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Brad Pitt Makes It Right in New Orleans
2010.08.27
Brad Pitt waves as he speaks with NBC News’ Brian Williams on Friday (August 27) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The 46-year-old actor took Brian to a green home that his foundation, Make It Right, helped build to benefit residents who lost their homes after Hurricane Katrina.
Earlier this week, it was announced that Brad’s sweetheart, Angelina Jolie, is on the fast track to star in the big screen version of the British miniseries Unforgiven.
George Clooney is set to hit the red carpet at this Sunday’s Emmys, where he’ll be honored with this year’s Bob Hope Humanitarian Award. George’s charitable heart is one of the reasons we love him, but he always brings his trademark sense of humor to his acceptance speeches. To celebrate George’s big night, we’re taking a look back at one of our favorite interviews from when he and Brad Pitt were promoting Ocean’s 12 in 2004. The two have amazing banter back and forth, testing out their Italian skills, teasing each other, and making a few jokes at the expense of costar Matt Damon. Check it out on today’s Flashback Friday!
Brad Pitt as John Marston?
2010.08.27
Brad Pitt to Star in Red Dead Redemption Movie?
Brad Pitt is planning to make a movie version of video game hit Red Dead Redemption.
Sources say the Hollywood heartthrob is the hot favorite to play renegade outlaw John Marston in an epic cowboy shoot-em-up based on the PlayStation game.
“This is an exciting project with a great character at the center of it,” a source said.
“The idea is to make this in the style of an epic Western movie but with a few modern touches.
“Brad is perfect for the role and he is being given first refusal.”
Source
I fully support this.
Never-before-seen High School Yearbook pictures of Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and Nicholas Cage have today been revealed on a family history website. While they’re likely to be embarrassed by shots of them as awkward teens, we think they all look great! Check them out here
The National Enquirer has a story this week about how Brad Pitt had some work done at the dermatologist’s office to make himself look “10 years younger” for his role in Moneyball, filming now. They have a photo of Brad that’s recent where he’s not wearing sunglasses, and his eyes look like they’re a completely different shape compared to how he looked a few months ago when he had that mangy beard. Here’s are two links to some photos of clean-shaven Brad recently, but they don’t come close to showing the very clear difference in his looks that the Enquirer does. We did our own photo comparison, but it’s not even close. Anyway, this could explain why he wore sunglasses to the premiere of Salt – he looks really different and it’s noticeable. Here’s part of the Enquirer’s piece:
The 46-year-old actor has been getting injections of the wrinkle filler Radiesse to make his face look younger and smoother, the Enquirer has learned. And it appears to be having the desired effect. Not only does Brad’s face look brighter and more radiant, Angelina has given her seal of approval.
“Brad hasn’t looked this good in years – and Angelina is definitely pleased about his makeover…”
For months, the actor hid behind a scraggly beard “because he was so self-conscious about how he was aging.”
Brad was forced to shave when he began his new role in the baseball film “Moneyball.” Before production began, he paid a visit to the office of Dr. Mark Rubin, his longtime Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon…
“Brad felt he needed to take 10 years off his face…”
Added the source: “Now, with his smooth skin, he says his kids always want to touch his face – and so does Angelina!”
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 6, 2010]
You know what? I liked him better before. He’s too much of a pretty boy again now and when he gained a little weight and grew that graying beard he was sexy with a normal guy edge. That’s more attractive to me than cookie cutter perfection, maybe because it’s more accessible or whatever, but I liked it. I never got hot for skinny clean cut Pitt, but mangy beard Pitt has a real appeal for me.
Anyway as Michael K at D-Listed would write, “that’s some Benjamin Buttons sh*t.” Brad does look like he erased 10 years, and it’s not cute. Maybe it’s just from shaving his beard, but the Enquirer makes a good case that there’s some surgical/injectable intervention going on.
Oh and The Enquirer has another story this week about how Pitt may play the Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach, who invented the inkblot personality test. Brad looks a lot like Rorschach and supposedly his family brought it to his attention. He’s now said to be “talking to production partners” about developing a script that’s been “making the rounds” on Rorschach. The Enquirer even credits TotallyLooksLike for making a comparison between the two. I hope this film is a screwball comedy. For some reason that’s what comes to mind when I think of Brad attached to this project.
Photo Credit: Fame Pictures
10 Creepiest Celebrity Wax Replicas
2010.08.27
As a celebrity, having a wax replica made of yourself is – next to a Hollywood star and having yourself recreated as a Lego mini figure – the greatest honor there is on Earth. But what if that damn thing doesn’t even look a bit like you? Bummer! Here are some alter egos that must’ve made the celebrities gasp in horror.
10. Julia Roberts
Ok, Julia Roberts is doe-eyed and shows all her pearly whites when she smiles. In real life, that looks really good. In wax, not so much. Someone should’ve told the artist who made the wax replica above that orange is not really a skin color. And blue eye shadow like that has been passé since the ‘80s.
But wait, we take that back. It could be worse. Waaaayyyy worse. Here’s Julia Roberts if she were a transvestite:
9. The Seinfeld Cast
Somebody went to the trouble of making not one but three of the Seinfeld cast members before realizing that he or she sure needed a bit more practice. Or a better copy to work from. For once, George got lucky by being left out and doesn’t need to jump out of the window in horror like the rest of them…
8. Michael Jackson
They say let the dead rest in peace but we’re not so sure MJ can do that, knowing that, somewhere out there, this wax replica of his exists. When did the King of Pop ever look like a Japanese geisha whose hair dryer just exploded? Then again…
7. David and Victoria Beckham
We would’ve never thought that London’s Madame Tussauds would be so blasphemous and depict celebrity couples as Mary and Joseph in their Nativity scene. But, ok, it was Christmas, the time of forgiving and forgetting, so why not? But at least they should’ve made sure their wax Marys and Josephs look somewhat like to the real celebs. In the image above, Becks looks like a homey gone soft and Posh would’ve surely not been pleased with that Pinocchio nose…
See, here she is taking a critical look at her Posh Spice alter ego at the Madame Tussauds Rock Circus in London. Doesn’t look pleased at all…
6. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
Want a really good laugh? Here’s Brangelina in the same Nativity scene set up. While Jolie’s quite life-like, Pitt seems to have been confused with Jack the Ripper.
5. Britney Spears
Yes, in all fairness, we admit that Britney’s face has come out nicely in this wax replica, except for the smile that’s a bit too toothy. But what on earth happened to her hair? We know Frizz-ease was on sale but the artist must’ve stocked up a bit too well. Oh, and try this out: if you cover the top part of Britney’s face, she looks like Lady Di. Seriously, try it!
4. Orlando Bloom
Speaking of mixed up identities: as a young actor, it’s hard to come to terms with the fact that even the people commissioned to do your wax replica don’t really know who you are and have created a replica of Johnny Depp instead. Legolas in full bloom (pardon the pun) would’ve been better than this!
3. Jennifer Lopez
Who’s that girl? Looking at the face doesn’t really give a clue. So we’re gazing down further, hunting for a hint… further… further… Ah, ok, now we can see the similarities.
2. Zac Efron
Ok, now that’s not fair. Zac Efron in real life seems to be a cute guy with a cool haircut who’s definitely not cross-eyed. This here is Ken on happy drugs busting High School Musical. Don’t the artists at Madame Tussauds know that at 22, Efron’s practically still a teenager? This could seriously damage his psyche. Shame on them.
1. Shah Rukh Khan
For Bollywood fans, having their idol recreated in wax must’ve been a great moment. But what disappointment when they saw the replica on the right that looks slightly Salman Khan-ish (he being another Bollywood star)!
Looking at all those celebrity replicas gone wrong makes you wonder if even famous establishments like Madame Tussauds really have only two moulds, one for female and one for male stars.
In Touch Weekly’s cover story this week seems extremely dated. I’m pretty sure In Touch and other tabloids have done the same story many times over the past five years, and ITW just changed the dates and a few specifics. The basics: Angelina Jolie is pissed off because… does she need a reason? Sigh. She’s always pissed off, in Tabloidville. She’s a very angry, bitter, nasty, contemptuous person, in Tabloidville. Anyway, Angelina’s “reason” for being angry this week is that Jane Pitt, Brad’s mother, still has an ongoing friendship with Jennifer Aniston. Because of this – and because Jane Pitt might be telling Aniston all about what’s going on in Brad and Angelina’s relationship – Angelina has decided that Jane should not babysit her children. Here’s an excerpt from ITW:
Angelina Jolie had initially planned to take a solo trip to Budapest to scout locations for her upcoming film — leaving all six of her kids at home with her partner, Brad Pitt, and his parents, Bill and Jane. Yet when Angelina was spotted in the Hungarian city on August 21, she had her twins Knox and Vivienne, 2, in tow. Posing for photos with the toddlers, she looked happy as could be.
But behind the scenes, a friend says, Angelina, 35, had other things on her mind. According to the friend, the main reason she took the twins to Eastern Europe was to upset Jane — whose ongoing friendship with Brad’s ex-wife Jennifer Aniston has Angelina seeing red.
“Angie strongly thinks that the past is the past, and Jennifer and Jane should let each other go because their friendship is disrespectful,” the friend explains. “Angie had been complaining to Brad that it’s weird for his mom to talk to his ex-wife, but Brad just brushed it off. So she decided she didn’t want Jane watching over the twins.”
Very close to Jen during her marriage to Brad, Jane seemed to take the place of Jen’s estranged mother. And that apparently hasn’t changed since the divorce. Another pal says Jane and Jen still talk at least once a month and maintain a very strong bond.
“Jane still thinks of Jennifer as a daughter,” says a pal. “She knows that Angelina isn’t happy about the friendship, but that doesn’t stop her from keeping Jen in her life.”
Jen, in turn, “consults Jane on everything from major purchases to romance to her career.” And Jane confides in Jen, as well. To Angelina, who has not always seen eye to eye with Jane, the friendship is like a slap in the face. Angelina feels that she — not Jen — should take precedence with his parents.
Blaming Brad’s ex even more than his mother, Angelina is intent on sending Jen a message: Keep away from my family. And she’s been sending that message through Jane. It’s making it very difficult for Jane, who “cherishes her friendship with Jennifer,” Jane has known Jen for more than 10 years and resents being asked to stop talking to her.
“They care about each other,” the friend says. “Jane has never kept it a secret. She doesn’t see why she has to cut off that connection.” And Brad tends to agree with his mother. “He thinks Jane is a grown woman and she should be able to do what she wants.”
[From In Touch Weekly]
First of all, I don’t buy this dynamic AT ALL. I think Jane probably does still talk to Jennifer, and whatever, you know? I also think that Brad’s parents probably get along with Angelina very well – Angelina has spent a lot of time with the Pitts, and everybody seems to adore the kids/grandkids. But, for argument’s sake, let’s say that ITW is on to something and that Angelina is disturbed by Jane and Jennifer’s relationship. I think that Jane has every right to still have a relationship with Jennifer. But I also think Angelina has every right to say who looks after her kids. Sure, it sounds like Angelina is using the kids as leverage with Jane… but if Jane is a blabbermouth, I could buy it. Eh.
