WOAH WOAH WOAH, I am not ready for this. Not one bit.
If you are a Brad Pitt fan, brace yourself. The 47-year old actor told Australia’s 60 Minutes that he will quit acting by the time he is 50.
Let me count. That’s only three more years. Say it isn’t so Brad?!
As of now, Pitt plans on exiting his role in front of the camera and start working behind it. “I am really enjoying the producing side and development of stories and putting those pieces together,” Pitt said. “Getting stories to the plate that might have had a tougher times otherwise.”
Brad, why can’t you do both?!
Is it just me, or do any of you also feel it would be an utter shame for that beautiful face of his to be hidden behind the camera in a mere few years?
OOPS! The set of Brad Pitt‘s upcoming zombie movie, World War Z, was raided in Budapest Monday by a team of Hungarian police and a SWAT team looking for real weapons.
The raid resulted in the seizure of 85 fully-functional weapons, most of which were automatic, military-style assault rifles, stored in a warehouse on set. The weapons were supposed to be nonfunctional prop guns, but turned out to be fully working military-style assault rifles.
A source told US Weekly that Brad’s Plan B Entertainment production company simply made a mistake. “The movie company’s employees must have made a mistake bringing the guns in without the Anti-terrorism Unit’s permission.”
The director of Hungary’s Anti-Terrorism Unit said: “This morning a private plane brought guns wrapped in parcel from a company to an individual [in Budapest]. Guns like these are highly illegal to transport even if they were to be used a stage guns, which hopefully they weren’t.”
This can’t be welcomed news for Pitt whose film, per an US Weekly source, is “Already over budget and over schedule.”
Brad Pitt is singing like a bird lately. In this week’s issue of PARADE, he spills many a secret including why he became a father, why he won’t marry Angelina Jolie and why his marriage to Jennifer Aniston was pretend.
Check out some excerpts below, then visit Parade.com on Friday (Aug. 7) for the full interview.
On why he won’t marry Angelina Jolie: “I have love in my life, a soul mate–absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don’t get married, I replied, ‘Maybe we’ll get married when it’s legal for everyone else.’ I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it–hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I’ve had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.”
On knowing real love: “Do you know how you tell real love? It’s when someone else’s interest trumps your own… Love of somebody else–of family, of your kids–becomes the most important, most worthwhile thing in your life.
On Angelina as a mom: “One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.”
On his marriage to Jennifer Aniston: “I spent the ’90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic. It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage [to actress Jennifer Aniston] had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t.”
On the secret stone grotto behind the waterfall in his pool: “[It’s] a great place for sex.”
Brad Pitt graces the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly and inside gives a rare in-depth interview from London while promoting Moneyball and shooting the zombie epic World War Z.
In the interview, Pitt says about meeting his wife Angelina Jolie on the set of the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith, “[We] had some good laughs and ideas. That was just a great collaboration that turned into a greater collaboration.”
Pitt says he and Jolie may reconsider their policy of never working at the same time. This decision of theirs has helped the family, but it has also meant that they have not been able to make movies together:
“We should be doing them together. That’s what we should do. We should be doing everything together. Then we could work less and have more time off.”
In the interview, Pitt also frankly discusses his career failures. Take 1994’s Interview with The Vampire, for example, which makes him admit: “I am miserable. Six months in the f—ing dark. Contact lenses, makeup, I’m playing the bitch role…” He continues, “One day, it broke me… I called David Geffen, who was a producer… I said, ‘David, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it. How much will it take to get me out?’ And he goes, very calmly, ‘Forty million dollars.’”
For more on the Brad Pitt interview, including the truth behind his “rescue” of an extra on the set of World War Z, get your own issue of Enertainment Weekly, on stands September 16th
Every time I turn around, I see a new listing of the rich and famous from Forbes. Heck, it’s a slow news day, so, let’s dive into their latest: “World’s Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples” list.
A supermodel and an NFL star is apparently the winning combination when it comes to making lots of dough. Topping the list of the richest couples are footballer Tom Brady and his beautiful wife Gisele Bundchen who earned an astounding $76 combined last year. Good for Bundchen who made the majority of that stash by making $45 million herself. Continue reading →
Jonah Hill is looking skinnier and skinnier every time we see him. The Superbad star, 27, has been trimming down by 40 pounds in preparation for his role in 21 Jump Street. And thanks to the pics he posts on his Facebook page, like the one above with Moneyball co-star Brad Pitt, we can keep track of his weight-loss success.
“It’s not fun,” Hill told the Los Angeles Timesof his get-skinny plan. “I wouldn’t say it’s the most fun endeavor I’ve ever took on in my life, but it’s important. And I’m enjoying it. If I eat something unhealthy now, I kind of feel a little weird and my body hurts.”
Don’t be surprised if wedding bells finally ring and ring soon for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The couple has six children together — and the kids are starting to ask their famous parents why they’re not married.
Brad and Angelina have always said they wouldn’t get married until everyone was legally able to but things have changed since the kids started to ask questions.
Brad told USA Today: “The kids ask about marriage. It’s meaning more and more to them. So it’s something we’ve got to look at.”
Brad also spoke of his fatherly duties: “Kids hold up a mirror to you. You can’t make excuses. You’ve got to make sure they’ve brushed their teeth and eaten a good breakfast. You want to be present if they wake up with a bad dream.”
“On the road, we’re a military mobile unit. The kids have got their stuff down to one backpack, and they’re each responsible for their own bag. Mom does the packing; she’s quite gifted at that. Puts in just what we need – nothing extra.”
Angelina Jolie was escorted by her lovely and proud sorta-hubby Brad Pitt at the Los Angeles premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2held at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Sunday (May 22) in Hollywood, CA.
Angelina wore a Michael Kors dress with the usual super sexy slit she’s been fashioning of late with Ferragamo shoes.
As if these two weren’t cute enough, all of their lovely six kids came along to watch the movie.
Instead of the usual professional shots you find on CelebMagent, sometimes I like to include fan pics like these – to show what it’s like to be a regular Joe among the paparazzi at a big event – and to show how close the fans can get to their fave stars!
Watch a video from the red carpet featuring Angelina Jolie, Jack Black and Seth Rogen:
Like I have said many times: The paparazzi disturb me me a bit. I absolutely think that they can go way beyond the bounds of decency to get that one “money shot.” And it doesn’t seem to matter to some of them who they hurt or literally step on or over to get their picture.
Now, I am not talking about just any photographer who likes to or who does take photos of celebrities highlighting the work and art of the celeb. Celebs want the publicity and we the fans crave the news. So, photographers definitely serve a desired purpose.
But I am specifically talking about those professional photographers who get paid top dollars for lying in wait for their celebrity victims to take shots of the celebs’ most private moments. The moments which for whatever reason, we, as a society salivate but have no right to see. So, I am not just blaming the paparazzi, we all share the blame in this game.
I really wanted to learn first hand what the life of a paparazzi is really like. So, I decided to live as paparazzi for one day to see what it is like doing what they do and to interact with them on their playing grounds. I needed a celebrity target. And just then, one of the most prized paparazzi targets just happened to fall into my lap: Brad Pitt. Well, Brad Pitt and his daughter, Zahara, which means an even bigger prize in the murky world of the paparazzi.
When I found out where Brad Pitt was on that particular day, I packed two cameras and headed to the shopping mall where I knew Brad was. Once there, I learned that Brad and Zahara were inside the American Girl shop, attending the private birthday party of rocker Chris Cornell’s daughter.
Obviously, I could not just walk into the store and snap my pictures, so, I had to find some paparazzi and learn from them. I walked around and saw a handful of men with cameras larger than anything I have ever seen standing by a white SUV parked outside of the back private entrance to American Girl. I knew I had hit jackpot. So, I found my spot–the spot I thought would best serve for my photo and video footage once Brad came out of the large gated door and I stood there, holding my ground. Waiting. And waiting. Minutes went by and then hours went by and more and more paparazzi showed up. A couple of them even had a young child with them each, with the child perilously sitting on each of their shoulders as they held cameras in their hands.
As more paparazzi came, more pedestrians stopped to ask who the paparazzi were waiting for. Some of the paps said nothing and just remained emotionless, ignoring the pesky questions directed to their faces. Others were very friendly and happily answered the inquisitors. And so the crowd grew. And grew.
As more time went by, the swelling crowd became more and more antsy. And louder and louder, annoying some of the paps who had been there for hours. And so, some of the paps turned on the non-professionals. If any non-professional dared to stand in front of the paps, the paps would push them away and say, “You have no right to stand in my way,” as if the paps held a legitimate claim to the private property owned by someone else. I found this particular exchange pretty disturbing:
Pap to fan: “Don’t get your damn cell phone camera in way of my camera.” Fan to pap: “I have to take my picture too.” Pap to fan: “Oh right, with your pathetic cell phone camera.” Fan to pap: “At least I am not a loser who wastes my life waiting to take pictures of people for a living.” Pap to fan: “Right, you are just a loser waiting here to take a picture for free with your useless cell phone.”
Even though most of the paps thought of me as a fellow pap since we had time to discuss why I was there with the ones who were actually either friendly enough to talk to me or who were hitting on me (more on that later) I myself was not immune and was shoved, poked, and pushed by pap men twice my size; a behavior which would or should never be allowed in any other setting; yet, as a so-called paparazzi, it was OK to push and be pushed. My gender or size or the fact that this behavior is unacceptable anywhere else was of no importance.
If I wasn’t being pushed around, I was incessantly being hit on by a couple of extremely crude men who I assume are used to mostly seeing only their gender in this field. As part of their charm, they were trying to impress me by telling me things such as: “I got paid $200K for the video of Lindsey Lohan doing blah blah blah.” The monetary figures boasted for various “money shots” were shocking.
Now, let me say, the paps were not the only ones there who were being a bit unreasonable. There were fans there with very young crying children who were begging their parents to leave after a while on that particularly hot day, but the parents refused to leave for hours for the chance of taking one picture of Brad with their phones. Guess that is why there is a need for the paparazzi: We the fans feed the machine.
After all was said and done, four hours had gone by. It was extremely hot, it was boring, it was hellish. I had sweat of unfamiliar people all over me since we were all packed like sardines to get as close to Brad’s car as possible. Throughout the ordeal, the security guards and Brad’s bodyguard kept moving Brad’s car around and to different places, in the hopes of dispersing and confusing the crowd, but it never worked. The crowd always returned, and in larger numbers. There were many false alarms as the gated door was opened at least 50 times by people who were not Brad, each time almost inciting a frenzied riot of camera flashes, followed by a series of, “Ah’s,” or “No’s.”
Finally, when I thought I was gonna give up my experiment and leave because the tension in the crowd was palpable and quite frankly grown a bit scary, Brad Pitt and Zahara came out. Hand in hand. And the paps went crazy. Brad took care to safely put Zahara in the child seat in the back and then proceeded to the driver’s seat. The paps shoved anyone in their way and rushed the car and surrounded it, without any care that a young child was inside or that Brad, the father and driver, was trying to safely get himself and his daughter out of what must have been a terrifying situation. Brad somehow kept his cool and calm. I know I would not have been able to if the tables were reversed.
Here is my video documenting the whole day. As it turned out, most of the people there, including myself, ended up with a bad angle once Brad came out. My video is a mess on purpose with no major edits so it can show the true frenzy of that day, especially for a non-professional paparazzi. I have cut out anything which would show Zahara out of respect for children’s privacy.
