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Is that just a rumor? I love the names she has for the kids she has now, but these two choices for the newest Jolie-Pitts truly are awful….hopefully she will choose something else.
I think it’s a fake story. Who would pick those names? Her kids have unique names that are not stigmatizing. I think she’ll continue that trend with the twins.
Ever see face/off??
I’m sure as soon as he heard this Nic Cage gave her a little ring. Although, he did name his kid Kal-el. Maybe he called his lawyer instead.
Although Pollox would go with Maddox and Pax . . .
I could go either way on it. On the one hand… crazy. But on the other… Angelina does have a streak of… um… I’m not going to use the word crazy… let’s say “independence of spirit” in her. Pax Thien… some of the names are unusual, but make sense when she explains them. But Castor and Pollox make me think of cleaning detergents or something.
I do believe the lady is joking. She does that often. The problem is that all the Antilinas have no sense of humor and take her seriously.
Castor and Pollux were mythological twins and the constellation Gemini represents them. They’re probably the most famous twins in history.
She is JOKING!
Cas and Polly… lol
the most famous twins in history ehn..uhn…I thought it was the Olsen Twins!!!! lmao
She means Botox, not Pollox.
hope this is not true. naming your child after a laxative is totally evil!
if she were really going to name them castor and pollux they’d be in rome right now preparing to give birth to the babies in a nice italian hospital with a nice italian doctor. angelina may be wild and crazy at times, but she’s not so whacked that she’d give birth to the famous roman twins’ namesakes in paris, france! that would just be silly.
❓ a laxative?
does anyone read the stories or do they just post whatever?
Weren’t the famous Roman twins named Romulus and Remus? Castor and Pollux were half swan, half god.
Nice, Diva, Cas Jolie-Pitt and Polly Jolie-Pitt I could go for. The originals not so much, and too open to abuse – Pollox is way too close to Bollocks. And way too masculine anyway for girl babies.
It should be illegal for celebrities to name their children. http://www.kungfutodd.com/videos/6c70a52f67
Psssssssssssst methinks that the Greek deities came first Lulu 😉 😉 😉
I’m really not fond of Brangie’s baby-naming past – with the exception of Maddox as it reminds me of the PRB painter Ford Maddox Brown
Although Pax really does seem to suit him – he always seems so serene.
I’m assuming this is a joke too – Please God say it’s so.
Obviously fake! I’m sure the girls will have girls’ names. And if she is going the Greek mythological route, there are way cooler goddesses she could name her kids after. Athena and Artemis would be cool 🙂
uh, duda? have you ever heard of Castor Oil??
Wasn’t Artemis’s twin Apollo? Lord I hope she wouldn’t change it to Appollonia 😯 (three years of Classical history and can I remember a damned bit of it?)
(actually – considering how much so many people reckon Shiloh looks like Brad, Athena would have been a good name for her – Athena was the only one of Zeus’s children not to have a mother, she was borne whole from his forehead if memory serves)
The myth was originally Greek, as is the case with a lot of Roman mythology. ; )
They were the sons of Leda and Zeus, who disguised himself as a swan to have his way with her, leading to her laying two large eggs, one which hatched the twin boys, named Kastor and Polydeukes, the other egg contained the twins’ sisters, Helen (of Troy fame) and Clytemnestra (who’s known for killing her husband Agamemnon and spawning Elektra, who had her own issues) They are referred to in Greek mythology as the Dioskouroi, the sons of Zeus. They appear in many examples of literature from the time, from Homer’s The Odyssey to the plays of Euripides. The details about each of them switches around, depending on the source, but in some stories they are immortal, some not, but usually the brothers split their time between the land of the living and the land of the dead.
The Roman myths, which refer to them as Castor and Pollux, present them more as superstars, as the Romans are wont to do with their heroes. One was a boxer and the other was a horseman. Castor is remembered much more, and as the more honor worthy of the two – Roman lit refers to them as the Castores, even.
I remembered some of this from college, but I looked up Castor and Pollux on the wiki to make sure I had the details right. Turns out it’s a good thing I did, because I forgot way more than what I remembered about the whole story. : )
Overall, I think Castor and Pollux might be better choices than Clytemnestra and Helen of Troy Jolie Pitt, but not by a lot. ; )
Thanks a million chamalla – I had honestly thought there was just three children from Leda. Fair play for putting all that info so simply
One thing I do remember is the word “kouros” – it roughly translated as boy. It was a very specific form of sculpture, derived from Egyptian sources – a young man, standing tall with one foot in front of the other. Dating to about 600-500BC if I remember right.
The cariatids were derived from the female version, the Korai
And you’re right – would we REALLY want to remind Brad of Troy? 😉
I don’t believe this for a minute!
James Hetfield (Metallica) has a son named Castor. I dont thinl it’s an asttractive name but Pollox is worse: It sounds like a skin disease.
James Hetfield’s son is called Castor. I don’t think it’s an attractive name but Pollux is worse: It sounds like a skin disease.
maybe she’ll name one after her mom.
chamalla, that was interesting.
😉 Typo: John Mayer doesn’t HAVE a big weiner, he IS a big weiner. (jk)
🙄 Blah blah blah… end of debate right here: Angelina and Brad are SO SECRETIVE about their pregnancies. There is absolutely no way she would give out their names prior to their birth. Regardless of how ridiculous the story is, that should end the whole debate right there.
Who really cares? Regardless if the babies do end up with weird names they’ll be guaranteed to live a life of nepotism that will surely negate any teasing they might endure.
But I did enjoy the info on the history of Castor and Pollux, so thanks!
More recently Castor and Pollox were the names of Nicolas Cage’s character and his brother in Face Off.
mairead – athena’s mother was maia, a minor godess who oversaw wisdom. zeus feared having a child strong enough to overthrow him, so he had maia, a shapeshifter, turn into a fly and swallowed her. she gave birth inside him, athena grew and forged her own armor. it made such a racket that zeus had hephaestos work from the outside with his hammer to split his skull and she leapt out fully formed.
aphrodite though, her father was the removed penis and testicles of uranus. they impregnated the sea.
Im not an Angelina fan, but this story sounds ridiculous. I hope shes not so silly as to give two girls those names..they will be made fun of until the end of time.
Thanks for the info RC – you’re a star 😉
Now what other gossip blog will give you a good scrap AND a classical edumacation? 8) 😀
Whatever names they choose, it’s better than “Apple” and “Moses”, which Paltrow chose.
yo, mairead,
you are absolutely correct on apollo being artemis’ twin. i just thought that if they were going mythological, they should scrap the twins gimmick (since there are no cool female twins in greek mythology). i don’t know anyone who’d go the helen-clytemnestra route, just because they hatched from the same egg (lol), seeing as how clytemenestra would be called “clit” by mean kids and she murdered her damned husband :). apollonia is actually a pretty cool name…very godfather 🙂
Can you provide more details on this?
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