Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie auction barrel of their estate wine for 10,000 euros
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- Published on Sunday, 03 November 2013 11:37
- Written by Telegraph
A barrel of organic wine produced by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s estate in the south of France has been sold for more than €10,000 (£8,500) at auction, with the money going to support an agricultural project in Africa.Winegrowers in the village of Correns, where Pitt and Jolie have their chateau, 50 miles inland from Saint-Tropez, organised the sale on Wednesday evening as part of an annual auction to raise funds for the Democratic Republic of Congo, and donated to an agricultural cooperative which aims to teach young people about sustainable farming.“We’ve organised this sale in solidarity with the people of the Kivu region,” said Michael Latz, mayor of Correns.“It’s in an area on bordering Rwanda which has been left impoverished by war. Young people and agriculture have been the principal victims of conflict – and yet they are the key to future stability in the region.” The Pitt-Jolie barrel was by far the top seller, and was bought by local wine merchant Vins Breban. A 60-gallon cask, signed by the couple; it holds approximately 300 bottles – each bottle therefore worth around £28. This year’s sale made almost €25,000 for the charity, which operates in an area that Jolie visited in March this year alongside William Hague, the Foreign Secretary.
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Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken': First photos from set
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- Published on Thursday, 07 November 2013 07:22
- Written by Inside Movies
Earlier this month Angelina Jolie began production on her second directorial feature, Unbroken, due in theaters Christmas 2014. The film is adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s bestseller of the same name and tells the true and incredible story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who, while enlisted during World War II, survived a plane crash into the ocean. And that’s just the beginning of the trials Zamperini faced: he spent 47 days adrift on a raft in the Pacific only to then be imprisoned in a brutal Japanese POW camp for over two years.“On set, we started to joke and say, ‘Tomorrow will be easier,’ knowing full well that on this challenging shoot, there are no easy days,” Jolie says via email. “Anytime it gets tough, we think of the real men who lived through this, and no one complains. In fact, we all just feel honored to be here.” In the photo above, Jolie is on set in Australia’s Moreton Bay.
Because production began with Zamperini (played by Jack O’Connell) and fellow airmen and raftmates Russell Allen Phillips and Francis McNamara (Domnhall Gleeson and Finn Wittrock) marooned at sea, the actors arrived on location in Moreton Bay starvation-skinny after an extreme diet protocol. “We’ve begun with the character’s lowest points, though, so I’m looking forward to when [Zamperini’s] in top form,” says O’Connell. “Perhaps the makeup will be less extensive so I might get a lie-in, compared to the current 3:30 a.m. calls.”Kidding aside, the actor feels honored to be playing Zamperini, whom he’s met with twice. “Both times I came away feeling awe-struck,” he says. He has similar feelings for his director, whom he says he likes to think of as the World’s Best Boss. He’s not the only one impressed by Jolie. “She’s extremely bright and subtle-minded and absolutely devoted to getting it right,” says Hillenbrand, who speaks with Jolie regularly. “She wants every detail to be true. It’s easy to fudge things. It’s hard to be devoted to doing things right. She’s taking the hard path.”As for Zamperini himself, now 96, Hillenbrand reports that he’s excited about the film — and its director: “He always says, ‘I volunteer to be in the movie as long as I can play Angelina’s boyfriend.”Below: Jolie and first assistant director Joe Reidy (far left) watch over Domnhall Gleeson, who plays fellow survivor Russell Phillips.
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Nicole Kidman: Tom Cruise and I Were Like Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, But He Wasn't My "Great Love"
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 October 2013 17:34
- Written by US magazine
It's a more-than-apt comparison. Recalling her fabled first marriage to Tom Cruise -- and the intense level of fame and media scrutiny they endured together -- Nicole Kidman reveals in the December issue of Vanity Fair that she to another mega-boldfaced Hollywood couple: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. "There is something about that sort of existence that, if you really focus on each other and you're in that bubble, it's very intoxicating, because it's just the two of you," says Kidman, 46. She and Cruise, 51, split in 2001 after 11 years of marriage and two adopted kids together (Bella, 20, and Connor, 18)."And there is only one other person that’s going through it," the Grace of Monaco star continues. "So it brings you very close, and it's deeply romantic. I'm sure Brad and Angelina have that--because there's nobody else that understands it except that person who's sleeping right next to you."Despite that intensity, however, Kidman admits to Vanity Fair that something was missing. Marrying Cruise when she was just 23 ("I was so young," she says), the Australian beauty says she didn't feel at the time that she'd found her "great love" -- that's her second husband, country singer Keith Urban."With no disrespect to what I had with Tom, I've met my great love now," she says of the singer, 46. "And I really did not know if that was going to happen. I wanted it, but I didn't want it for a while, because I didn’t want to jump from one relationship to another. I had a lot of time alone, which was really, really good, because I was a child, really, when I got married [to Cruise]. And I needed to grow up."Indeed, as the Cruise marriage crumbled (the Top Gun star famously blindsided Kidman when he filed his divorce papers), Kidman reveals she was at such a "low point" that she could relate to suicidal author Virginia Woolf, whom she played to Oscar-winning effect in The Hours. “Walking into the river with those stones in my pockets--I chose life," she says of filming one particular scene. "At the time, I was at a low point, and by playing her, it put me into a place of appreciating life."Calling her life in Nashville, Tenn. with Urban and their two young daughters Sunday and Faith "very, very peaceful," Kidman says she doesn't miss living in Hollywood itself."There’s an enormous amount you have to give up if you want to have a family. You can have a certain career, but you can’t be living in Hollywood, [where] absolutely everything, everything revolves around it," she reveals. "That wasn’t my choice. I’d rather revolve around somebody else’s career and then still find my own."
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'Angelina Jolie Effect' Still Having an Impact on Breast Cancer
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 October 2013 11:32
- Written by Yahoo ! News
In May, actress Angelina Jolie stunned the world when she revealed that she'd undergone a preventive double mastectomy after genetic testing showed she was at a high risk for developing breast and ovarian cancer.Since her disclosure, there has been a marked increase in genetic testing at treatment centers across the country, according to the National Society of Genetic Counselors. The increase is being called "the Angelina Jolie effect," although one doctor sees it a bit differently. "I really think of it as the Angelina gift, it is really kicking up the whole conversation," said Dr. Marisa Weiss, director of breast health outreach at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa., and president and founder of Breastcancer.org.Jolie revealed in a New York Times Op-Ed she made her decision to have a mastectomy after discovering she carries the BRCA1 gene mutation, the single rare gene mutation that produces a high risk of developing cancer.One in 800 to one in 1,400 women are carriers of this mutation and the BRCA 1 and BRCA2 gene mutations account for between five and 10 percent of all breast cancer cases, according to the National Cancer Institute.
As Breast Cancer Awareness Month kicks off today, the doctor who performed Jolie's double mastectomy, Dr. Kristi Funk, of the Pink Lotus Breast Cancer Center in Beverly Hills, is speaking out about what every woman should know about the BRCA gene mutation and breast cancer."Genetic testing is easily done through a blood sample or just a swish-and-spit with Scope," Funk said today on a special "go pink" edition of " Good Morning America.""The question becomes difficult when you try to say who is appropriate for testing so that is where the education really needs to step up," said Funk, who also believes that many more people may carry a BRCA mutation than current estimates suggest. "Of all Americans, one million of us carry a BRCA1 mutation but it will take 19 million high-risk people to find the one million. And those 18 million people then who don't have BRCA1 are high enough risk to test." Funk's Pink Lotus clinic offers a five-question assessment on its website that takes one minute to complete and determines if testing is right for you.The genetic risks for the BRCA1 gene mutation, according to Funk, go all the way back to third generation relatives on both the maternal and paternal sides of a woman's family."What you're looking for is for one of those relatives to either have breast cancer prior to age 50 or ovarian cancer at any age," Funk said on "GMA." "Dad can pass this gene down too." According to Breastcancer.org, a number of steps can lower someone's breast-cancer risk immediately. Those include limiting alcohol intake, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising three to four hours per week and avoiding cooking in plastics.
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Angelina Jolie Shops in Queensland with the Kids!
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- Published on Sunday, 27 October 2013 08:50
- Written by Just Jared
Angelina Jolie holds her five-year-old son Knox‘s hand while going shopping with her twins on Sunday afternoon (October 27) in Queensland, Australia.The 38-year-old actress also brought along Vivienne and Pax to pick up some party balloons. Perhaps she is planning a Halloween party for the family this weekend?Earlier in the week, Angelina was spotted on the set of her film Unbroken, which she is currently directing down under in Australia.Brad Pitt‘s new movie The Counselor, in which he has a supporting role, opened in theaters this weekend and unfortunately isn’t expected to do well at the box office with just $9 million. It also received a dreaded “D” CinemaScore from audiences, according to Deadline.
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