Brad Pitt’s Kids Make Him Laugh, Long for Sleep
Brad Pitt will have audiences laughing out loud as a knucklehead fitness employee in Burn After Reading, but what makes PEOPLE’s two-time Sexiest Man Alive chuckle in real life?
“My kids,” Pitt, 44, told PEOPLE at the Toronto International Film Festival gala screening Friday for his new Coen Brothers comedy also starring George Clooney.
Speaking of his kids with Angelina Jolie, newest additions, eight-week-old twins, Knox and Vivienne, are great, he added.
“Everyone is healthy,” said Pitt. “No sleep though.”
He added to reporters: “Sleep is something you long for, but it’s alright. We’ll get it.”
- from People
Brad Pitt and Zee: Thumbs Up!
Brad Pitt and daughter Zahara Jolie-Pitt wave and give a thumb’s up as they arrive at Cannes airport in Cannes, France on Tuesday.
Zahara Marley is now 3 1/2 and has really grown up to be a cutie-patootie!
Last week the pair also spent some alone time together as they went to the museum together.
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Coen brothers dark comedy premieres at Venice fest
The Coen brothers wrote their dark comedy, “Burn After Reading,” with stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand in mind. Not necessarily a compliment.
The movie, which premieres Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, is a tale about idiots — and what happens when their worlds collide.
Pitt and McDormand are a pair of hapless gym employees who get in way over their heads when the memoirs of a failed CIA analyst (John Malkovich) fall into their hands and they try to peddle them as classified intelligence secrets. Clooney plays a hypochondriac philanderer having an affair with the CIA analyst’s disappointed wife, played by Tilda Swinton.
“Looking at the parts we are playing, I’m very concerned about what you think of us,” Clooney said at a news conference.
It’s Clooney’s third film with the Coen brothers — completing what he called “his trilogy of idiots” after “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Intolerable Cruelty.”
Pitt said he had waited a long time to work with the Coen brothers.
“Like George … I’m not sure if I should be flattered or insulted,” he said. “I’m still a bit unsure.”
Asked if the movie is a love letter from her husband, Joel Coen, McDormand quipped: “Have you seen the film? And you call that a love letter?”
The movie’s opening shots are of McDormand’s Linda Litzke having her behind, belly and arms scrutinized by a plastic surgeon in her attempt to fend off middle age.
“We started writing the movie as kind of an exercise, thinking of what kind of parts these actors might play, what kind of story they might inhabit,” Ethan Coen told a news conference.
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Clooney, Pitt leave personal questions open
George Clooney and Brad Pitt: Bachelor and family man.
Inevitably, a news conference Wednesday promoting their new Coen brothers film, “Burn After Reading,” turned to the birth of Pitt’s twins with partner Angelina Jolie, and whether his good friend would ever settle down.
Clooney, 47, put on a look of mock bemusement.
“I am so surprised to hear that question. That is honestly the first time I have been asked that,” Clooney said. “I am getting married and having a child today.”
Pitt, whose brood has grown to six children with the birth of twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline last month, offered to share his children with Clooney, adding deadpan: “I’ll have two more by next year.”
The movie, which premieres Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, is a tale about idiots — and what happens when their worlds collide.
Pitt, 44, looked flustered as a Spanish TV journalist pushed her way to the front of the press conference dressed in red gym shorts similar to garb he wears as a gym trainer in the film. She asked Pitt if he would help her work out.
“It’s a movie,” Pitt reminded her.
“Would you run after me?” she asked Clooney and Pitt.
“I think we’re more likely to be running away from you,” Clooney replied to laughter.
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Brad Pitt: ‘The Twins Are Fine’
Two months after of the birth of Knox and Vivienne, Brad Pitt told reporters at a Venice press conference Wednesday, “The twins are fine.”
He then raised his water glass like a toast, and took a sip.
Pitt and his pal George Clooney are in Italy’s City of Bridges to promote their film Burn After Reading, which has its world premiere Wednesday night at Venice’s annual film festival.
Pitt had arrived Tuesday with sons Maddox and Pax, while Clooney – who owns a home on Lake Como – told reporters he’d been in Italy “for a couple of months.”
The pair joked their way through the press conference, knocking back personal questions with charm – and a few winks.
Asked if he planned on getting married and having children, Clooney, 47, said: “I am so surprised to hear that question. This honestly is the first time I’ve ever been asked that question. I’m getting married and having children today.”
Added 44-year-old Pitt: “And until then, I’ll be sharing mine with him.”
Then – in response to a question about how many kids were enough – Angelina Jolie’s other half wisecracked, “I’ll have two more by next year.”
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Clooney, Pitt arrive in Venice for film festival
George Clooney hosted a charity event Tuesday night to raise money for victims in Darfur.Clooney, who’s in Venice for the premiere Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival of the Coen brothers’ film “Burn After Reading,” swept past reporters as he arrived for the fundraiser for his Not On Our Watch charity.
The event was expected to raise $2 million, said Manuele Malenotti, the executive director of the Italian clothing company Belstaff, which sponsored the event.
Not On Our Watch has raised more than $7 million to help victims both of the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan and the cyclone in Myanmar, according to executive director Alex Wagner.
The charity, which was started last year by Clooney, Brad Pitt and some of their “Ocean’s Thirteen” colleagues, uses their celebrity appeal to bring attention to human rights abuses, but it isn’t so easy to get even two of the founders together because of filming and family demands, Wagner conceded.
Pitt, who arrived in Venice earlier with sons Maddox and Pax, was expected at the event, but hadn’t arrived by the time cocktail hour was over. He also appear in the Coen brothers’ film.
“Scheduling is very difficult. Two of them happened to be in Venice at the same time because of the ‘Burn After Reading’ premiere … so there was a brainstorming session,” Wagner said of the planned joint appearance.
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt to walk red carpet walk for charity
George Clooney and Brad Pitt will make two appearances at the Venice Film Festival this week.
They were slated to appear Tuesday night at a fundraising event for their charity, Not On Our Watch. Then they were to return to the red carpet Wednesday when the Coen brothers film “Burn After Reading” opens the 65th edition of the festival, which runs through Sept. 6.
Not On Our Watch has raised more than $7 million to help victims both of the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan and the cyclone in Myanmar, also known as Burma, according to executive director Alex Wagner.
The charity, which was launched last year by the stars and some of their “Ocean’s Thirteen” colleagues, uses their star appeal to bring attention to human rights abuses, but it isn’t so easy to get even two of the founders together because of filming and family demands, Wagner said.
“Scheduling is very difficult. Two of them happened to be in Venice at the same time because of the ‘Burn After Reading’ premiere … so there was a brainstorming session,” she said.
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Brad Pitt Endorses Beauty Company for Charity
Brad Pitt is teaming with Kiehl’s, a beauty products company, for a good, green cause. And in doing so, the ‘Burn After Reading’ star is putting his unique spin on the concept of the celebrity endorsement!
Pitt’s famous face and name will be nowhere to be found on any of the beauty firm’s commercials or skin, hair and body care goods, says New York magazine. Save for his handwriting reproduced on a new product, he figures in via a purely philanthropic role.
So, how does it work? Kiehl’s will debut its Aloe Vera Biodegradable Liquid Body Cleanser (made entirely of biodegradable ingredients) this October, and 100 percent of the profits will go toward raising money for JPF Eco Systems, an environmental charity Pitt co-founded with the beauty company, says NY mag.
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AICN’s Benjamin Button Review
The special effects and make-up in this film are truly amazing. Brad Pitt’s descent into youth is never once unbelievable; it looks tremendously authentic. The same goes for Blanchett’s aging process. The announcer said the film’s effects weren’t quite finished yet, which is even more impressive.
With all that said, the film is still in the very early stages of it’s life considering it won’t be released until Christmas. Fincher and his team have a lot of time to polish it up. I’m sure these test screenings will reveal the film’s obvious missteps, because I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who felt this way. Beneath it’s sprawling three hours, a beautiful film exists. I have faith that Fincher will find it.
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Brad Pitt, Simon Pegg are also both ‘Bastards’
Brad Pitt officially has gone inglorious. The actor has joined the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards,” signing on to play Lt. Aldo Raine, the head of the Jewish resistance in the auteur’s World War II film. Additionally, Simon Pegg is in discussions to join the cast. David Krumholtz has an offer but may have a scheduling problem. Nastassja Kinski is meeting with Tarantino for the part of a German actress. (more…)