Planting Roots in the Big Easy
Jan 17th, 2007 by brangelina
So, the Jolie-Pitts have been playing house in New Orleans while Brad films “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
Now, a Zap2it article referencing an US Weekly piece has them staying there more permanently:
“We love it there,” says Jolie. ” The kids are going to go to school there. We’re really looking forward to it.”
The couple recently purchased their fourth house there, a $3.5 million, six-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath mansion in the French Quarter.
With their involvement with Global Green USA to help rebuild the parts of the city where Hurricane Katrina hit the worst, this makes perfect sense.
20 Responses to “Planting Roots in the Big Easy”
i personally don’t like angelina for brad… she trapped him by having a baby, brad and jennifer aniston’s divorce wasn’t even final and angelina planned everything… what a “B”... she’s been with different men, and why brad?to have a baby? for him not to leave her? he doesn’t love her at first, he just fell for as time passed by, Brad and Jennifer Aniston are just perfect together… even if angelina and brad has Shiloh, Brad and Jen can still be together…
Angelina is just considered as trash… too much tatoo,addict,suicidal,rebel,not talking to her dad,just UGLY home wrecker, “what goes around, comes around angelina”........be real
Are you kidding me? Seriously. Brad has a lot more going on for him than he ever did with Jennifer. Jennifer is selfish. She only cares about HER feelings, and that rings true everytime she starts vocalizing her thoughts on how BAD her childhood was, and how evil her mother is. It’s better to give than to receive and that is exactly what Angelina and Brad do. He has more spunk now than we’ve ever seen him have and he could care less what people like you think about him and Jen. Jen is done. And for good reasons.
It’s still to this day, a pity party for Jen, her childhood, her divorce, etc.
So Angelina is the badass girl, but you know what, she doesn’t pretend to be someone she isn’t…like Jennifer.
Wow.
I take a half year off from blogging about them and when I come back, the fight picks right back up where it left off.
I haven’t checked the site in 1/2 a year and thought I was going to have all of this catching up to do… I would have liked to see the updates, however this is fun.
I agree w/ the 2nd person. Brad is a lot happier w/ Angelina. Jennifer is way too selfish. Clearly in the shallow press Jen comes off better than Angelina, but if you really look at it, Jen is too concerned about herself and her career.
Thank you mae…
AMEN to that…
Brangelina….I have missed your site. Glad to have you back….
it’s just sad that their marriage is over… and i personally think that Angelina was the main reason why Brad and Jennifer got a divorced.
Why does ANgelina help other countries, Why not start with her own country? Because other countries don’t know her?...her true character… They all think she’s an angel from above?. But people here know her better because of magazines and mass media. It’s been a while since she hasn’t talked to her dad? Her dad is reaching out to her, and she ignores him? How can someone start a so called FAMILY, if you don’t have one? If you turned your back on your dad? He’s been asking for her forgiveness for a long time… And she just keeps on ignoring him.
After her sesond marriage,,angelina started charity work because she doesn’t have anything good to do with her life. She adopted MADDOX to give her reason to live… remember? just incase you don’t know… she’s suicidal…
I just don’t like her….I think she’s weird and fake.
Kate,....please
step away from the computer…you need to get a life of your own and leave angie alone.
Ok i have to agree with cinnabana…kate seems to have a lot of issues. Get a grip on reality chick.
Hi…random poster! Can I come to Kate’s defense? Although I don’t agree that Jennifer is better than Angelina… Angelina is not only beautiful, but a devoted mother and humanitarian…jennifer aniston is just, a cutesy actress with whom the relationship didn’t work out. But I do agree with Kate…for someone who values family as much as Angelina does…judging on the way she is potrayed in the media as being very involved with her children…it’s strange that she has severed her relationship with her father the way she has. She was all close and loving with him in 2001, wasn’t she? What happened there that is so irreconcilable? Does anyone know?
Why do opinions are so polarised when it comes to this particular threesome? I never liked neither JA nor AJ (funny, thier initials are reversed…hm) too much nor BP. With AJ, as beautiful as she is, I never bought into this ‘humanitarian’ thing, mainly because she flaunts it a lot. There are other celebrities, and many, who do their charity work descretely without telling the world they give away ‘a third of their income’. I believe, AJ was the one who said that in an interview herself and to me charity is all about modesty, otherwise it is not charity anymore but good PR. I believe AJ was the main reason behind BP and JA divorce, because she persued him. If things are not so well in a marriage, a temptation (constant) will definitely do the trick to break it up. I believe she loves him though, I liked how she was with him at Golden Globes, very trusting and normal I guess, nice to see her act normal, not be the attention junkie she used to be. She is in love and good for her, all AJ needs is to learn to say less and do more. I think the fact that they hid from everybody until recently indicates that they know they started on the wrong grounds (AJ broke up the marriage, BP cheated). I wish, though, they stop being such pussies and stop caring about what the world thinks, come clean and breath freely.
JA has every right to be upset, after all if there were no AJ they could have worked things out. She get a lot of crap from the world and media too and it is probably very disturbing to her. Divorce belongs to the category of things that you dont want to discuss with every stranger and hers has been out there for a few years. She needs to heal somehow. I noticed all diehard AJ fans have such haterd for her. Maybe because they deep inside know AJ was a bit far from a saint here and denial makes them crazy, hence JA is a witch and so on.
I personally have the least sympathy for BP in this whole story. I thought him to have dignity but I got disappointed. It is not the fact that he fell for AJ, this happens, its the fact that he went forward with it while on the set. Had he really done it after the divorce was finalized I would so respect him. But when divorce was finalized AJ was a few months pregnant and she said they planned it. I guess I always blame the man because women get too emotional to control themselves.
And that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
uh… why do the opinions on this get polarized you ask? did you note the website name? i have to respectfully disagree with what you’ve posted. Humanitarian causes, no matter how geniune, can always be interpreted as the desire to get press from it. Although, if that was fully true, more of hollywood would become equally involved. As far as Angelina goes, she doesnt just give income- she spends most of her time in 3rd world countries. She also serves as a good will embassador. Im not saying the woman should apply for sainthood or anything, but i dont see Paris Hilton doing anything even remotely similar. And Paris has the same, if not more, press time than Angelina Joli. Seems to be the much easier way…I wonder why Angelina opted for a much more difficult way of achieving press…including creating an entire family. Wouldnt public flashing be a faster way? Furthermore, even if she was a jerk and adopted her children just for the attention, (which i doubt is even sort of true), she should still get the credit for the awareness she brings to the public eye. Or perhaps you’ve led a moderately sheltered life, Maria, and dont understand, or care to- that there are unfortunate people on this globe. And perhaps a little exposure isnt harmful. And you know what? Id rather her get that message out, whatever the motives, than hear anymore about britney spears underwear. But i suppose this is where our ideologies divide.
i totally agree wiith MARIA and DIDI…In addition, Angelina Jolie is cleaning up her dirty acts, She’s like buying her ticket to heaven. It seems like it’s ok with her to ignore her dad, but do merciful acts to other people. Helping is a very good gesture but if you want a peaceful,happy and harmonous life,you should start with yourself first. Fix all your personal problems, your own family, your dad… She won’t be where and who she is right now if it wasn’t for her dad. That’s the reason I don’t understand what she’s doing. How can someone, like angelina jolie, a humanitarian, be so unforgiving and ignorant on her fathers needs?
1) Angelina doesn’t ‘flaunt’ her humanitarianism. The press follows her everywhere. Do you think she calls all her paparazzi friends before she jets off to Africa or Cambodia?
2) Ang never ‘trapped’ Brad. He was smitten from the start. Who wouldn’t be? She seems like a ‘real’ person despite being an activist.
3) When they look upset in pictures, it could be that there are photographers constantly monitoring their every move. That has to get exhausting. Who has a smile on their face 24/7? Moreover, who is in a perfectly happy mood all the time? Add family dynamics to that, and voila.
4) Angelina doesn’t talk to her dad because OBVIOUSLY he deceived her in some way. She’s probably cutting off from him to better her live somehow.
5) They are both so smokin hot, that’s why everyone follows them around: they are a supercouple. But they are also real people TRYING to live a real life.
correction: she seems like a ‘real’ person despite being in the acting field.
apparently if you hit the pound sign, it’ll enter your response in bold…
I wasn’t shouting.
Didi, I just want to state that I am not even remotely intersted in Britney Spears’ underwear or lack there of. I dont think I had anything mentioned about that in my post :)
Thank you for a civilized response, often one gets an insulting and irrelevant response when expressing opinions that go against the pre-dominant opinion.
There many celebrities who are very involved with charities, who are good will ambassadors as well. Like Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Mila Yovovic and others. However, they are quite decreet about it. I saw some documentary on the issue of celebrity charity work and P. Cruz said something in it that I thought was very genuine and honorable. When asked about what she does charity wise, she told about what she does (involves travelling to other contries) and then added that she does not like to talk about it and doesnt, she just does it. There were many interviews with many celebrities in that documentary and most of them are very involved and nobody knows. To me personally such kind of charity is the most true, modest, you know, not in your face kind of thing. After all, to be truly charitable one has to be modest because then it more about the other person then oneself. No personal gain. AJ doesnt seem to posess that modesty to me yet, that is why her work, although honorable in principle, does not ring that true to me.
It was funny how you mentioned that I live in a bubble, ‘a sheltered life’, and do not realise there are unfortunate people in the world or I dont care. You dont know me, so I will say that you made a very inaccurate assumption. Like any person I see the world around me, I see the misfortunate, I help those I can. However, that said, I must say that I dont buy into anything, any hoopla, that resembles the slogan ‘Who is going to think about the children?’ that is so often ‘cried out in vain’. I beleive in actions a lot more I believe in words.
I think what I am trying so say here is that Angelina Jolie is way overexposed and gets way more hype that she probably should. I think it happens because she is very beautiful. Which is kind of funny, i.e. it shows that our society is still quite shallow. Angelina gets humanitarian credit for something that is in essence should be credited only when it is done descreetly, out of the public eye. To me it became a joke when that woman drew the painting of Saint Angelina with weird looking kids on the clouds over a supermarket. I never laughed so hard. More funny was that noone mocked it, that ‘art’ was taken seriously.
I must say Angirespctr supported this point of mine with this:
“5. They are both so smokin hot, that’s why everyone follows them around: they are a supercouple. But they are also real people TRYING to live a real life.” “Real people” that are superhot. I wonder does ‘hot’ describe personality in this case? I mean, they are real people but we dont know them, at least I dont. What can I say? Paris Hilton all the way, I think she summarized our whole decade with ‘That’s hot’. It’s hot to adopt, its hot to be humanitarian. Well, not for me.
P.S. its just an opinion, dont tear me apart :)
I think anyone who takes on a brood out of empathy and provides them opportunity in life, helps them appreciate their native culture, and in turn shows the world that these places are hurting—those kinds of people are hot. It just so happens she’s hot in other ways too, being genetically gifted and all :).
She’s mostly using her fame to highlight the fact that there are people dying over there. I dig that about her.
hehe.. we’re splitting hairs over the word ‘hot’. Shall I say beautiful? That’s okay too. :)
In response to Kate’s last entry..basically you are saying that Angelina should STOP doing any charitable acts, kind gestures…because she’s at odds with her father. YOU don’t know what REALLY went on with her father, & you have NO right to judge. I’ve read most of your NEGATIVE posts and I feel that you are just not a happy person. Are you envious of AJ’s ability to do her humanitarian work, have tons of money, family life .. be with Brad .. and RECOVER from her past addictions? So in fact if she was this piece of garbage you think she is—heroine etc., she managed to get up and make her life better…