Melissa Etheridge calls Angelina Jolie's mastectomy a 'fearful choice'
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 04:40
- Written by Entertainment Wise
In a recent interview with the Washington Blade, breast cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge called Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy “the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer.”While many hailed Jolie’s decision as brave, Etheridge said she thinks cancer is something that comes from within and is determined by the general health of your body, not genetics alone. “Plenty of people have the gene mutation and everything but it never comes to cancer so I would say to anybody faced with that, that choice is way down the line on the spectrum of what you can do and to really consider the advancements we’ve made in things like nutrition and stress levels. I’ve been cancer-free for nine years now and looking back, I completely understand why I got cancer. There was so much acidity in everything.”She said she would encourage anyone facing the same choice to wait it out before a mastectomy. “I really encourage people to go a lot longer and further before coming to that conclusion.”Jolie’s decision has been lauded as “absolutely heroic” by fiancé Brad Pitt and “courageous” by Sheryl Crow — another vicim of breast cancer. In her New York Times op-ed, Jolie wrote that her decision was a difficult one, but ultimately the preventative measure proved to be the best option for her.“On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman,” she wrote in the piece. “I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.”
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Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt's Wedding: Details Of Guest List Revealed
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- Published on Saturday, 15 June 2013 07:49
- Written by Marie Claire
Angelina Jolie has reportedly 'banned' Brad Pitt's friends Quentin Tarantino, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman from the couple's impending wedding, according to new reports in Hollywood today.Angelina and Brad's wedding guest list just got shorter by three with the famous actress apparently saying 'no way' to Pitt's pals.A so-called 'insider' has reportedly spilled the beans on the showbiz wedding of the century to the National Enquirer, saying: 'Angie wants her wedding to be perfect, and that applies to the guest list as much as anything else. She respects Brad’s right to be friends with whoever he wants, but there’s no way she’s allowing any of these guys to attend their wedding.'According to the Enquirer source, 'The official line she’s giving is that this is an ‘intimate celebration for only the closest friends and family.’ But the brutal truth is that she considers these three to be bad influences on Brad.'But alas, there won't be any bad vibes in the household of our favourite couple. 'Brad’s not willing to upset her considering everything she’s been through lately,' says the mag’s supposed insider. 'He worships Angie and wants this day to be perfect for her and the kids. That means she gets her way on everything, including the guest list.'Praise The Lord.Whether or not the reports are true, one thing's for sure – this is going to be one heck of a wedding.
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Dane DeHaan in the running for Angelina Jolie-directed 'Unbroken'
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- Published on Friday, 14 June 2013 10:47
- Written by Digital Spy
Deadline reports that DeHaan is among the frontrunners for the role of Zamperini, along with Jack O'Connell (300: Rise of an Empire) and Alexander Dreymon (best known from BBC film Christopher and His Kind).The Coen brothers rewrote the script for Unbroken earlier this year, which is based on the novel Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Seabiscuit).DeHaan will next be seen alongside Daniel Radcliffe in Beat poet drama Kill Your Darlings, and also plays Harry Osborn in the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man 2.
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Brad Pitt on Angelina Jolie surgery: "It's onwards and upwards"
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- Published on Thursday, 13 June 2013 04:32
- Written by Digital Spy
Brad Pitt has suggested that he and Angelina Jolie are moving forward with their lives in the wake of her double mastectomy.Jolie was called heroic by Pitt following her announcement in May that she had undergone the surgery as a precaution because she carries the cancer-linked BRCA1 gene.Pitt has now commented that he and Jolie are hoping to get back to "business as usual" in the months ahead."It's onwards and upwards... but I'm really touched. The whole thing's heroic to my mind," he told ET Online."How many people are also battling with the same decision and she's just a great example of that - it doesn't have to be a scary thing. You can take control of it."Jon Voight also recently called his daughter Jolie "very brave" for making the decision to reveal her surgery.Jolie made her first public appearance since the surgery at the recent London premiere of Pitt's zombie movie World War Z.
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Angelina Jolie directing 'Unbroken' to inspire sons
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- Published on Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:39
- Written by My News 4
Actress Angelina Jolie decided to step behind the camera once again to direct a biopic of Olympian-turned-World War II prisoner Louis Zamperini to inspire her three sons.The Salt star has six children with her partner Brad Pitt and hopes her new project Unbroken will be a positive influence on her sons Maddox, 12, Pax, nine, and Knox, who turns five next month.The movie is based on Laura Hillenbrand's book about Zamperini, an American long distance runner who competed at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.After World War II broke out, Zamperini enlisted in the U.S. Army, only to be captured by the Japanese and held prisoner.Jolie tells the Daily Mail, "(Zamperini) was captured during World War II and held by the Japanese. His family and the authorities thought he was dead, but he survived."It's a story of courage and I want to make it for my sons because it's an example of sacrifice and survival against all odds. They'll learn something from it."The actress added she is currently working on the script and casting for the movie but shooting in Hawaii will not take place until the end of the year.Jolie previously directed the hardhitting 2011 movie In the Land of Blood and Honey.
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