Angelina Jolie's mastectomy raised awareness, not knowledge
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- Published on Thursday, 19 December 2013 12:03
- Written by UPI
Widespread awareness of Angelina Jolie's preventive double mastectomy did not translate into increased knowledge of breast cancer risk, U.S. researchers say. Jolie heightened awareness about breast cancer when she announced in a New York Times op-ed she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy, but researchers at the University of Maryland School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health revealed widespread awareness of Jolie's story did not translate into increased understanding of breast cancer risk. The survey of more than 2,500 U.S. adults found three-quarters were aware of Jolie's story, but fewer than 10 percent could correctly answer questions about the BRCA gene mutation that Jolie carries and the typical person's risk of developing breast cancer. Though very rare, women with harmful mutations in either of two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, have a risk of breast cancer that is about five times the normal risk, and a risk of ovarian cancer that is about 10 to 30 times normal. The average woman's risk of getting breast cancer over her lifetime if she does not have a BRCA mutation is between 5 percent and 15 percent. "Ms. Jolie's health story was prominently featured throughout the media and was a chance to mobilize health communicators and educators to teach about the nuanced issues around genetic testing, risk, and prophylactic surgery," lead author Dina Borzekowski of the University of Maryland School of Public Health's Department of Behavior and Community Health.
"It feels like it was a missed opportunity to educate the public about a complex but rare health situation." Additionally, exposure to Jolie's story was associated with greater confusion, rather than clarity, about the relationship between a family history of cancer and increased cancer risk. About half incorrectly thought that a lack of family history of cancer was associated with a lower than average personal risk of cancer, and among respondents who had at least one close relative affected by cancer, those who were aware of Jolie's story were less likely than those who were unaware of her story to estimate their own cancer risk as higher than average -- 39 percent vs. 59 percent. "Since many more women without a family history develop breast cancer each year than those with, it is important that women don't feel falsely reassured by a negative family history," study co-author Dr. Debra Roter, director of the Center for Genomic Literacy and Communication at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said.
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Angelina Jolie 'Potential' Witness In Phone Hacking Lawsuit
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- Published on Monday, 16 December 2013 04:42
- Written by Huffington post
Angelina Jolie could be the newest witness in Britain's ongoing phone hacking trial.Jolie's stunt double, Eunice Huthart, sued News Corp. in June claiming that the newspaper had hacked her phone and intercepted her voice mail messages. Among those messages were confidential conversations with Jolie, Huthart alleged.She listed Jolie among her "potential witnesses" in the lawsuit, according to the Hollywood Reporter on Friday.Huthart told THR that she believes the newspaper's interest in her "derived entirely from her personal and professional relationships to celebrities, such as Jolie and Brad Pitt, which are a product of her Hollywood-based career." Jolie could potentially testify to defend Huthart's claim that her "discretion and trustworthiness were compromised" by the hacking, THR said on Friday.Jolie's name first emerged in trial in July 2012, when she and actor Brad Pitt were identified by prosecutors as victims in the phone hacking scheme. Huthart cited two stories that she alleged used information from her private talks with Jolie.Huthart was Jolie's stunt double in movies such as "Beyond Borders" and "Tomb Raider 2." She said she lived with Jolie earlier in 2004, 2005 while the film, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" was in production, around the same time she noticed that she was not receiving all of her phone messages.
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Angelina Jolie is 'BANNED' from flying her personal plane
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- Published on Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:40
- Written by Daily Mail
She's had her wings clipped: Angelina Jolie is 'BANNED' from flying her personal plane after she failed to renew registration in time.She's known for being a bit of a jet-setter, but Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie, has reportedly been banned from enjoying one of her favourite pastimes.Page Six reports that the star cannot currently fly her beloved personal plane after she failed to renew its registration in time.According to documents from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the 38-year-old did not file a new airworthiness certificate for her plane before the certificate expired on June 30th. So now, Angelina's $360,000 red and white Cirrus SR-22 plane, which is one of the world's fastest single-engine aircrafts, cannot be flown until the situation is remedied.Angelina's team did make some effort to send a renewal application to the agency, but Page Six say they were told it didn't arrive on time.Keen flyer Angelina has flown Brad Pitt, 49, Shiloh, 7, Maddox, Pax, 10, Zahara, 8 and twins, 5-year-old Vivienne and Knox in the jet which can reach a speed of 300 miles per hour. Angelina received her pilot's licence eight years ago and said at the time that she was inspired by her son, Maddox to get into flying.'Every time Mad sees a plane, he's amazed,' she said at the time. 'If I could actually fly a plane... I'll be like Superman to him.' It sounds like Angelina wants to take the flight dreams even further as she and Brad Pitt are said to be interested in being space travellers on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.Meanwhile, The Los Angeles Times reports that Brad Pitt's film company, Plan B entertainment, has signed a production deal with New Regency and RatPac Entertainment.This will precipitate his company's departure from Paramount Pictures at the end of the year.Angelina's movie career is going from strength to strength and she is currently in Australia on location for production of hew new film, Unbroken.She is also recording the voice of Tigress in animated movie Kung Fu Panda 3, although it's not slated for release until 2015.MailOnline has contacted Angelina's spokesperson for comment.
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Angelina Jolie Signs With UTA for Acting
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- Published on Thursday, 14 November 2013 11:42
- Written by Hollywood Reporter
The actress-filmmaker is currently directing World War II drama "Unbroken." Angelina Jolie has signed with UTA for representation in acting, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.The move expands Jolie’s ties to the agency, which has been repping her on the directing front since March 2011.Jolie was previously at IFA but was in play when her agent, IFA's founder Ilene Feldman, decided to shutter her shop and become a manager earlier this month. When Jolie joined IFA in November 2011, it was the first time she had acting representation since 2006, when she left CAA.At UTA, Jolie will be repped by a team led by partner Richard Klubeck. She continues to repped by Media Talent Group and Sloane Offer.Jolie is currently directing the World War II drama Unbroken for Universal, and next year stars as the title witch in Disney’s Maleficent.
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Angelina Jolie’s Friend Targeted by Phone Hacker, Court Told
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- Published on Wednesday, 13 November 2013 11:20
- Written by Variety
Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World newspaper paid a private eye to hack the phone of Angelina Jolie’s stunt double, who also was a close friend of the actress, a London court was told Tuesday. It is alleged that the paper employed Glenn Mulcaire to hack the cell phone of Eunice Huthart in 2005 and 2006 in order to dig up gossip about Jolie’s relationship with Brad Pitt. The claim was made by the prosecutor in the trial of two former editors of the paper, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. They are accused of conspiracy to hack phones and other related charges. They deny all charges. The court heard that in July 2005 Mulcaire made an entry in his notebook listing Huthart’s cell-phone number and her voicemail password number. Huthart was working with Jolie and Pitt on “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” and shared a house with the actress in Los Angeles. “I was working with her while living in L.A. We shared a house and it is well reported in the media that we are good friends,” Huthart said in a statement read to the court. The prosecutor said Mulcaire hacked Huthart’s phone four times in early 2006, when several stories about Jolie appeared in the paper. The prosecution alleges that Coulson, who was the editor at the time, would have known about Mulcaire’s activities. Coulson denies this. Kate Middleton, who later married Prince William, was on Mulcaire’s list of targets, the court was told. Mulcaire, who was paid £100,000 ($159,000) a year by the News of the World, has twice pleaded guilty to charges relating to phone hacking.
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