Angelina Jolie hints she may be ready to run for office
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 November 2014 20:41
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She has won an Oscar and regularly conquers the box office — so how hard could winning an election be? Globe-trotting Hollywood do-gooder Angelina Jolie hints in a new interview that she’s ready to enter politics.“When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility,” Jolie, 39, tells Vanity Fair’s December issue.“I honestly don’t know in what role I would be more useful — I am conscious of what I do for a living, and that [could] make it less possible,” said Jolie, director and a special envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.Pushed further, she admitted, “I am open” to pursing politics.Jolie — who directed the upcoming film “Unbroken,” about Olympian-turned-war hero Louis Zamperini — also dished on tying the knot with Brad Pitt, her partner of 10 years.“It does feel different,” she said. “It feels nice to be husband and wife.”The pair got hitched in the South of France in August, and Jolie said their six children lent a hand.“There was no cake, so Pax made a cake,” she said, referring to their second-oldest son.“The kids made little pillows for the rings, and Knox practiced [being a ringbearer] with an acorn that kept falling off the pillow. Brad’s mom went and picked some flowers and tied them up.”
She said their kids wrote her and Pitt’s vows.“They did not expect us never to fight, but they made us promise to always say ‘sorry’ if we do. So they said, ‘Do you?’ and we said, ‘We do!’ ” Jolie said.She noted both she and Pitt worked on war movies at the same time recently with Pitt on the World War II tank thriller “Fury” and her on “In the Land of Blood and Honey.”They sent each other notes in the mail to replicate World War II GIs would received letters from loved ones back home, she said.She broke down in tears discussing the true story behind “Unbroken,” due out next month, and Zamperini’s incredible tale of survival.Zamperini, who ran in the 1936 Berlin Games, flew in the Air Force and was shot down over the Pacific. He floated at sea for 47 days before he was captured and sent to a Japanese POW camp.“It was an extremely emotional experience, to watch someone watching their own life … someone so physically strong … and they are at the stage where their body is giving up,” she said.
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Ralph & Russo On Dressing Dame Angelina
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- Published on Thursday, 16 October 2014 07:03
- Written by Vogue
BRITISH couturiers Ralph & Russo told us exclusively today what an "honour" it was to dress Angelina Jolie as she collected her honorary damehood from the Queen. The filmmaker and philanthropist was awarded the honour at Buckingham Palace on Friday for her campaigning to fight sexual violence and for services to UK foreign policy.Jolie wore a skirt suit from the label's spring/summer 2014 collection, which originally appeared on the catwalk in red. She requested that the two-piece be remade in a subtle dove grey, and wore it with matching peep-toe pumps."It was an absolute honour for Angelina Jolie to ask us to create her outfit for such a momentous and meaningful event," the label's co-founder and designer Tamara Ralph told us. "With Ralph & Russo being a British couture house, it was befitting that she chose to wear one of our creations to Buckingham Palace. The dove-grey wool-crêpe suit was perfectly suited to the occasion; simple, elegant and refined." Jolie has worn Ralph & Russo on numerous previous occasions, while Cheryl Cole selected a dress from the label to wear to her post-wedding party in London this summer. Although London-based, Ralph & Russo will show for the first time in London this week when it becomes the subject of the V&A's Fashion In Motion this Friday, following in the footsteps of designers including Alexander McQueen, Yohji Yamamoto and Jean Paul Gaultier.
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Angelina Jolie and Julia Roberts Share Words of Wisdom with Younger Selves
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- Published on Friday, 10 October 2014 10:34
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Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Jodie Foster and Julia Roberts have shared their best pieces of advice for their younger selves as part of People magazine's 40th anniversary issue.Editors asked a host of celebrities to revisit their pasts for the special October (14) edition and reveal what they would have wanted to know in their youths. The stars offered words of encouragement and love.Jolie insists she wouldn't "change anything", but encourages her younger self to travel more, saying, "I would probably say enjoy the freedom as much as you possibly can before it goes away. Enjoy the walks in the park and the backpacking and travelling and living. Which I did, but I would have liked to have done more before it became a little less easy to do so." The newlywed mum of six adds, "You can never prepare for the future, because it's all those things that build up to who you are. You have to let your younger self be scared of things and attack things head on. Make bold choices and make mistakes, and it's all those things that add up to the person you later become."Meanwhile, Roberts encourages her younger self to "be happy with your natural curls" and "relish every moment with Dad", and Lopez writes, "Keep your feet on the ground, don't forget who you are, and love yourself - appreciate yourself."
Former beauty queen Halle Berry wishes she had been more relaxed during her youth, saying, "Everything happens for a reason. The highs. The lows. It's all for a higher development. And I would not stress about the down times. That's part of one's evolution", while Foster regrets not stepping behind the camera earlier in her career, stating, "I wish I could have directed more in my 30s."Transgender Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox has also opened up to her teenage self, urging her to "know you are beautiful" and adding, "You are not crazy for knowing you are a girl. This knowledge about who you are is not a disappointment to anyone, but an acknowledgement of God's plan for you."Jennifer Aniston, Cate Blanchett, Sharon Stone, Matthew McConaughey, rocker Adam Levine and singer Kelly Clarkson also shared their words of wisdom for the article.Meanwhile, Taylor Swift admits she wishes she'd have laughed more as a teenager, adding, "You have to laugh when you're humiliated, when you're rejected... At a certain point you have to be able to turn whatever bad experience you have into a funny dinner party joke."
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Angelina Jolie: I Feel in Contact with My Mother When I Look at My Children
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 October 2014 03:53
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Angelina Jolie honored her late mom, Marcheline Bertrand, at her wedding in August, and now the Oscar winner is opening up about how motherhood has connected her to her mom's memory.In a new new interview with French Marie Claire, Jolie speaks about her mother's legacy and its impact on her own humanitarian work.Bertrand, who passed away in 2007 after a long battle with ovarian cancer, "was very soft but could move mountains for her kids," Jolie, 39, told the magazine. "That's something I always admire in women: that mix of softness and strength. She was half Indian, and I remember that as a small girl, she took me to a dinner for Amnesty International." "She always tried to understand the complexity of the world. She had a great heart which was sensitive to the world's violence."Asked whether she believes in life after death, Jolie replied, "I'm not certain ... I feel in contact with my mother when I look at my children. I can feel her influence over me then. I see that my way of raising them resembles the way she raised my brother and I. It's more apparent with my daughters Shiloh and Vivienne. Therefore, yes, my mother is there, present in this influence, all the time."The actress, who has been in Malta with new husband Brad Pitt and their six kids as part of a working honeymoon, also spoke about their upcoming romantic drama By the Sea."We'll play an American couple in the south [of France] that should remind you no doubt of someone."
As for the couple's real-life home base in the south of France, Château Miraval, Jolie says it is "perfectly situated" for their busy family."I'm not very good at relaxing," she says. "I can't stay put. I read, write, negotiate films, I carry my office around with me." Miraval, she notes, "is close to European cities, but also to Africa and the Middle East. To all the theaters of operations where my United Nations work obliges me to go. L.A. is clearly too far from all that." Speaking about her role as a special envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency, Jolie addressed her work at The Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, where she delivered the opening remarks in London in June.Given her ongoing activism, would she ever be tempted to run for office? "I don't think my family would agree," she says. "And then I don't know how I could be more useful than now, because my position as a public figure helps so much in generating media attention for my fight." One thing she does know for certain: Her famous tattoo collection is sure to grow – possibly influenced by her upcoming WWII film, Unbroken."You can be certain I'll have a new one soon," she says. "Without a doubt, something with Japanese inspiration."
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'Angelina Jolie effect' on breast cancer screening endures
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- Published on Friday, 19 September 2014 10:41
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The "Angelina Jolie effect" on referrals for genetic counselling for breast cancer risks was immediate and long-lasting, a new U.K. study suggests.The Hollywood celebrity announced her decision to be tested for the cancer-linked BRCA1 gene and subsequent double mastectomy, to reduce her risk of breast and ovarian cancer because of her family history, in May 2013. The announcement fuelled publicity about breast screening.In Thursday’s issue of the journal Breast Cancer Research, British investigators say referrals first increased by 2.5 times and remained around nearly double their previous levels through October."The Angelina Jolie effect has been long-lasting and global, and appears to have increased referrals to centres appropriately," Gareth Evans, a professor of clinical genetics at Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention in Manchester and his co-authors concluded.There were concerns the increase in appointments for screening after Jolie’s announcement might have been from "worried well" patients coming back for another test. But Evans said, in fact, many were women who were already overdue for screening. Similarly, researchers in Toronto told a breast cancer conference earlier this month that the effect seemed to increase awareness and referrals for women who were truly at high risk for hereditary breast cancer.The U.K. researchers pointed to other examples of female celebrities who spurred increased use of health resources, such as higher colonoscopy rates after Katie Couric’s colorectal cancer awareness campaign on The Today Show in 2000 and Kylie Minogue’s breast cancer diagnosis in Australia.Jolie’s announcement likely had a bigger impact than other celebrity announcements "possibly due to her glamorous image and relationship to Brad Pitt. This may have lessened patients’ fears about a loss of sexual identity, post preventative surgery, and encouraged those who had not previously engaged with health services to consider genetic testing."They concluded that education of the general public is important in increasing awareness of, and improving access to, familial cancer services.
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