After Goodnness, a Sudden Fall from Grace (A. Jolie Calls Child 'Blob w/No Personality')

NY Times ^ | 1/22/07 | Caryn James

[meg88]

Before she set a toe on the red carpet at the Golden Globes last week, Angelina Jolie’s carefully molded image as humanitarian and mom was already showing some cracks.

The Internet had been flooded with reports, picked up from European interviews, that she had called her biological daughter “a blob” with less personality than her two adopted kids, and had criticized Madonna’s adoption of a baby boy from Malawi.

Women’s Wear Daily reported she was being difficult about designs from St. John, the staid company whose ads she appears in and whose conservatively elegant gown she wore to the Globes.

By the time she reached the end of a haughty, humorless walk down that red carpet on Brad Pitt’s arm, the Good Angelina image had crumbled to dust.

In the next days columnists from The Washington Post to LA Weekly attacked her for a television interview with Ryan Seacrest on E! that made it clear she was above such drivel.

His red carpet questions were drivel, but that was no reason to sneer the words “Cereal, we made cereal” when asked how the family had spent the morning.

Video of the interview was spread and ridiculed on Web sites like TMZ and YouTube; Mr. Seacrest complained about her on his radio show; the current issue of Us Weekly reported on more behavior fit for a queen in an article headlined “An Angelina Backlash?” There was really no need for the question mark.

Despite the charity work and the bun on her head, the burning question all along has been: Who is that woman in the St. John suit, and what has she done with Angelina Jolie?

[elc]

Oh, I didn't miss them. But those things don't happen for awhile.

[meg88]

Pitt looks like he's aged like 20 years

[aruanan]

She has boobs?

[kromike]

Doesn't matter. 90% of men (and some women) will lust mindlessly after her and simply dismiss anything she says that might make them think of something other than her thighs and boobs.

Cool! Less competition for me to go after the really worthwhile babes...

;)

[meg88]

Jolie at the Golden Globes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sro_9uGSJOE

[OldFriend]

He's the houseboy now. Kind of like Kato Kaelin.

[meg88]

It's shocking, Pitt looks like a wax figure at Madame Tussauds now

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[kromike]

Um, she's not known for her acting ability.

What IS she known for? Anything relevant?

;)

[Mo1]

Despite the charity work and the bun on her head, the burning question all along has been: Who is that woman in the St. John suit, and what has she done with Angelina Jolie?

Guess they forget what she was like before they made her the darling of the world

[meg88]

I give it two more years tops.

[Mo1]

I watch a couple different interviews .. she seems like she doen't want to be there

[Mo1]

I give it a year

[Screamname]

Holy shiet, look how much weight she lost! Reminds me of my cousins wife...They had 4 kids of their own one afer the other, then adopted one, and she looked like she was on the verge of death getting closer year after year. It`s from the realization that little kids are not cuddly toys but psycho hyperactive monkeys from hell.

[Stone Mountain]

Uh... for the most part, a baby is a blob with no personality. Why is this a big deal? I've heard parents say far worse things about their kids. Big freakin' deal.

[Xenalyte]

His red carpet questions were drivel, but that was no reason to sneer the words “Cereal, we made cereal” when asked how the family had spent the morning.

Sneering at drivel seems a perfectly reasonable response to me.

[Doctor Raoul]

Doesn't matter. 90% of men (and some women) will lust mindlessly after her and simply dismiss anything she says that might make them think of something other than her thighs and boobs.

You say that like it's a bad thing...

[NonValueAdded]

for the most part, a baby is a blob with no personality.

Not mine. I am so sorry for you if that was your experience.

[Stone Mountain]

Not mine. I am so sorry for you if that was your experience.

Sorry - not trying to insult yours or anyone else's baby. But at least as far as I'm concerned, it takes at least some weeks or months before I can discern a real personality in a baby. In less attractive terms, a blob with no personality. I don't see this as an insult or degrading - and not a literal insult. More like when John Houseman in the The Paper Chase tells the L1s that they come in here "with a skull full of mush." He doesn't really mean that they have skulls full of mush, and I don't really meant that the baby is a blob, but that's the type of language some of use to describe aspects of the personality we are referring to. In other words, it's meant to be more of a humorous description than an insulting reference. At least as far as I'm concerned.

[meg88]

Jolie says she wants to adopt like 10 kids, a modern day Mia Farrow.