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Ayn Rand's most ambitious novel may finally be brought to the bigscreen after years of false starts. Lionsgate has picked up worldwide distribution rights to "Atlas Shrugged" from Howard and Karen Baldwin ("Ray"), who will produce with John Aglialoro. As for stars, book provides an ideal role for an actress in lead character Dagny Taggart, so it's not a stretch to assume Rand enthusiast Angelina Jolie's name has been brought up. Brad Pitt, also a fan, is rumored to be among the names suggested for lead male character John Galt. "Atlas Shrugged," which runs more than 1,100 pages, has faced...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Pregnant Hollywood siren Angelina Jolie and boyfriend Brad Pitt have taken refuge in a remote Namibian game lodge where wild lions will help protect them from the media, a Namibian newspaper said on Monday. The celebrity couple and their two adopted children Maddox and Zahara arrived in the southern African country last week, fuelling media speculation the Oscar-winning actress plans to give birth in Namibia away from the spotlight. Namibian Afrikaans daily newspaper Die Republikein said the pair had moved from a luxury beach resort in the harbor town of Walvisbay to a lodge in the Etosha...

Has Brad split from Angelina? April 06, 2006 This article from : News Interactive HOLLYWOOD'S hottest couple has reportedly split. Brad Pitt is said to have walked out on his 7½-month pregnant girlfriend Angelina Jolie. Several reports late yesterday claimed the unbearably beautiful couple, nicknamed Brangelina, had been fighting incessantly over the impending birth of their first child. Earlier, several Hollywood sources claimed Pitt had been sleeping on the couch in the couple's $US50,000-a-month French apartment. Tabloids have been reporting for weeks that the relationship is in trouble with the couple barely photographed together anymore. Pitt, 42, is said to...

Angelina Not Jolie: Starlet "Absolutely Ashamed" of U.S. By Debbie Schlussel Hmmm . . . . Maybe she should stay there. Angelina Jolie--new face of St. John fashions and old face of support for Palestinian kiddie terrorists-in-training--said she's "absolutely ashamed" of America at this weekend's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Skank Angelina Jolie at pro-HAMAS Arab Children's Conference Hate-Fest in Jordan, 2004 Accompanied by skank-o-phile Mr. Angelina Jolie (Brad Pitt), the actress told the self-absorbed international rich-and-famous beautiful people lefties at the navel-reflecting/pontification gathering, that she's hopping mad that the U.S. Congress hasn't ratified the U.N. Convention on the...

(from email received Friday 1/28/2005) Dear ______: As you may already know, AlwaysOn, in partnership with Speedera, will be bringing you live webcasts of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland all week long. Go to www.alwayson-network.com to see what's on now! Below is the schedule for the coming day's webcasts. All times are PST: 12:20am-1:00am | Special Message - Gerhard Schroeder 12:50am-2:15am | Is the Peace Process Poised for a Resurrection? 3:20am-5:00am | Addressing the Role of the United States in World Affairs 6:05am-7:30am | A View from the Hill on US Foreign Policy in Bush II 6:20am-8:00am |...

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Hollywood star Nicole Kidman is to be named goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the fund said. The 38-year-old Australian will work with UNIFEM to advance women's rights and gender equality around the world, with a special focus on issues such as ending violence against women, it added. Since the early 1950's, the world body has enlisted the assistance of prominent figures from the worlds of art, music, film, sport and literature to turn the spotlight on humanitarian causes and UN programs as goodwill ambassadors and celebrity advocates. US actress Angelina...

A journey to Kenya by "Tomb Raider" star Angelina Jolie and noted economist Jeffrey Sachs will air Sept. 14 on MTV. "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa" will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya, where Sachs' U.N. Millennium Project team is working to end poverty, hunger and disease, the music cable network said in a statement Monday. "We are at a unique threshold in human history, where the crisis we face in Africa is matched only by our degree of hope that we can and will be a...

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has been awarded Cambodian citizenship in recognition of her environmental and conservation work in the country. King Norodom Sihamoni signed a royal decree approving the citizenship on 31 July, officials said on Friday. Jolie, who adopted a Cambodian boy in 2002, was offered citizenship during her last visit to Cambodia in 2004. The Tomb Raider star, who has since adopted a second child, said at the time she would be "thrilled" to accept. "This is what we have dreamed for her for a long time," said Mounh Sarath, director of the Cambodian Vision in Development group....

...Whatever the merits of [gender differences elsewhere, in] movies... the classic trope of female vulnerability and male strength has been upended and replaced with the childish and somewhat delusional notion that women can surpass men in every area of competition. One of this summer's biggest movies, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," about a married couple who don't realize that they are both paid assassins, stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and received a lot of buzz for the supposedly heated off-screen romance between the two actors. Less remarked upon, however, was the violence their characters inflict on each other onscreen and...

ACTOR Angelina Jolie plans to adopt another child. Jolie recently adopted an orphaned Ethiopian girl, Zahara, as a sister to her Cambodian son Maddox, British news reports said. Jolie's adoption adviser Ron Federici said: "I know Angelina was looking in Russia for a baby, and I wouldn't be surprised if she adopts another one. "She just wants to do what is right for these kids. You don't have to be rich to adopt from Africa, and you can really save a life."

Actress Angelina Jolie is adopting a newborn Ethiopian girl orphaned by AIDS, People magazine reported on Tuesday. Jolie, who has toured the world as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations' High Commissioner on Refugees, said the baby would be named Zahara Marley Jolie but would not reveal the child's age, height or weight, People said. The magazine had no further information on the baby's health but said she had been left an orphan by AIDS. Jolie, 30, told People that she and her son Maddox, 3, who she adopted from a Cambodian orphanage, were "very happy to have a new...

From the Swift Report Hollywood golden girl Jennifer Aniston may not be spilling the beans about ex-hubby Brad Pitt's alleged infidelities in a forthcoming interview with Vanity Fair magazine, but the actress apparently has plenty to say about UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie. Sources say that Aniston is critical of Jolie for lending her high-profile name to a corrupt institution.

Journos balk at 'Smith' interview restrictions Legal reps for Angelina Jolie gave journos a jolt during the run-up to "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" with a legal agreement that attempted to set new precedent in the already tense relations between celebs and the press. The agreement, faxed to journos from the law firm Sloane, Offer, Webster & Dern, demanded as a condition of an interview with Jolie that journalists agree to not ask any questions about "personal relationships," that the interview "only be used to promote the picture," and, incredibly, that the interview "not be used in a manner that is...

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Top US Actress Calls for Attention on N.Korea Refugee Issue 2005-03-09 20:53:26 Updated. Prominent U.S. actress Angelina Jolie is calling for public attention on the plight of North Korean refugees from fleeing their country. The actress, who is a goodwill ambassador for the U.N.'s refugee agency, said in a news conference held at the Washington National Press Club that the North Korean refugee issue deserved the focus of the world's attention. She said she hoped to travel at some point to meet with the refugees. Miss Jolie was appointed goodwill ambassador in August 2001. For more than three years, she...

US star visits Sudan 28/10/2004 11:00 - (SA) Khartoum - Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie said on Wednesday the situation in Darfur was "unbelievably horrible" and that security remained a major problem, after a tour of Sudan's war-torn region. "It is just the worst thing I have ever seen ... What is happening to the people and women there is just unbelievably horrible," the United Nations goodwill ambassador told reporters in the Sudanese capital. The United Nations says the 20-month-old conflict pitting government forces and Arab militia allies against ethnic minority rebels has created the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crisis, while...