Ocean's Twelve - 2004 - DVD

Sunday, June 24, 2007

In preparation for Ocean's Thirteen and in utter tardiness to stay up to date on Steven Soderbergh's men-gone-glam trilogy, I was indulgently overjoyed to watch Ocean's Twelve recently. A reiteration of the first Ocean's film, George Clooney remains sexy, Brad Pitt continues to swallow gulps of food between cool sentences--eating has never been so cool--and though this list could continue to describe the rest of the characters, including Matt Damon's freshman gangster tendencies, his eager yearning to talk tough like his un-emasculated compatriots, it will stop here, because you already know these guys. And that is what makes Twelve endlessly entertaining: Clever, debonair men looking great and succeeding because of it.

These next few posts will be a short few sentences in order to catch up quickly on my film notebook. Time is also scarce these days since I began a project as a research assistant to a visiting documentary filmmaker. Her name is Judith Helfand, and you can read all about her here. More on this in the coming days…

Brad Pitt Long Hair Style

Men's Long Hair Styles

Brad Pitt will look good no matter what length or hair style he has. But you have to admit that the long look on him does look really good.

This type of men's hair style will require a lot of frequent trims to keep it laying as smooth as shown in thei photo.

Another thing to consider is that extra styling time may be neede to get this look every day. I'm not sure if Brad styles his own hair everyday or he has a stylist that does it. If you plan to do your own styling, you may want to seek the advice of your hair stylist for specific directions on how to achieve this look.

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Brad, George and Matt shine spotlight on Darfur

Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Matt Damon and Don Cheadle have agreed to use the publicity for their upcoming film Ocean's Thirteen to draw attention to the genocide in Darfur. The foursome have partnered with the International Rescue Committee to launch www.notonourwatchproject.org, a website dedicated to raising funds to help the thousands of people uprooted by the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. "All the guys have been to the Sudan this year. They saw this huge genocide and nobody doing anything about it," said the film's producer on Thursday. "Clooney got attention earlier, but it faded. What we are trying to do here is bring our celebrity to raise money and bring a spotlight on Sudan again. We decided to dedicate ourselves to this. The thing I am most proud of by far is that these events will benefit a cause that is very important to me and my colleagues."

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Angelina opens up about Pax

Angelina Jolie recently spoke to Reader's Digest about her new adopted son Pax, being a mom, and partner Brad Pitt.

On hooking up with Brad: "I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It's happened so quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn't stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time."

On planning for Shiloh: "Before I met Brad, I always said I was happy never to have a child biologically. He told me he hadn't given up on that thought. Then, a few months after Z came home, I saw Brad with her and Mad, and I realized how much he loved them, and a biological child would not in any way be a threat. So I said, 'I want to try.'"

On how Pax is adjusting to his new life: "The first two days he cried a lot. I hired a translator, and he would explain what was going on. The first night, I slept alone with him. I was expecting him to wake up and scream, but he woke and just stared at me. I handed him a stuffed animal, and we walked around the room pointing at things. By day three, he didn't want me to put him down. I think he got used to the reality that somebody loves you and that's what a mommy is... I think Pax, after seeing how much Zahara and Mad and Shi love Brad, understands that [Brad's] his daddy. Everybody seems to be safe in his arms. He makes everybody laugh. He helps everybody."

On how she and Brad get time alone: "Right now, that's our problem! We hang out. We try to talk over the swingset. We'll have a date night once everybody is settled. Pax still gets scared if I'm gone for more than a few hours. But we'll get them occupied with a movie and popcorn and try to run off and lock the door for a bit."

On whether they are affected by gossip: "Our first question is what paper is it in. The New York Times? If not, do we really need to worry?"

Jolie recently shot a few ad spots for Shiseido cosmetics (which will never air in North America):

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Brad's western to hit theaters in September

Nearly two years after shooting wrapped on the film The Assassination of Jesse James, the Brad Pitt flick will finally be released on September 21. According to a report in the LA Times, the movie's release was delayed due to a post-production clash between the director and Warner Bros. over the film's length and tone. Pitt's co-stars in the movie include Mary Louise Parker, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Casey Affleck and Jeremy Renner, who says, "it's like any other western... It's a 178 page epic. It's going to be a beautiful, beautiful movie. I haven't seen too much of it. [But] everytime I wanted to quit, I'd go to the monitor and think, 'This is why I'm here five months in freezing weather not doing a whole lot other than riding a horse and shooting a gun.'... It's more like Goodfellas in the sense that we could be sitting at this table, talking over coffee, but wondering who's going to kill who. There's a tension that's in a lot of scenes. [James] is going crazy and doesn't know who to trust anymore."

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Leo, Brad, Rosie among world's most influential

Leonardo Dicaprio, Kate Moss, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Justin Timberlake, Cate Blanchett, Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O'Donnell and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen are among the celebs listed in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Barbara Walters penned a few words about her View co-host for the mag: "And so, last September, we began a thrilling roller-coaster ride," Walters writes of O'Donnell. "We followed Rosie's passion and compassion, her feuds and fearlessness, her humanity and humor." Director Martin Scorsese says of his oft muse Dicaprio, "Dicaprio is another guy a lot of us underestimated as a pretty boy type," and calls him a "true actor." Time also named fourteen "power givers," including Bill and Melina Gates and Angelina Jolie.

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Angelina requests name change for Pax

Angelina Jolie filed a petition in LA Superior Court last week to formally change her newly adopted son's name to Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt. Jolie states in court documents that she is "the sole adoptive parent of the child" and is requesting the name change "in order that her child's last name will incorporate and be combined with the last name of her partner and be the same as that of her other children." A hearing will be held at the end of May in Santa Monica to finalize the details. Jolie made a similar request for her other adopted children, Maddox and Zahara, to officially be named Jolie-Pitt in January 2006.

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Brad signs on for Coen brothers flick

Brad Pitt and George Clooney are teaming up again to co-star in Burn After Reading, a Coen brothers comedy. The film follows a CIA agent who loses the disk that holds the book he is writing. Further details of the screenplay are being kept secret, though it has been announced that Frances McDormand has also been cast. Production is set to begin in late August.

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Brangelina to join other big names at Cannes

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have confirmed that they will present their film A Mighty Heart at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The movie, produced by Pitt's film company, stars Jolie as Mariane Pearl, the widow of reporter Daniel Pearl. "The story unfolds like a mystery," Jolie told EW mag. "You've got people collecting clues and trying to solve what happened. But it's also very real and personal. We didn't want it to be too melodramatic or too polished. We didn't want it to be a typical movie." Other big names scheduled to visit the South of France for the festival include Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz, who will open the fest with My Blueberry Nights; George Clooney, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle in support of Ocean's 13; Michael Moore will present his latest doc, Sicko; and Leonardo Dicaprio is set to promote a special screening of the environmental documentary The Eleventh Hour.

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"Supergirl" story a load of rubbish

Looks like the story that circulated earlier this week about Brad Pitt lamenting all the press attention he and partner Angelina Jolie get to a journalist at the Roosevelt Hotel is just that - a story. In an article in the British Daily Mail on Monday, the author claims he chatted up Pitt while the actor swilled a beer and waited for friends at the trendy Hollywood hotel. Pitt is quoted as calling tabloid stories "rubbish" and describing Jolie as "Supergirl." Pitt's rep, however, says the "interview" never happened, and that his client wouldn't use British slang or refer to Jolie as "Supergirl." TMZ.com tried repeatedly to get in touch with the story's creator, but he didn't respond to requests to explain his side of the tale.
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Brad: Angelina's "like Supergirl"

Brad Pitt defended his woman's honor this weekend, calling her a "Supergirl." Pitt was waiting for friends at LA's Roosevelt Hotel and chatted with a Daily Mail reporter, asking him, "You know what it's like to be on the cover of every magazine, having your personal life dissected with all the lies, all the rubbish? It's hell. Certainly, pick on me - but why pick on Angelina? That's so low. She's such an amazing woman - like Supergirl, in every way." After a few moments, the actor quickly apologized: "I'm sorry if I seem to be taking my frustrations out on you." "So, how are things going with you and Angelina, anyway?" the reporter then asked. Pitt smiled and replied, "Oh sure, like I'm going to talk to you about that."

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Brangelina commission $270 million yacht

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are buying a $270 million - yup, say it again - $270 million Italian luxury yacht. The couple has commissioned a 280-foot-long boat to be fitted with two 300-square-foot apartments, two guest suites, a swimming pool, heliport, speedboats and a small submarine. The yacht will be built by a luxury shipbuilder in Civitavecchia, a port town north of Rome.

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