Question: Just how cold is it in Tokyo this time of year? Because looking at these photos of Angelina Jolie at a photo call for Salt in Toyko is making me wonder just how jacked the Japanese keep their air conditioning. I just looked it up – Toyko is the same temperature as Virginia today. What the hell, Jolie? Are you trying to give yourself heatstroke? Anyway, beyond the concerns I have about her black pants and baggy black sweater, I have to admit, it’s a good outfit, and one I wish I owned (for winter). Angelina is looking a bit tired though – jet-lagged probably. I don’t know who the other chick is – I don’t remember her in Salt.

Anyway, some bits and pieces of Jolie news. First off, Angelina now has a Twitter account! F-ck me, if Angelina ever starts tweeting, I might have to get an account just so I can follow her.

Yes, it’s true! Angelina Jolie joined Twitter. But it turns out the ‘Salt’ actress isn’t planning on Tweeting anytime soon. In fact, she’s locked her account and no followers and isn’t following anyone. Basically, she just joined Twitter to get ahold of her name – but she might tweet at some point!

Angelina Jolie has joined Twitter! But you won’t hear any 140-character musings from the actress, 35. She’s locked her account; she has no followers and isn’t following anyone.

“Jolie had her people obtain the account for her so no one else could have that username,” a source tells UsMagazine.com. “There was actually someone else using @AngelinaJolie but Angelina requested the account suspended and took it over.”

The insider adds that the Salt star might become active on the microblogging site “later this year.”

So what would she write about?

“If she uses it, it will be for charity-related items or sharing links,” says the source.

[From Us Weekly]

Angelina’s tweets would be gold. I imagine stuff like “Emprs. Z talks about world domination, LOL” and “Shiloh insists on camo pants, #Montenegro”.

While In Japan, Angelina also did a press conference, but she got asked the same basic questions and answered the same basic ways:

Actress Angelina Jolie, in Tokyo for the weekend opening of action thriller “Salt,” brushed off rumors about her shaky relations with Brad Pitt.

“He was just a wonderful father,” she said Tuesday of Pitt, during work on the film, in which she plays a tough spy. He often brought the children to the set, she recalled.

“They played with fake blood, and they found mommy very strange in her different hair,” she said.

Pitt and Jolie have been partners since they began a relationship while working on the 2005 film “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” They are raising six children. Last week, Pitt and Jolie accepted undisclosed damages in London’s High Court to settle a privacy claim against a British tabloid that had reported in January that they were planning to split.

Asked about her ability to work and maintain a happy family, Jolie told reporters at a Tokyo hotel: “Brad is the word that makes it possible.”

Jolie, who arrived Monday, brought four of the children along on the Japan trip. They have already spent some time shopping for toys inspired by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s animation characters Ponyo and Totoro, she said.

Jolie, 35, acknowledged she once surprised her 8-year-old son Maddox with her disguise as a male naval officer in “Salt.” He came into the room and reluctantly shook hands with the person he didn’t know was his mother.

“And I said, ‘Honey, it’s mommy,'” Jolie said.

“I think I freaked him out,” she said with a laugh, adding that he then watched her peel off her fake ears, hands and nose.

“I play these roles, but I’m always in every minute their mom first,” she said. “I’m a bit of a goofy. I’m funny at home, I think.”

Her children aren’t going to be seeing the movie, though.

“I think it’s very hard for them to see someone trying to kill their mom, even if she wins,” she said.

[From The Associated Press]

Fascinating. Judgy moms will be all over her about the fake blood though. Also, one last thing – even more “leaks” are coming out from Andrew Morton’s unauthorized biography of Angelina, and they’re just… ugh. USA Today got a “leak” all about how Angelina always wanted to settle down with Johnny Depp, Brad or… Willem Dafoe?!? And I finally read Us Weekly’s cover story from last week, and there are no words for how cheesy this mess is. Like, Angelina gets blamed for everything, always. Nothing is ever anyone else’s fault. No one is personally responsible for their actions when Angelina is around, ever. Whatever.

Angelina Jolie in Toyko on July 27, 2010. Credit: WENN.