Brad Pitt Watch

After a very rough start that saw me in the bottom two, I’ve decided to step up my creativity for this round of Project Blog! Here’s the challenge:

On Project Runway, contestants were asked to create an outfit with a partner for fashion icon Sarah Jessica Parker’s newest line, Bitten. This week, blogtestants, you have to write with a partner too - yourself. That’s right, I want to see your leadership skills, but to make it fair, YOU are the one you’ll be leading. Pick a post from the past - any post will do - and use that as your inspiration for a new post. You can give us an update on a past news story, revisit a topic, or give further opinion on a factual post. Or hey, do something else - it’s all up to you! Just remember, the goal is to use your past post as inspiration, and you MUST include a link to the past story in your new post. (It can be a post from yesterday or a post from a year ago…timing is not important, any post you choose is fine!)

To fulfill this challenge, I dredged up one of my older posts, which you can see in its entirety here. This blog started in January of 2007 (wow, we’re almost a year old - how about that!), and this post was one of the ones I liked the best back then. It was the first post that brought a small bit of my attitude into the story. The life of the Jolie-Pitts changes very quickly, so I decided to meet this chellenge by putting up the original words and then updating what has gone on since. The old story is in regular font, the update is in italics! I hope you enjoy it!

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have bought a house in the French Quarter in New Orleans. Apparently they are planning to live there while Brad is filming his movie, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.

I don’t think that the duo has even used the house since they left it! They bought it, lived there for a few months, then headed off to Prague. I wonder what happens to the houses that they’re not living in – do they get closed up? Are there caretakers there making sure that the plants get watered and the dust doesn’t pile up?

Jolie confirms the movie to Us Weekly, saying, “We love it there. The kids are going to go to school there. We’re really looking forward to it.”

It’s true that Maddox did go to school in New Orleans – for all of a few months! Since then he’s gone to school in Prague, New York City, and is now in L.A.! I think that he spent the least amount of time in New Orleans!

While Pitt is working, sources say Jolie, 31, plans on being a low-key mother to the couple’s three children, Maddox, five, Zahara, two, and seven-month-old Shiloh. A source close to the actress says, “She’s interested in befriending normal moms so she can do things with the kids.”

How interesting is it that this was written in January and then, in March, they added another child to the brood! Pax was born in Vietnam and was adopted by Angelina on March 15. Vietnam law is very strict when it comes to adopting, and they only allow single parents or parents that are married to adopt, which is why Angie adopted Pax herself. A few months later, though, Pax had his named changed and was adopted by Brad as well.

On another front – Angie being friends with normal moms? It would be totally cool…if it ever happened! So far you never see Angie hanging out with anyone…except her family, Brad, and her totally hot bodyguard. Also, she didn’t stay home for too long either. By May she was in Prague to work on Wanted, which will be coming out soon.

Okay, if you’re interested in being “low-key” and being able to do normal things, why move to New Orleans?! It’s a major city, and once that’s also still under crucial watch from the entire nation still. Why not move to somewhere isolated…like Vermont?

Turns out that Angie and Brad weren’t really able to hide well in New Orleans. Again and again we saw the famous couple – it was almost worse when they were in Prague! They were also fodder for the Paparazzi in New York City, but now the power duo seems to have found a place to hide in one in Los Angeles! Talk about hiding out in the open! But it seems to work for the two, since we’ve seen very few photos of the family out and about lately.

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I hope everyone has a happy, filling, and safe Thanksgiving!!