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Angelina Jolie's flying visit to Sydney

Details: Published on Thursday, 01 August 2013 18:45; Written by SMH

Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie has made a surprise 24 hour visit to Sydney, leaving on a private jet Thursday morning.Photographs of Angelina in trademark black boots, black leggings and black aviator style sunglasses with her hair pulled back and carrying a giant beige Birkin bag boarding a private jet early Thursday morning at Sydney airport are set to appear in a woman's magazine next week.The reason for the mystery visit is unclear and follows on from a whirlwind visit made by Brad Pitt last month to promote his film World War Z at The Star.It is believed Jolie flew into Sydney on Wednesday with her adopted son Pax on a commercial flight from Tokyo.Pax was reported to have been recognised carrying his now infamous giant purple teddy bear, regularly seen in his arms as they are photographed traipsing through airports around the world.Jolie and Pitt, who have six children including Pax, 9, Maddox, 11, Sahara, 7, Shiloh, 6, and four year old twins Vivienne and Knox were reported to be looking for a property in Sydney earlier this year with rumours Pitt would star in the David Fincher film, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, although Pitt denied these rumours in June.The Australian government announced in April it will give the film studio a one-off incentive of A$21.6 million to shoot the film remake of the classic novel with then Prime Minister Julia Gillard saying the deal was expected to create up to 2,000 jobs in the country.The shoot was planned for 2014 however reports have since surfaced the Australian based shoot may be scrapped.The couple were reported to be checking out rental properties in Palm Beach at the time.Rumours also circulated they were considering a base on Stradbroke Island.Jolie has also been scouting locations for her upcoming project, Unbroken, in Hawaii this month.The film which will be based on the WW2 novel by Laura Lillenbrand is the heroic tale of Olympican-turned prisoner of war Louis Zamperini and will be Angelina's second directorial effort since she filmed In the Land of Blood and Honey in 2011.Jolie, who had a double mastectomy earlier this year to reduce the risk of breast cancer, was announced this week as the highest paid actress on Forbes magazines 2013 list of Hollywood's highest earning actresses despite failing to star in a film since 2010's The Tourist.Jolie is estimated to have pocketed $US33 million in the last financial year.

source : SMH

Angelina Jolie's stunt double sues News Corp. for alleged hacking

Details: Published on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:36; Written by Cnet News

Eunice Huthart, Jolie's body double in "Tomb Raider 2," claims that News Corp. hacked her phone and wrote stories based on information gleaned from her voice mails. This is the first U.S. claim in the hacking saga.There has long been a tendency for some media to publish all the news that's fit to be found out through any means possible.One of those means is the hacking of voice mails. Indeed, News Corp. has settled hundreds of claims from famous people and those temporarily in the news for reasons that might be as sad as they might be trifling.Now a woman who stood in for Angelina Jolie in dangerous times (but not in sex scenes with Brad Pitt in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith") says that her voice mails were allegedly hacked too.Eunice Huthart, who performed as La Jolie's body double in movies such as "Tomb Raider 2" and "Salt," is suing News Corp., as she believes that information from her voice mails was gleaned and polished into sensational news stories.As The Wrap reports, these included the mere notion that Jolie would stop making movies, as well as the even more controversial idea that she wanted to master off-road biking with Brad Pitt.Reuters reports that this is the first hacking action (and one imagines that Huthart can perform a very powerful hacking action) against News Corp. in the U.S.One common method for intercepting voice mails was simply to guess the passcode (some people simply left theirs with very standard combinations) and then change it for their own nefarious benefit.Huthart claims that her family and friends began to frequently complain that their messages weren't being returned.Moreover, says the lawsuit: "During one period when the plaintiff was in Los Angeles working on the film Mr & Mrs Smith, her daughter called several times to report that she was being bullied in school in Liverpool, England. Although plaintiff's daughter left messages asking her mother to call her back, plaintiff did not receive those messages and could not console her daughter."There was even allegedly an occasion, says the Guardian, when Jolie had left a voice mail saying that she had checked into a hotel as "Pocahontas." Huthart had no idea whom to ask for.
Huthart says she discovered this all might have been because her passcode had mysteriously -- and allegedly -- changed. The legal papers claim that "illegal activities were undertaken ... principally through the two newspapers, the Sun and the News of the World." It is extremely difficult to imagine that these fine papers -- only one of which is now defunct -- would stoop to such behavior.Still, Huthart is not to be trifled with. She is a former winner of "Gladiators," which would suggest she might be at least as fearsome an opponent as Wendi Deng.Those of an extremely twisted nature might wonder whether greater ingenuity might have been used to gain information to excite the British masses.Would anyone have thought of hacking into, say, George Clooney's aftershave supplier? How about Simon Cowell's T-shirt manufacturer?Surely, surely someone might have considered listening to the voice mails of Vladimir Putin's personal trainer, Kim Kardashian's acting coach, or Zach Galifianakis' barber?As Edward Snowden recently intimated, the possibilities are endless.Especially when our need for the minutest details of famous lives is completely insatiable

source : Cnet News

Happy birthday Angelina

Details: Published on Tuesday, 04 June 2013 03:20; Written by Super User

All fans of Absolument JOLIE and team wish a wonderful birthday to Angelina Jolie, who is celebrating her 38 years. After the hardships she faced recently, we wish him a speedy recovery, and we send him our love. Thank you to be so beautifully different ... Do not hesitate to register to send your own personal message ...

The Angelina Effect: TIME’s New Cover Image Revealed

Details: Published on Thursday, 16 May 2013 18:58; Written by Healthland

Angelina Jolie has never lacked for influence. When she adopted a baby from Ethiopia, inquiries at U.S. adoption agencies about other Ethiopian orphans doubled. When she named other children Vivienne or Maddox, those names shot up the popularity charts for American newborns. So this week, when a woman known for her powerfully iconic beauty announced that she had undergone an elective double mastectomy to reduce her genetically high risk of breast cancer, it was a cultural and medical earthquake — a revelation so arresting it became the subject of TIME’s newest cover story, which will be publish on TIME.com Thursday morning, before hitting newsstands on Friday (visit time.com/angelina; free for subscribers or purchase a digital pass).Jolie, by nearly universal agreement, made the right choice for her. She tested positive for the breast-cancer-related BRCA1 gene, putting the probability that she would develop the disease at a terrifying 87%; after her surgery, her doctors put that number at just 5%. But a lot of experts worry that we may overread the lessons. Genetic screening is a young science, and while we may have detected genes linked to a host of ills — Alzheimer’s disease, prostate cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, heart disease — we often do a terrible job of calculating our resulting risks. Just over one-tenth of 1% of all women carry the same BRCA mutation Jolie has, and yet doctors expect a stampede of women requesting the test. In the U.S., 36% of women who test positive opt for preventive mastectomy, but some doctors argue that regular MRIs and other screening tests may be sufficient to detect the disease, and that less radical procedures, like lumpectomies, may be sufficient to treat it if it does occur.Similar misunderstanding of risks is common in the case of prostate cancer too. The familiar PSA screening test detects blood antigens related to the disease, but levels of the marker can rise as a result of inflammation, infection and even riding a bicycle. Still, many men who test positive begin a cascade of subsequent tests and treatments that can often lead to a radical prostatectomy, sometimes with no real sign that they have the disease, or at least not a slow-growing case they could live with.Human beings are very good at worrying — it’s what keeps us alive and out of harm’s way. But we’re also good at overworrying, making irreversible decisions to reduce or avoid risks that don’t really exist at all. Jolie’s brave example can make us all smarter and help keep us all healthier — but only if we take the right lessons from it.

source : Healthland

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt: 'World War Z' Birthday Premiere!

Details: Published on Tuesday, 04 June 2013 17:07; Written by Just Jared

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are a stunning couple on the red carpet of the World War Z premiere held at Sony Centre on Tuesday (June 4) in Berlin, Germany.The 49-year-old actor promoted his flick on Angelina‘s 38th birthday!!!!! Happy birthday, Angelina!!!“I have been very happy just to see the discussion about women’s health expanded, and that means the world to me and after losing my mom to these issues, I am very grateful for it, and I have been very moved by the kind support from people, really very grateful for it,” Angelina told CBS during the world premiere of World War Z.

source : Just Jared

New Angelina Jolie eBook becomes Amazon bestseller

Details: Published on Wednesday, 29 May 2013 08:08; Written by Digital Journal

A new unauthorized biography of Angelina Jolie reached number one in its category on Amazon Tuesday, once again fueling debate about the dominant role of eBooks in today's increasingly high-tech publishing ecosystem."The project has been in the works for over a year," says author Bradley Santoro, whose latest unauthorized biography chronicles Jolie's controversial life, career, and decisions.Due to the immediacy of electronic publishing, the new work was able to include Jolie's recent choice to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.Angelina Jolie: From Crazy to Courageous, which was published last week, has reached No. 1 in the category of Angelina Jolie books on Amazon - a subcategory of the Rich and Famous category, of which the ebook is also in the top 100."Jolie inspired millions, but also managed to bring out the worst in her critics," explains Santoro, who comprehensively researched Jolie's past, interviewing sources close to the Academy Award winning actress and her equally accomplished actor fiance, Brad Pitt."There are so many misunderstandings about Angelina's personality, personal transformation, her faith, her politics, her relationship with friends and family, and where she ultimately wants to be in life," Santoro says. "This work sheds light on all of that and more in a fresh way that isn't complicated by unfounded rumors and gossip."Subject matter aside, the overnight success of this new eBook underscores expectations from leading publishers and industry analysts who believe that eBook sales will accelerate even further in 2013.Angelina Jolie: From Crazy to Courageous is available now for $4.95 exclusively on Amazon. Amazon Prime subscribers can download the eBook at no charge.

source : Digital Journal

Angelina Jolie Reportedly Having Ovaries Removed

Details: Published on Thursday, 16 May 2013 04:39; Written by Celebrity Gossip

After recently going under the knife for a double mastectomy, Angelina Jolie is now reportedly scheduled to have her ovaries removed.According to People, the Oscar-winning actress still carries a 50-percent chance of developing ovarian cancer even after the recent surgery.Angelina’s mother, Marcia Lynne "Marcheline" Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer in 2007, which is why Miss Jolie is taking extra precautions for her health and safety.During her recent editorial for the New York Times, the 37-year-old actress explained that she “started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.” Reports continue that although the “Salt” star is still in her child-baring years, doctors suggest that she have her ovaries removed by the age of 40. Stay tuned to GossipCenter for the latest news on Angelina's health.

source : Celebrity Gossip