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Not like any of us are sitting on the edge of our seats, waiting for Angelina Jolie to give birth… Right?
Over at People.com, they’re reporting on Angelina Jolie’s hospital suite. The photo they have may or may not be the actual room, it’s possible it’s the same sort of room on a different floor, but it gives an idea of where she is right now. Aside from her own bed, there’s a spare bed that appears single-sized, presumably for Brad Pitt or any other overnight visitors. It doesn’t look much different from your average hospital maternity room, with one exception - it looks like there’s one heck of a view of the Mediterranean sea!
They’ve booked four rooms which are for the family and probably any security team members who need beds. However, in typical, thoughtful Jolie-Pitt style, Brad and Angelina picked a hospital that specializes in caring for children and teens where the parents don’t have money to afford medical care elsewhere. In other words, the money they’re paying, $200 per room per night is going to help the hospital to help those in need.
Meanwhile, at JustJared, there’s a post up with a woman who is reportedly Angelina Jolie waving at the cameras from her hospital room. While you could figure it’s her, showing off her still-pregnant belly as reassurance, for one thing it just doesn’t seem like something she would do, and aside from that, the woman looks nothing like Angie. Some have speculated that it’s a hired “body double” to distract from Angelina and give her some peace. Body double?! This isn’t a movie. In my opinion, I think it’s a pregnant woman on another floor who knows Angie is there, and she’s having fun with the cameras, acting as though she’s someone famous. Which is actually kind of funny.
But I’m 99% sure that’s not actually Angelina. What do you think?
Angelina Jolie’s doctor held the press conference today in France to let everyone know what is going on right now. He assured the press in both English and French that everything is “normal. She is very well, and she’s okay.”
He went on to explain that she is only in the hospital at this time for observation and that both Brad and Angelina wanted people to know things are continuing to go well.
Angelina’s doctor also mentioned that at this point, she will be remaining in the hospital until she has her babies, and that he will remain there with her.
Of course, he was asked about Angelina’s due date, the day that the media all want inked on their calendars, but he was evasive, saying only that it’s “something you can’t program, you never know for sure.”
I would assume that it will be soon, but we can’t tell. In the meantime, I’m glad the family has been visiting her. I was in the hospital for three days and two nights a couple of weeks before my first baby was born and it is BORING so seeing her kids will help make time pass more quickly for Angelina, and it will make the kids feel better as well.
I have a feeling I’m going to be hitting refresh on all my main news sources every ten minutes for the next little while until those babies are born! Still, as eager as I am, I know the longer those babies stay inside, the better it is for everyone, so I’ll be patient!
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Brad Pitt took Zahara and Shiloh to the hospital in Nice to visit Angelina Jolie. There’s still no word as to whether they were just checking in on Mom (which would be really reassuring for the girls) or whether they were visiting the new Jolie-Pitt twins. As far as I know at this time the press conference is still pending, so until word comes from that, we won’t know for sure if she has had the babies or not. While the press is free to roam around the outside of the hospital, I’m sure there is excellent security inside as well, not just for the sake of privacy but for safety considering the fact that it is indeed a hospital.
I can’t wait to find out what happens at the press conference!
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The latest buzz I’ve been catching everywhere ever since Angelina Jolie checked into the hospital is that her OB/GYN had arrived in Nice as well, and is slated to give a brief press conference later today. It’s not clear whether this means that she has had (or will have had by then) her babies. It could be that he will announce their birth, but it might also just be a way to confirm that there is nothing urgent about her arrival and that she’s in good health, in the hopes of getting the press and fans to stop lingering around the hospital.
Apparently Angelina arrived at the hospital by helicopter. I’m still amazed that a helicopter could have left the chateau without calling any attention considering how the media was loitering around their front gates. Maybe she really did sneak out in one of those food delivery vans, and caught a helicopter from another location!
Brad Pitt was seen leaving the hospital with one of the kids, so it seems they’re still just visiting Mom and not yet welcoming the new baby siblings.
At the time of this posting, it’s already late afternoon in France, so hopefully we’ll know something concrete soon. Although it would be fun for the Jolie-Pitt twins to be born on the 7th so they could share a birthday with me (ha!), I have a feeling it’s not going to be much longer.
I’ll keep you updated as to what’s going on!
Image used with permission: Splash News Online
According to the French press, Angelina Jolie is currently in the hospital in Nice. She’s at the Lenval Hospital in the maternity ward and is not in any danger - she’s there for observation, but will almost undoubtedly remain in the ward until she gives birth to the Jolie-Pitt twins.
Although the buzz had been that Angelina wasn’t due until sometime in August, it was never completely certain whether that was a ruse to throw the press and paparazzi off. Also, twins do often come earlier than expected.
No one is entirely sure when Angie was admitted to the hospital, maybe my jokes about secret underground tunnels leading out of the chateau were true!
Stay tuned for updates - but the twins are on their way sooner rather than later. Good luck Angelina! Everyone at PittWatch is wishing you a safe and wonderful birth!
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I’ve been eagerly reading everyone’s reviews of Wanted and I’m glad so many of you enjoyed it. Some of you mentioned that you had trouble enjoying it due to the violence. I understand, and it’s a personal matter. I actually really enjoy violent action movies (and scary horror movies), not constantly, but I do like them very much. I also always loved playing the more violent video games. But I appreciate that some people prefer to just have the movie imply violence rather than showing it, and I’m sorry you weren’t able to enjoy Wanted because of that.
(And as an aside, as a mother myself, I am always appalled to hear about young children being brought into theaters to see violent movies. My husband and I watch a lot of high-impact action films and a lot of scary movies, but never ever when the kids are up. What is wrong with people?!)
As for whether it’s hard to reconcile Angelina Jolie’s humanitarian side with her gun-slinging action character side, we have to try to remember that it’s only a role. Don’t forget all the other roles she’s played. Yes, she’s shot up countless people as Fox in Wanted, as Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider films, and of course she tried to kill her own husband as Jane in Mr. & Mrs. Smith. On the other hand, she’s also played a woman fighting for human rights in Beyond Borders (a role that strikes close to home), Mariane Pearl who refused to be terrorized in A Mighty Heart, and a mother desperately seeking her real son in Changeling. She’s an actress, and just because she plays an assassin once in awhile, it doesn’t discount all the good she does in her humanitarian efforts.
Image details: Angelina Jolie Participates in UN World Refugee Day served by picapp.com
So, just for those of you who are a little frazzled after Wanted, I’d like to direct you to a video feature from some of Angelina Jolie’s travels with the UNHCR when she went to the Congo. Watch it right here.
Image details: Angelina Jolie Participates in UN World Refugee Day served by picapp.com
Enjoy Angelina Jolie the actress, and avoid her R-rated movies if they’re not your cup of tea, but always remember the Angelina Jolie who is fighting for refugee rights, not just the bad guys on the big screen.
Image details: 24th Arab Children Congress served by picapp.com
(Thanks to Gena for the link.)
Wanted may not have come in first, with the much-anticipated Wall-E taking first place with a weekend gross of $62.5 million, but Angelina Jolie’s shoot-em-up assassin action movie came in at a fantastic second place, raking in a weekend gross of over $51.1 million. I wish I could remember where I read it, but I recall reading on Saturday morning that the revenue thus far was more than they had anticipated.
It just goes to show that sometimes people just want to see a hot chick with guns kicking some serious ass.
Not only that, but Kung Fu Panda is actually in fourth place on the box office listings, even after four weeks in theaters. It’s currently at a total gross of just under $180 million - for an animated movie, that’s awesome, and it’s even beating out The Incredible Hulk.
Way to go, Angelina, for having two films in the top five! It’s a good summer!
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Well, today’s the day! In many countries, Wanted opens in theaters today. It’s been getting some pretty good reviews. MSN Movies gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars, while Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 74% (which is actually pretty good for RT!) and calls it a “fast-paced, crackling thrill ride tailor-made for the Summer audience”.
I agree with that. It’s the perfect Summer blockbuster extravaganza to me. I like movies with a deep and meaningful story, movies like The Kite Runner; I like artsy foreign films like Amelie. But sometimes I just like to sit back and enjoy a high energy action flick with impossible story lines and stunts that would leave real people dead. I like to just let go of reality and watch a movie that is laced with adrenaline, and every trailer or clip I have seen promises that Wanted is exactly that.
I can’t wait to see it. Our weekend is too packed to see it now, but I’m hoping to see it next weekend. My birthday is coming up in less than two weeks so I’ve already decided that would be one fun thing to do to celebrate.
Who’s going to see it this weekend? If you do see it, please leave your review here in the comments, but please be sensitive about any spoilers for the people who are still going to be waiting awhile before watching it.
(Ha, I just heard the preview for the movie on my local radio station as I was uploading the photos. Angelina Jolie has such a distinctive and seductive voice.)
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You can proudly wear the very same black leather jacket that Angelina Jolie wore in Wanted. It’s currently being auctioned off on eBay, with the proceeds going to charity. The funds will be donated to PLAN!T Now, which used to be known as the Grenada Relief Fund.
As of the time of my posting, the bids are already up to over $7000 US. That’s pretty good; I wonder how high it will go. If you have a lot of cash weighing your bank account down, you can go bid on Angelina Jolie’s jacket too.
Alas, I don’t have that kind of money, I’ll have to stick to my small donations to the UNHCR instead!
(Thanks to Rita for the link)
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I waffled back and forth about whether to post this because it’s so incredibly intrusive, but I figured I’ll write about it and let you decide whether to go see the pictures or not.
Angelina Jolie is most definitely still pregnant and there is photographic proof. After the whole ET debacle, many people were saying that Angie should “prove” that she hadn’t given birth yet by going out in public and letting herself be seen. As though she owes us photos to demonstrate that she’s still pregnant. I couldn’t believe the sense of entitlement so many people in the media had, as though she’s a piece of property to parade around.
Anyway, Angelina had said she planned to lay low after Cannes and she has kept her word to herself, enjoying private time with her family in the chateau in France. And while we all miss seeing her and the kids out and about, it’s a good thing for her to just be relaxing with her family in these last weeks before the twins arrive.
However, I guess some people are just desperate since In Touch magazine has now published photos of Angelina Jolie and her very pregnant belly with Zahara and Shiloh as they played outside on the weekend.
The whole purpose of renting this particular home was because of the incredible privacy and the only photos we were ever able to see were aerial shots. Clearly some paparazzi agency rented a freakin’ helicopter to take photos of Angelina Jolie on her own private property.
I’m really frustrated by this. Yes, it’s nice to see photos of any of the Jolie-Pitt family but I don’t like or condone being disrespectful at this level. It’s one thing to take their pictures out on the street. If Angie had strolled down to the front gates to wave at all the cameras, that would be fine. But she was inside the property and photographed from above. There’s something very disturbing about that.
I know celebrities are in the limelight but surely there’s a line where things go too far. Can you imagine not even being able to be in your own yard without worrying about cameras?
Anyway. Nothing can be done about it at this point. So Angelina is still very pregnant. I just would have preferred to believe that on my own without intrusive photos to prove a point.
What do you think? Let’s discuss this invasion of privacy!
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