Angelina Jolie — mother to a 3-year-old Ethiopian daughter — is upset that there aren’t any black Disney princesses.

“There still isn’t a Disney princess that’s African and it’s very difficult because our daughter’s getting into princesses right now and it upsets me,” she told OK! Magazine.

The Walt Disney Co., however, plans to release the animated musical fairy tale “The Frog Princess,” which features a black princess (and will be set in New Orleans) next year.

In March, Disney said its new animated princess — Maddy — will be added to its collection of animated princesses used at the company’s theme parks and on consumer products. Read more…

A day before Angelina Jolie’s 33rd birthday, the “Babel” actor dropped more than $50,000 on art in Switzerland.

On Tuesday, Brad Pitt was chauffeured in a BMW to Switzerland’s Art Basel fair, where he spent more than two hours snapping up goodies.

Brad Pitt was in Switzerland Tuesday attending Art Basel. Perhaps he was shopping for pregnant partner Angelina Jolie’s birthday, she turns 33 today, as he dropped a pretty penny on a hollow marble table. He also bought an aluminum thread rug for an unspecified amount.

Aside from two bronze chairs designed by Max Lamb (at $25,000 a pop!), a fair attendee, Brad Pitt also scored a foam and fiberglass “Family Lamp” and reportedly a $293,000 table. Read more…

When reports spread on May 30 that Angelina Jolie had given birth to her twins — reports that turned out to be untrue — she wasn’t annoyed. In fact, she and Brad Pitt laughed about the rumor, an insider says, because they were the ones partly responsible for it. “Brad and Angie are doing everything they can to keep the birth of the twins top secret,” says the insider.
Brad, 44, and Angelina, 33, also had privacy in mind when they selected their new villa on the Riviera and into Chateau Miraval, near Aix-en-Provence, France. “The new house is very secure and nearly impossible to see into,” says the insider. “They felt there wasn’t enough privacy at the old place.

The couple aren’t just concerned about the well-being of the twins. They’re also worried about Angelina. In the July issue of Vanity Fair, Angie says she loves being pregnant: “I happen to be with somebody who finds pregnancy very sexy. So that makes me feel very sexy.” But recent days have been tough. “Angelina was feeling really run-down after the Cannes Film Festival in May,” the insider says. “It took a lot out of her. So she’s just relaxing now and not doing anything that takes a lot of energy.”

For more on the birth of Angelina’s twins, check out the latest issue of Life & Style, on newsstands now!

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“Entertainment Tonight” aired a story about the birth of Angelina Jolie’s twins despite being repeatedly told beforehand that the report was based on information from someone impersonating Jolie’s assistant, according to documents and two people with knowledge of the exchange.

The celebrity newsmagazine denied Wednesday that it knew about an impostor before the broadcast. The identity of the impostor remained unknown.

On Friday morning, the show posted a story on its Web site and sent an e-mail alert to media outlets saying it had confirmed the birth of Jolie’s twins. The Associated Press picked up the report.

“Entertainment Tonight” did not name its source at the time. It later revealed that the report was based on e-mails from someone it thought was Jolie assistant Holly Goline. Read more…

On behalf of myself and all the other Angelina Jolie fans, we’d like to wish you a happy 33rd birthday!

A fierce bidding war has broken out between two celebrity gossip magazines for the first exclusive pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s twins.

Two of America’s leading magazines, OK! and People, are reportedly battling it out to get their mitts on snaps of Brangelina’s as yet unborn twins.

Jolie and Pitt are expecting twins to add to their brood of adopted children, Maddox, Pax and Zahara, and biological daughter Shiloh.

According to celebrity gossip website TMZ.com, bidding has soared to US $15 million (NZ $19 million), and counting. Read more…

Dustin Hoffman is offering Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt a lifetime of gifts for their twins if the pregnant actress gives birth on his birthday – August 8. Hoffman let slip that the actress was due on August 19 at the Cannes film festival, and he’s now hoping to share the day he was born with the twins.

“She’s meant to be due on August 19th, and it’s my birthday on August 8th,” Contactmusic quoted him, as saying. “If she could will that birth to be on my birthday, there’s no end the gifts I would give. It’s the least she could do,” he added.

The newest additions will take the Brangelina brood to six. The A-list celebrity couple is already parents to Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2.
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The birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s twins is turning into the type of mystery that might make a good movie one day.

The executive producer for “Entertainment Tonight” said Monday that she wanted to “see how this story plays out” before retracting a report that the twins had been born, despite a denial from Pitt’s manager and a claim that someone might be posing as Jolie’s personal assistant to fool reporters.

The TV show reported Friday that twin girls had been born, identifying its source as a person in the delivery room, and quoted another Web site giving the babies’ alleged names. Read more…

The mighty-hearted actress finds there is no rest for a beautiful, wanted woman, writes Helen Barlow.
Glowing … Jolie at Cannes last week.

Whether together with her partner Brad Pitt looking radiant in a flowing green Max Azria gown on the glamorous Palais steps, or talking up her three movies with her usual aplomb, Angelina Jolie is the most wanted woman in Cannes. However, she gives very few interviews at the festival and as I wait expectantly for the heavily pregnant actress to enter the room at the end of a gruelling day, I wonder if she will have any energy left, let alone be up to discussing the details of her highly scrutinised life.

She doesn’t let me down.

Sauntering into the room in a floor-length black dress with a revealing V-neckline that shows her bulging cleavage which she pushes together with her arms when she talks excitedly, I can’t help but feel that the male population of most planets wouldn’t mind being in the room with me right now. Read more…

It’s an established fact. Some women can’t stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it. That Angelina Jolie is one of the latter can be seen in any of the thousands of pictures of the actress—who was, after all, impregnated by Brad Pitt, which is like being impregnated by a future man or a star child—that began to proliferate in the celebrity weeklies and supermarket tabloids in the spring of 2008, by which time Jolie, who is carrying twins, had bellied out like a sail.

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“I love it,” she told me, smiled, laughed, then said, “It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body”—she raised her hands as she said this, her fingers as long as those of a point guard, and made the squeezing motion commonly used to suggest fruit that is particularly ripe—“are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing. Read more…

Angelina Jolie has said she wouldn’t be afraid to use guns to protect her children.

She’s quoted as saying recently that she’s learnt how to protect herself and her family through her roles in action films: “If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I’ve no problem shooting them.

“I bought original, real guns of the type we used in Tomb Raider for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. And yes, I’d be able to use it if I had to. I could handle myself.

“I think there are certain combat skills that would come out. I tend to want to throw an elbow. I don’t know why. I’ve learned all the punches, head butts and kicks - yet getting someone with my elbow is my first instinct. Read more…

Brangelina must be cocooning.

The paparazzi swarming France’s Cote d’Azur can’t find Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Locals mutter or giggle about the invasion of Hollywood glam. A flyover of their new home in a luxurious villa turned up no clues about a report they’ve added a set of twins — which Pitt’s manager says is “not true.”

This pastoral sliver of the south of France has been abuzz ever since reports emerged last week that the Brangelina clan was moving in — confirmed by the mayor of the village in question, Correns.

A helicopter swing Saturday over the vast yet reclusive Chateau Miraval, where the couple and their four children are said to be settling, turned up only stepped vineyards, empty chairs at a table on a pockmarked stone patio and a helicopter parked on a finely groomed lawn in front of a farmhouse and accompanying buildings. Read more…

ANGELINA JOLIE has ended her long rift with her actor father JON VOIGHT.

The pair has been estranged since 2002, when the Hollywood veteran told a TV interview his daughter had “severe emotional problems”. She subsequently shut him out of her life and has rejected his every attempt to reconcile.

But Jolie reveals she has opened up communication with the 69-year-old, as she prepares to give birth to twins.

She tells Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, “We are going to try to get to know each other and maybe try not to be this daddy and daughter, but to be there for each other as friends in the coming years.”

In a separate interview, Voight confirmed the pair planned to meet over the summer (08). He said, “I’m sure we will, yeah.”
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