Posted on 06/14/2007 4:45:42 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Angelina Jolie's true colors came out yesterday as she promoted a film about freedom of the press and then tried to censor all her interviews.
Jolie is touting freedom of the press these days, playing the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in a new movie called "A Mighty Heart."
But Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to her own freedom of the press. Her lawyer required all journalists to sign a contract before talking to her and Jolie instructed publicists at first to ban FOX News from the red carpet of her premiere.
Ironically, last night's premiere of the excellent Michael Winterbottom-directed film was meant to support an organization called Reporters Without Borders.
Yesterday, reporters from most major media outlets balked when they were presented with an agreement drawn up by Jolie's Hollywood lawyer Robert Offer. The contract closely dictated the terms of all interviews [and] a violation... would ...make it possible for her to sue the interviewer and seek a restraining order.
That's not all: Jolie told Paramount Pictures publicists to ban FOX News Channel and all FOX News affiliates from covering the "Mighty Heart" premiere on the red carpet. It was only with the intervention of mortified Paramount staff that a FNC camera crew was allowed to be present.
It's a little unclear how Mariane Pearl, whom Jolie plays in "A Mighty Heart," feels about her portrayer's position on freedom of press for some, but not all. Yesterday, I spoke to Jeff Julliard, the editorial director of Reporters without Borders in Paris.
"Paparazzi should be allowed to do their job," he said, adding that he condemned Jolie's banning of FOX News
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Jon Voight’s big mistake! slut from hell. (ò¿ó)
So have I, there are some women on Fox News that make her look second string IMHO.
Maybe that is why she dosn't want them around....
Uh, respecting the freedom of the press is required of the government, not Angelina Jolie.
She’s beautiful, but her father was ten times prettier than her at that age.
Did she ban those who practice Islam from her movie set? Or premiere?
Na.
Typical liberal, do as I say not as I do. I make my own rules - and they apply for me not anyone else. Hopefully the press takes retribution and trashes the film.
He just left the room. He knows when he's out-gunned.
Yep, Thanksgiving is always fun at our house!
Keep those hopes up. But this is a film about themselves. And the press loves a story (or movie) that's about them.
p.s. and i'll keep my hopes up about the Cavs for a li-ttle longer.
“It reminds me of the sideshow freaks of yesteryear...
I was just telling a Doctor friend of mine that tattoo removal is going to be big business in the not too distant future......”
Don’t know if you have ever seen it but Saturday Night Live has an excellent skit of what happens as the years pass with tattoos
It starts with a young woman with a lower back tatoo, and morphs to old age. Hilarious reality of what sagging does to “artwork”
Thats great sarcasm,but you forgot the tag.S>
I share your opinion.
Thank you. Can you dig back to, oh, 10-15 years earlier?
Do not spend your money to see her movie.
Bans can work both ways.
IMHO, it's obvious that Mariane Pearl loved her husband; marriages nowadays are lucky to make it to 5 years, let alone 16. I'm sure she was devastated by his loss, particularly since it was such a gruesome and public death.
Tragic circumstances have a way of bringing people together. It's not extraordinary for her to develop an attachment to someone who was involved every step of the way in her husband's plight; or for him to feel deep sympathy to her and her children.
I wish them both much happiness, after so much heartache.
And body-piercing hole plugging!
Yeahhhh! That’s what i’m talkin bout. Thx! ;-)
He looks a little green behind the ears in that picture. But that’s just the good acting. I loved him in Conrack too. And of course, Deliverance.
BTW, Dustin Hoffman was on Inside the Actors Studio the other day. Not bad. Thought he was a little full of himself. He dropped the F bomb a few too many times. I have never seen Jon Voight on that show. Probably because it’s not a show i watch often (only a handful of times).
Maybe I’m weird, but I can not for the life of me figure out why so many people find Angelina attractive. I think her entire face is out of proportion. The other weird thing is that otherwise perfectly straight women I know get all lesbiotic when it comes to her. “Oh my God!!! Angelina is absolutely beautiful!!!!!” Barf.
Except that now it's no longer the side show.
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