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Saturday, August 24, 2024




Shiloh Jolie is proving that hard work runs in the family!

On Saturday, Aug. 24, choreographer Kolanie Marks shared a video to Instagram, showing the 18-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt busting a few moves as she gradually sharpens her dancing skills.

Marks, who previously spoke with PEOPLE about Shiloh's commitment "to a craft that is extremely hard," joked on Instagram that he's "officially her ADOPTED UNCLE" after her latest display of dancing chops under his tutelage.

Marks' latest video featured Shiloh dancing to Capella Grey, Jaewon and Young M.A.'s "Fly S---," as onlookers cheered her on. "I've watched this so many times and the confidence is growing and building! Keep going @sh1lohj I'm so so proud," Marks wrote in the caption that included a shout-out to choreographer Devin Solomon.

He also wrote on his Instagram Stories, "She's getting so good! I'm happy that she's sticking to the training!"

In July, Marks revealed in his interview with PEOPLE that he's worked with Shiloh for a couple years following their first class together at Millennium Dance Complex in Los Angeles. As he explained at the time, she's "dedicated herself to trying to figure out" his style of dance.

Marks, who has choreographed tours and music videos for artists like Mindless Behavior and Marques Houston, continues to post about Shiloh's progress on Instagram.

He told PEOPLE last month that their professional relationship is "very strictly based off of what we focus on, which is the dancing" and they don't discuss her famous family. Shiloh is the fourth-oldest child of exes Jolie and Pitt, who also share Maddox, 23, Zahara, 19, Pax, 20, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16.

"I totally forgot who she is in that moment, because that's not what we focus on when we're training," he said of posting about her dance transformation. "I wanted to give her praise, of just the hard work and dedication that she puts in."

In July, Marks posted a video montage highlighting the rising dancer's commitment to the art form and her "doesn't quit" mindset.

"I'm proud and no we’re not done," he wrote of her growth as a dancer. "Give me til January!!!! I love to help dancers succeed!!! Many dancers/choreographers out now I've helped guide! All I need is trust and consistency and we will book!"

It's been a big year for Shiloh, who earlier this month was granted a name change. The teen filed to drop "Pitt" from her last name in May, and can now legally go by Shiloh Jolie as of August. A source close to Pitt told PEOPLE earlier this year that the actor was "aware" of the change, adding that he "loves his children and misses them."

Just "aware" instead of "aware and upset."






Nothing in People about this.



Jon Voight put out a public plea to Brad Pitt to put a stop to the movie star’s seemingly endless divorce battle with his daughter, Angelina Jolie.

“I wish that would be over,” the “Reagan” star, 85, told Fox News Digital Friday. “It’s tough. I wish they found a way to make peace.”

Voight, who was once estranged from his daughter due in part to differing political views, added that he is concerned about how Pitt and Jolie’s legal drama has affected his grandkids.

“I think that the kids need some stability,” Voight said. “I love the kids and I love my daughter, and I want Brad to step up, too, [and do] what he has to do [and] end this nonsense.”

Pitt’s rep declined to comment on Voight’s remarks, but a source close to the “Fight Club” star tells Page Six exclusively that “It’s important that people realize that Brad’s motivation is to ensure that his kids can maximize the benefit of this asset,” “Once it was sold, that’s no longer the case and it significantly decreased their inheritance.”

Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016 following a slew of disagreements, including a blowout fight on a plane that allegedly turned abusive.

Pitt has never been criminally charged for any abuse claims, but a source close to the actor has said, “Brad admitted that his behavior on the plane was wrong. He took steps to improve himself.”


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Tuesday, July 23, 2024



Jon had invited the reporter and photographer upstairs where photos (plural) of "Jolie and her ex-husband Brad Pitt are prominently displayed." The info was then given to People by Brad's PR for another post. The drumroll is hard to miss.







By Stephen Rodrick

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His antics have a manic “Let’s put on a show” quality to them, not unlike the comedy stylings of Sid Caesar, one of Voight’s boyhood heroes. Today, Voight doesn’t resemble any of the troubled men tortured by circumstances he’s played in his six-decade career, including would-be hustler Joe Buck in “Midnight Cowboy,” paralyzed Vietnam vet Luke Martin in “Coming Home,” and Ed Gentry, a suburban everyman turned avenging killer in ”Deliverance.” Today, he’s all loopy grandpa, which is a role he plays for his six grandchildren now that he has reconciled with his once-estranged daughter, Angelina Jolie.

No one is spared Voight’s seething right-wing political opinions, including his daughter, who he feels has fallen victim to antisemitic subterfuge. (“Angelina wishes him well but does not speak about him publicly,” said a source close to the actress.) He says her politics are, to put it mildly, not his, while his are the subject of an endless circular conversation — especially now that Trump is on the upswing. The actor is a staunch supporter of Israel, most recently its response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks, and Jolie is a longtime refugee activist, currently decrying Israel’s killing of women and children in Gaza. In our conversations, Voight never lets it go, criticizing her Palestinian stance repeatedly, like a candidate going after an opponent in a 30-second ad. “She has been exposed to propaganda,” he says. “She’s been influenced by antisemitic people. Angie has a connection to the U.N., and she’s enjoyed speaking out for refugees. But these people are not refugees.”

Back in Beverly Hills, Voight keeps it light. We move into the house, and he bounds up the stairs to his bedroom. Hanging on the wall are faux stones from the 1999 TV miniseries “Noah’s Ark,” in which Voight portrayed the titular character. There’s his easel and a large photo of his father. He puts on a robe and spreads out on his bed. A giant smile crosses his face, and his blue eyes are lit. “What else do you need?”

Once the photographer leaves, Voight falls into a chair at his dining room table. He looks tired. It has already been an exhausting summer. Not only is he doing press for “Megalopolis,” but he’s getting ready to move from the house where he’s lived for the past two decades.

His home currently resembles a set being struck down. There are boxes of books scattered everywhere. His Oscar for “Coming Home” is somewhere on the premises. In the living room, large framed photographs of Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr. and various Indian yogis dominate the space. Upstairs, photos of Jolie and her ex-husband Brad Pitt are prominently displayed, including a 2008 People magazine cover of the couple holding newborn twins. (The family photos cut out of magazines roughly correspond with the times when Voight and Jolie were estranged.) Downstairs, there’s a sketchbook and a drawing for his granddaughter Vivienne that he will send her wishing her a happy birthday and congratulating her on the success of Broadway’s “The Outsiders,” which Voight says she brought to Jolie’s attention, and they went on to produce together.

Two of the best examples of Voight’s approach to morphing into characters include his appearances as Nate, a criminal operator with some startling facial disfigurements in “Heat” and his chameleonic Oscar-nominated turn as sportscaster Howard Cosell in “Ali,” both Michael Mann films.

“For Jon, the transformation, that’s the adventure,” says Mann. “The adventure is the wild way he gets to transform himself to get into this character. As a director, I know enough about Jon that the further into outer space the idea is, the more attractive it is.”

Mann says that Voight spent more than four hours every day in makeup being transformed into Cosell. Between takes, Voight and Will Smith, as Muhammad Ali, would verbally spar in character to the delight of hundreds of extras. “I was trying to set up shots, and then all of a sudden, these guys are doing ad-libs so good I’m trying to write it down,” says Mann.

Praise like that is what keeps Voight working in lefty Hollywood even as he compares Joe Biden to Satan and muses that George Soros is hell-bent on destroying the country. Hollywood is in a recession, and Trumpists like Scott Baio and Kevin Sorbo have been banished to right-wing productions and reality TV. Jon Voight? He has appeared in three movies in the past 24 months.

Sometimes, over the past year, Voight called late at night just to say hello. We spoke of Blake’s “Jerusalem,” our children, Renaissance art and how Burt Reynolds broke his tailbone doing his own stunts in “Deliverance.” There were two Jons in our conversations: the cultured and kind acting icon, curious about art and poetry, and the right-wing warrior ripping Biden and dismissing Palestinians as frauds with no claim to the Holy Land.

Under normal circumstances, an actor of Voight’s stature and age would be feted at festivals and film schools, but that’s not been the case with Voight, and it undoubtedly connects to his politics. Instead, the actor cuts a forlorn figure, showing up at the occasional party or art gallery in L.A. with his son, James Haven. At a gallery opening in Beverly Hills in December, a visitor whispered to a friend, “That’s Jon Voight — he says some crazy-ass things.”

After Cannes, Voight stopped in New York on his way back to take in “The Outsiders.” “It was amazing,” he says proudly. “Angie is amazing.”

Father and daughter seem to be getting along better these days. That is, except when Voight is attacking her over the Israel-Hamas war. Jolie has been an advocate for refugees for more than two decades. She has worked on projects bringing attention to genocides in Southeast Asia and in the former Yugoslavia. People listened when she released a statement last November on the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

“This is the deliberate bombing of a trapped population who have nowhere to flee,” wrote Jolie on Instagram three weeks into the conflict. “Gaza has been an open-air prison for nearly two decades and is fast becoming a mass grave. 40% of those killed are innocent children. … Whole families are being murdered.”

Voight responded with his own post on Twitter a day later. It started, “I’m very disappointed that my daughter, like so many, has no understanding of God’s honor, God’s truths. This is justice for God’s children of the Holy Land. ….”

This seemed massively counterproductive, because Voight has spent the past 30 years trying to right the wrongs of his wild years with his children. And yet, during our conversations, Voight, who keeps praising his daughter’s talent and accomplishments, cannot resist repeatedly schooling her on his political worldview. Voight’s relationship with his children has been fraught since their mother, Marcheline Bertrand, divorced him in 1978, citing adultery. During his children’s adolescence, Voight wasn’t around much, and over the years, there have been schisms, silence and reconciliation.

“I love my daughter — that’s No. 1,” he says. “I am happy when Angie is happy.” His eyes begin to well up with tears. “When she’s having a tough time, I’m having a tough time. When she is down, I’m down.”

That sentiment makes his public attacks on his daughter all the more puzzling. For instance, in May, we meet for coffee in Hollywood, and Voight offers long monologues on the history of the British Mandate for Palestine and the Ottoman Empire’s decline that, he says, conclusively prove Jolie’s position is profoundly wrong. He then falls back on an old chestnut of Hollywood detractors.

“Angie, I think she hasn’t been available to this information because in Hollywood people don’t share this kind of stuff,” he says. “They’re way off. They have no idea what’s going on. It’s a bubble.”

Leaving aside the fact that Voight lives in Beverly Hills and had us meet twice in the shadow of studio lots, it’s hard to believe that Jolie isn’t able to access the right information. I bring this up, and he disagrees. His face goes red, and beads of sweat appear on his forehead. “I love my daughter. I don’t want to fight with my daughter,” he says heatedly. “But the fact is, I think she has been influenced by the U.N. From the beginning, it’s been awful with human rights. They call it human rights, but it’s just anti-Israel bashing.”

Heads turn in the café. Voight is talking louder than usual and continues without taking a breath. “She’s ignorant of what the real stakes are and what the real story is because she’s in the loop of the United Nations.”

He finally stops and sighs. “Maybe we shouldn’t talk about all this politics stuff.”

After the Fourth of July holiday, I get a message from Voight asking if we could meet for a quick lunch at the Beverly Glen Deli before he leaves to shoot a film in Bulgaria. The request seems odd: We had already said a last goodbye at his house. I wonder what’s left to say and suspect he’s going to try to take back the words he said about Jolie’s views on Gaza. 

The exact opposite occurs. It’s a week after Joe Biden’s incoherent debate performance, and Voight is feeling vindicated. “It’s a disgrace, all the drugs and steroids they’ve been shooting him up with,” he says. He struggles to open the pull tab on a can of root beer. I’m about to reach over and help when he grimaces with concentration and the pop-top relents. 

I’ve asked Voight on multiple occasions if I could talk with his son, Jamie, with whom he reconciled a few years ago. I asked first after Voight proudly told me Jamie was going to direct him in a film this summer. Voight delayed the meeting with Jamie for months, and I gave up the pursuit. But a few minutes into our lunch, Jamie, in his 50s, arrives at the deli. He is well moisturized and dressed all in white, including a skull cap. He launches into a monologue about a number of topics — the film, his involvement in a K-Pop project, his work with troubled children, why Linus is his favorite Peanuts character and how “Star Wars” changed his life. His father beams. I suspect the movie will never happen.

Jamie steps out for a moment. I steel myself for Voight sweet-talking me in an attempt to get me to soften his statements about his daughter. But instead he starts another lecture about Jolie’s Israel information deficit. “It comes from ignorance, like everything else,” Voight says. “It’s like, why are these kids in the universities siding with Hamas, right? It’s because of ignorance. They don’t know the story.”

I realize that this is the key to being Jon Voight. He can sell Coppola’s Crassus because he believes it. He can convince me of his spiritual conversion because he believed that too. But that self-belief — a requirement of any actor, but stronger in Voight than in anyone else I’ve interviewed — has toxic consequences: A true believer cannot comprehend that someone, much less his own flesh and blood, might hold a different view.

I ask him, not for the first time, if he thinks that instead of attacking Jolie on Instagram, he might just pick up the phone. He shakes his head. “It’s hard for me to talk to her about this,” he says with a resigned look. “She doesn’t really want to share this kind of stuff, because she’s of another mind about it.”

Instead, he filibusters about the myth of the Palestinian homeland, referencing the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the British mandate over the Holy Land from 1920 to 1948. It’s the same talk he gave me a few weeks ago, almost verbatim. After about 10 minutes, I gently tell him he explained all of this to me before. He looks confused. “Are you sure?”

At this moment, Voight does not look like a movie star or a soldier for Trump. He just looks lost and agitated, not unlike Biden on the night of his debate.

Five days later, Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt in Butler, Pa. Voight and I connect after a couple of missed calls. He sees Trump’s survival as a sign and speaks of it in messianic terms. “There’s a prophet who predicted there was going to be an attempt on his life,” says Voight. “He was going to go to his knees, and during the moment he was on his knees, he was going to connect with God.”

He then mentions the evil that’s spreading across the world via satanists like Soros. He says we can too easily access it on our smartphones.

I suggest that both sides need to turn down the heat, and that maybe he could take a step back from claiming the Biden Administration is populated by evildoers.

The line goes quiet for a moment. “Well, that’s your opinion,” Voight says. “I’m very careful about what I say. But when I see the attacks on this man, I know they’re coming from a hateful, evil place.”

He transitions quickly to Jolie being brainwashed by antisemitic propagandists and then a familiar stalking horse, Soros.

“What do you say about Soros?” Voight says. “That he seems normal when you talk about him? No. He bought out DAs, he bought out judges, he bought out politicians. You have to have strength. You have to be righteous.”

And that’s when I give up. For all the lovely talk Voight and I had about paintings, poetry and Old Hollywood over deli sandwiches and root beers, it is now clear that he is also coming from a hateful place. He natters on about Marxists and other ghosts, but I tune him out. I tell him I must go, but he wants to end on a hopeful note.

“I’ve been the most outspoken supporter of Donald Trump in Hollywood,” he says with pride. “I’ve been saying he’s the answer, the only answer.” He slips into the third person for the first time in all our conversations. “Now, after this, maybe they will look at Jon Voight in a different way. If Donald Trump is being revealed in this way, maybe they will see a supporter like me in a different light.”

I wish him a good night. There is nothing left to say.



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Friday, January 19, 2024


Random Fuzzy

Bennett Miller's Photo Exhibit Opening, Jan. 12





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Interesting that Lawlor Media, a large Hollywood PR firm, included a photo of a phone as it appears to have edited Ines out.  The original photo shown on the screen has a partial view of her.  An edited photo seen below shows her entirely cropped out.  The resulting photo is similar to what Sam Ashgari posted on Instagram.  The Lawlor media photo seems to explain why Ashgari's photo was tightly cropped.




Ines covered her décolletage while eyeing the paps in the parking lot.  She was conscious that it was exceptionally low.  She was also wearing tight leather pants. 

Her décolletage was a low as what Jeff Bezo's fiancée wore for his birthday celebration.



Sanchez was helping Bezos celebrate a milestone at a nightclub.  Her outfit was fine for the occasion.  But for the opening of Miller's gallery exhibit with a casually dressed group of friends and associates and where she was the guest of a guest...?  

Ines reminds me of George Clooney's dates pre-Amal.  There was skepticism centered on how little they had in common intellectually, professionally, and socially.  Ines elicits the same doubts but it's further heightened by the lack of interaction between her and Brad and the uncharacteristic PR hard sell of the relationship -- offering details and plans that in a real relationship would be closely guarded.

George's dates walked the Awards red carpet with him.  Brad attended the Cesar and LACMA ceremonies alone and skipped the red carpet both times.  He had Ines join him in the after-parties where they did not pose for photos and were barely noticed by fellow attendees.  Instead, Brad's PR sent press releases to People about their appearances.

George's dates made an effort to fit in.  At both the Cesar and LACMA, Ines dressed like she was ready, if not eager, for more attention.  This exhibit was just her latest attempt.

The only full view of her gown at the Feb. 2022 Cesar Awards was from a selfie she posted showing that it was backless, almost exactly as her LACMA gown was.  Both times she braved the cold when other attendees wore winter attire.  Her efforts at the Cesar and LACMA were little seen. 

This photo was floating around Instagram. It may have been lifted by a fan site.  She was apparently alone in her Paris room.


George was attentive towards whoever he was with.  In almost every appearance including this one, Brad could be seen with his back turned to Ines, and Ines has often been a step or more away from him.  Brad and Ines appear nominally together but do not act like they're together.   This evening even less so than in their other appearances.

I previously assumed Ines fit in better than George's dates having already been around Hollywood as Paul Wesley's wife, a friend of Nikki Reed, etc.  That doesn't seem to be the case with this crowd.  For various reasons, including perhaps what they know that we don't, the guests weren't buying Ines.  They had Brad but didn't want her in their photos.

The only photos of Brad and Ines together were the pap photos in the parking lot.  They were also the only photos where Ines' face could be seen and recognized.  Only the paps were interested.

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Roger Friedman wrote of Brad:
He sort of glows as he walks through a room, especially holding the hand of his beautiful girlfriend, Ines de Ramon. Women flocked to his area in the gallery as if they’d just heard a siren song. Men tried to look cool but could not turn away.
Many of the guests were Brad's and Miller's friends like Catherine Keener, Andrew Dominick, and Spike Jonze.  Lucasfilm's (Star Wars) head Kathleen Kennedy, Georgina Chapman (Ex-Mrs. Harvey Weinstein), Jon Voight, James Haven, Chris Rock and Ed Norton.  The claim that that room with those guests was so star-struck having Brad in their midst sounds like a tongue-in-cheek joke. 

Brad and Ines are not shown standing next to each other in any photos in the gallery. There is no interior photo where Ines' face can be seen. There are several photos of Brad in conversations but Ines is not visible.

Some background on Friedman, he used to be an entertainment writer for Fox News until he was fired for reviewing a leaked, pirated copy of Wolverine.  The episode is illustrative of his ethics and his reputation.  He likely acquiesced to a request by Brad's PR to write about Brad and Ines.

In an update to his original post, Freidman walked back his initial claim re Brad and Jon's encounter:
No words were exchanged — maybe just a nodding glance — but the art world brought together an unlikely meeting between two movies stars last night. They were Brad Pitt and his former father-in-law Jon Voight....He and Voight never came too close within reach of each other, and it was a total fluke that they were each present. 
correcting with
I’m told — reliably — that Pitt and Voight actually hugged and spoke to each other. I didn’t see it, but Voight’s companions informed me later when I ran into them at dinner.
Jon's only obvious companion was James. Freidman wrote in a follow-up post
I didn’t see it, but Pitt and Voight — formerly father and son-in-law — had a brief and friendly encounter.

Afterwards, Brody (with Georgina Chapman), Quinto, and some of the others went to a private dinner. I heard Al Pacino was one of the guests which made sense since his baby mama, Noor Alfallah, had been at the exhibit.
Freidman wasn't at the private dinner.  His source for the correction on Brad and Jon and James' meeting likely was Brad's PR.

Freidman also walked back his claim of the room's mass adulation of Brad but still promoted how otherwordly good-looking Brad and Ines were.
She and Pitt were so much better looking than normal human beings, it was hard to remember Miller’s excellent photos were the reason for being there.
It sounds like sarcastic hyperbole.  Perhaps Friedman decided to go over the top to purposely subvert the PR request.  As does his acknowledgment:
some fansite emailed me, not believing they were dating or together. I can’t imagine having time to speculate on that or care much at all. But that’s the way celebs and fans dance their pas de deux.

I don't know if Freidman is persona non grata with the tabloids but none quoted his column.  They quoted The Sun which is almost always pure fiction.


looks like the lease on the Escalades expired and they replaced it with a Suburban

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Brad Pitt’s Art Gallery Adventure with Ines Ramon– Reported Here Exclusively — Has Really Gotten Blown Out of Proportion

by Roger Friedman - January 17, 2024 5:39 pm

Last Thursday my old friend Bennett Miller –a really accomplished director movies like “Moneyball” and “Foxcatcher” — invited me to his photo exhibit in Beverly Hills. I went to support Bennett. I had no expectations of seeing anything but the photos at the Gagosian Gallery.

What happened was maybe routine in Hollywood but not in New York: an influx of A list names came pouring through the big white box on North Canon Drive. First up was Chris Rock, followed by a bunch of people I recognized including Zachary Quinto, Edward Norton, and Catherine Keener (who starred in “Capote” for Miller), not to mention LucasFilms prez Kathleen Kennedy.

And then there was Brad Pitt. Seeing Brad Pitt in person, not at a movie premiere, is like finding a rare zebra on the African delta. He looks just like Brad Pitt, only better. Remember he was there because he starred in “Moneyball.” With him was his girlfriend, whose name I didn’t know until I shook her hand, Ines de Ramon. She could be a model. Maybe she is. She was also incredibly nice and normal despite being so beautiful. She’s a brunette, and I thought had a slight accent. (It was noisy in there.) She and Pitt were so much better looking than normal human beings, it was hard to remember Miller’s excellent photos were the reason for being there.

Another Oscar winner, Adrien Brody, strode by. He and Brad got into a discussion. As I turned around, in came Oscar winner Jon Voight with his son, James, and some friends. Voight and I have radically different politics, but we like each other a lot. We did a ‘mug’ — a male hug — and immediately caught up on this and that. Also loosely floating around in this group were Lou Ferrigno, Jr. and someone I had never met: Britney Spears‘s ex husband, Sam Ashgari.

They all went to meet Brad and co. as I stepped away. I didn’t see it, but Pitt and Voight — formerly father and son-in-law — had a brief and friendly encounter. A few people had their pictures taken with Brad. Ashgari was completely cool, courteous, and low key. He didn’t use Britney’s name to get anything. He and I talked for a bit and he couldn’t have been nicer.

I left thinking, Nice people. A Hollywood night. No headlines other than so many interesting people. No one had an awkward time. Everyone had a good time. Sorry. No duels called for the next morning.

Afterwards, Brody (with Georgina Chapman), Quinto, and some of the others went to a private dinner. I heard Al Pacino was one of the guests which made sense since his baby mama, Noor Alfallah, had been at the exhibit. I did not speak with her, but others did, and there were no altercations.

As for Brad and Ines: some fansite emailed me, not believing they were dating or together. I can’t imagine having time to speculate on that or care much at all. But that’s the way celebs and fans dance their pas de deux.

Photo courtesy of Lawlor Media


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UPDATE Sunday January 15th: I’m told — reliably — that Pitt and Voight actually hugged and spoke to each other. I didn’t see it, but Voight’s companions informed me later when I ran into them at dinner. PS to the crackpot sending me unwanted texts: this did all happen.

January 12, 2024 2:58 am
No words were exchanged — maybe just a nodding glance — but the art world brought together an unlikely meeting between two movies stars last night. They were Brad Pitt and his former father-in-law Jon Voight. (Pitt, you know, has six children with Voight’s daughter, Angelina Jolie, his ex wife.)

This was all at Larry Gagosian’s star studded art gallery in Beverly Hills. The occasion was the opening of an exhibit of sensational photos by Bennett Miller, famed director of “Capote,” “Moneyball,” and “Foxcatcher.” Given the opportunity to be the first to use an AI program called “Dall-E,” Miller produced a series of black and white photos that are already the talk of the art world.

Was it all just AI, I wondered? Miller affirmed that the human element is very much alive even working with the program. But basically he types in descriptions or stories and the Dall-E comes up with a basic idea of it. Then Miller works to manipulate the medium.

Pitt — who starred so memorably in “Moneyball” — and Voight were not the only celebs who turned up. The great Catherine Keener made sure she got a look at every one of the arresting pictures. So did LucasFilms president Kathleen Kennedy. (She starred in Miller’s “Capote” as Harper Lee.) Oscar winner Adrien Brody was there with designer Georgina Chapman. Chris Rock stopped in to see the exhibit, as did director Spike Jonze. I ran into Lou Ferrigno, the original Hulk, and even Sam Ashgari, now former husband to Britney Spears. Director Andrew Dominick — currently making a film out of Bono’s “Songs of Surrender — toured the room. Top agent John Burnham took a turn, and several people told me when I arrived, “Brian Grazer was here.”

Brad Pitt? He looked like a movie star. He sort of glows as he walks through a room, especially holding the hand of his beautiful girlfriend, Ines de Ramon. Women flocked to his area in the gallery as if they’d just heard a siren song. Men tried to look cool but could not turn away.

What is he working on, I asked? “Just a Jerry Bruckheimer movie,” he replied, referring to his F1 racing film directed by Joseph Kosinski. He and Voight never came too close within reach of each other, and it was a total fluke that they were each present. Just another nod from the universe that Hollywood, like everywhere else, is really a small town.

(Another example of this was a rare picture taken of Brad Pitt with Sam Ashgari. Talk about chance encounters.)

Next up at Gagosian, for the Oscars: a still unannounced exhibit of rare Jean Michel Basquiat paintings from his time in Los Angeles. The crush at the front door should be unreal.



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The 60-year-old Oscar winner and the 33-year-old jewelry designer were seen leaving the Gagosian Gallery, making their way through the parking lot to a black luxury SUV.









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Sunday, January 5, 2020




Jon Voight has wonderful things to say about his daughter Angelina Jolie’s relationship with her children.
“She loves her kids, she’s always involved with them, always concerned for them,” he told reporters while attending the seventh annual Gold Meets Golden — a pre-Golden Globes gala — on Saturday in Beverly Hills.
“She monitors everything,” the actor, 81, added. “She’s great.”
Jolie, 44, has six children whom she shares with ex Brad Pitt: Maddox, 18; Pax, 15; Zahara, 14; Shiloh, 13; and twins Knox and Vivienne, 11.
The four-time Golden Globe winner went on to share that one of the biggest lessons of being a grandfather is that “every child is unique.”
“They all have something special, and what you want to do is provide them with the tools to express that,” Voight noted.
While attending the event, Voight also expressed admiration for Pitt, who is nominated for best supporting actor in a motion picture for his role in Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood.
“I am proud of Brad, and that was a very unusual movie, and a very successful one, a very dynamic movie,” the actor said, going on to mention several of his friends who have also gotten nods.
“Of course, it’s nice to see my friends Joe Pesci and Al Pacino,” he said. “[Robert] De Niro wasn’t up this year, but he’ll probably get an Academy [Award] or who knows, you never know. But, they’re all brilliant.”


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Thursday, June 25, 2015







LOS ANGELES—Jon Voight, who stars with Liev Schreiber in the crime drama series “Ray Donovan,” talked about the role he relishes these days—being a doting grandpa to his daughter Angelina Jolie’s kids. “I have Angie’s six and they are quite a crew,” said the actor of Angelina’s children with Brad Pitt: Maddox, 13; Pax, 11; Zahara, 10; Shiloh, 9; Vivienne, 6; and Knox, 6.

“They’re an amazing bunch of energy,” continued the Oscar and Golden Globe Award winner in this chat at the Four Seasons Hotel in LA. “Some of them are getting into that teenage era that Liev (who has two kids with Naomi Watts) is so frightened of. That teenage era can get into another set of things but I think they (Angelina’s kids) are going to do pretty well. As they grow up, those times will be good for us with this crew."

“And yet, with all the children that are in your family, you still miss having the babies. Although now you have little kids—you can talk to them. They have opinions and it becomes exciting. It’s a nice time.”

Jon opened up about being a father to Angelina and James; his second marriage to their late mom, actress Marcheline Bertrand, which ended in a divorce (like his marriage with first wife, Lauri Peters); and his own personal and professional struggles.

“In some ways, I was trying to be around more than I was,” said the actor, now 76, whose many memorable films include “Midnight Cowboy,” “Coming Home,” “Runaway Train” and “The Champ.”

“I did make mistakes with my kids,” admitted Jon, “Whew—I went through a lot of drama, as you know. You have seen me through that. But surely, I always loved my children dearly.

“I love my grandchildren. The thing is, you don’t have the responsibility and it’s not a 24-hour thing. When you are with your children for 24 hours, you have to have a different pace. And you have to find private time to do this and do that balance. Yet, you are available to them every second.

“As a grandfather, you can’t wait to see them (grandkids) because you are not spending that much time with them. You want to get as much out of them as you can. You don’t want to leave them for a second. It’s a different kind of feeling. You want to get to know them. If you have six of them, you spend a little time with them for a day or so. You want to find special time with each of them, to make that contact. It’s exciting.”

 Jon claimed that he noticed his daughter’s humanitarian nature early on. “Angie gave indication of it when she was young that she would fight for others’ rights and defend people who were picked on. She had that ingredient. I see the work that she’s done with the United Nations. She’s a lovely person with kids. She cares for other people, taking their side and stuff. She’s got that, for sure.”

Jon is also proud of Angelina’s achievements as a director. “I was very impressed with her direction of ‘Unbroken.’ As an actor, a filmmaker and an audience member, I don’t know how anyone could have told that story better. It’s a brilliant piece of direction. I know the things that she fought for with the casting. I am very proud of her.”

Although he appears to have smooth relationships with Angelina and James now, Jon elaborated on his lessons as a dad who had volatile relationships with his children, “I learned the basics. I was distracted when I started out. I was a little confused. This is a very tricky terrain. I don’t know how much to say about this. Sometimes you get a little off. I was a very young person. I had a lot of things. I was exploring in life.”

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