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To mark the third anniversary of their mother Marcheline Bertrand’s death, Angelina Jolie and her brother James Haven posted a tribute video to their mom on YouTube.

As Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s version of “Over the Rainbow” plays in the background, the video shows Jolie (at around age 6) playing with her mom and brother in Hawaii in 1981. Marcheline is seen showing Jolie how to hula dance.

“We miss you Mom – with Love, Angelina and James.” reads a message at the end of the clip.

Bertrand died after a long battle with ovarian cancer on Jan. 27, 2007.
Source: Us Magazine

ETA: The video has since been removed by Angelina and was only up for the day. Our sincerest well wishes go out to Angelina, James, and their families.

As untold numbers of children orphaned by the devastating Haiti earthquake suffer, Angelina Jolie has pledged her continued support for SOS Children’s Villages. The worldwide organization provides long-term care and prevention services for orphaned or abandoned children through villages and other programs and initiatives. The group’s CEO Heather Paul says that Jolie “has seen our work over the years firsthand — from Darfur refugee camps to rural areas of Africa and the Middle East…SOS is there before the tragedy, during the tragedy, and long after the cameras have gone home. So is Angelina Jolie.”

In a statement, the actress, mother and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador says that before the Caribbean nation’s cataclysm, SOS Villages had been raising more than 300 orphaned or abandoned children and cared for 4000-plus poverty-stricken kids and families in Haiti. Read the rest of this entry »

Angelina Jolie’s dialect coach from her upcoming film Salt, says a tabloid magazine story claiming he and the mom-of-six are having an affair is utter nonsense.

Howard Samuelsohn told Radar Online, “I’m 5’6, I’m 51 years old, and I’ve never been to The Waldorf [Astoria Hotel in New York, where the alleged affair occurred].

“I would like for someone to get the word out. [The story] is total bulls***.”

While he was listed as the only dialect coach for the film, Samuelsohn said there five other coaches working on the project but scoffed at any notion that they could have been cosying up to Angelina off-set.

“No way, no way! The thing is this is all crap,” he said. “I’m sure it was not a dialect coach. If it was somebody I’m sure it was not a dialect coach,” he said adamantly. “What we do is very discreet, if you did stuff like that, you wouldn’t get hired.”

As for Angie herself, Samuelsohn had nothing but kind words, calling the actress “sweet” and “great.”
Source: OK! Magazine

While Angelina Jolie hasn’t appeared in an ad for St. John for some time, the luxury knitwear company is speaking out on the absence of her famous face from their campaign.

The label’s chief executive officer Glenn McMahon tells WWD, “[Jolie] overshadowed the brand. We wanted to make a clean break from actresses and steer away from blondes and cleanse the palette.”

So while other luxury brands have hired the likes of Madonna, Emma Watson, Eva Mendes and others to star in their upcoming spring/summer 2010 campaigns, St. John turned to red-headed model Karen Elson, a decision McMahon sees as a step in the right direction for the brand.

“We needed to show a modern point of view of St. John,” he says. “We have evolved.” And according to the label’s website, executive vice president of design for St. John, George Sharp, who also directed the new ads, views Karen as the “epitome of the modern day woman…the St. John woman… strong, confident, sensual and approachable with effortless glamour.”
Source: People

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have made good on their promise to reach out to victims of the massive earthquake that struck the island of Haiti on Tuesday.

The couple donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders for the organization’s emergency medical operations in Haiti, UsMagazine.com has confirmed.

“It is incredibly horrible to see a catastrophe of this size hit a people who have been suffering from extreme poverty, violence and unrest for so many decades,” Jolie — who has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations since 2001 — said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has returned to the director’s chair for Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp’s thriller The Tourist.

The German filmmaker, who helmed Oscar-winning drama The Lives Of Others, had previously been attached to make the movie with Tom Cruise but dropped out during script development, reports Entertainment Weekly.

Bharat Nalluri and Harry Potter helmer Alfonso Cuaron have also been linked to the project in recent months.

The movie centres on an Interpol agent (Jolie) who manipulates an American tourist (Depp) to out a known criminal. It is based on the 2005 French film Anthony Zimmer.
Source: Digital Spy

Screenwriter Kerry Williamson is wielding hers to adapt a feature screenplay featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, star of the best-selling mystery series written by Patricia Cornwell. Fox 2000 picked up the rights to the books in April with Angelina Jolie on board to star.

The Scarpetta movie could be the launch of another potential franchise for Jolie because there are 17 Scarpetta novels. Putnam published Cornwell’s most recent, “The Scarpetta Factor,” in October.

Williamson’s thriller screenplay will draw from the world and characters Cornwell has created but not from any novel’s specific plot.

Williamson has her adapted script “Fork in the Road” in development with “Sideways” director Alexander Payne at Fox Searchlight and “Breaking the Bank,” from an L. Jon Wertheim-penned Sports Illustrated article, set up with “The Wrestler” director Darren Aronofsky.
Source: Reuters