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Angelina doesn't hold her tongue on Madonna adoption
By Stone Martindale Jan 8, 2007, 3:03 GMT
12/11/2006 - Angelina Jolie - The Good Shepard World Premiere - Arrivals - Ziegfeld Theatre - New York, NY © Janet Mayer / Photorazzi
Angelina Jolie was recently interviewed in a French magazine, Gala, and revealed her strong opinion on Madonna's adoption of young baby David from his Malawian father.
Angelina was said to have been horrified by the attacks she's (Madonna) been subjected to. "All that should count is the happiness of her little David."
The Daily Mail picked up the ball from the French, and reported that Jolie said the singer (Madonna) "should never have visited an impoverished African country with the sole intention of choosing an infant."
"Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where he was born," said Jolie in the Gala interview. "It's a country where there is no real legal framework for adoption."
"Personally, I prefer to stay on the right side of the law. I would never take a child away from a place where adoption is illegal."
The Daily Mail alleges Jolie "was shocked by Madonna's decision" to take the infant from his father in Malawi.
Human rights groups are still pressing the legality of Madge's adoption.
The Daily Mail reported that Jolie "said she still felt sorry for Madonna, 48, who has been harshly criticised since taking David back to London to live with her husband Guy Ritchie and her own children, Lourdes and Rocco."
Gala asked the inevitable about Brad Pitt, how Jolie fell in love with him, and that little problem of him having a wife in the wings.
Jolie told Gala about her falling for Brad, whom she met on the set of "Mr.and Mrs. Smith" while he was still with wife Jennifer Aniston. The Mail quoted Jolie in the Gala interview: "Don't go repeating it whatever you do but, yes I love him. I love him a lot. After I met him my life seemed more harmonious.
"Brad and I want to continue to adopt, but keeping a big family uses up a lot of money....We need to be attached to Mad, Zahara and Shiloh as much as possible."
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Again, why jolie always feel the need to speak about her and brad?
D. Chester, whew, you said a mouthful. However, when you marry, or make a commitment, it has to mean more than 'until the next hot piece of a** comes along to swivel my head..' We are all the sums of our decisions in life, we live with those consequences daily. To discard people over temporary moments of lust, is a mistake. If Jolie and Pitt are in love, que sera. There is a place though for decency, loyalty and fidelity- and I cannot imagine a more difficult task than being an actor married to another actor.
Umm Angie hasn't spoken about her relationship with Brad for two years until NOW.
Unlike Jennifer who has been talking talking & talking to just about everybody - Oprah Winfrey & Vanity Fair. And she's still talking! I like Jennifer but the article 'How Yoga helped Jennifer Aniston get over Brad'- give me a break already! Jen's had two years of her Pity Party Therapy. Let Angie have some release time too.
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D. ChesterJan 8th, 2007 - 07:51:22
Why are people so pathetically stupid? Why did Gala ask: 'how Jolie fell in love with him, and that little problem of him having a wife in the wings.' Anybody could fall in love with anybody. The fact that he had a wife (and she sure as hell was not in the 'wings') has nothing to do with it. People have such limited ability to understand the depth of human emotion and sexuality. People think that because they 'get married' that they are forever bound to that person to the day that they die. This is antiquated thinking based on some fantasy romance of life that the movies would like us to believe. I'm not saying that we don't choose life partners and don't love them. I'm just saying that it doesn't stop us from falling in love with others. The onus here is not on Angelina. If Brad was really 'in love' with what's her name (sorry, I don't get why she's famous), then he would have stayed with her. But he wasn't. He wanted something more. Maybe he found it with Angelina, maybe she with him. But we have got to stop setting people up to be examples because we get feelings for others. Sometimes we act them -- sometimes foolishly, sometimes dangerously, sometimes courageously. There is room in our lives for more than a rigid idea of people living in prisons designed by society's mores.
The other comment about this article is: Angelina really has no place commenting about Madonna's decision to adopt her child. I personally think she is off her rocker to have done that. If she wanted to benefit the life of children in Malawi, she could have done it in a much different way. On the other hand, it is not for us to criticise what she did. She may be giving that child the most incredible life in the world, and that child may grow up to be a diplomat or politician or powerful person who can change the course of Africa. So, her plan may be long range. I just think she should have thought about what she was doing a bit longer and the repercussions of bringing this poor child into the glare of her magic media life.
In the meantime, who cares why Angelina and Brad fell in love. It happened to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. We are human beings. We see someone we like, something happens inside. It's that simple.
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