I’m sure that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are glad to have a holiday to spend together with their kids!

Although I celebrated Canada Day earlier this week, I think I’ll join the U.S. in celebrating Independence Day anyway! Have a great one!

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This YouTube user set scenes from the movie to the film’s theme song, and it’s quite beautifully done.

If you’ve never actually seen the movie before (and you really should!), here’s the official trailer.

I have to admit, it always distracts me a bit to hear someone speaking with a foreign accent that is not their own, but once the movie gets going, the story kind of pushes the accent aside and I didn’t notice it as much. Still, Brad Pitt speaking with a German accent is quite funny at first!

The movie is almost two and a half hours long, but oh it’s so worth it. It’s incredibly worth it. I can’t believe it’s been 12 years since I saw it in the theater (I feel old now), but I remember being excited to go see it since I was in the process of learning about Tibet and the Dalai Lama.

Perhaps I’ll give this one a watch again this weekend!

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Today in Los Angeles, Brad Pitt was out riding when his motorcycle completely crapped out on him, which might have left him stranded except that - as usual - paparazzi were tailing him and offered him a rid home. Brad took them up on the offer!

Now see, that’s just nice and kind of cute!

More photos of Brad Pitt getting rescued by the paparazzi below the cut!

Images: The very lucky BauerGriffinOnline

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Well, the commercial’s aired! Check it out below!

Edit: the first one was pulled five minutes after I posted! Let’s try this one now!

I love the way he so nonchalantly picks up that wrestler and carries him so his feet don’t get wet!

What do you think of this ad?

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There are parts that we’ve already seen, but I particularly loved the opening of the trailer, as well as the “Bingo!” at the very end. “You just say “Bingo”.” Ha!

I am so very eager to see this movie!

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The movie, based on the bestselling book by Michael Lewis, wasn’t just in pre-production. It was literally five days away from filming when Soderbergh turned in a new version of the script that Pascal and her Sony team found unacceptable. The decision was so abrupt that the film’s producer, Michael DeLuca, got the call about it while on his honeymoon in Paris. As a courtesy to the talent, Pascal gave them an opportunity to try and set the film up elsewhere, but no other studio has shown any interest. So the movie remains at Sony, but will it ever get made? Will Pitt stick with the project? And what exactly went wrong?

What went wrong indeed?

The article basically sums up what we had already surmised so far, that Soderbergh handed in a last-minute revised script that Pascal considered to be far too different from the original story she had agreed to, and that it wouldn’t work for her.

Pascal herself said that she had been very excited to work with Soderbergh, that she had wanted to work with him for a very long time, but that “[...] the draft he turned in wasn’t at all what we’d signed up for. He wanted to make a dramatic reenactment of events with real people playing themselves. I’d still work with Steven in a minute, but in terms of this project, he wanted to do the film in a different way than we did.”

I’m not a studio insider, I’ve never written or directed a script, so I don’t know how it works but I’m a little confused as to how they could have come to an agreement, an arrangement, only to have the director essentially re-write the entire storyline and present it mere days before shooting. I would have thought that all the pre-production arrangements would have laid everything very solidly in “stone” so to speak.

The biggest problem, it seems according to the article, is that Soderbergh wanted the movie to be 100% authentic. Authenticity sounds like a good idea when you’re dealing with a true story but he didn’t want to have any one thing but the absolute truth. The issue with that is that it limits the movie; they couldn’t have shown any scenes, say, with Brad Pitt as Billy Beane at home to give us an idea of his life. Soderbergh wanted everything to be absolute historical fact which makes for a good documentary for those who are hardcore baseball fans but a fairly dull $58 million film.

Reading the article helped me to understand the stand-still right now. What do you think of these details?

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(Thanks Ligaya!)

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I think part of the reason I love these videos (besides the fact that I love to look at the pictures!) is because I have no idea how to make my own!

Enjoy!

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The only reason this came to light is not because Angie herself screamed it from the rooftops - we heard about it because the USO group posted photos of her visit on Facebook. Go check it out!

Also, totally stating the obvious but goodness she looks gorgeous!

(Thanks JM for the heads’ up about the USO photos!)

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Known as “Blood Diamonds” or “Feud Diamonds”, the gems are exactly what you’d expect from the name - precious stones obtained courtesy of a trail of blood-shed. I try to keep my political opinions in a separate compartment of my life, but I am very much against the unethical diamond trade - so much so that my own ring is not a real diamond because I have no interest in contributing. Obviously, you can get ethically obtained diamonds fairly easily with some simple research and information, but I just chose not to. Anyway. The fact that Brad and Angelina are endorsing a stop to the blood diamond trade fills me with so much joy.

Considering some of the most common victims of this particular form of diamond trade are children, it’s not much of a surprise that Brad and Angelina would stand together against it.

Read the full story here.

(Thanks to those of you who commented and emailed about the story!)

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(Do yourself a favor - go and enjoy the photos of Brad but avoid the comments. It’s unbelievable the trolling that people do when they can hide behind the anonymity of the Internet. Some of them make you wonder if they were ever educated past grade two.)

As much as we were all hoping that Brad and Angelina would head for France or New Orleans for some vacation time, the fact of the matter is that Brad was technically supposed to be working on Moneyball right now and he’s most likely sticking close to L.A. right now while they try to shop the script around to get it picked up by another studio. While Brad doesn’t need the film to secure his income, a lot of other people would have been counting on the work, so let’s hope someone else grabs it soon!

(Thanks Gabriella!)

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