Angelina Jolie recreates and revels in the romantic thrillers of old in The Tourist
THERE are times, says Angelina Jolie, when being an actor is just pure, exhilarating joy. Take, for instance, the romantic thriller, The Tourist. Right from the start, it promised to be a wonderful experience and it didn’t disappoint.

“If anything, it exceeded my expectations,” says Jolie with a smile. “Honestly, it was just so much fun and hopefully we’ve captured that on screen.” Read the rest of this entry…

As a part of the recent DVD/Blu-Ray release of Salt, Sony Pictures has created a game called ‘Compromise a Friend’ where you can a custom news clip which identifies your friend as a Russian Spy. To play the game, click here.

Thanks to my friend Kim I have added caps and video from Angelina interviews on Larry King Live.

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Mary and I would like to say happy holidays to everyone! Have a safe and fun holiday and new years!

Angelina is nominated for next years People’s Choice Awards. The awards show will air on January 5, 2011. So make sure you set your TV Tuner for that. She’s nominated for the categories ‘Favorite Movie actress’ and ‘Favourite Action Star’. Salt is nominated for ‘Favorite Action Movie’. Hopefully Angie wins at least one of the categories.

Angelina Jolie says she and her kids have to “sneak” out of their house to try and avoid the paparazzi.

The actress – who raises six children, Maddox, nine, Pax, seven, Zahara, five, Shiloh, four and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, with her partner Brad Pitt – spends most of her time at home to avoid the throng of photographers who follow her wherever she goes. But she has devised escape routes to escape attention telling The Independent newspaper: “My real life is 90 percent contained in my house with my kids. When we are at our best, we are just nutty. And the kids want to go out shopping to the market, but you’ve got 20 people behind you so you just can’t. But sometimes we try to sneak out – and sometimes for us the easiest thing to do is sneak out of the front door, because everybody is checking the back door! But you try not to live your life that way – it would drive you nuts.”

Angelina also claims the public make wrong assumptions about her personality, often believing her to be a dark character, but she insists she has a soft side she believes she inherited from her late mother Marcheline Bertrand. “Sometimes people think of me as being darker, but (“The Tourist” co-star) Johnny (Depp) has seen me on set giggling; I think maybe a bit of my mom has rubbed off on me, and hopefully I’m a little softer and more female than I’m assumed to be.” (msn.com)

Source: MB

Angelina Jolie hopes to clear a path for dangerous women.

She grew up idolizing tough-guy movie stars, and is regarded in Hollywood as the industry’s top bankable action actress, but few women are given similar roles, and she hopes more will follow.

When she was coming of age, she says she was oblivious to any limitations.

“I had a really great mom who never let me know that,” Jolie said in a recent interview with USA WEEKEND Magazine. “I grew up thinking girls could do everything. I do see the beautiful differences between men and women as well. I think it’s nice for the boys to be boys and girls to be girls. It’s not that you’re trying to cross genres to be like the other sex, you just want to be completely what yours is, which is many, many things.”

Part of that, says the actress, is being tough. “I feel very lucky that I just happen to be around at a time when women are doing that sort of thing,” she says.

Her latest film, The Tourist, opening Dec. 10, features a role that is much more proper and refined – a mysterious European socialite who lures a hapless Johnny Depp into the path of deadly gangsters and international police.

“When I was little it was Han Solo and Indiana Jones — that’s what I wanted to be. I wanted to be all the boy things,” Jolie says. “I still want to be those things, too! But before my career’s over, I want to find those few where I can say to the girls, I also did the girl [roles], too.”

Last summer, she starred in the spy thriller Salt – a part originally written for a man – which is one thing that appealed to her. “It was written for a guy, but it still was not a comic book,” she says. Too often, she feels, women can only be strong in fantasy stories. And while Salt was over-the-top action, it was grounded in reality.

Elise, the elegant character she plays in The Tourist, is less likely to be jumping from moving cars during an escape scene on a freeway. But Jolie says she enjoyed the challenge of suppressing her harder edges in favor of a softer character.

But even in Elise’s delicacy, Jolie says there is strength.

“I don’t like the type of woman onscreen that overtly tries to get everyone’s attention,” Jolie says. “There’s another type of woman who holds her head up high, and doesn’t hide. I think she gets up in the morning and dresses for herself. And then if someone notices, that’s lovely. But she wants to feel good.”

Jolie says that makes Elise “more attractive than somebody who is trying.”

“You are who you are,” she says. “You’re not pretending to be a different type of woman.”

Source: The Daily News Online

Angelina Jolie, who once swapped vial of blood with ex-husband Billy Bob Thorton and infamously kissed her brother, is actually just a normal, “great” mother, according to Johnny Depp.

The “Tourist” actor says he wasn’t sure what to expect from the mother of six because of the frequent fantastical portrayals of her and partner Brad Pitt in the media.

“I was immediately impressed by her. Well, not that I read much in the press about myself or even anyone, but you can’t help but know that she and Brad are globally hounded and tracked down,” the 47-year-old actor said.

“What I was most impressed with Angelina first and foremost was her normality… also, she’s a great mommy.”

And although Depp, who has two young children with his long-term partner Vanessa Paradis, did not know much about Angelina before they met, he knew he would be working with an actress with a versatile talent.

“The only thing that sticks out in my mind is ‘The Changeling’ – her performance was magnificent, so I knew I’d be stepping into the ring with someone who was going to be deeply committed. But at the same time she understands the need for humour, the ability to travel outside of the script sometimes. She was a real sport in that sense.”

Source: Third Age