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Gotta have good TV reception so you don't miss important shows like this:

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Jon Voight has taken his family feud with actress daughter Angelina Jolie to television.

Voight, who won a best-actor Oscar for the 1978 Vietnam War drama "Coming Home," requested an interview with the syndicated television show "Access Hollywood" to say he is "broken hearted" that Jolie won't talk to him. When he tried to approach her at a recent party, he said, a security guard turned him away.

"I've been trying to reach my daughter and get her help, and I have failed and I'm sorry," he said.

Voight, 63, indicated he believes he is to blame for a lot of the trouble between himself and his daughter, acknowledging that when she was a baby he had an affair and subsequently left his wife and family.

Jolie, who won a supporting actress Oscar in 2000 for "Girl, Interrupted," recently filed for divorce from her husband, actor Billy Bob Thornton, and is caring for an infant son she adopted in March. She declined to respond to Voight's remarks.

"I don't want to make public the reasons for my bad relationship with my father," Jolie, 27, said in a statement. "After all these years, I have determined that it is not healthy for me to be around my father, especially now that I am responsible for my own child."

Voight said he wasn't surprised that his daughter's marriage failed.

"I never had the feeling that they were going to make it because of both of their serious problems, and they've both been very public about them, so I never really held out any hope," he said.

Voight said he and his daughter did manage to put aside their own differences when they worked together on last year's film "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider."

"We had a wonderful time, it was great ... and we could say things that we weren't ever able to say to each other," he added.

Voight, 63, indicated he believes he is to blame for a lot of the trouble between himself and his daughter, acknowledging that when she was a baby he had an affair and subsequently left his wife and family.

She missed a bet with daddy. He is the only guy in Hollywood who makes Billy Bob Thornton look like Cary Grant. Voigt looks like a character actor getting ready to play a wino.

If Angelina ditches Billy Bob, is she going back to her brother. They were 'very close' a few years ago.

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