprises me. I thought Jolie does promo work for animal rights groups (no?) and that fast food would be the last place they’d go. Maybe I’m wrong. Also, if Jolie is really rubbing caviar on her face, then fast food seems kinda cheap.
Jolie will be starring in Atlas Shrugged, based on the novel by Ayn Rand, as well as Kung Fu Panda, Wanted, and The Changeling. Pitt, whose birthday just passed, will be appearing in Burn After Reading, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Chad Schmidt, and Dirty Tricks in 2008, and The Fighter and Dallas Buyer’s Club in 2009. The video clip below is from Dirty Tricks, which also stars Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, Annette Bening, Jill Clayburgh, Gwyneth Paltrow and others.
Ayn Randians have probably waited a long time for this one: a movie adaptation of of Ayn Rand’s 1957 Objectivist novel Atlas Shrugged. The only cast currently credited is Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggart, though there are eight people credited as producers, co-producers or executive producers. (Two have the last name of Baldwin, and the company is listed as Baldwin Entertainment Group.)
IMDB details state that Ayn Rand herself had wanted Farrah Fawcett for a TV mini-series that NBC had planned in the late 1970s but which never came about. Rand died in 1982 of lung cancer, but her other great Objectivist novel The Fountainhead was made into a 1949 movie starring Gary Cooper. (A few of her other works of writing were also made into movies.)
A 3D animated clip of “Atlas Shruggged” that’s unrelated to this production is shown below.
[sources: Egoist]
Forbes’ list of Hollywood’s most influential infants seems about as accurate as the list that had Kevin Federline as one of the most influential people under 45. This list declares Shiloh Pitt – the one mom Angelina Jolie declared an outcast amongst her mixed-race adopted siblings – as the most influential. Does this mean I should send my screenplay ideas to Shiloh?
Empire magazine has declared luscious-lipped Angelina Jolie number one in their list of the 100 Sexiest Movie Stars Ever. As usual with such lists, there are probably numerous stars you’ve never heard of. I mean, who the hell is Mary Elizabeth Winstead, #100, and who actually watched Die Hard 4?
The real surprise is Brigitte Bardot as #98 below Lucy Liu at #96. And John Cusack? He’s incredibly talented and incredibly handsome, but is he sexy? What do you think? I can’t think of a single sexy role he’s been in, and I’ve seen almost every film he’s been in. And oh my god, supercute (but not sexy!!) Reese Witherspoon at #63? Above Brigitte Bardot?
