Sometimes it amuses me that some of the over 30-crowd of celebrities is still so old-fashioned when it comes to media. What other explanation is there for people like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt consistently giving interviews to crusty old fart Larry King? This man was a boring old gnome back in the 1980s – and now he’s just ridiculous. And yet, some of the “older” celebrities are still stuck in the old-media dynamic, and they still go on Larry King Live. Anyway, Jolie is going to be on tonight – it should be good. And by “good” I mean “you’ll want to shoot Larry in the face after five minutes.” So it seems Jolie and Larry have already pretaped the interview – that means no calling in to yell at her, Chelsea Handler! And some of the interview excerpts have already begun leaking out – like this one, from Us Weekly. Jolie tells Larry that she and Brad are open to having more kids:
Guess six ain’t enough. Angelina Jolie says she and Brad Pitt aren’t necessarily done having kids via adoption or the old-fashioned way.
On Wednesday’s Larry King Live, Jolie, 35, said she has “no plans at the moment,” to add a seventh child to her big brood with Pitt, 46. “But we’re always open [to the idea],” she admitted.
The Tourist actress explained how she and Pitt keep their kids’ fears in check when they’re swarmed by photographers.
“Well, we try not to get them into the middle of it,” she explained. “We try to get them around things and under things [to hide from paparazzi].”
When a shutterbug does get a shot of Shiloh and the gang? “We just have to kind of smile and say, ‘Don’t worry, it’s not scary. They just like to take pictures…As a parent, the only thing you can do is try to make sure that they don’t feel it’s a threat, you don’t act like it’s a threat, and you just keep smiling so they don’t feel anything negative.”
[From Us Weekly]
She’s been using that “we’re open to it” line for a couple of years now. I like it – I imagine her real thoughts are something like “six kids and no sleep makes Angelina want to stab Larry in the face, thank you.” My theory: they’ll probably adopt one more kid, a few years from now, maybe. Once the twins have grown up a little more, then Angelina will get all broody. Just my theory.
UPDATE: Oh, this happened last night? MY BAD. CNN really needs to update their site, for real. Honest mistake (because I never watch LKL).
Here’s the only video clip I could find from the interview:
Why is Brad wearing a wig??
so how much money has she made made selling her children number one and is the money tax free, if so sounds like a good business deal
She is always talking about her kids in every interview. She is always using them for the promotion of her movies. There is nothing new here.
Angelina doesn’t sell pics to the paparazzi she isn’t Lindsay Lohan. She did give exclusives to People for baby pics just like a dozen other celebs, she just got more money for it (which she gave to charity) because she is more famous.
And the paps follow her and Brad around because certain dolts believe everything they read in the tabs.
Not sure why people all hate on her.
She doesn’t bug me at all.
Maybe folks view her as a home-wrecker, but I think that Brad and Jennifer Aniston were just in different places in their relationship at the time. Clearly, he wanted family. Maybe she wanted career.
It just didn’t work out for them.
Stop the hate.
That is all.
Wasn’t she on the show LAST NIGHT (Wednesday)? I taped it and watched a small part of it where she talks about Clint Eastwood then I had to turn it off to go and do something else but the DVR was still running. Is she on again tonight? I’m gonna have to take a look. Larry King two nights in a row will be difficult for me but if I have to . . .
(I totally agree with you Kaiser about Larry King. The man is clueless. The last time I watched his show, Andre Agassi was promoting his book (2009) and Poor Larry had no idea what was going on. Out of the blue he said “Is Steffi still playing”? Andre looked at him like he was a fool. Steffi Graf has been retired since 1999!!! Larry King was the only one who didn’t know this.)
damn, a cashmere dress… they both look very tired.
I have no problem with Angie, but there’s an easy answer on why every celeb or wanna-be heads to King-the soft-ball interview. No hard questions, probing follow-ups or unpleasant reality.
I don’t think Pitt is wearing a wig…but he definitely is dying his hair. (not bashing him for that, so nobody freak out!)
I find LK to be incredibly annoying, too. He doesn’t ask good questions and he fawns over celebs way too much.
Oh, how can some of you say that she hasn’t her upper lip plumped?!
I’m starting to HATE the “I’m.above.you.all.and.feel.blessed.for.
having.the.chance.to.interviewing.me” look on her face.
I hope that her directorial debut will have better reviews than “The Tourist”…
Yay The Tourist opens tomorrow. Weeeee!!! I am excited and I really enjoyed the interview just for seeing Angie. I still like Larry.
I love these pics. I like how Brad is looking at Angie in all these pics. I get it Brad.
@olivia; poor you…you haven’t figured it out yet.
(look how he’s just gazing into her eyes. melt…sigh) yeah…we get it, Brad. *wink*
@Praise St. Angie; i think Brad looks really hot! his hair looks betta than AJ’s. pains me to say it. i love his hair and of course, it’s not a wig. but he’s been dying his hair since forever and i’m not about to have a problem with it now. lol! i mean people say crazy things about Brad from time to time. (he can’t hold a candle to the Angie bashing though) but still people say Brad is dumb a lot. i think not. He just knows what he wants and knows how to use what he has to get what he wants. He kept his nose fairly clean and by that I mean no drugs, sex tapes, paternity suits or arrests that we heard of. It takes a cautious, meticulous, forward-thinking person to do that. angie is lucky to have him in that respect and that’s why she can’t stop talking about him.
How is it that people like Johnny Depp can keep a low profile for the most part and these two can’t? Doesn’t make sense. I very much believe that they wouldn’t like it if the world started ignoring them.
What Sapphire said. People go on Larry King because he is the Chief Soft Ball Questioner.
And Lisa S., above, the answer is because they don’t *want* to.
That angora (angora? mohair?) dress is awful. I actually liked it when I thought it was a sweater and she had something different on her lower half but…ugh to the whole dress.
I taped the show and watched it. KAISER – you don’t think LK is a good interviewer? I mean really, aren’t you supposed to ask a question, not listen to the answer then ask it again? LOL
I remember an interview when he ask someone how many children she had. She said 3, two girls and a boy. His next question? Do you have girls or boys or both? CRAZY!
He was no different last night. In fact, with the delay due to Angie not being in the studio, he walked all over her everytime she talked.
She did however come across with grace, a good sense of humor and I enjoyed her.
Again, I am not team Aniston or Jolie.. That should be left to the HS students and people like Chelsea Handler who aren’t mature enough to realize we are not a part of, nor do we have a say so in the lives of celebs.
Lisa S . Johnny was on Today show he said the reason he can keep a low profile because he lives primarily in France in a small village. Also Johnny is not married to an A list star.Johnny’s kids pics don’t sell in the States. When Vanessa and the kids went to Disneyland only one tabloid bought the pics- Star Magazine.BTW in the LK interview the only request Angie made in regard to the paps is to use a long lens when photographing the kids.If Brad and Angie wanted the attention they would attend pasrties, they would go shopping on Robertson, they would take their kids to Mr Bones. When they are in France they go weeks w/o being seen. Also they go to Springfield MO a few times a year and rarely are photographed.
@Lisa S: you think… i’m sure they’d love it. like who can really enjoy such craziness? now, i, on the other hand, would miss seeing them all loved up soooo much! actually, we, the people and the media, are the ones who keep them in the news.
@#18, you said it.
Bommer, I was like Yeah, Im gonna watch this tonight, Oh well, I can always Youtube it.. Thanks Kaiser
@Kim, #1 Neither couple are married.
#2 Vanessa is a widely well known model/singer in France and is not considered anything below an A lister and #3 The reason no one sees Johnny’s kids are because he doesnt strut them around everywhere in the country like Brad and Angelina.
Not that I dont like Bran and Angie, its just, you really CAN go to lengths to not be seen, if you really want to.
most of the time johhny boy doesn’t travel with his family, i miss the days when john was a drunk that used to trash hotel rooms, too bad he had to grow up
#1 Johnny refers to Vanessa as his wife and refers to Brad as Angie’s husband. #2 Vanessa is not well known in America nor are his kids. So obviously the paps wouldn’t surround his kids like they do the JP kids #3 You are right Johnny leaves his kids in France with Vanessa while he films on location. His kids visit for a few days on location.That’s his right. Brad and Angie prefer to keep their family together. Vanessa has stated she likes the fact they are not always together in Marie Claire UK.The fact is the paparazzi follow the Jolie Pitt family because the pics demand a lot of money because their image sells mags,garners Web hits, etc
AJ looks pretty but very worn out.
@spinner: I dont think he’s wearing a wig he’s just got the old man “fro” going on. I honestly dont know what she sees in this guy. He kinda morphs into whomever he’s with at the time. Ugh!
I love Angelina but I can’t help but notice how big her lips seem on Larry King compared to the photos with the white dress.I’m not saying she did anything in two days they just seem huge and I couldn’t take my eyes off her lips when she was talking.
As for the paparazzi pics we’ve said it a hundred times.There are other celebrities that have their kids photographed almost everyday.The Jolie-Pitts kids sometimes are not photographed for months.Since the twins were born almost two and a half years ago they’ve been photographed less then 10 times.
@Chicoulina; it’s just because she’s lost a lot of weight. it’s making her already prominent features more prominent. next time you see her, you won’t even notice.
so interesting to complain about the public’s interest in your kids, and then you talk about them constantly. there are many celebs who never talk about their kids, other than maybe just saying he/she is fine, or whatever. maybe angie cannot control the paparazzi but she can certainly control what comes out of her own mouth.
Am loving these posts just because of the pictures — she looks gorgeous.
@original kate: did you not ‘hear’ Larry King specifically ‘ask’ her about the children? if she had said “umm, Larry, i don’t want to talk about the kids.” haters would be up in arms, going all like she’s been bitchy cos when Larry King ‘specifically’ asked her about the kids, she audaciously said she ‘didn’t want to talk about them’. oh yeah and of course, bonus rants would be: ‘she’s sick of her own kids’….blah, blah, blah…yukkity-smackkity….ad nauseam.
ps. you ought to really pay more attention to the people you actually like. it’ll save you the self-inflicting heartache.
@Sakyiwaa: ” ps. you ought to really pay more attention to the people you actually like. it’ll save you the self-inflicting heartache”
🙂
Meanwhile Jlo has a huge add with her twins that is on bilboards all over the place and no one ever says she’s pimping out her kids.
@Sakyiwaa: Did you not ‘read’ what Original Kate ‘wrote’? She suggested that her response could have been a simple ‘They’re fine, thanks.’
And the interest in her children comes not just because she & Brad are two A-list stars, but also because they put those kids on the cover of People magazine when they were born, they sold pictures to W magazine of those kids in their own home, and she has talked about them in depth in many, many interview.
There’s a reason people think she uses her personal life to sell her movies, and by the way there’s nothing wrong with that. But if you court the press, thinking perhaps to control/improve your image, then you can’t complain about it later.
“ps. you ought to really pay more attention to the people you actually like. it’ll save you the self-inflicting heartache.”
@ sakyiwaa: what? which people i like? what are you even talking about? your entire post is insane. all angie has to say about her kids is “they are doing great, thanks for asking” and move on. i never said she had to be rude.
what crazy world are you hallucinating? you need to calm down, and remember the meds only work if you take them every day.
Hi skibunny…remember when Brad was wearing that hat 24/7…& that god-awful beard?? Something was going on big time with plastic surgery, hair plugs…something. This particular coif looks like a wig to me. Oh well…he never really did it for me either.
List of celebs who sold pics of their kids to People or OK. Julia Roberts, Marcia Cross, Nicole Richie,Mathew Mcconeughy, Patrick Dempysy,Gwen Stefani, Jlo,Christina A,Sheryl Crow, Brooke Sheilds all with the exception of Patrick Demsey discuss their kids in tv or print interviews.Brooke Sheilds and Jlo and Marcia Cross kids have appeared in ads . I’ve seen all these people discuss their kids on talk shows like The View, Ellen and Oprah and in every print interview Why isn’t there more interest in these kids, Reality?. please tell me when has Angie complained about the publics’ interest in their kids. I’mglad Angie descibes her rather than let tabloids make up BS about their personalties. Us Weekly claimed Knox was the serious one “the Thinker” whereas Angie said the opposite about the twins personalities.
I dont get why people say she drags her kids around. Is she supposed to lock them in a closet? She loves her kids, she loves to spend time with them and as a mom she loves to talk about them. Nothing any other mom in the world wouldnt do, but because it is Angeline Jolie she is a whoring out her children for her own benefit.
@Love Angelina, can’t wait to hear your unbiased opinion on the Tourist! Seriously though, do tell how it is. Not sure if we should go see it in theater or wait for In demand. 🙂
Kim, you are clearly a big fan, and I doubt this will get through to you.
I have nothing against these people. I just don’t think they are above using there private life for their professional benefit. Like a LOT of the stars you mentioned do. I never said that they started a trend, or were the only ones who take this route.
I even admire that they gave the money to charity, but you should at least try to understand that this alone was not the reason they invited a bunch of cameras into their home to photograph a newborn. I think it’s a bit tacky, but a lot of celebs take the same route, although most of them are not respected A-list movie stars, except maybe Julia Roberts who needed some positive exposure for similar reasons to the Brange.
@ mln: this thread is about Angelina, but of course JLo is ‘pimping’ out her kids.
Brangelina is the least press-shy couple around. They’d freak if they or the kids were not in the tabloids for a month, let alone a week.
They’re as press-shy as the Lohans.
At least Angie and Brad are with their kids.
I just saw an article on Kendra Wilkinson “losing” her son (she sent him to MN to visit his dad).
I’ve never understood why people love Brand and Angie so much. I don’t hate or love them. I do think they seem like good parents.
@spinner: thanks for reminding me. I’m smelling dirty greasy hair. Ewww I never thought about the hair plugs angle. You could be right.
@reality: If Brad and Angie hadn’t invited People to photograph their twins and the rest of their family, some paparazzi would have managed to take some pictures sooner or later and made a himself a shitload of money.
At least this way the photos got published on their own terms, and the money they got from People went to the Jolie-Pitt foundation where it can do some good.
@lu: The trailers didn’t look good. However, both The Bounty Hunter and Sex/City 2 opened with ZERO percent positive on rottentomatoes.com and both films still managed to make money. Bottom line: people will see what they want to see, regardless of reviews.
I couldn’t be happier that the Tourist is getting slammed. I guess most people see through her manipulation of the press and all the BS parading her kids around in order to promote this film. Having said that she could make a movie about how to brush your child’s hair and the loons would be lined up the street gushing about how wonderful of a mom she is and how no one in the universe could possibly brush the child hair so well. Bawahaaaaaa… I hope she shows-up when she wins a Razzie for worst accent and worst actress.
Here is another video from that interview:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2010/12/08/lkl.jolie.family.work.cnn?iref=allsearch
@pebbles: I hear ya. I wish it would all stop too.
Angie looks like she has a cold sore on her upper lip. Stress will kill you. Why doesn’t she ever relax and take some time off for goodness sake…Brad looks completely in lust. She must be giving it up these days. A family that plays together stays together.
I can’t look at her without always picturing the interview where she was sucking on Billy Bob Thorton’s ear while he told the reporter, “We [bleep]ed in car on the way over.” So low-class. I will say this, she reinvented herself. People think she’s a lily-white saint now. Oh, and NOW she didn’t even homewreck Jen and Brad. They were “done.” I wonder if Jennifer agrees. I’m with Chelsea Handler. 100%. And with Kaiser. Larry King died like 15 years ago. We have a Weekend at Bernie’s situation.
I appreciate the fact that she doesnt let the paparazzi visibly get to her in front of the kids. If the parent yells at Paparazzi it will only scare the child. Paparazzi is part of the business for celebs, like it or not, so if you have kids and act like paps are no big deal then they wont be a big deal or scary to your child.
Its all about how the parents react. Celebs that go off on paparazzi are giving them exactly what they want. I get that alot of these paps are sleaze so be the bigger person, like Angelina, esp if you are with your kids. Dont stoop to their level and start cussing at them etc.
Be the bigger person – put on a smile and keep on walking.
I guarantee of every celeb was super nice to the paps the paps would be half the # they are now because people want to see drama etc not just a celeb acting nice & normal.
MANY celebs pimp out their kids for press. Hence why the same group of celebs is in the tabloids week after week. There are many celebs you dont see in the tabloids who have kids.
Majority of celebs are attention whore, ego maniacs to begin with. They will use whatever or whomever (their kids) to get press. Sad but true. Not all celebs but unfortuntely many of them – Will & Jada Smith, The Cruises, Brangelina, Affleck & Garner, the list goes on and on.
I will never understand why the haters keep saying Brad and Angelina love and court the press. They are rarely photographed. Most of the photos taken of them are on film sets and while promoting their movies. There’s only a few candid shots. They don’t show up at random premieres, openings, and product launches. You don’t see them going out every night to restaurants, clubs, etc. For people who supposedly love the paps so much they sure do stay away from them.
I also don’t understand the child pimping claim. Again, the kids are barely photographed. On other major sites like X17 or Justjared kids of Jennifer Garner, Gwen Stefani, Reese Witherspoon, etc are photographed everyday. Parents do photospread in magazines all of the time and even put in their ads. They bring them to movie premieres and product events yet nobody bats an eye. Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, etc talk about their kids just as much as Angelina in their interviews and nobody demands they stop talking about their kids. I just don’t get why people are so hypocritical. Brad and Angelina don’t do anything different from other celebrities and do far less often.
Well, I think once you sell your kids’ pictures to People magazine, you’ve thrown out some of your rights to complain about the press. I think the Jolie-Pitt kids will be a draw no matter what. Those kids are too cute.
However, they should have a law for the kids’ sake. These kids can’t help who their parents are. And they should be protected.
The reviews of The Tourist are so depressing I kept reading the Black Swan’s ones instead (wich it seems to be a damn good movie).
As a fan of both Johnny and Florian Henkel Von Donnersmarck I’m disappointed… somewhere I read that Johnny accepted to play the tourist character as a favour to the director. He would’ve done him a better favour if he refused, stating that the script was awful (as it seems to be).
she is so smug; she changes her story to fit the situation all the time and for the obsessed you cannot deny her interviews are all over the place. she is quasi-intellectual who acts like we are beneath her. Wish she would go away and eat something.
Wow,Mrs. Odie2, Your blog:
“And we all deserve a second chance.”
“Everyone except that Angelina Jolie tramp”
jesus…
I’m going to go ahead and guess that Aniston does agrees that she and Pitt were “done”.She said so herself.She said her marriage was “over in the summer”.I guess she didn’t clue her hubby in on that little tidbit.He,later that year,said he couldn’t wait to have “little hers”
I agree with your theory,Kaiser.I hope they adopt again.
@MrsOdie2: Aniston herself said in an interview that by 2004 the marriage was done. This was before he even met Jolie.
You sound very bitter about the breakup of somebody else’s marriage. Did it hit too close to home or what?
@Solveig: I’d never heard of the director before. I understand both Jolie and Depp were impressed by his previous work. In any case, the trailers weren’t good. Jolie looked beautiful, Depp looked bloated, and I couldn’t see any chemistry between the two of them at all. The reviews on rottentomatoes.com are pretty bad; but they also said 95% of the people reading the web site want to see the movie. Go figure.
BOTOX?
That hair is so Loretta Lynn!
Not sure why people all hate on her.
She doesn’t bug me at all.
Maybe folks view her as a home-wrecker, but I think that Brad and Jennifer Aniston were just in different places in their relationship at the time. Clearly, he wanted family. Maybe she wanted career.
It just didn’t work out for them.
Stop the hate.
That is all.
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Thank you.
Though I wish she would stop talking about all this “mommy” stuff. I like to hear snippets.
I’m a fan but I’d rather she go on a talk show and just lighten up, be funny like she used to.
Tourist promotion is all Johnny “shes a great mother” I mean, I’m sure she is but just be more real!
for the record. Johnny Depp can keep a low profile because nobody is interested. There’s no “drama” that tabloids can create. Hence, his photos arent worth that much…so less paparazzi hounding him
The only time that there has been recently has been because they tried to make up Angelina was trying to seduce him.
Angie is a very passionate woman but she’s definitely reined it in some. i mean, with people still talking about stuff she did over 10 & 6 years ago, she knows better than to be walking around like everyone has her in their good graces. so she has a nice little wall put up and i can’t say i blame her. she’s not been ‘displaying’ her friends since i’ve been a fan after the Tomb Raider movie. i do know that she’s really gracious to her fans. she’s gonna get through this.
Cheyenne, I’m interested in good movies, not in what other people want to see. If people (fans of AJ and JD, I suppose) want to go and see the movie in spite of the tragic reviews, I’m not going to judge them. But I’m pretty tired of this inclination in paying for something regardless of its real quality, “just because…*.
I’m going to save my money and photophobic eyes for a better movie.
@Solveig: ITA. I didn’t see “Changeling” in the theater because it didn’t seem like my type of movie (watching it on cable proved I was right) and I probably won’t see this one. I don’t judge any movie by reviews or advance buzz. I didn’t go to see “Titanic” in the theater and when I saw it on TV I was glad I didn’t. Most water-logged piece of claptrap I ever watched in my life.
Whamo Whether The Tourist makes $20 M or $200 M AJ still got paid $20 M. She doesn’t care about BO numbers or reads reviews.She had a couple months free before “her man” started Moneyball took the project to work with Depp, Florian and Allow her family to explore Venice . All is good ,dear.
@whamo: Angie’s probably got more razzies already than any other actress, not that she gives a damn. She’s also been nominated for three Oscars and won one. As Kim said, she already got her $20 million up front for “Tourist” so whether or not the movie wins, she already got hers and she is still one of the most sought after actors in Hollywood. She can pick and choose her roles. Sorry to ruin your day. Better stock up on Carter’s Little Liver Pills before your bile spews out of control.
@spinner
What makes you think he has a wig?
His hair does look odd, kind of soap-opera-ish.
Wait wait wait, I thought, according to you loonies, that she only did films she chooses herself. AND has a lot of script approval stuff and such. So did she pick a crappy film? Did she not see how crappy it was when they were making it?
20% on the tomato-meter? Ouch. Burlesque got better reviews.
Interesting how you loons can find a way to excuse everything negative that happens in her life. “Doesn’t matter that the film is crap, she got her money”.
Isn’t she supposed to care about the quality of the product she puts out there? Isn’t that a big part of being able to choose your films?
Just face it: She’s in a crappy movie. If this movie had gotten great reviews all of you would be singing her praises and since it didn’t and some people were astute enough to point it out, suddenly reviews don’t matter and only the actor’s payday does.
So pretty, but oh so boring……