Jolie ready to dump acting for flying

Times Of India ^ | 3-20-04

[Indy Pendance]

WASHINGTON: Hollywood femme fatale Angelina Jolie wants to become a pilot so that she can ferry aid workers and food supplies around the world and impress her young son Maddox with her jet setting adventures.

The Tomb Raider actress is studying hard for her license and has given herself a five-year deadline to master flying so that she can take to the skies on a whim, reports Imdb.

Jolie insists she'll withdraw from acting once she masters the cockpit, and spend more time working for the United Nations, for which she's an ambassador for refugees.

"My dream is to retire in a few years and take six months and deliver food and help people get from one place to another and just loan out services as a pilot and be with my kids. I could just go.

"Part of this motivation, I'm convinced, is that every time Mad sees a plane he goes, 'Ahhhhh! Mama!' And the idea that I could actually fly a plane by the time he's four? I'll be like Superman to him.

"We could get to Ireland in a half hour. 'What do you want to do Mad? You want to go get Ice Cream in Spain?'", the actress, who has a home in England, was quoted as saying by the report.

[Bullish]

Whoops! slippery fingers, I didn't mean to misspell America.

[kylaka]

I don't think she's hankerin for a Cessna PD. I see a naked aluminum shower in your future, or, at least, hers.

[cartoonistx]

Jolie to dump acting...

Couldn't happen to a nicer profession!

[Publius6961]

60 hours? I hope you were not paying for all that. Did you get a flat rate instruction series?

Of course I was paying for all that. In was an education in more than just pushing buttons and something to brag about. When I finally solo'ed I didn't feel the slightest hesitation or doubt that if nothing else, I could get back down no matter what happened (short of catastrophic structural failure). But that's what ground checks are for. That took a little longer than usual too, to be thorough. Price was definitely not the motivating factor.

[VadeRetro]

Hollywood femme fatale Angelina Jolie wants to become a pilot so that she can ferry aid workers and food supplies around the world and impress her young son Maddox with her jet setting adventures.

I want to be a World War I fighter ace and strut around in a leather goggle-helmet and scarf the way Snoopy does.

[Publius6961]

One of the reasons I laugh my A## off when some twit pundit or reporter questions Bush's intelligence. Ain't no one of inferior intelligence who walked away from flying Fighters....

Specially F-102s and F-104s. Remember how many "Master Race" pilots offed themselves flying those things? It was spectacular, and I have no doubt talking about it is not one of their favorite passtimes.

[geedee]

Living proof that Darwin's Theory is bunk . . . a tree-hugger with a single-digit IQ and the social skills of a do-do bug rises to the top of her profession.

[vikingchick]

LOL! That was funny.

Yes, she's crazy but how can she not be? Jon Voight is her father and she was raised in Hollywood. I doubt if she's ever met a normal person her entire life.

[cupcakes]

Contrast that with a Donald Trump type. You can hate the bastard, but he does not have one iota of guilt about being filthy stinking rich and living the life that affords him. He doesn't pretend to be a saint looking to heal the plight of the downtrodden. I'll take an honest millionaire rolling in his dough anyday over these fruitcakes that feel guilty for earning a good living and then project their guilt onto the people who helped them earn that living to begin with(the public).

[VadeRetro]

Some people straighten out eventually, but AJ seems too self-absorbed to ever make it.

[w-pat]

Best thinking award to you.

[Jeff Gordon]

Angelina Jolie, meet John Denver.

[Hildy]

Why is that all about her? She's saying she wants to help and she's been sincere in her commitment. I think it's great.

[Pukin Dog]

Hey, I'm not attacking you, relax.

I just wanted to know if you were including your ground school hours in that 60, or if you spent that much time in cockpit prior to your solo. That would be very rare to have that much time in seat without soloing.

[Indy Pendance]

From the article:

impress her young son Maddox with her jet setting adventures

to master flying so that she can take to the skies on a whim

every time Mad sees a plane he goes, 'Ahhhhh! Mama!'

I'll be like Superman to him

We could get to Ireland in a half hour

What do you want to do Mad? You want to go get Ice Cream in Spain?'

I read it as such.

[Hildy]

So what? Why do people fly planes anyway? To give them the ability to go places on a whim. I see nothing wrong with it.

[cynicom]

Look at me me me me......I know a lot of dead pilots that thot they could do it just because they had money. Thurman Munson for one.

[Indy Pendance]

The premise of this article is how she wants to help others, but 90% of it talks about what she will do other than help. Just my take.

[aft_lizard]

Hey whether you agree with her politics or not, at least she unlike many of her colleagues is willing to actually put up and live out her convictions.

[Hildy]

It's called selective editing.