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Morning Memo: Avery Checks Out Marie Claire; Lohan and Ronson Check Out The Hamptons

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:46:31 -0400

Sean Avery may be lining up his next fashion internship. The New York Ranger was seen visiting the offices of Marie Claire and perusing the magazine's fashion closet with editor-in-chief, Joanna Coles. As usual, he was wearing shorts. [P6]

Meanwhile, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's 15-year-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, is reportedly interning at Rolling Stone. [P6]

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson reportedly took their almost confirmed relationship to the Hamptons this weekend. [NY...

The Jolie-Pitts Snub American Media, Put Provincial French Paper on the Map

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:26:54 -0400

The ever charitable Jolie-Pitts, who went as far as installing a magical shield across the windows of Ms. Jolie's hospital room in France, decided to bestow the privilege of covering the birth of their babies to one particular publication according to AP.

It wasn't In Touch, which reported on Saturday that two girls were born to the couple. And it wasn't OK! magazine or Us Weekly or the slew of...

Morning Memo: The Jolie-Pitt Twins Have Landed

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:12:45 -0400

At last the Jolie-Pitt twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, entered the world on Saturday night via a Ceserian section at the Lenval hospital in the South of France. Giving a press conference shortly after the birth, Dr. Michel Sussman told reporters:
"It was an epidural, so [Angelina] was awake and speaking and laughing. They were happy. [Brad] was my assistant! He was perfectly calm, totally determined, very pleased to be at the...

Magical Shield Erected at Hospital to Deflect Evil Paparazzi Rays Directed at Pitt Twins

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:46:31 -0400

The Lenval hospital in Nice where Angelina Jolie is preparing to birth the golden twins has reportedly covered the windows of her room with a "special material" that cameras cannot see through.

"It is impossible to see into Mr. Brad Pitt and Mrs. Angelina Jolie's room. So any pictures released are either posed fakes set up by paparazzi or they are pictures of other patients," the hospital said. "We hope...

Report: Jolie in French Hospital to Birth Twins (For Real This Time, We Think)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:03:26 -0400

According to an Associated Press report, Angelina Jolie is currently at a hospital in the South of France where she will give birth to her twins.

Unlike last month's falsified report, this one might actually be real as a Nadine Bauer, a spokeswoman for the Lenval Hospital in Nice was able to confirm Ms. Jolie's admittance to the hospital's maternity wing.

Ms. Bauer told AP that Ms. Jolie is...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Talking Robots Can't Outsell Angelina Jolie's Pretty Pucker

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:38:14 -0400

Manhattan may be famous for its plummeting crime rate (Oslo has four times as much crime as New York this year!), but it's clear its residents still have a taste for violence — that, or they prefer Angelina Jolie's slender arms and James McAvoy's glistening chest to a dented metal-box with eyes. Either way, last weekend New Yorkers resisted the calls of ecstatic critics and chose Timur Bekmambetov's kill-fest Wanted — in which Jolie...

Brad and Angelina May Option Times Prom Story

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:14:14 -0400

Unnamed sources are telling New York Magazine's culture blog Vulture that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are trying to sell a movie version of that New York Times City section piece, "This Strange Thing Called Prom" by Brooke Hauser.

The piece is about Brooklyn International High School's first-ever prom and how students from Liberia, Haiti, China and Tibet--unlike their Upper East Side private school counterparts--try to figure out what it is exactly and how to...

Angelina and the Atonement Guy Miss Target in Killer Thriller

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:48:07 -0400

Wanted
Running Time 110 minutes
Written by Michael Brandt, Derek Haas and Chris Morgan
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp

Even in the summer garbage dump of bloated bilge aimed at computer hackers and sleepwalkers with I.Q.’s under 40, a bucket of swill called Wanted reaches the bottom of the waste heap. There are so many...

Angelina Overshares Again

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:04:30 -0400

As we wait for the blessed children to leave Angelina Jolie's womb, she can't seem to stop oversharing about her and Brad Pitt's life together. In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, she offers yet another interview in which she gushes about their home life. (For those keeping up, she is also on the July cover of Vanity Fair.)

As usual, scroll down for highlights!

On chatting with Clint Eastwood, her...

Morning Memo: Gays Cruise Home of Cruise and Holmes! And Tatum Offers Free Legal Counseling to Her Dealer

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:02:16 -0400

Strand bookstore owner, Fred Bass, is "baffled and amazed" and Cynthia Rowley is "upset" that the city's promotional agency, NYC and Co., shot the designer in the bookstore for the city's "Just Ask the Locals" campaign, but advertised it as Midtown's Kinokuniya Books instead. [P6]

Entertainment Tonight finally retracted the claim that Angelina Jolie's twins were born last week. [NY Daily News]

Tatum O'Neal, who blamed her crack-buying on the death of her...

Angelina and Brad are Artsy Parents

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:33:25 -0400

Okay, so we still don't know for sure if Angelina Jolie gave birth to twins over the weekend despite conflicting reports from People and ET and like you, we're getting a little tired of these two today. However, the twin-bearing mother talked to Vanity Fair's Rich Cohen for its July Issue about some other mommy stuff, so try to keep yourselves busy with this until we hear the final word.

A few pull-quotes...

Vanity Fair Has The Last Laugh

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:57:44 -0400

What do you do if your magazine was embroiled in a possibly manufactured controversy over its allegedly sexualized photos of a minor? If you're Vanity Fair, you make fun of the whole thing, of course.

VF Daily has posted a sneak peek of the magazine's July issue featuring Angelina Jolie's impressive décolletage below the cover line "Angelina Jolie Uncensored." (Thankfully, the magazine had the tact not to use the cover line Angelina's Twins.)...

Report Report: Jolie-Pitt Twins (?) Are Not Born!

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:02:13 -0400

First, Entertainment Weekly reported that twins were born on Sunday to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Lending authenticity to the report were details, like their names (Isla Marcheline and Amelie Jane) and the little detail that they were born at a "Catholic clinic" somewhere in the Aix-en-Provence region of France.

Then, People, the magazine that paid $4.1 million to the couple in 2006 for photos of the couple's fourth child, Shiloh, swatted the report down with...

Everyone Wants a Private Forest

Fri, 30 May 2008 11:38:23 -0400

It seems everyone is deserting the cities for open fields and fresh rural air. Tom Brokaw raises and sells bison off of his ranch in Montana and yesterday we learned that Jack White and wife, supermodel Karen Elson are enjoying their weeping willows in Nashville, where Ms. Elson will soon open a vintage store. How quaint!

Now we hear from The Huffington Post that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's new $70...

Morning Memo: Chloe Sevigny, 'Eco-Nazi'? Angelina Jolie Pregnant With Twins

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:22:33 -0400

Chloë Sevigny has turned into an "Eco-Nazi" with her anti-plastic-bag ways. [The Cut]

Gossip Girl News! The guy who plays Dan's father, Rufus, thinks Dan and Serena make a "a very hot couple" in real and Gossip worlds, which is kind of ew. Meanwhile, GG's lead torturer Michelle Trachtenberg was in fact the torturee in her private Los Angeles high school. [People, Daily Intel]

Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has moved into an apartment on West 66th Street...

Morning Memo: Anna Wintour is Knackered; Academy Twists Strikers' Knickers

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:28:25 -0500

Some fashion week models are wearing T-shirts backstage that tout Angelina Jolie's Global Action for Children to attract attention to the cause as they get their pre-show hair and makeup done. [WWD]

Amy Winehouse was denied a US visa to attend the Grammy Awards, but she may appear via satellite. [Us]

Also, Winehouse is moving into the guesthouse at Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's home outside London. [Page Six]

Fashion Week big shots Anna Wintour and Suzy Menkes...

'Close Source' to Us: Angelina Jolie Is Pregnant

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:12:55 -0500

Angelina Jolie is pregnant, according to a source close to the 32-year-old actress and her partner, Brad Pitt. Whether or not she is expecting twins, as some rumors have suggested, was apparently not confirmed by the insider, who contacted Us.

The baby buzz began at last weekend’s S.A.G. Awards, where Ms. Jolie arrived wearing a flowing dress that seemed to be specially designed to hide any signs of a growing bump. (Reps for...

Jon Voight Comments on Daughter Angelina Jolie's Possible Pregnancy

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:36:40 -0500

Our intrepid political reporter Jason Horowitz is following Rudy Giuliani around Florida this week. On Rudy's press plane, the legendary actor Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance), a supporter who is traveling with the presidential hopeful today, took a break from such topics as Franklin D. Roosevelt, the nature of the media and the normal guyness of Mr. Giuliani to address today's rumors that his daughter, Angelina Jolie, is pregnant.

“It’s wonderful news that she’s having...

Banksy Painting Sells, Notting Hill Wall Included

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:01:43 -0500

A work by Banksy, the faceless London artist who has entangled the city’s residents in a high-brow game of Cat and Mouse, just sold on eBay for nearly $400,000.

Buying the piece—one of the artist's typical graffiti numbers, this one depicts an artist in an old-fashioned getup putting the finishing touches on the word “BANKSY”—may prove to be the easy part. The work adorns a wall...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Find Peace, Pizza in Missouri

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:03:37 -0500

This week, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ate more fast food with their family while on vacation in Mr. Pitt’s childhood hometown of Springfield, Missouri. It seems they’ve moved on from McDonalds, KFC and convenience stores—at least for the moment—this time getting some slices at Arris’ Pizza.

The pizza joint’s kitchen manager told Perez Hilton that the other restaurant patrons left the family pretty much...

Brad Pitt, Pax Jolie Tour New Orleans Military-Style

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:54:11 -0500

On Christmas, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie drove their brood in a Nissan minivan to McDonalds for tasty eats. But yesterday, New Year’s Eve, the 44-year-old charitable actor had traded in his soccer-mom whip for a more rugged set of wheels.

Mr. Pitt was photographed tooling around the Big Easy with Pax Thien Jolie, 4. The pair were burning rubber on something called an E-Z GO...

It's a Fast Food Christmas for the Jolie-Pitts

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:10:53 -0500

A bevy of big-time stars spent the holidays basking under the sun in exclusive locales, but not Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Instead of jetting to Martinique or Bali for Christmas, the celebrity couple and their family fa-la-la’d with the Colonel and Ronald McDonald.

On Christmas day, Mr. Pitt, who just turned 44, and Ms. Jolie, 32, drove in a white Nissan minivan to a New Orleans McDonald’s drive-thru,...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to 'Crap Out' Before Collecting 10 Children

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:10:31 -0500

Brad Pitt sat down last night with Charlie Rose. Wearing a flannel newsboy-style cap, the actor gabbed about everything from his fortunate lifestyle to his various charity projects. But when the topic of conversation landed on the four children Mr. Pitt, 44, rears with Angelina Jolie, 32, things turned slightly bizarre.

Mr. Rose asked the Burn After Reading star how many children he and Ms. Jolie plan to raise, and...

Demand for Angelina Jolie Extends Far Beyond Hollywood

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:28:10 -0500

Angelina Jolie’s fame as an actress may have been eclipsed by her notoriety as a humanitarian. An organization of Filipino farmers has just sent out the alarm asking for help from the 32-year-old actress, who has recently relocated to New Orleans with Brad Pitt in order to oversee construction of “green” housing in the city’s wounded 9th Ward. The leftist agricultural group, called Kilusang Magbubukid Pilipinas, petitioned the United Nations High...

Zahara Jolie-Pitt Conceived During Rape, Her Mother Says

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:48:32 -0500

Zahara, the Ethiopian-born two-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, was conceived during a rape, according to the girl’s biological mother, Mentwabe Dawit. The alleged attack occurred in 2004 after Ms. Dawit, now 24, had finished working at a construction site in the nation situated on the Horn of Africa.

In an interview with Reuters, the woman described the violent ordeal: “He pulled...

Lycée Students Say: Au Revoir, Mon Maddox! It’s Shortest Semester Ever for Movie-Star Spawn

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:45:04 -0400

On Thursday, Oct. 11, after six weeks of class, Maddox Pitt-Jolie had his last day at the Lycée Français on 75th Street. The mohawked 6-year-old was photographed leaving the school in his gym-class uniform alongside his movie-star mother, Angelina Jolie, who held under her arm a large booklet that his fellow kindergarteners had given him as a parting gift. In pretty cursive it read “Bye Maddox, Souvenir de Lycee Francais.”

“Each student was...

The Day in Gossip: Coulter's Blue Friend! Pa Visits Angelina?

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:14:30 -0400

OK, it’s settled—Ann Coulter has just been pretending to be a hardened, ice-cold conservative! [Page Six]

Was Jon Voight, who was photographed last weekend going into the Waldorf=Astoria, visiting his estranged daughter Angelina Jolie? [Gatecrasher: 2nd Item]

New York Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning got booed uptown. [Page Six]
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Today in Bill Clinton's Celebrity Goodness Initiative: Rupert Murdoch!

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:12:11 -0400

We've long been fascinated by the relationship between presumptively right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Clintons. Today, a little bit more of the love between the two camps may emerge when Mr. Murdoch takes the stage at 9:30 a.m. at the Clintong Global Initiative's annual meeting here in New York, to participate in a plenary-session panel discussion entitled, "Building a Global Multi-Ethnic Community," which is arguably what Mr. Murdoch is doing in...

Zut Alors! Monsieur Maddox Jolie-Pitt Begins Kindergarten, And Lycée Parents Lose It

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:58:13 -0400

It seems the entire Upper East Side is aware that Maddox, the adopted son of Hollywood golden couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has begun school at the Lycée Français de New York on East 75th Street.

Classes began on Sept. 4, and the school is still adjusting to the chaos that ensues whenever Mr. Pitt or Ms. Jolie drops off or picks up their 5-year-old.

The Lycee’s...

Heart of Darkness: Homage to Pearl Is Grown Up, Courageous

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:57:30 -0400

A Mighty Heart
Running Time 100 minutes
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Written by John Orloff
Starring Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman

Human-rights violations in countries where thugs and tyrants place personal goals ahead of civil liberties seem doubly egregious when applied to the risks journalists take to tell the truth, report the facts, and keep the world informed about man’s inhumanity to man. The press...

Winterbottom’s Chilly Brilliance

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:47:41 -0400

As Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, along with some cross-sampling of their kids and a marauding army of paparazzi, descended on Manhattan last week for the premiere of Ms. Jolie’s new movie, A Mighty Heart, there was one man who seemed conspicuously absent amid all the hubbub: Michael Winterbottom.

Wait—who?

Mr. Winterbottom directed the film, which opens Friday and was adapted from Mariane Pearl’s memoir about the days and nights...

Shhhh! De Niro’s Spy Flick Keeps It to a Whisper

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:00:00 -0500

Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, from a screenplay by Eric Roth, has been described as “The Godfather of spy movies,” which is reasonably accurate as far as the depiction of violence is concerned, as well as the emphasis on ethnicity, which in The Good Shepherd is mostly multi-generational American ruling-class WASP, while in The Godfather it was mostly the Italian-American (or, more specifically, Sicilian-American) lineage that was on the line. But the differences...

Our Private Intellectuals: Brad Pitt Goes To Climate Class!

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:00:00 -0500

On Dec. 9, several of Columbia University’s top climate scientists gathered at their colleague Jeffrey Sachs’ townhouse on West 85th Street to help a new student catch up on the latest research on climate change. Of course, no mere undergraduate could command four hours of the professors’ attention on this unseasonably warm Saturday afternoon. Don’t be ridiculous. No, this session was for Professor Sachs’ good pal, Brad Pitt, who was looking to expand his...

The Cooper Enigma: Anderson's A Star, But Numbers Stink

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:00:00 -0400

By most standards, Anderson Cooper looks like a winner. The CNN anchor, Yale graduate, Vanderbilt heir and brand-new 60 Minutes correspondent hosts two hours of live television a night. His face (that hair!) adorned the June Vanity Fair, which sold 375,000 newsstand copies. On June 20 and 21, Mr. Cooper conducted two “big get” interviews—first Angelina Jolie, then Cher. On June 26, he flew to New Orleans for a series of packed readings from...

The Cooper Enigma: Anderson’s A Star, But Numbers Stink

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:00:00 -0400

By most standards, Anderson Cooper looks like a winner. The CNN anchor, Yale graduate, Vanderbilt heir and brand-new 60 Minutes correspondent hosts two hours of live television a night. His face (that hair!) adorned the June Vanity Fair, which sold 375,000 newsstand copies. On June 20 and 21, Mr. Cooper conducted two “big get” interviews—first Angelina Jolie, then Cher. On June 26, he flew to New Orleans for a series of packed readings from...

Us Editor Janice Min Dictates: In Raw Times, Jessica, Jen, Jolie

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:00:00 -0400

“The whole age of the soft interview is gone,” Janice Min said. Ms. Min, 36, is approaching her third anniversary as editor of Us Weekly. She ascended to the job in July 2003, the same month that George W. Bush, savoring a quick and tidy army-on-army victory, dared Iraqi insurgents to “Bring ’em on.” Ms. Min has had a better three years than Mr. Bush. Circulation has doubled, to 1.75 million. Since January, Us—“the...

Knocked Up? Clam Up! The New Gravid Garbos

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:00:00 -0400

The chicest, newest, grooviest thing you can do right now? Get knocked up and not tell anyone. So what if people think you are growing a beer gut? Let them take you for a big, fat pig. It simply doesn’t matter anymore, because the under-the-radar pregnancy is the new black! The unrelenting obsession with childbirth—celebrity babies in particular—was bound to create a backlash among the Manhattan cognoscenti. It was only a matter of time...

New York Magazine: We Were Almost Entirely Wrong About Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:24:48 -0400

Survey says...! New York, the magazine that almost unmasked JT Leroy but didn't, revisits another one of its stories. "The first Brangelina baby photos hit the streets today," New York's Web site announces. "In April, New York imagined the moment. Did we get it right?" The new item then painstakingly reviews how New York's predictions about the Pitt-Jolie baby media circus stack up to the facts—and how the magazine's mocked-up celebrity baby photos compare to...

UPDATED: Brad Pitt in ... Architecture Scandal?

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:19:29 -0400

Brad's sick of the condescension. Brad Pitt was in the Dominican Republic on March 31 through the following day, Forbes reports, scouting real estate and smiling for photographers with the architects who refurbished his and Angelina Jolie's love nest. But, with wireless connections, Blackberries and personal assistants, couldn't he do two things at once? A poster identified as Brad Pitt posted a note on Archinect, a Web site that combines news and member...

Jolie Laide

Sun, 15 May 2005 20:00:00 -0400

In the ad for Mr. and Mrs. Smith-the Cleopatra of its generation, due out next month-there's Angelina Jolie, sans Brad Pitt, leg up like a flamingo.

"In that picture, you know what she's saying," a friend said recently. "She's saying, 'I'm fucking beautiful. Fuck you.'" This is not something Julia Roberts said in ads for Pretty Woman, although her pose was similar; not something Nicole Kidman could muster up on a good day. Charlize Theron?...

Scorched by Colin the Great

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:00:00 -0500

I will remember 2004 as the year I went on a date with Colin Farrell and got scorched by the inferno of his white-hot charisma. Our liaison, an epic tale of bleach, blood and bisexuality, proved to be every bit as emotionally draining as the tabloids had led me to believe it might be.

We had a date to meet in the windows at Barneys on Madison Avenue. Mr. Farrell and his onscreen mother, Angelina...

A Thriller With Too Much Filler

Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:00:00 -0500

Like an action epic that doesn't move, or a musical that doesn't sing, there is something woefully disappointing at the movies about a thriller that doesn't thrill. A twisted little spine-tingler called Taking Lives almost achieves the dark and terrifying ambiance of Seven and Copycat to which it aspires, except for one basic hurdle. A particularly savage serial killer is on the loose in Montreal, and the entire Canadian police force is so baffled...

This Nicole Will Haunt Tom

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400

After the awful Eyes Wide Shut and the pretentious, hysterical Moulin Rouge , Nicole Kidman redeems herself with The Others , looking as patrician and translucent (and wearing the same wonderfully straight, uncluttered hairstyle) as she did in her best film to date, To Die For . Tom Cruise co-produced The Others , and the forthcoming Hollywood premiere promises to deliver them both. What a media circus that ought to be. Meanwhile, the film...

The Naked Truth About Angelina Jolie

Sun, 05 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400

Tim and Nina Zagat are as sensitive about their reputations as some of the chefs they review.

At the beginning of the year, Food & Wine magazine assigned former New York Times food critic Mimi Sheraton to travel to eight cities where the Zagats publish their popular maroon guidebooks, dine at restaurants in each locale that received the highest Zagat Survey food ratings, and then write about whether she agreed with their findings. In...