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Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Pics
My only interest in the Jolie-Pitt children is to see how much the biological offspring resemble their parents. Considering that both parents have topped the most beautiful and sexiest lists, expectations will obviously be high. I would also be interested in seeing Vivienne's forthcoming film debut for signs of the acting talent that both parents possess and have been heralded for. It was their looks and talent that attracted me in the first place and made me a fan so I am somewhat curious to see how much has been passed on to their children. I would otherwise not be interested in their kids' activities -- both the biological and adopted -- or the activities of other celebrity offspring. If and when the children do something noteworthy on the their own, they may pique my interest, but since I am not in the habit of following children, that will have to wait until they become adults. I find it a bit unsettling when people -- tabloids and fans alike -- display obsessive interest in children they are not related to.
-- Fussy
Photos Lainey
From Just Jared
Angelina Jolie takes two of her children, Pax and Zahara, on a shopping outing to Urban Outfitters on Wednesday (February 13) in Los Angeles.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Angelina Jolie
Photos Jared as marked
Friday, July 20, 2012
Toy films
VANITY FAIR
With so many films based on toys like Transformers and G.I. Joe, will we see Angelina Jolie in Slinky: The Movie? http://vnty.fr/MzlLTy
As Hollywood continues to mine childhood for cinematic inspiration (see Transformers, Battleship, and G.I. Joe), we look into our own Magic 8 Ball to conjure up next summer’s entries in the “toys into films” genre.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Palm Springs 5 + videos
lucire.com
Sometimes, you can’t beat the candid shots that guests themselves at celebrity events take. In this case, Austrian photographer Manfred Baumann, and his wife Nelly, walked the red carpet at the Palm Springs Film Festival—along with Charlize Theron, Olivia Wilde, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and Al Pacino—and came prepared.
He shot the black and white images with his Nikon V1.
Sitting 5 feet from Brad & Angelina and 10 feet from George Clooney. Am I at the IHOP on Sunset? No! The Palm Springs Film Awards Gala!
See Angelina Jolie Become Fangirl With Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close's Kid Star!
Thomas Horn has officially met his No. 1 fan.
While on the red carpet at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival over the weekend, the young breakout star of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close found his interview with E! News briefly interrupted by none other than Angelina Jolie!
But that certainly wasn't a bad thing...
MORE: Angelina Jolie Talks Brad Pitt's Injury—"Proud of Him Every Single Day'
"Hey, I've heard you're amazing," a beaming Jolie told Horn regarding his performance in the 9/11-themed film. "Very, very nice to meet you. It's an honor."
Brad Pitt's better half went on to ask the 14-year-old if he's been doing a lot of these types of events, to which he replied: "It's the first."
"Are you excited or is it weird?" inquired a still-smiling Jolie.
MORE: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close trailer
"It's weird, but exciting, I guess," replied Horn, who was discovered by producers of the movie when they saw his winning 2010 appearance on Jeopardy! during Kids Week.
"You should be really, really proud," insisted Jolie. "My kids already think you're cool, so I'll tell them I met you and they'll think I'm cool."
Well, after seeing this little exchange, Angie, we all think you're pretty cool!
Angelina Jolie: I Don't Lecture My Children
Angelina Jolie
Jim Ruymen/Landov
"I'm not one of those moms who kind of lectures [my kids]," Jolie, 36, told reporters on Saturday at the 23rd Annual Palm Springs Film Festival. "But I do tell them, whenever I go on a trip, where I'm going and why. And on some occasions, they've come with me to different refugee camps. And they also go to their home countries a lot."
The actress, who wore an Elie Saab gown to the festival's awards gala, has faith her little ones will make decisions based on what they see in their day-to-day lives.
"Hopefully they live in the world, and they see the world really as it is, outside of Hollywood," she says. "If they really live in the world and spend time with friends around the world from all different types of backgrounds, they [will] just see things as they are."
Even though Jolie doesn't expect her children to take up the same causes, she does look for opportunities – such as daughter Zahara's birthday on Sunday – to remind them about who they are and where they come from.
"We make sure we're very aware of her culture and her heritage," Jolie says of Zahara, who turned 7 on Sunday. "She's an African-American girl, so we make that a part of anything she does. So that'll be a part of her [birthday]."
Brange is all business
January 10, 2012
Posted at 12:52 AM
Posted by Lainey
There was some Pitt Porn posing on Saturday night in Palm Springs
but mostly, for both of them, it was Work Time. Both of them were
selling, and separately. 
Posted by Lainey
About half an hour before arrivals, a publicist representing Angelina’s film In The Land Of Blood and Honey came down the press line to confirm that Jolie would indeed be taking questions on the line, and that she preferred that they be about the movie.
So they came and they posed together, and they’re, like, ridiculously goodlooking together, and then he started with his interviews first and she followed on her own because he needed to hustle for his own Best Actor chances and, of course, she had to pursue her goals for Blood and Honey independently, so as not to compromise the chances for either.
Blood and Honey?
Yes, Blood and Honey. It was screened for Academy members last week and received a standing ovation. Deadline reports that the film elicited an impressively emotional impact and that the Jolie put in her time with the audience, staying for over an hour afterwards to answer questions and lobby, subtly of course, for votes. Brad, with his cane, has also been hobbling around shaking hands and cradling babies with Academy members for Moneyball and Sony and I’ve never seen him spend so much time with the media as he did in Palm Springs on Saturday night. Like, he actually stopped to talk. Stopped. Normally Brad Pitt doesn’t stop. He keeps walking, he points his finger at you, he answers you in motion, “Yeah, yeah, that’s right man, that’s right”, but he doesn’t ever stop. Unless of course we’re in Palm Springs where a lot of old Academy members spend most of their time and the nomination voting still hasn’t closed. In that case, Brad stops. Even for Canadian networks, blogs, and tabloids. Yes, yes, tabloids too. And it was such a novelty for all of us that, well, it ended up just being a lot of shouting. Everyone cramming their mics in his face, yelling questions on top of each other.*
When he came down to my area, he was quick with his explanation about his leg and the cane, saying simply that he tripped over his daughter. So when Angelina followed a few minutes later and was asked about him “tripping over their daughter”, she rolled her eyes exasperatedly like any wife who has to pick up after her husband (really cute) and was like, no no, he didn’t trip over her, he was carrying her while skiing and took the fall for her instead” and, you must know, that has made every headline since - Brad Pitt sacrifices leg for daughter! Please. These two know exactly what they’re doing. Always.
By the time Angelina arrived in front of me, all the questions about the movie had already been answered. So we talked instead about being sexy with a cane. She did this thing where she bites her lip, pauses, then throws open her mouth, and she heavily suggested, “Oh yeah...I like it”, in that way only Angelina Jolie can manage, for exactly the intended visual, and, well, I ended up getting my Pitt Porn after all.
How did they look? Jolie is never ugly, even when she’s not at her best, I’ll tell you that. And she was gorgeous on Saturday night. That blush coloured dress worked surprisingly well on her skin. I made a point actually, given the drama from last week, of taking a close look at his skin. Brad Pitt has middle aged skin. I mean, he’s a handsome man but there’s no sign of Nicole Kidman there either. And for all the talk of how thin she is (she’s skinny but in person she also looks strong; I mean you don’t see her and recoil in horror, at least not at an event like this when they’re all that skinny), it’s not like Brad Pitt is fleshy either. Brad is very, very lean right now. About as lean as I’ve ever seen him. So much that I didn’t really like the way his tuxedo was hanging on him. The jacket is so loose it almost looked borrowed, non?
*Behaviour like this surrounding the Brange went on inside the ballroom too. All those rich Palm Springs locals pulled out their iPhones. Click here to read Angelina’s reaction.
Pop Tarts
George Clooney, Brad Pitt Trade Friendly Jabs in Palm Springs as Awards Season Kicks Off
Published January 09, 2012
| FoxNews.com
- APAngelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Stacey Kiebler at the 2012 Palm Beach Film Festival.
It is official – awards season in Hollywood has begun. Things got kicked off with a star-studded opening gala for the Palm Springs Film Festival on Saturday night, and George Clooney was quick to compare campaigning for a film to campaigning for elected office.
“There’s a lot of baby kissing [in an awards
season campaign)] as you can imagine,” Clooney told FOX411’s Pop Tarts
column. He also said he had been following the GOP debates, and wouldn't
mind if campaigning for film awards was more like campaigning for
president. “I think [making it more political] is a really good idea. I
would like to see some of the best actresses out there debating, like Viola (Davis) and Meryl (Streep) going at each other. That would be fun.”
Clooney has already prepared how he would target fellow A-lister Brad Pitt in a debate.
“I would go at Brad about his height, he’s only 5' 3"… and his drinking,” Clooney joked.
Pitt was unfazed by Clooney’s jabs.
“He had a really good showing in Iowa, but I will get him in New Hampshire,” the “Moneyball” star declared.
Pitt – who was hobbling with a cane – also
wished the two-month pat-on-the-back marathon that is awards season
could be condensed into “a 48-hour festival.”
"I don't think I've seen that many
flashbulbs in a long time. I'm still seeing spots but it's nice,” he
continued. “It's the first one of the season, starts things off, and
it's just nice to be here and see our friends we haven't seen all year."
And despite being one of the most talked
about/followed figures in the entertainment world, Pitt has no problems
with his children entering the industry.
“Whatever they want to do, whatever makes them happy,” he said.
Pitt brought his longtime love, Angelina Jolie, as his date to the swanky soiree, and left it to her to explain why he could barely walk.
“We are building different parts of the
lawn, and he was going down to see it, and the grass was changing
levels, and he slipped,” she told us, adding that he was carrying his
daughter Vivienne at the time. “In order to make sure she was okay he
threw himself down to protect her. He did the dad thing.”
Jolie, for her part, couldn’t have been more proud of her guy.
“I’m so happy he's getting all of this attention," she gushed. "It makes me very, very happy."
Clooney, too,extended his appreciation for Pitt, and show business in general.
“We really do love what we do, and we
recognize that most people don’t get to love their jobs. I’ve had lots
of jobs, I have cut tobacco for a living, I sold insurance door to door,
and I have sold men’s suits and ladies shoes,” he said in his
acceptance speech for the Chairman’s Award. “The point is we do
understand that we are very blessed, and lucky to be doing this. It is
not just about acting, you look at someone like Brad and he is terrific
not just in ‘Moneyball,’ but looks out for the public people in the
world, he builds homes for people in New Orleans, and he loves what he
does. We love what we do. The truth is, we would do it for free. It’s a
fun thing to do.”
Friday, July 15, 2011
AJ and MSFT
Angelina Jolie and Microsoft: Giving Beyond Measure
The public may think of Microsoft as a company of computer geeks, scientists, innovators, and technicians, but Microsoft thinks of itself as a “company of immigrants.”
And it’s this astute awareness of the diversity of its employees and their origins that has led Microsoft to pursue legal programs that aid immigrants and their families.
“Microsoft is actually a company of immigrants, more so than most institutions. We have about 40,000 employees in the United States, and roughly a third of them come from some other country. They come, in fact, from over 140 other countries,” shared Microsoft’s General Legal Counsel, Brad Smith in a recent interview.
“In Washington State, for example, we have 12,000 employees who have come from elsewhere, and those 12,00 employees have 15,000 dependants: spouses, children, others,” Smith said when he announced the launch of one of Microsoft’s greatest, but least recognized projects in the Fall of 2008.
It’s a point Smith emphasizes every time he talks about KIND, “Kids In Need of Defense,” Microsoft’s recent nationwide volunteer project. It’s the primary reason the company reached out in the way that it did – by representing unaccompanied children in immigration courts in the U.S. Approximately 8,000 kids from all over the world come to the U.S. each year without a parent or legal guardian and are apprehended and placed in U.S. custody. An unknown number of children come alone but are undetected.
“Those 8,000 kids in many ways reflect the diversity of the world. They come from all over the world and they’ve been separated from their families in an extraordinary variety of different circumstances,” Smith said.
In the past eight years, Microsoft has been quietly, but steadily making a difference in the lives of immigrants with a program called Volunteer Attorneys for Immigrant Justice (VAIJ). But in the last two years, they’ve branched out with the launch of KIND to help unaccompanied immigrant children who get caught up in the immigration system as well. It wasn’t an afterthought.
KIND was born from a realization that there were thousands of unaccompanied children who had legal needs as well as those who were detained in the company of adults.
“They (Microsoft) tuned in early to what was happening in the Seattle area in terms of immigrants who did not have status in the region and were taken into custody by the federal government,” Wendy Young, Executive Director of KIND said.
“So they started a local NGO called VAIJ just in Seattle to work with immigrant detainees and unaccompanied children. Brad Smith quickly realized that because of the existence of VAIJ, Seattle was the only region in the country where 100% of the children were being represented in court. He started asking his staff about what was going on in the rest of the country. When he realized the extent of the problem and how big it really was, he decided that Microsoft should launch an effort to try and provide 100 percent representation to all unaccompanied children across the country.”
So Smith and others from Microsoft established a brain trust of experts in unaccompanied children’s issues from the government, international organizations, non-government organizations, think tanks, economists, and statisticians, to specifically examine the plight of unaccompanied children. They also partnered with a well-known children’s advocate – actress Angelina Jolie.
A little over a year before they launched KIND, several Microsoft employees sat down in New York with the actress. Jolie wasn’t just going to be another celebrity name on the letterhead, but would cofound KIND.
For years, Jolie has been focused on the issues of refugees, Megan McKenna, Communications Director of KIND said. “She has worked/ advocated on unaccompanied children’s issues for many years, and is an expert in her own right.” McKenna said of Jolie. “Her expertise is also in refugees and children overseas. She began working on these issues when she was names UNHCR’s (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Goodwill Ambassador in 2001 and quickly embraced the issue of unaccompanied children in the U.S. as one of her key priorities. She has travelled widely in support of these issues and has seen the many difficult situations children are in worldwide firsthand.”
“Angelina has advocated on Capitol Hill on behalf of unaccompanied children – meeting with Congress people – and has also written letters to them asking for more support for unaccompanied children. More evidence that she is a true advocate/ expert,” McKenna said. Smith also reiterated Jolie’s involvement, “She personally has donated her time, her energy, and her money to important legal work to provide representation for refugees,” he said.
Based on their findings from the experts, Smith explained that Microsoft’s legal counsel devised core principles and modeled a series of programmatic solutions that were consistent with the best practices models they’d derived from their existing VAIJ program. After extensive consultation and work with those experts, KIND was born.
Jolie has since been joined by a variety of other prestigious board members, includuing philanthropist Howard Buffet; former Lost Boy of Sudan John Bul Dau; Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario; migration expert and Migration Policy Institute co-founder Kathleen Newland; former assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey, Ronald Schechter of Arnold & Porter; and Wally Christensen of Troutman Sanders.
Their common passion? Getting legal representation for unaccompanied immigrant children. Whether it’s a teenager that has escaped sex traffickers, or a toddler separated from their parents, their stories are each compellingly different.
“The average age of these kids is 15 but our youngest client was only three years old,” shared Smith. “In some cases they’re fleeing persecution with their families but are separated from their families in flight. We had one case of a North Korean boy who had fled with his father into China but had become separated from his father in China, couldn’t find him, and then had to make it from China to Canada and then the United States.
We had a three-year-old who was from Central America who was crossing the border into California, and in the confusion at the border, was separated from her aunt who she was unable to reconnect with.
“We certainly see teenage girls from Central America who have been the victims of sex trafficking and they are sometimes unfortunately persecuted by their parents, typically their fathers, so they are victims of persecution that initiated in the home. That’s another pattern that we see. But ultimately, what’s so striking is that there is no single phenomenon that one sees on a universal basis. Rather, one sees a variety of stories that have in common the incredible impact they have on an individual level. It’s a sad state of affairs for the individuals who are affected.”
Smith said about 8,000 kids a year arrive in the U.S. without a parent or legal guardian. Only half of those receive legal representation.
“What KIND has realized,” said Wendy Young, “is that when a child has legal representation, they’re three times more likely to receive a favorable outcome. That means an outcome that benefits the child more than the system’s need to move the child through it.”
The program launched in 2008, but KIND has severed more than 1,000 children since that time, Young revealed, much to the delight of its advocates, employees, and Microsoft legal counsel.
“We never imagined for a moment ten years ago that we would be leading a nationwide program like this. We never imagined that we would be working now with over 1,000 volunteer lawyers across the country. We never imagined that we would be partnering with over 60 law firms nationwide,” Smith said.
“I think it’s important to recognize that in the world today, people expect companies to be involved actively in their communities. Gone are the days when it was considered enough just to create a good product, offer a good service, and pay good wages. People really do want to see companies playing an active role when it comes to corporate citizenship. There are great opportunities to really energize employees. Employees want to see their companies actively engaged in their communities. Employees often want to become actively involved themselves in volunteer opportunities. It’s a great opportunity for us to do good for people who we otherwise would never come in contact with and especially given the positive impact of opportunities for our employees, we think this is something that does well for us as a company at the same time.”
It’s not just getting engaged in volunteering that impacts employee’s lives. It’s getting engaged in the lives of children who desperately need help.
“When you have the opportunity to meet kids who are affected, you come away with a great appreciation that literally their whole life is at stake. In some cases, if they are returned, their life will be at stake because they are threatened with very dangerous circumstances. Even if they don’t have their lives hanging in the balance, the future at their life is always at stake because they are leaving behind such dire conditions,” Smith said. “So when we do succeed with an asylum claim, for example, we are able to help someone build a new life at an age where you can make a huge difference.”
With the current immigration system, if someone loses the right to stay in the U.S., they are put on an airplane and they basically just have to walk off the plane at the other end of the flight. There is no safety net to take care of them there. Smith says KIND wants to change that. “We’re working, for example, on a pilot program with the government of Guatemala to try and put some social services in place. If we can do that it will really be quite important because it means we’ll both be of help to kids that can stay and kids that have to go back.”
Young and Smith are both quick to point out how valuable KIND is for unaccompanied kids, but it’s also been beneficial for their volunteers as well.
“It’s been a great experience for our employees,” shared Smith. “They really enjoy the pro bono cases that they take. When people come back from court, they often have these huge smiles on their faces, especially if they’ve won a victory for a client that day. It gives us the opportunity to get different employees working together that might not otherwise get a chance in their day-to-day work and it definitely creates a special bond between them. This is the kind of work we find that yields rewards in lots of ways, including many unsuspected ways.”
“I think we felt that we had something that would resonate with people but the speed and the breadth of the reception has surprised even us. It has become a snowball that has headed further and faster downhill than we would have predicted a few years ago and that’s a great thing.
“I think one of the lessons I experienced is that this work is something of a journey. I don’t think it’s necessarily possible to know where the ultimate destination will be but I also think that that’s a fine state of affairs. When it comes to this journey, I think that the most important thing for companies to do is to take the first step.”
“That usually means getting involved with something that will enable people to learn more about what additional steps might mean and I think people should be mindful that this is not an area where you should wait for the perfect community. If you wait to figure everything out you’ll wait forever. I think that the best way to learn is to learn by doing. Pick something that resonates with the company. The employees get involves, start doing it, and a year or two later, you will have the knowledge and the experience to figure out that’s what people want to do.”
Saturday, April 9, 2011
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