Brad Pitt signs for the ‘8’ reading, and he takes Maddox guitar shopping

Post-Leg, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are still in LA. I know, it’s shocking that The Anti-Leg, pitch-fork-wielding contingent hasn’t ushered Brangelina out of town. Shocking! Yesterday, Brad took the oldest Jolie-Pitt child, Maddox, out to the Guitar Center in Hollywood. These are some photos from their exit. Apparently, Brad bought a guitar and an amplifier. I wonder if they’re for Maddox or for Brad? Is Maddox learning the guitar? Will he be That Boy in college? The one with the ponytail who covers Beatles songs on the front steps of the dorm? Also: WTF is up with Brad and the mechanic’s onesies?!?!? This is not a good style statement from a man who truly cares about fashion. Is it really that much harder to just wear a pair of jeans and a t-shirt?

In other Brad news, it was announced yesterday that he will be joining the one-night-only reading of Dustin Lance Black’s new play, 8, all about the overturn of Proposition 8 in California. We talked about that a little bit in yesterday’s Clooney post, and here’s more about the project:

Brad Pitt is set to join the cast of the West Coast premiere reading of 8, the play penned by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) that follows the legal fight to overturn Proposition 8, the California law that outlawed gay marriage.

Pitt will play United States District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who found Prop 8 unconstitutional after presiding over the 12-day public trial. He joins a cast that includes George Clooney and Martin Sheen (as the plaintiff’s lead co-counsel), Christine Lahti and Jamie Lee Curtis (as a lesbian couple), Matthew Morrison and Matt Bomer (as a gay couple), as well as Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Campbell Brown, Chris Colfer, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cleve Jones, Rory O’Malley, George Takei, Yeardley Smith, Vanessa Garcia, Jansen Panatierre, James Pickens, Jr., and Bridger Zadina.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact also announced that the performance will be streamed live on YouTube at 7:45 p.m. PT on Saturday, March 3, with a pre-show airing at 7:30. Director Rob Reiner recorded a video explaining the play and inviting people to watch the live stream, which can be viewed here.

“At long last each and every American will be able to see for themselves what happens when prejudice and fear are put on trial in a court of law,” said AFER board president Chad Griffin in a statement. “For over two years, the anti-marriage proponents of Proposition 8 have fought tooth and nail to hide their discriminatory arguments from the American people. But on Saturday night, thanks to YouTube and our incredible cast, people across the nation, from Los Angeles to Little Rock to Baltimore, will get to watch as our Constitution’s promise of liberty and equality for all is protected.”

The show first premiered on Broadway in September (with cast members like Morgan Freeman, John Lithgow and Ellen Barkin) and is set to tour nationally throughout 2012, although the A-list stars attached to the West Coast reading are not expected to remain with the play.

[From EW]

That sounds like such a cool project – and everything is going down tomorrow too. I might actually tune in to watch it on YouTube. Brad Pitt, Clooney, AND Matt Bomer? Nice. And I love some Martin Sheen too – don’t judge me. I was a crazy West Wing addict. Martin Sheen is awesome.

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  1. Jill says:

    Great cast and very classy of them to stream it live on YouTube so everyone can watch it.

    • Freya says:

      Yes, great cast!
      I was a fan of West Wing too. Love Martin Sheen.

      Will see this on youtube.

  2. Katherine says:

    It’s so nice to see Maddox growing up. As for Brad I always assume he’s been tinkering with his bikes when he wears this get up. Though the point some have made about him wearing this as an easy cover over a knee brace and shorts may be more likely.

  3. Bird says:

    Good Lord, he looks disgusting.

  4. Jessica says:

    What does that sign say? Crop your heals?? lol

  5. Lis says:

    I hate Martin Sheen.

    I’m Irish, and Irish Americans in general make me want to vomit. The guy’s views on Northern Ireland and the IRA should make him a pariah.

    *eye twitch*

    • Tiffany27 says:

      Wait. Why do we hate Martin Sheen? I’m ignorant on the whole north Ireland IRA thing?

    • Jill says:

      Which son are you talking about, Charlie or Emilio?

    • Katherine says:

      Of course he’s proud of his Irish uncle who fought on the side of Irish idependence. They were not any more terrorists than the American revolutionaries were. They were not any more terrorists than the Black and Tans.

      Maybe you could tell us how wonderful the British were in their treatment of the Irish – especially Irish Catholics. Perhaps if the Brits gave the Irish back their country and all the land and property they stole from the Catholics there would be a true resolution to the problem.

      You don’t just get to label people because you don’t agree with them. Martin Sheen is as admirable a person as you can get.

      • Lis says:

        Here goes:

        I’m Irish – as in a real Irish person, not the “Irish American” BS. I get the final say in this. The guy is a scumbag.

        Oh, and we don’t actually want Northern Ireland.

    • Katherine says:

      There are plenty of Irish FROM THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND who do not agree with you. So all you do is speak for yourself. Just as Martin Sheen speaks for himself.

      There are also plenty of lands and property in the Republic stolen from Catholics by the British not all that long ago considering how the Brits place such importance on inheritances and ancestry.

      You may not feel proud of those who paid a terrible price fighting the British in the war of independence and stood against the tyranny of Britain that continued into recent memory but you are not the majority.

    • Coral Sea says:

      I agree with you Katherine. I’m a Maori from New Zealand and we were totally d-cked over by the British too, still are actually.

    • Freya says:

      All that doesn’t matter now. Haven’t the IRA and the British government come to a peace agreement? There’s no fighting anymore!

  6. Dibba says:

    Are they leaving jail after making bail?

  7. MS says:

    This families hygiene seems to be lacking! Do they ever look in the mirror before they leave the house? The hair appears as though it hasn’t been washed since before he stepped on the red carpet, and Maddox, whoa. Run a brush through that bed hair, please!

    Pitt honey, your hotness ran out the door 7 years ago. Bless your heart! What happened to throwing on a pair of jeans and t-shirt?

    Nasty, just nasty!

    • dede says:

      see i dont get when ppl say this because Brad was still pretty hot in 2006 when Shiloh was born and even when he was filming Moneyball he looked great..i honestly think he doesnt care so much about how he looks..believe me if he wanted to he could..anyways love Mad and dad together

      • Freya says:

        I have seen pictures of him from his previous life, meaning more than seven years ago, in which he looks horrible. Scruffy and with a long beard.

  8. ahoyhoy says:

    Aw, Maddox is growing up. How adorable.

  9. Indra says:

    This is the new fashion trend for Stoners, two piece outfits can get complicated.

  10. aenflex says:

    jesus is that a hyundai? nice!

  11. Kara Ann says:

    Maddox is cute as always. Like the sharks thing.

    Brad needs to burn the onesie and wash his hair.

  12. Yiarr says:

    Just hate those onesize jumpsuit!!!

  13. Dibba says:

    I can smell them thru my monitor.

  14. cookie says:

    he is wearing his onesie again what a douche

  15. Ravensdaughter says:

    I want to say (over and over again)! how proud I am to be a resident of Washington State. In January, our state house and senate passed a bill giving gay couples the right to marry. Governor Christine Gregoire signed the bill with great enthusiasm. Moreover, the people of Washington State have been extremely supportive.
    I hope the situation in California can be revisited with a happier ending. The civil court system exists to protect the basic civil rights of individuals when the majority (in CA, of voters) does not respect those rights. May justice prevail.

  16. marlee says:

    The onesie would be so much better if there were connected footies to go with it….

  17. tinker says:

    I know when I was little I would have died of embarrassment if my father took me anywhere wearing that get up.
    As far as hating Irish Americans. I guess that is ok .if you had said any other group protected by the PC police people would be jumping all over you. I find your comment rude and distasteful. Many Irish Americans have a proud history.
    The levels of success they reached coming from where they began in this country is to be admired. Single woman called Bridget’s saved many lives earning money as in house servants and funding immigration to a starving Irish population..
    Very proud Irish American here
    That being said I am not a fan of Martin or his views

  18. buell says:

    Looks like he needs to get back to the gas station to rotate some tires.

  19. mln76 says:

    Maddox is getting so big. I can’t believe he’s almost a teenager I remember when he was a little baby with a mohawk.

  20. S_____ says:

    Genetics are going on. My 5 and 8 year old have them too, so do I, so does my mom. It’s pigment under the eye.

  21. chloew says:

    prob the stress of taking care of his mother during one of her many nervous break downs

    (from her own words folks!)

    • dede says:

      wow you haters love to twist her words when did she say it was during a nervous break down.link please with the exact words.

    • Freya says:

      You must like to put your own spin on the stories you read.

  22. sharylmj says:

    the onesie comments on this thread are killing me!!! LOL!!!

  23. Ha says:

    Brad pitt is morphing into William h. Macy. It’s the nose… and the whole face.

  24. Ha says:

    Wasn’t clooney just complaining about how brad called him gay or something?

    Maddox is a cute kid but he always looks mad.

    • Jill says:

      If you had a dozen cameras up in your face every time you went out of the house, you’d probably look mad too.

  25. Ha says:

    Double or Tripple post.

  26. quasimatta says:

    they don’t seem very happy for some reason. he’s walking like way ahead of his son, not like a fun father-son shopping spree at the guitar shop? no smiles, no warm body language…a little sad looking twosome.

    • pamela says:

      You got all that from the man walking to his car with his son?

    • gab says:

      The paps were probably shouting rude things. Don’t hold it against them for not smiling at paps, they’re horrid creatures.

    • pamela says:

      I see the talking points for the day is that Brad is “smelly, and dirty”. Hey, whatever gets you through the day. I know he doesn’t look like a shake and bake turkey.

  27. MW says:

    At least he can just spontaneously go to the store with his kid instead of getting all dressed up – “in case he’s papped” – for a bunch of people who are ultimately going to pick him apart anyway, no matter what he is wearing.

    • Tapioca says:

      He knew he was going to get papped – because the Jolie-Pitts are well known for calling the photogs ahead of time.

      Maddox looks heartily sick of being used as a media-relations puppet by the looks of things.

      • Jill says:

        “Well known”? Don’t tell us — you read it on the FF site. And of course everything you read on FF is gospel.
        🙄

      • Freya says:

        They call the papz every time before they go somewhere? Where did you get that?

  28. spinner says:

    Brad looks like shit. He looks dirty, smelly & what’s with the onesie. Great example to set for your son, Brad. I love Maddox but it looks like he is emulating Brad & that’s too bad. Off to the showers with both of them.

  29. G says:

    Geez, haters. If he cared what you thought he would have worn something else.

  30. anya says:

    I dunno what people are on about- he looks HOT!

    • Wendy says:

      Do you usually date garbage men?

      • Jill says:

        You haters would, if you could get one. Beats nothing at all, right?

      • Anonymous says:

        lol isnt it funny how Wendy was getting snarky about the comments being made about Justin yet comes here to bash Brad. pot meet kettle

      • Indra says:

        lol isnt it funny how Jill was getting snarky about the comments being made about Brad yet comes here to bash Justin. pot meet kettle

        @Anon, your words perfectly described Jills actions as well.

      • Anonymous says:

        in that case dont get mad when ppl bash your fav on either post. this is a gossip forum not everyone is going to like the person you do. so when on justins page stop with the”why are you so mean yada yada” same with here. Some ppl think Brad is hot some ppl think Justin is hot. all opinions

      • Wendy says:

        Sorry Jill, dating is a no-no when you’re married, which I am. If Mr. Onesie wants to look like the trash collector, well good on him. If people think it suits him, I suppose they have their reasons. I couldn’t possibly think of what they might be…

      • Jill says:

        @Indra: Where did I bash Justin? All I said was he looks like he’s wearing mascara. He does. That’s way different from the loonifers talking smack about Brad is filthy and smells and looks like shit. You want to snark on somebody, snark on them.

      • Wendy says:

        @Anon: It’s kind of obvious that no one would be ripping Theroux apart here if he was dating anyone else but Aniston. I’m not upset about it, I just don’t get it. Mayer, I can understand, he made a very mocking video that referred to Pitt. Theroux has said nothing at all about any of them.

      • Jill says:

        Chill, Wendy. The ONLY reason you drool over Theroux is because he’s living with — make that living off — Aniston. You’d drool over Godzilla if he was paired up with Aniston. You loonifers are a riot. You are so desperate to see the poor woman hooked up with someone — anyone — that you willfully blind yourselves to the strong possibility that the guy is a user who will dump her as soon as he no longer needs her to advance his career. She’s got looks and money, but what else has she got to keep a man interested in her? Sooner or later they all bail on her, and this guy won’t be any exception.

      • Indra says:

        @Jill
        ‘I checked out the close-up photo. Dude wears more eye makeup than I do.’

        So instead of that comment being a bashing it was meant to be a complement.

        Edit – and now hes a user whos going to bail on Jen.
        LOL Haters gonna hate arent they.

      • pamela says:

        What’s wrong with dating a garbage man? They most likely make more money than you.

      • Wendy says:

        Not unless they’re working in the diamond district, they’re not.

        Amyways the trash collector look is perfect for him. Shows off perfectly the man inside, lol

      • Jill says:

        Dang, Wendy, you are really bitter toward that guy. What did he ever do to you? You are never going to forgive him for dumping your busted snow-globe princess. Tell you what, you really need to ease up on the hate. Your posts reveal a whole lot more than you mean them to.

        BTW, “working in the diamond district” doesn’t mean squat. For all you know, you could be sweeping up the cutting-room floor.

      • Wendy says:

        Jill. Think about what I said. Maybe you’ll get it in a day or two.

      • Jill says:

        I got it a long time ago. Too bad you didn’t. Emma’s dad was right about you. It must have been mortifying to get called out in public as an internet troll.

      • Wendi says:

        Oh Jill, you don’t know Jack, from the looks of it. Tell me, since it’s apparently easily findable for an “internet troll” on what basis the negative salary coefficients were applied to UN staff? Google away my dear, have at it and we’ll be looking forward to your answer along with the internet link where you found it.

    • Jill says:

      @Indra: right now it’s just stating a fact since the only make-up I’m wearing is lipstick. It’s a different shade from Justin’s, though. 😉

    • Wendy says:

      Jill, please link to where I am “drooling” over Justin Theroux (btw, nice job turning this thread into a Justin Theroux one). Don’t forget to mention his name lots so it counts more for him that the gargabe dude. Lol

    • Hypocricy says:

      Brad is tall, has a great proportionated body, sexy masculine neck, great legs, great ass, great chest, healthy skin and all his hair at nearly 50.

      Creepy, skinny, tannorexic, dry skinned, old neck, bald Justin is a decade younger, yet looks much more older and as dry as a pressed orange. To make it even more obvious, Brad at his age has had the physique he had during…TROY.

      That Justin guy’s body, long trunk short very skinny legs makes him totally unappealing body wise to me. No offence to dwarf people but his body proportions equal the one of a midget…totally unmasculine to me.

      When people compare this creepy short legged skinny specimen to the athletic, muscular built, long legged, pure dose of masculinity, 6’3″ Sean Connery, I call it BLASPHEMY !!!

      • Wendy says:

        Brad wears lifts and probably got hair plugs, given he fanatically wore hats all the time for a couple of years and then dropped them completely all of a sudden.

        In and of itself, not a big deal since appearance is everything in HW, but please… There isn’t much point of extolling those as virtues when he’s quite likely creating or maintaining those things with outside help.

      • Freya says:

        I agree! Theroux with his little tees and jeans that start way below his navel and end before his ankles doesn’t belong in the same sentence as the first James Bond. Just my opinion.

        Brad looks much better in his ‘garbo’ outfit.

  31. Luls says:

    Maddox is gonna be super short! He’s absolutely tiny for a 10 year old!

  32. olivia says:

    Oh, the onesie the gift that just keeps on giving. I can’t take loons seriously when they make fun of skinny jeans, yet their guy wears… that.

    • Jen Wind says:

      I don’t usually post on these threads, but this one made me laugh!!

      I love it!! It is so true!!

    • Freya says:

      Men of all ages wear that garment when they tackle less than clean jobs to keep their clothes inside it from getting dirty, oily, etc.

      Theroux wears little tees and jeans that start way below his waist and end at his ankles so, I suppose, he can show his boots.
      Well, that’s his business. We all have different taste, but I can’t take HIM seriously.
      There was a picture here recently in which he posed with his jeans so low you could see some of his front hair! I guess he thought it made him look sexy!

  33. Thea says:

    Isnt that Pax? And not Maddox.

    • Jill says:

      No, that’s Maddox. I don’t know why people get them mixed up unless they think all Asians look alike. 🙄

  34. Shay Kay says:

    Angelina’s got her sack dresses so Brad gets his onesie! It’s all in the name of comfort folks. You know how couples take on each other’s traits and here is a fine example of Brad taking Jolie’s comfort clothes to heart!
    To be honest this reminds me of the “onesie” that my daddy used to wear from the firestation. It was dark blue with his name in red thread above the left pocket. Usually he wore it when he was working on cars, painting, or something like that. I just paid Brad Pitt one HUGE complement to say he has anything in common at all ever in any way with my daddy.(Yeah daddy passed away 7 years ago and I still miss him so much it hurts.)

    • truthSF says:

      Shay Kay,I’m sorry for your loss, I lost my boyfriend and the father of my daughter 7 years ago, so I understand your lost.

      But know that the day you lost him physically, you gained a guardian angel, and he is always with you.

      • aprayerforthewildatheart says:

        Shay Kay, and truthSF
        I’m so sorry for both of your losses. I lost my grandfather 6 years ago, it still feels like yesterday, truthSF, I like the way you think…

    • Wendy says:

      Not to be disrespectful to your father, but these coveralls have pretty universal use. They remind me of my gardener one country back, only his were orange. Three countries back, the guys who repainted the house and garden walls wore them in light blue.

      They’re also standard equipment on oil rigs worldwide.

      • Jill says:

        And your point is? Oh, right, Brad is low-rent for wearing a onesie. He should be walking around wearing Armani all day long. You know what, Wendy, he got sick and tired of being his ex-wife’s dress-up doll. That’s another reason why he dumped the sow.

      • Mari says:

        Sorry because English for me is a foreign language, but I am not sure what this expression “one country back”, “three countries back” means… Is it demeaning? Is it a reference to immigrants or to poor people somehow? This expression seems not very nice, so I’d like to know.
        Tnx.

      • Jill says:

        @Mari: It means absolutely nothing. She’s trying to pretend she’s rich and well-traveled and she just comes off sounding like an idiot.

      • Wendy says:

        It means we switch countries regularly for professional reasons.

        And Jill, when you live in a country where a gardner is thrown in by the owner of the house you rent and a full time maid costs $100, there’s no requirement to be “rich”.

      • Jill says:

        @Wendy: Oh right, you’re a world wide jet-setter. Next thing you’ll be telling us you’re the CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation.

        One nice thing about the internet is you can reinvent yourself as many times as you want to.

      • Wendi says:

        Jill, there are a lot of people who move around for their jobs, it doesn’t make them a “worldwide jet-setter”. You’re the only one here implying the contrary.

        Would you call members of your military “worldwide jet-setters”? They move. The head of security at an Embassy aboad? They move too. How about someone who’s company sends them overseas to look after assets / production / manufacturing abroad? Is that jet-setting? Lots of people have passports Jill, they aren’t just reserved for the “jet-setters”.

  35. original sandy says:

    i love it, brad is not caring what people think, he is a dad of 6, just finished all those award shows, hopping from one end of the country supporting his partner, and now…. he wants to be lazy and not care, kudos to him, not superficial at all, still love the guy, so down to earth and normal.

  36. Mitch Buchanan Rocks says:

    Brad looks like Johnny Depp these days, have they ever worked together?

  37. Moreaces says:

    Madd is really growing up.

  38. Lauren says:

    Brad looks super sexy in that mechanics jumpsuit cause he is a devoted Dad. Nothing sexier than Brad the Dad.

  39. nikko says:

    I think he looks HOT!!!!! as always.

  40. Mimi says:

    Why is Wendy so obsessed with Brad Angie and Jen.chick has been all up this post and Justins.like really its kind of creepy.

    • Smauggy says:

      ITA! Totally creepy.

    • Jill says:

      Sounds like a classic case of over-identification. She’s Aniston, Brad is her ex, and Angie is the bad woman who stole her man.

    • Jesse says:

      ITA

      Wendy always seems to have a story to make her seem better than Angelina/Brad. Or she always has a justification to excuse JustJen. I love this site but mainly for the comments. But definitely this Wendy chick has been upping her craziness for awhile now.

      Seriously, who the hell takes this much time to comment on people she hates. She usually spends a couple of days commenting on them just to make her feel better that she has the last because normal and sane people have already moved on! But she’s definitely doing off the deep end when she claims she mainly stays on the JustJen stories but oddly enough, there was not one comment from her when there was the story of how bad Wanderlust flopped!

      Curious, isn’t it?

      • Wendi says:

        An oversight I’m sure. AJ’s much mocked “hokey pokey” at the Oscars probably distracted me. 😉

  41. aprayerforthewildatheart says:

    Nice to see dad and Mad out together. That t-shirt brought back all my childhood Jaws trauma lol! As for the jumpsuit, people who are born good looking rarely care as much about their appearance as others seem to. And the older you get, the less you care…just sayin’

  42. original sandy says:

    some one on these sites are having a break down, running back and forth, monitoring everyone’s comments, spewing hate on this site, while constantly defending another, that’s a Lotta work, calm down, it’s gossip, who cares that much? are they getting paid? madd is adorable, brad the dad, too cute.

  43. CHRISTIAN_GIRL says:

    Out going to the guitar store and wearing what he wants to wear. Simple as that.

    We don’t get to dictate what clothes he puts on.

    As for him smelling bad, WOW my computer screen does not have your same sensors. It can’t smell or taste either, so I can’t say he smells. What I do know is Goops mom spoke of him always being in the shower, an interviewer spoke of him getting off work and taking a shower before the interview, Brad finding Angie in the shower crying, Angie and Brad taking baths together, Fans and reporters saying how great he smells, leaving me to believe those first hand accounts and not those who can smell thru their computers. Carry on then.

    Maddox looks like a cool kid and so sure of himself. Brad spoke of the paps not being able to rattle him. He looks like he is going to be tall. He is 10 and compared to his parents and other adults in his company he looks tall. We will have to wait and see. I know his feet look big.

    Guitar and amp for someone, sweet. Please let it be for Shiloh’s birthday. Fun times ahead for whoever is getting it.

    • Jill says:

      It’s part of the Loonifers’ canon. Brad dumped their idol, therefore he must smell bad. You figure it out.

  44. SCREEEE says:

    SO JUDGEY. Guitar = a ‘that guy’ situation? I’m insulted. Also, I wish my parents had encouraged me at random hobbies at that age.

  45. MayaMae says:

    Maddox has always been my favorite, but for God’s sake – cut that hair.

  46. Freya says:

    It’s great that one or more of the Jolie-Pitts will be playing guitar. Who knows, others will learn to play the piano or the violin. I wonder if one of them will ask for a set of drums.

  47. Jaxx says:

    Anyone saying that Brad only got grungy after Angelina need to go back in his photo spreads. He had plenty of grungy days with Aniston. I remember one period when he had long hair and a long grungy beard and many other times when he looked very unkempt.

    Brad has always had a problem with his pretty boy looks and resorted to looking as awful as possible when possible. Right now he’s probably expressing his distaste for all the Oscar hoopla and tux wearing of the recent weeks and it’s back to grungola.

    Sorry, he’s still hot, but I’d make him take a shower first.

  48. Erin says:

    Is Brad Pitt getting into a Hyundai?

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