I feel like this story should have minimum commentary, mostly because whatever I say, I’m going to accused of “hating on” Jennifer Aniston. You know what? I defend Aniston sometimes. Sometimes I think she’s being treated unfairly. Sometimes I don’t even mind her hustle. And she’s hustling A LOT these days. I do half-admire it – she saw her opening, and she’s willing to spend the time and money to work an Oscar campaign, and in all honesty, she’s making the Best Actress race a little bit more exciting. Before Aniston made her play, what were we going to talk about? How Julianne Moore is going to walk away with every award? How Reese Witherspoon needs to tone down HER campaign? Boring. Aniston made it a bit more interesting. And now this – Page Six explicitly comparing the “campaigns” of Aniston and Angelina Jolie and coming right out and saying Jolie’s campaign has more charm. Stick around for the end when Aniston’s publicist throws a hissy fit.
In the movie awards season race, grace and charm trump all. Sources tell us Angelina Jolie’s campaign for her “Unbroken” is winning over some voters, while Jennifer Aniston’s tough security and entourage has proved a turn-off. Jolie wowed attendees at a Dec. 5 screening of her war epic, which she produced and directed, at the DGA Theater on West 57th Street.
Our source said of Jolie and Aniston, “The two women had very different behavior. Jolie showed up an hour early and signed for fans and did selfies for a solid 10 minutes on the way in. She signed for an additional 10 minutes in pouring rain on the way out. She was friendly inside and out. People were stunned at how accessible she was.”
Jolie was overlooked for a Golden Globe nomination, but is seen as an Oscar front-runner.
On Tuesday, the same source attended a Lincoln Center Film Society screening of “Cake,” which is garnering a lot of Best Actress buzz — including a Golden Globe nomination — for Aniston.
“Jennifer was accompanied by a lot of security and handlers,” we’re told. “While her co-star Anna Kendrick entered through the front door and signed [autographs] and took photos with people who asked, Jennifer and her entourage snuck in and out through an underground garage. She also had a bodyguard walk her in and out of the theater. Upon leaving the event, a small handful of people asked for a photo, and Jennifer simply smiled and said she couldn’t before heading back to her waiting SUV in the garage.”
Aniston’s rep Stephen Huvane snipped: “Clearly you just want to create something out of nothing. We entered through the garage because we were being followed by paparazzi, and they make everything difficult for her getting in and out of cars on street level. We did not stop for photos because we had another screening event downtown that was about to start and we had to hustle. That was announced at the end of the screening so that no one was disappointed.”
Huvane added, “It is very unfair for you to characterize Jennifer as you do here and the comparison to Angelina is just immature crap.”
Stephen Huvane referring to something as “immature crap” is like the pot calling the kettle a craven, fame-hungry flack. Anyway, he basically confirms that it did go down like this and that Aniston hasn’t had much time to pose for paparazzi photos outside of events, or do handshakes and selfies with fans (like Angelina). My thought is… does it matter to Oscar voters? I mean, it matters with public perception, with more fans getting to actually see Angelina and take a selfie with her. But Aniston is shaking the hands of the people she needs for her Oscar campaign.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Maybe Jen’s an introvert? Or has social anxiety? These are very real things. AJ seems to be more of a natural with people. Ugh, I’m wide awake early in this endlessly dark morning. The sun won’t be up for hours, and I’ve got no where important to be just now.
But jen has like so, so many friends and is the most popular and hollywood loves her and her goddess circle and brew crew and Chelsea and girl’s girl…
Definitely social anxiety and it shows up in her interviews. Angie is always very self-possessed and relaxed during interviews whereas Aniston usually stumbles and mumbles and can’t seem to get through any interview without twirling her hair every ten seconds.
I agree. Aniston is an admitted neurotic and very insecure especially about her face, even after all the cosmetic work and the smoke and mirrors that’s been her career. So when people want to take unapproved unretouched candid close up selfies with her that are bound to show up on the web…she and huvane freak out as if it were someone with ebola who wanted a hug.
Yes, there are lots of reasons people avoid crowds and events. Brad Pitt doesn’t enjoy crowds either, he admitted in an interview that he’s somewhat face blind and doesn’t recognize people. I can relate to that, having recently found out about the condition after living with it all my life. Its totally embarrassing and uncomfortable when people greet you and you can’t recognize who they are. Made even worse now with hearing problems where I can’t even hear what they say if its noisy in the room.
Why is he even responding? Sheesh. I also want to ask, is Huvane even helping Julianne Moore campaign at all or he’s busy stuck up Aniston’s ass?
I imagine Aniston pays handsomely for Huvane’s undivided attention. She also hired someone specifically to run her campaign for an Oscar. Julianne Moore seems to be relying on her performance to speak for itself. Moore also doesn’t seem to need or heavily rely on Huvane the way Aniston does.
Doesn’t he rep Hathaway, too? Did he have a hand in her campaign? I really don’t know how he operates as a publicist to his other clients, because he does seem to focus a lot of his attention on Jennifer.
Considering the fact that Julianne is a phenomenal actor and has yet to win an Oscar, “relying on her performance to speak for itself”, is not enough. If Julianne or any other clients of Huvane feel they’re not being properly represented, it’s foolish to stay with him.
He reps Jen, Julianne, Anne, Gwyneth, and Chelsea Handler among others, though more junior publicists may handle day-to-day interaction with those clients.
I thought Anne was rep’d by Leslie Sloane????? I don’t know how long she’s been w/ Stephen.
The Page Six article reads like a story made from cutting and pasting two opposing fans’ back and forth in a comments section. These two women aren’t even up for the same award.
That’s what I was thinking as I was reading it. Also, Huvane is a big part of keeping that connection alive for pity party pr articles and Aniston moving on to true love headlings. That his monster is being used against him must not feel too great.
“These two women aren’t even up for the same award. ”
HA! So true, but it won’t stop people from trying to position them into a tug-of-war. Ugh.
It’s a ridiculous and mean-spirited swipe at Aniston for no reason at all. There are plently of photos out there of her signing autographs at various functions over the years. I kind of agree with Huvane that it’s immature, particularly in the sense that with the mixed reviews that Unbroken is getting, there’s a mean-girl element of “Well, if Jolie isn’t going to get nominated this year, let’s try and make sure Aniston doesn’t either”. It’s kind of pathetic on behalf of whoever wrote this to start with.
Isn’t that what happened to AJ?
yawn, another story pitting jen against angelina. double yawn. what a surprise.
It would be nice if people yawed at all the other stories pitting Angelina against EVERYONE IN THE WORLD.. but those seem to always be believed.
WORD to the 10th power.
@Lisa2, pfftt!
snowflake, it’s old. Real OLD!
Huvane is a idiot .why to mention Angie
Angie and Brad have always been amazing to their fans. They take pictures with the Airport staff, restaurant staff. They spend loads of time on the red carpet with the fans. This is not news. It is what each has done for a long time. I remember there have been times when they are late to the screenings or such because they are with the fans.
I wish they would stop putting Angie in stories about Aniston. Just another reason for her fans to attack Angie/Brad for something they have nothing to do with.
The paps are bothersome to everyone. If you just let them have their dumb shots and keep moving it is not a big deal. Why let them control your movement and actions.
Wave.. smile and move on. It only becomes a big deal when you let it.
I think Jolie has a great way to deal with paps. They’ve spoken a bit how they travel to evade paps, but sidewalks? They just continue on. They walk and smile and continue on like no one is there. The kids too. They know that if you don’t engage you’re fine. Although Z throws a mean side eye!
I think Aniston would miss the paps. That she’s smuggled in and out of locations makes a shot of her even more valuable like she has something to hide. And I think she knows that. I think Huvane knows that. They didn’t just wake up in this world.
This site calls women with a lot of pap shots famewhores and mocks them. They can’t win if they try to hide and look away they are rude, if they let the paps get the shot they are thirsty famewhores, and now you are saying that they shouldn’t let the paps control their actions by trying to avoid them.
Oh goodness! The truth is coming out. Good. But as if we didn’t know this. Angelina has always come across as more down to earth and accessible, where as Aniston comes across as egotistic, smug and aloof and thinks she is better.
I am lolling hard at Stephen Huvane once again proving he scours the tabloids for anything about Aniston and has to respond to every …. single …..thing about her. Has there ever been anything said about her that he hasn’t responded to?
Funny how he never thinks articles that unfavourably compare Jolie to Aniston – almost 99% of them, are never ‘immature’. Funny how he never responds to those articles and call those immature. The one time one of the articles linking Aniston and Jolie and Jolie comes off better, the ONE time, and he reacts? He makes her look desperate and pathetic. It basically confirms people’s suspicions that he is behind the tabloid attacks on Jolie.
As to not signing autographs? This is not the first time I have read this about her. She really doesn’t like mingling with the fans. And also how poorly arranged was it, if little to no time was left in between to sign autographs? That is poor organisation. So that is Huvane, Aniston and her assistant’s fault. They’re professionals. They should know better. No excuses.
Maybe if he stopped spending his time scouring tabloids for things to respond to, he would have more time to better organise events so pr slip-ups like this don’t happen again.
Edit: I just noticed this: “paparazzi, and they make everything difficult for her getting in and out of cars on street level.”
WHAT? Of COURSE paparazzi are going to be there!! My goodness, what is the point of a showing/premiere/promotional function, *without* paps? How come NO ONE ELSE has a problem with the paps being there? My god, it IS PART OF THE JOB!! If she can’t handle paps being there, what the hell is she doing in this business?!?? How come Angelina Jolie, arguably bigger than her (maybe not movie-wise, but career/name/power wise) and she never has any problems with it? Of ALL the excuses!
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JA is one of those celebrities that is always sneering or covering her face in a scarf and looking like an idiot trying to hide from paps. I absolutely hate that. Especially when the next minute they are calling the paps to come out for an event or going to pap heavy restaurants or whatnot. But don’t take a pic of me when I don’t approve it.
Don’t be so hard on her. If you had that chin you’d cover it up too.
I think that is the issue, she soesnt have photo approval nor owns the rights the right of unfavorable pics. How to sue them if she looked older or big nosed?
Really? Are we attacking her looks? She looks fine and I bet is fine with her face now. Comments like that make it easier for the majority to judge the content poorly.
If she smiled she would be a “famewhore”. You don’t know who calls the paps and who doesn’t it is all fan guess work. And why should she spend her life hiding.
@FLORC I completely agree with you. It is degrading your opinion to stoop to attacking how anyone looks. I don’t dislike anyone based on their chin. She may not be the most beautiful woman in the world but that is no reason to dislike her. There are a plethora of reasons but not that one.
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Wow. No. She’ smiled before and that term was not tossed around. Please educate yourself before being so judgemental. You likely have us confused with another site.
Amen
Part of Aniston’s strain with her mother was she would attack her daughters looks. Telling her awful things and at length about why she wasn’t pretty enough to be an actress or be loved. We don’t need to be those people who attack the appearance of others. Everyone has their demons and those insecurities don’t need our help.
Yeah, the paparazzi excuse falls flat when your client is literally being compared to BRANGELINA. Girl, if Angie doesn’t have to avoid fans because of photographers, no one does.
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“Maybe not movie wise? ” omg..put down the pipe. Aniston gets cast as the girlfriend/wife to 3rd rate or snl male comics and has never carried a movie under her own steam. ..you’re saying is bigger than Angelina? Lololol In what universe?
Agree. Outside of the US, Aniston is mostly unknown. Jolie is famous world-wide.
Aniston is pretty well known outside US! Because she was in FRIENDS! I say that because I live outside of US! But yeah AJ has definitely a larger star power compared to JA.
Totally agree. I cant wait for Aniston’s close up when she doesn’t win, in private she’ll do an epic dummy spit.
Lol You just KNOW her and Huvane will spin it so its all evil Angelina’s fault. I don’t know what their narrative will be, but I bet my house, my cherished pet, and 5 years worth of salary that they will find some way to place the blame on Angelina if she doesn’t get a nomination or win. Huvane probably already has a draft article done up to feed Star, US Weekly and Life and Style.
And if not Jen and Huvane, the Anistonloonies at DListed and Female First most certainly will. I can imagine the conspiracy theories now.
I think somewhere Angie and Jen are taking turns making up stories to give to the tabloids.
Jen “Well, I want to be the villain bitch this week.”
Angie “I thought it was my turn?”
Jen “No, you got to have a fight with Brad and make him cry remember? I get to be Nasty, Diva this week”
Angie “Oh right right. Well okay fine. But next week I get to be Neurotic Psycho Grudge Lady okay?”
Jen “Sounds good. Talk to you next week, sweety.”
or flip a coin,
or maybe play with balls!
(like petanque.)
Taterho, I like the way you think.
I SO SO SO wish this were true.
it would make so many people’s heads explode.
Nice one Jaderu, I wish this was true, I like them both for different reasons, probably because they are so different. IF there’s a villain in the triangle it’s not a woman but when has a man ever been held accountable when it comes to relationships, it’s always the women.
I think it’s cute how when Aniston looks bad and her fans feel bummed they always spit up these fantasies about Angelina and aniston being in cute cahoots..and the Aniston’s other enablers chime in to say, ‘oh I wish that was truuuuue.’ Seriously it’s some kind of meangirl rorschact test….when Angelina is being kicked in the teeth no dice…but when it’s aniston…they day dream about them being besties. So weird. Lol
You can count me out of your little scenario muggles. And Aniston doesn’t look bad, in fact she looks pretty good right now and so will Angelina again when she’s recovered from Chicken Pox. I know it’s difficult for the fans on either side of the fence to process but there are women who admire both of them and don’t enjoy bashing other women.
@Muggles …
It’s a very obvious ploy and it is awfully cute. 🙂
This exactly. My fantasy is a mud-wrestling match between Brangelina and JustJen. I think it would be hysterical.
girls against boys? my money is on the Jolie/Aniston pairing…Pitt would be too stoned and Theroux wouldn’t want to mess up his hair and skinny jeans.
That’s one of the many things that AJ differ from Aniston.
Her being NICE to her supporters regardless of status in life is SECOND NATURE to her. That is what she really is. It’s not a PR strategy. In fact, I never heard any news that she’s rude or say bad things about others even if she is attacked many times verbally by others. Hence, it is no surprise if she shows respect even to strangers. In addition to her being naturally grateful to them, showing nice gesture toward them comes with the territory. For AJ, signing autographs & taking pics with them are part of being a celebrity, more so that she’s NOT just an ordinary one BUT the most popular female celebrity in the whole world. It is her WAY OF GIVING BACK or SAYING THANK YOU to her fans who put her to where she is now. She knows & appreciates the EFFORT, TIME & MONEY spent by the public for her.
I was really touched when she showed her concern to a fan who had panic attack during Unbroken promo. I could really see that she truly cares. Even while she was signing autographs, she kept on looking at her and even approached her to make sure she’s ok.
If only other celebrities could be nice to their fans as well……
Yeah they are two completely different people. Shocking.
Angelina is great, but the girl wasn’t some diehard fan. She was a professional autograph seeker, she talked about her and her friend “getting” Angelina. I only point this out because Angelina knew it and still treated her that way, a lot of people just blow autograph seekers off. She gets and accepts the game, I think, more than most celebs.
I don’t see how that matters. Even professional autograph seekers are fans of someone, so how do we know she wasn’t a fan of Angelina? And wheres the evidence Angelina knew?
BTW I thought that tmz ‘story’ about the fan being a professional autograph seeker was debunked and just tabloid bs?
I think it also has to do with controlling her image and not wanting random selfies of her with fans circulating because she won’t have final copy approval. Her image is very tightly controlled and created by her people and they don’t want her to mess it up by talking out of turn.
I couldn’t live like that. No way.
Not a bad theory but I’ve never seen an unflattering shot of her face!
I’m not saying she’s ugly, I’m saying she is a control freak who won’t take a chance that she looks bad in a photo. She has a bit of a reputation for that with magazine spreads doesn’t she? And her PR addresses every single item reported about her so I would say that is very image conscious. I’ll betcha we see her interacting with fans more now.
GIa – well then she doesn’t mind taking selfies then? Think that disproves the theory?
Also – she looks great in those links!
That’s odd. Because Aniston’s features are unattractive at worst and meh at best. I happen to think her most photoshopped approved pics are still verging on homely. That said…
Unapproved candid photos of any celebrity exist all over the internet, the only difference between some celebs and Aniston is that she and huvane care deeply that you don’t see the worst of them. Still they slip thru…they exist and a quick Google search tells the tale. But like I said…even her retouched approved photos are no prize. Sorry I have working eyeballs and no need to pacify her enablers.
Fans take selfies with Brad and Angie all the time and post them on their FBs and IG.Angie can’t control what people post on social media.
It’s pathetic that Huvane commented on this tabloid story and even more pathetic that he name checked Angie.
It’s funny he won’t comment on Cake being named on worst films of 2014 lists.
I wonder how much she pays Huvane? A million a year?
Minimum. I’m betting she pays him at least 5% of her pre-tax income.
what list?
I actually think that makes a lot of sense. That could be one of the many reasons certain celebs don’t stop to take selfies with people, because they don’t want those pictures to be circulated. Does Kim K take selfies with fans? I could see her freaking out about something like that.
KK does take unedited selfies. And she is good looking in them. She’s not not her original pretty and looks plastic.
Shocked Ariana Grande hasn’t been mentioned yet. She’s a known celeb that has body guards sshake down fans to remove selfies just taken. Girl is crazy.
I think their strategies HAVE to be different. AJs task is to humanise herself. Alot of people think shes too standoffish, too removed especially in Hollywood. She also needs to shake off that brat tag now, most people dont read the full Sony email exchanges, all they know is that what they always thought about Hollywood actresses is true.
JA is already girl next door. Again people associate her heavily with Rachel Greene, and everytime theres a rerun they remember that shes ‘Americas Sweetheart’. This is not a battle she needs to fight. She doesnt need to kiss babys and take selfies for the likeability. She DOES have to convince her peers to take her seriously though. So her focus must be on shaking the right hands rather than any hands. AJ doesnt have this problem with being taken seriously, so she doesnt need to push very hard here.
Me, I want them both nominated. And both winning. Frankly neither of them deserve it! But perhaps if we can get through a season of hyped up love triangle nonsense than people will get so tired of it, it will just die on its own.
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This exactly. In addition, I have only ever heard great things regarding fan interaction with Aniston throughout the years. Hell, I have a couple of friends who have run into her and they’ve said she is very warm and friendly. None of us take her seriously as an actress though (can you blame us? She’s devoted too much of her career to too many stupid comedies a la ‘We’re the Millers’), so she definitely has a lot to prove there.
Spot on analysis!!
I also think Angie’s image could use a little rehab. The timing of the Sony hacks being made public could not have been worse.
Angie has always been a celeb that signs autographs even when she was young and rebellious. So it’s not just a recent tactic to deal with the Sony hack.
Angelina doesn’t need any image rehab. Emailgate is going to blow over soon.
Agreed (@Reed) and if ‘Emailgate’ has shown us anything, it’s that Angelina Jolie was the professional in the email exchanges. She came out of this with positive points, not negatives. So there’s absolutely not reason for an ‘image rehab.’
Angie’s presence in the Sony hacks makes her look powerful. Jen isn’t on anyone’s radar.
Angie has always been friendly with her fans. I doubt it has anything to do with a Sony hack.
Yeah, I’m not sure how the emails make Angelina look bad. What’s wrong with people? If anything, they made Scott Rudin look like a bullying mulehole and Amy Pascal look weak. “Minimally talented spoiled brat?” Hello Pot. Meet Kettle.
Lol – the only thing these emails proved how professional Angelina is. And also how powerful she indeed is within Hollywood.
The executives wants to buy Scott out and Keep Angelina. That says it all.
Good point. People seem to have strong opinions on these two, and I’ve always been meh on both of them.
@Delueth, who wrote: “I think their strategies HAVE to be different. AJs task is to humanise herself. Alot of people think shes too standoffish, too removed especially in Hollywood.”
Why in the world would Angelina Jolie need to “humanise herself” when the World has seen this woman in the most Humane manner in refugee camps for years? Why would you say Angie is signing autographs and taking selfies ‘this year’ because “Alot of people think shes too standoffish, too removed especially in Hollywood” when the woman (and her husband) have ‘always’ made time before and after premieres and events to sign autographs and take selfies with fans?
Word. I’d like to know just who thinks she is standoffish, because what I’ve read over the years is that no one has ever thought Angie was standoffish. She has always had a reputation as being so incredibly down to earth and approachable. So I don’t get where the standoffish part has come from.
Exactly. She is always described as genuine and warm. Very down to earth and grounded. I think it helps that she doesn’t live in LA all the time, surrounded by the nonsense.
Deleuth wrote: “But perhaps if we can get through a season of hyped up love triangle nonsense than people will get so tired of it, it will just die on its own.”
I thought this back in 2009 when Aniston stalked Brad and Angie to their Oscar ceremony..and people enabled that behavior by not calling her out. Brad and Angie were poised and dignified and she looked like a sad clown with John mayer in tow who would go on to dump her the next day. Sadly, that didn’t end the tabloid narrative. If anything it was ramped up again by Aniston’s PR. Sad jen loses another man and it’s Angie’s fault.
As long as Angelina’s perceived as winning (I.e. with Brad Pitt and his babies) and Aniston isn’t…this tabloid psycho catfight narrative that makes aniston relevant will exist.
For instance I don’t think aniston would ever be getting this kind of awards show traction (paid capaign strategist or no) in a year without her eternal foil Angelina and Brad. It just wouldn’t be happening.
ALSO Deleuth…do you really think just because one the most notorious monsterish foul ogre-ish aholes in Hollywood calling Angelina Jolie a ‘brat,’ means her entire body of humanitarian accomplishments and influence is erased. ..so she has to start over from ground zero by…what…taking pics with assorted fans? Something shes always done anyway? Will they take her jean herscholt OSCAR away? Her honorary dame-dom? Lol. Her Time Most Influential? You cannot be serious. Lolol lol
Aniston isnt girl next door…she’s just variations of poor Jen, hairstyle Jen, unmarried Jen, party in Cabo Jen. No substance just vapid & insecure yet being held up as a role model. That’s why she’s unlikeable to a whole lot of people.
Very good synopsis of her. Exactly why I find her so irritating.
“She also needs to shake off that brat tag now, most people dont read the full Sony email exchanges, all they know is that what they always thought about Hollywood actresses is true.”
The thing about actresses that it has proven to me is that they work in a deeply misogynistic environment. I knew this before but it is nice to have evidence.
Just because someone has a lot of handlers doesn’t necessarily mean they’re inaccessible. She did Between Two Ferns with Galafianakis didn’t she? If she was uber snobby, she would not have done that.
What I find amazing is how Jolie has managed to turn her other woman thing around through clever PR and yet each time, and I’ve noticed it in all internet comment streams, Aniston is always mentioned in the negative. In the ordinary world of twenty years ago, this would not have been the case, so I’m thinking that if Aniston is always mentioned with respect to Jolie and Pitt online, imagine what comes at her in reality and she may need a buffer to deal with that. I’ve read many comments that rave on negatively about Aniston on various sites and newspapers online, even though she’s never one anything wrong to Brad Pitt or Jolie [written by lunatics], so yes, security would be expected.
Ultimately Jolie’s accessibility now is all about her second directorial effort and its promotion. I don’t think she is that accessible when she doesn’t have anything to market.
If she was so accessible, then why fly on a private plane everywhere she goes? Even Prince William didn’t fly in a private jet on his recent USA tour and I’d imagine he’d have more reason not to be accessible.
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I’ll try again. Angelina has had many negative things said about her too, so you’d expect her security to be as tight, as well. Perhaps you haven’t read all the nasty things said about Jolie, including people wish death to her and her children, all because of Aniston. Aniston has had a dream run in the press and on the net for nigh on a decade, there has hardly been any negative comments about her.
And done nothing to Angelina and Brad? No, just starting a 9 year vendetta against them, fanning the flames of the ‘Team Aniston’ thing, egging on Chelsea Handler to make horrible and racist comments, and just make passive-aggressive comments at your ex and his wife for 9 years. Aniston has bankrolled herself on the back of her passive-aggressive attacks and vendetta against Angelina. The JPs, to their credit, have never said a word against, or done anything wrong to Aniston. So they are the ones who don’t deserve the attacks, especially since there was no affair afterall, and Aniston went on to be ‘the other woman’ herself with Heidi and Justin.
Oh, and Angelina has consistently made the best autograph signers lists, for many years. So her behaviour as being down to earth, and an approachable autograph signer has nothing to do with Unbroken, but is consistent with who she is for many years. Research it, she has always been a good autograph signer and approachable. Nothing new there.
You’re making it sound like it’s one sided, like Jolie’s fans don’t attack Aniston constantly with vile comments. Please… Let’s just say both fan bases are very misogynist against these women.
Well, it’s more the nature of the attacks, know what I’m saying? Jolie’s fans attack Aniston with ridicule and derision about being a victim or a perpetual loser, whereas Aniston’s fans have made death threats against Jolie and racist comments against her children. You decide which are more offensive.
So saying she’s played Rachel Green for most of her career and constantly talks about her hair and hair products she endorses is a vile attack?
@K, who wrote: “You’re making it sound like it’s one sided, like Jolie’s fans don’t attack Aniston constantly with vile comments.”
Vile comments? I tell you what … why don’t you post a list of all the ‘vile things’ Jennifer Aniston is constantly attacked with and I’ll make a list of all the ‘vile things’ Mr. and Mrs. Pitt are constantly attacked with. You can go first.
K, why didn’t you address your post to EM? THEY were the ones making out like Aniston fans are pure and Jolie never receives any attacks. Why is it you only responded to the poster who said that AJ gets attacked, too? Rather odd that you ignore the inflammatory post by EM, and instead try to admonish Gia. Should have been the other way around, if you were genuine.
And what ‘vile comments’ has Jen ever had to endure? Saying she can’t act? Saying she doesn’t want kids? Vile comments about her hair, perhaps? About her boyfriends? What? What ‘vile comments’? Have you ever SEEN the TRULY VILE comments against Angie? Wishing her black children would be raped? Wishing they’d die a horrible excruciating death – just because of who their mother is? Are you honestly comparing the tame and lightweight criticism Jen gets, to – THAT?!? If you did see the most ghastly and vile and inhuman and disgustingly sick and evil comments, not just vile, that Angie gets, you would never ever talk about the so-called ‘vile comments’ Jen has *supposedly* gotten. Ever.
Look, I don’t care for the speculation, of who [may or may do what, ‘fanning flames’ etc, which to me sounds a little OTT] has this or that motive, we’ll never know. But to say that one is more accessible than the other on the basis of such a small time frame – the last couple of weeks, is not really accurate. When Angelina was in Sydney, staying here, she wasn’t ‘so accessible’. Even when she was taking her kids out to eat, she had her entourage with her – and I don’t blame her. If I was famous and had how many kids to supervise, I wouldn’t be so accessible with so many potential psychos out there. My point is, that accessibility does not automatically denote niceness. Not in Hollywood during Oscar promo/campaign time.
I don’t watch either of them in films, I’m just observing the usual PR machine at work and now that Angelina has a film that the studios are depending on to make some type of profit, as does she, the media spin is what it is. It’s a business at the end of the day, not about who’s the nicest person in the pond – as the Sony hacked emails show.
As for the Handler thing, whatever happened happened, but don’t forget that Jolie also cut Laura Dern’s grass when Dern was engaged to Billy Bob Thornton, like it’s a relationship pattern of some kind and people like Dern and Aniston are friends as well, so I don’t imagine so many of these Hollywood folk, particularly married women, are Jolie fans.
Leah, why is my post inflammatory?
I remember from years ago, as soon as it was confirmed that Aniston and Pitt broke up, the vile comments coming through like Aniston did something evil, when Jolie was the one that was the other woman – i.e. when you have a relationship with someone who is still married, it’s still an extramarital relationship. I’ve read that you’ve mentioned that Aniston did the same, three times. With whom? Please mention, so we’re all illuminated on this.
Is that inflammatory? The facts are the facts, she started having a relationship with a married man. She won’t be the first (Elizabeth Taylor, Melanie Griffith, etc) and she won’t be the last, but the difference here is that none of the ‘wives’ in the Taylor and Griffith examples, ever copped the same flak as Aniston did and it’s quite impossible to find a comment stream in an Angelina story that doesn’t raise Aniston in some way. If Richard Burton and Antonio Banderas’ wives were well known Hollywood actresses, maybe they would have copped the same flak as Aniston. We’ll never know.
Agreed Janet.
No what’s more surprising is how Jennifer got away with ruining 3 relationships. The media never comments about it because they are in Huvane’s pockets.
+1 Angelina didn’t do anything wrong to Aniston, it turned out there was no affair there, after all. So Jolie was not the ‘other woman’ and Aniston was not wronged. Yet she spent 9 years maliciously making passive-aggressive attacks on her ex, Brad, and on Jolie. She has carried on a vendetta for 9 years, and even hired Handler to attack Jolie, so how has Aniston ‘not done anything wrong?’?
Hello, Aniston’s passive-aggressive attacks, stalking and coat-tailing of the JPs is well-documented and well-reported. How did this escape some people? Yet Aniston steals Tate Donovan from Sandra Bullock, has an affair with Chris Gartin who was married, and infamously steals Justin Theroux away from his partner of 14 years, Heidi Bivens, and she gets a free pass and the press don’t report it, except for some that don’t have Huvane as a client?
How on earth can Aniston get away with all the horrible things she has done to people, and have 97% of the internet supporting her while Angelina is the pariah on the net and receives more hate and death threats than any other star in recent history, yet Angelina never did one single thing wrong to Aniston?
If you read some of the negative comments against Jolie, you’d think many Aniston fans should be in a straight jacket, and Jolie should receive 24 hour security. YET, Jolie still manages to be very open and approachable to fans. Some people just cannot see what is right in front of them. Time Aniston was exposed for who and what she is, and time her personality and true colors were exposed. I love this article. About time!
Good Points
If Aniston truly wanted to drop the relation to Jolie she could have by now. Huvane and Handler for quick examples. Both very close to Aniston and both extremely vocal about Jolie and why she should be hated by all. If Aniston had an opinion opposing that it would have ended. She could have moved on with her career. Ansiton isn’t directly attacking but she’s not disapproving of thoseclosest to her doing that.
There is still a direct link because she wants it that way.
EM, What hogwash! And I mean serious hogwash.
Yea. And there have been numerous “snobby” celebs that have done between 2 ferns. You can’t use that skit as a scale to tell if a celeb is into fans taking selfies or not. Also, ferns is filmed on a set with security. It’s not like Zack is a fan boy who writes letters to interview them in his basement. It’s a full production with scripts and editing.
@EM, who wrote: “What I find amazing is how Jolie has managed to turn her other woman thing around through clever PR and yet each time, and I’ve noticed it in all internet comment streams, Aniston is always mentioned in the negative.”
I don’t think ‘Jolie’ has turned anything at all. I think it’s just that the tide of public opinion has shifted a bit in Angie’s favor over the past 10 years … not due to anything ‘she’ has done, but rather due to what ‘Jennifer Aniston’ has (or hasn’t) done. I also think many things factor in to it: Jen’s naked magazine covers; the ‘Seventeen Magazine’ outfits she wears up to her assets; the ‘baby bump’ game (and she still hasn’t had that baby the villainess Angelina Jolie kept her from having with Brad Pitt); her constant relationship drama played out in the press (perhaps hinting that it wasn’t about Brad at all?); her gleeful association with Chelsea Handler; and (proving that the general public is smarter than I give it credit for) the manner in which she and Justin Theroux began their relationship by blind-siding Heidi Bivens–without a second thought.
I really do think some of the above has factored in with the shifting tide of public support from Jennifer Aniston to Angelina Jolie.
Agreed. The very minimal negative comments JAniston gets are because of her actions and treatment of not just AJolie and how she has stalked and tormented AJolie, but other women JAniston has hurt. She has said, and done, some truly abhorrent and despicable things and has received a pass for all of them and almost never is called out by the media. Hence why people who simply do not pay attention are under the misunderstanding that she ‘doesn’t do anything wrong’ to some people, when she does. Just read the words in her own print interviews. Just see who she aligns with. She most certainly has, and I can quote the things she has said. Its well over due that she was called out and she took criticism too, since everyone else does but she is a privileged snowflake who’s bad deeds are never called to account. She even tore apart a home and relationship of 14 years, yet no one cares! All they do is (falsely) claim AJolie is the ‘other woman’. What about what JAniston did? She was the other woman not once, not twice, but 3 times. Oh, lets not mention it. ssssh. Rules are different for her. JAniston never gets any criticism she gets a pass for every thing. Absolutely everything. People turn a blind eye to it ALL, but they never give AJolie the same favour. So this is well overdue. Well WELL overdue. Everyone else does, so why shouldn’t she? Maybe if she spent less time on her vendetta against Angelina and coattailing the JPs she may have received all these nominations before now. That is, if her agent actually promoted her, instead of spending time addressing every thing about her he reads. I never had a problem with Jen before, but the last 6 years that I’ve been paying attention I’ve seen what a nasty, vicious, conniving and malicious person she is. All behind the ‘veneer’ of a ‘sweet girl’. smh
Agree with what Emma said except that I think the tide has shifted in Jolie’s favor more than a bit. Except for the hate sites like FF and dlisted, on almost every other web site the majority of comments are decidedly pro-Angie. I think Aniston played the victim card too long and it backfired all over her. People got sick and tired of her non-stop pity party and realized Angie is far from the demon the tabloids tried to make her out to be. There is a very thin line between pity and contempt, and Aniston crossed it a long time ago.
Just to pop by while I’m in a frenzy of Holiday baking/cleaning….
The tide definitely turned on this site back in 2011, when Jennifer got with Justin. I’d been reading CB since mid 2010, and I remember that 90% of the comments on Brad/Angelia’s posts were about how she was a skanky homewrecker, or he was an unwashed cheater (for the most part it was about Angelina though)……it wasn’t REALLY until the whole kerfuffle about Jennifer and Justin came that there was a lot more debate and information being exchanged.
I remember it well, precisely because that was when I became a lot more encouraged to comment (just because I saw more people were starting to comment and interact with each other, which is why I like this site more than others).
And one funny thing I’m remembering, Emma, is that absolutely NO ONE on this site believed that Jennifer and Justin were together when *someone* (coughhuvanecough) start leaking rumors that they were having a romantic dinner via PEOPLE magazine, as early as April/May 2011…..because it was explicitly said that Justin had a long time girlfriend….and then Heidi’s mom spoke up via Heidi and Justin.
I have to give it to them, after those tacky name rings, I didn’t think they’d last this long. AT ALL.
Yes, I remember back then, too. I remember back to the Olivia days and before then. There was also a MissOdie2 who was always slamming AJ for doing what JA herself did. I wonder if some of these posters gave up and quietly slunk away when it became obvious that Aniston was a homewrecker? A few nicks have disappeared and never been heard from when the whole Heidi/Justin/Jen triangle came out. I like this site because, even though many good innocuous posts (on both sides) are deleted and the moderating seems very unfair at times and all over the place (I’ve seen some posts saying “I agree, I think that is wrong” deleted, innocent ones like that; anyone I digress), this site seems to have more mature and intellectual discussion. For example, a week or 2 back, there was a post on Unbroken. I basically became a long thread of comments about war, casualties, numbers etc. History. Oh so much history that you could sink your teeth into, just on one topic’s comments. A lot of truly erudite people comment on here. That story’s commentators proved it. We are a more academic and refined lot of here. Lots of informative commentators. I kept thinking as I was reading those comments, this is high brow deep stuff. Very deep. Imagine this being on a place like DListed? NOT A CHANCE!! They wouldn’t be capable of that type of discussion over there. That’s if they could even figure out what WWII was. The clientele of DListed and ourselves is like chalk and cheese. Two entire different ‘breeds’ of people on here, vs over there.
I felt quite proud of this site on that day. I hope Kaiser, Celebitchy and Bedhead did, too. 🙂
Found it. http://www.celebitchy.com/401434/angelina_jolies_unbroken_is_racist_according_to_japanese_nationalists/
Emma, for me personally, the Brad Pitt thing is miniscule -these things happen in the film industry and in everyday life as well. I don’t care.
What I find more amazing is how she turned the pash with her brother at the Oscars around [and one other still image out there], because no matter how anyone explains that, it just looked so wrong.
BTW, I find the nomination of Aniston for a SAG and/or Oscar a joke, just as anyone else does.
@Em, who wrote: “As for the Handler thing, whatever happened happened, but don’t forget that Jolie also cut Laura Dern’s grass when Dern was engaged to Billy Bob Thornton, like it’s a relationship pattern of some kind and people like Dern and Aniston are friends as well, so I don’t imagine so many of these Hollywood folk, particularly married women, are Jolie fans.”
@Em, who wrote: “What I find more amazing is how she turned the pash with her brother at the Oscars around [and one other still image out there], because no matter how anyone explains that, it just looked so wrong.”
You’ve latched on to Tabloid tales as fact. To anyone wondering why some of us post itemized comments with links … this is why. Laura Dern wasn’t engaged to Billy Bob Thornton, and he was married with small kids when he and Dern got together. Angel kissed her brother on the mouth. Guess what? Our Vice-President, Joe Bidden, kisses his mother and all of his adult children–including his sons–on the mouth. He famously did so on camera the day the Secret Service arrived at his house to collect him after it was announced that he was the Vice-President. Some people/families do that. Oh and there wasn’t any ‘tongue’ either, I don’t know how that got started.
EM, firstly, BBT and Dern were never even engaged. Not EVER. I don’t know where that bs about them being ‘engaged’ started, but even Dern NEVER referred to BBT as her ‘fiance’. Always only her boyfriend.
Secondly a press release from Dern’s own publicist, proved that Dern and BBT were over before he married Jolie. Lets not forget that Dern says EVERY man who leaves her, cheated on her. Lets also not forget that Dern got together with BBT when he was married, and, she infamously was pregnant with Ben Harper’s child at the exact *same time* that that his WIFE was pregnant. Ergo, consider the source.
Lastly, as an Italian, *I* greet my brother with a kiss ON the lips, so does my grandmother, grandfather, cousin etc. NO TONGUE INVOLVED. Perhaps perverted bigots need to stop clutching their pearls and realize that Angelina gave her brother a greeting kiss ON the lips, no tongue involved, there was NO ‘pash’.
Angelina has never been involved with a man that was already in a relationship, yet Aniston has, three times. Angelina is well respected outside the tabloids and the narrow-minded brainwashed tabloid sphere, yet I cannot imagine that Aniston a three times homewrecker, is popular with married women.
Emma
Regarding kissing family. My own we kiss on the cheek, but a friends family kisses on the lips. It’s a bit off putting in a culture shock kind of way. They’re totally normal though. And they will kiss friends goodbye with edge of mouth kisses.
When other people see this they take it to the extreme. And worse yet if that kiss is caught in a photo the time can be extended. I think it’s silly and reaching people latched on to that and continue to do so at this point.
I call b.s. on this. If aniston was really interested in toning down rhetoric we’d get no weepy/bitter Oprah shows and uncool vogue covers and GQ sniping at JUST Angelina…we’d get no surrogate PR besties (huvanes other client chelsea handler) hired to bash Angelina on a regular basis so her hands don’t get dirty.
Also..Angelina didn’t need to turn ‘the other woman,’ thing around simply because she was not the other woman and even brads ex pain said that…also she was an admirable young woman committed to humanitarianism before Brad met her – if you recall that was one of the reasons he gravitated to angie as a person. ..because she was concerned with those less fortunate around the world and devoted to things outside of herself. As you recall people said HE was following her lead when it came to philanthropy. As he told the world, he was leading a sad boring selfish silly life and he wanted to change and be better.
Angelina didn’t ‘turn her life around for Brad,’ he did that for her. He took her lead. He’s a better man and father because of it…and he knows it.
Cmon – They are two separate types of events. One is a premiere where there is a portion of the evening where you are expected to sign autographs with waiting fans, and the other are back to back screenings where I would think being on time is kind of important (and we know they were back to back because we saw multiple Aniston outings in that weekend in NY).
On average, Aniston does more events because she has more movies that come out (she had like 5 movies come out in 2014 and 2013). Versus Jolie – had like what, 2? Her press is way more and events are way more and we hardly hear many disrespected fans stories.
And there is no tightly controlled image where no selfies are allowed. Evidence:
http://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/jennifer-aniston-flaunts-boobs-statement-4617222
Nope, Angelina was not at a premiere. She was at an Unbroken screening. She only attended one premiere and that was in Australia.
i think actually two, the other one’s in London 🙂
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11287521/Angelina-Jolie-Many-times-I-havent-wanted-to-watch-my-movies-at-all.html
Ah sorry – i stand corrected… Why was the fan crying?
dpatz, that was outside the Daily Show a couple weeks ago, after the show taped and she was on her way out. The fan was crying because she had a panic attack while in the middle of a crowd of autograph seekers. I would probably have reacted exactly the same way; I hate crowds and adore Angelina, so just watching the video made me feel overwhelmed and out of breath. She was so, so sweet to make sure her handlers got the woman to safety.
The fan was crying outside of Jon Stewart show.
Angie has been taking pics and giving autographs to fans for years.She was doing it before she even met Brad.It has nothing to do with rehabbing her image.She hasn’t even made appearances since Sony hack except for THR breakfast a day or two after the hacked comments went public.
It’s possible the Angeline simply enjoys interacting with people more than JA. That’s no crime. It’s simple personality. And, yes, AJ has always been more interactive with fans. She has also always been more at ease in interviews and on the red carpt. I don’t think that makes her a better person or a even more appreciative of her fan base than JA. They are two different women with different personalities.
I am extremely loving with my family – physically afffectionate and kissy, huggy. I am not tactile at all with anybody else. I don’t care for physical contact with other people. I don’t like my space invaded. I don’t like idle chit chat. I don’t see that as cold or even unfriendly – it’s a personality trait. If I were an actress and I did not pander to the crowds because it makes me uncomfortable, I would be labeled “unappreciative” and “Inaccessible” and yet, if you knew these things about me and I did pander to the fans, I’d be labeled as a fake and just doing it to get an Oscer or just doing it to compete with a non-existent arch nemesis.
So, honouring your time committments and NOT showing up late to an appointment is now somehow being rude and standoffish? I don’t think so. It’s called being professional. Why is this being spun as a negative?
I imagine that if Jolie had booked back to back appearances, she’d have done the same thing.
If i could turn back time
If i could find a way
It would be 2005 all over again…
THE THIRST IS REAL. Page Six is a crap.
BS. All celebs are calculating when it comes to their image and the public, the Jolie-Pitts are no exception. To me AJ’s “accessibility” to fans during the Unbroken stuff was just as strategic as what JA does or doesn’t do.
Angelina always stops to take pictures with fans..when she is promoting a film or not.
oh i finally found this one – https://twitter.com/HySa04/status/543388837427154946/photo/1
C’mon – she picked up poop for a senior citizen. Call BS on this story.
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I should clarify though – I think AJ is more fan (and tabloid) friendly, but that doesn’t mean it’s the opposite for Aniston – she seems friendly enough. This is probably my general bias showing though – I don’t think much of these kind of interactions. People waiting in line for a 20 second glimpse and an autograph is kind of ridiculous in my head,
I’ve never understood the attraction in autographs, the signature of a complete stranger. What purpose do they serve?
I find it sort of ridiculous too. If I had to choose, I’d rather a normal conversation, one that I would have between someone I wanted to go, not a 20 second “OMFG I LOVED YOU IN THAT MOVIE X,Y,Z.!”…..
Nothing the mags love more than pitting two successful women against each other.
I mean it’s true in that going back for years and with very few exceptions Brad & Angie always,always take a huge chunk of time on the red carpet to sign autographs whereas I’ve never seen Jen An doing it. That doesn’t mean she’s never signed an autograph but I do think it’s one of the things that’s unique about them. The only other celeb that’s like that is Tom Cruise .
It was a really silly story but even sillier that Huvane decided to comment on it
Another one is Johnny Depp.
I have nothing against Aniston but I reaaaally hope she doesnt get nominated for an Oscar. Simple because she does not deserve it. She is just not there yet.
I’m curious what your views are of Jolie getting one for directing for Unbroken (or getting a best picture nomination)?
Probably it’s best to see both movies before we judge who deserves what.
since you brought up “Unbroken”…when the trailer first hit TV, I was a bit disappointed it it. the TRAILER, not the film. the first trailer started out with “FROM DIRECTOR ANGELINA JOLIE…” like an announcer would say about Scorsese, or Spielberg, or someone who has a LOT of successful films under their belt…and then was just a mish-mash of scenes (not chronological) from the movie with a whole lotta verbal cliches. it felt disjointed and, after that, I didn’t want to see the movie because it looked way too sappy and yes, oscar-baity.
last night, I saw a MUCH better trailer, that showed various scenes (some same as before, some new), but in chrono-order, so it made more viewing sense, and made it much more…um…”followable”? anyway, it made the move look better…less “oscar-baity” and more like an inspirational story that was worth watching. however…
…there was NO mention of Jolie at all. I just found it puzzling because of how the first trailer started out and now her name is no where to be heard at all. not even a brief “directed by Angelina Jolie” at the end of the trailer when they usually show the rating and the official web address. after all the work she’s done promoting this film and the story behind it, why delete her from the TV promotions?…seems kind of insulting to me.
It only makes sense to use the fame of the principals to promote a film. Jolie has name recognition that he leading actor does not.
As for Oscar nominations, yes, lets see the films first, by all means. Unbroken is getting mixed reviews. BTW, Chis Nolan and Ridley Scott both have new films out and they are both also getting mixed reviews. She’s in good company.
And Jen? Even if she wins an Oscar her film legacy is well established. Mediocre roles with consistent California stoner girl delivery. She has a spectacular lack of professional ambition. She seems more interested in her endorsements, which is fine, it’s just not how stellar acting careers are made.
@doofus
I’ll have to check it out. I liked the first trailer, but did find it very saccharine, to say the least.
I’m wondering if they’re trying to do more promo on the actors–that was my first impression when I read your comment. There’s an interview out there, with Angelina commenting (this is after the London premiere, when she wore that white caplet dress) that she was/would be surprised if the film was nominated for anything, because it was in production hell for years, no known actors,etc. I think she is very…..aware that the movie is depending on her name.
But I do like that she picked unknown, talented actors. I think it’s a good thing that she’s using her fame to help others propel their careers. Jack O’Connell is going places. I really want to see Starred Up.
@VC…saw it again last night, and I listened to every word very carefully…not only was Jolie not mentioned, NONE of the actors names were mentioned.
it was just scenes from the movie, sometimes with the dialogue, and sometimes with the voice-over. WTF? she’s been working her butt off and then they just DROP her name from the promos? I just don’t get it.
@doofus
That’s really weird. Usually they have the names at the very end at least (in one page, where no one can read them). And yeah–it is rude, because she has been busting her butt promoting the movie. I think, in part, it’s hard because she’s the only recognizable name in the movie (although I think that’ll probably give her movie an edge), but I really think Universal dropped the ball with the promotion of the movie. I like that Angelina’s talked up her and Louis’ relationship/friendship–because that’s cool and rare that a actor/director actually becomes friends with the subject of their film, but Universal could’ve done more to put Jack O’ into the promotion of the movie. I know he and Angelina were supposed to go on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, but still.
Not surprised about this story at all.
Jennifer has always only cared about herself in Hollywood. She needs copy approval for each interview, she even had a journalist fired for daring to ask a question she couldn’t answer. She only hangs out with showbusiness friends who are also signed onto the same agency.
This woman is a well known social climber who only sucks up to the people she thinks matters. The are many confirmed stories from the friends writes who said how she got better lines by fringe benefits. Which is why she is losing fans and her movies flops at the boxoffice.
Plus she also once said her fan group is [redacted] or something like that. I have never seen Jennifer taking selfies, sign autographs at any premieres.
She is not haunted by the paps like Brangelina, Royals, politicians and yet she acts like she is and always walks around with her entourage as protection.
A simple googling would disprove pretty much your entire post.
On the contrary, I’d say she pretty much nailed it.
Oh please. nm – i sense you are set in your opinions so no point in discussing otherwise.
Agreed. I am not sure why I come onto this website anymore, to be honest. The bias shows so much it’s almost frightening.
So are you dpatz. You clearly made up your mind long ago.
So did you by the looks of the comment above.
Didn’t Vogue say she would never be on the cover again because of her demands to have final approval over everything? And I agree about her friendships. And she also seems to befriends people that have bad mouthed her in the past. I still wonder how she and howard stern became so chummy? But I’m not interested enough to find out.
They bonded over hair products, obviously.
The editor of Vogue UK mentioned in an interview a few years ago that someone like Jennifer Aniston–who has copy approval i.e. she approves the text of the article, and the cover–would never be on the cover of *her* Vogue, because she doesn’t think that that’s right.
But yeah–I think Jennifer hasn’t been on Vogue since 2008 since she threw Vogue under the bus for putting out what SHE approved i.e. “Angelina is uncool”, which means, in Jennifer’s words, that Vogue went tabloid.
Yes, you are so right on and google proves you are telling the truth. Its not hard to check all these up.
Aniston is a “TV actress.” Anything in film that is noteworthy is because of the ensemble including Director and Writer. Angelina manages to take crap and make it passable just from her star power.
You can’t have your “Cake” and eat it too…
She hasn’t been in a TV series since 1999. Are you serious?
Angie is a TV actress too – Gia was a TV movie.
All the best Jennifer Aniston for oscar.
Angelina has always been enormously gracious and giving to her fans, which is wonderful of her… but it’s also Jen’s right to not do the same thing.
I have no idea why Huvane is actually responding to such a silly story though, you’d think a PR mogul would have more sense when it comes to adding gasoline to a tacky tabloid fire.
Anyway, keep on hustling ladies! Would love to see Jen bag an Oscar nomination.
And not simply replying to it but having his name on record instead of just “her rep” or whatever she calls him. That seemed usual to me.
@ Chelsea – Well, he responded to the baby food diet claims, which was an even sillier story.
Wow. This story will got under Huvane’s skin. What a bitchy response. LOVE IT!!!!
Deliciously bitchy. Huvane crying ‘unfair’ like he’s Jan Brady is a hoot.
‘Huvane added, “It is very unfair for you to characterize Jennifer as you do here and the comparison to Angelina is just immature crap.”’
A professional Hollywood spokesperson said this in the middle of a incredibly-long-shot Oscar campaign? Yeah, that’s going to help.
She will be the fan selfie queen now! LOL!
Is it so hard to beleive that these two woman are just very different women? Is it so hard to believe that a man married one of them and was happy with her for a while, but they grew apart and he ended up with the 2nd woman whom he’s more in line with and built a family and new life with her? Would it really have been better to stay with the first woman whom he was no longer happy with in order to not hurt her feelings, but continue a life with her that he wasn’t passionate about? I don’t see how that would be fair to either of them. That’s the long version. The short version is: Angie isn’t Jennifer and Jennifer isn’t Angie.
thank you for this comment.
I’m so tired of everything one of them does to be compared through the lens of the other.
And the people who feel it’s their life’s purpose to “correct the lies” with “measured responses”, by countering with “it’s a known fact!” and fifteen links – it’s just exhausting. Sometimes I feel like I’ve stumbled into the Fox News crowd where everyone reads from the exact same script. The arguments are almost verbatim of each other.
I know. That’s what I really don’t get — the “facts” and the “lies” and the links ad nauseum. AJ or JA or BP, the fact is NONE of us know or will ever know what’s really going on in their personal lives beyond what they give to the press. Those aren’t facts, they part of are a tightly controlled narrative, designed to give the fans/celeb watchers/gossip hounds enough to keep them satisfied.
@Esmom, who wrote: “I know. That’s what I really don’t get — the “facts” and the “lies” and the links ad nauseum. AJ or JA or BP, the fact is NONE of us know or will ever know what’s really going on in their personal lives beyond what they give to the press. Those aren’t facts, they part of are a tightly controlled narrative, designed to give the fans/celeb watchers/gossip hounds enough to keep them satisfied. ”
Well, let’s see … because of those numerous links many posters now know: Angie didn’t wear a vial of blood; Jen had filed for divorce before Brad and Angie got together; Angie didn’t French kiss her brother; Jen was dating Vince Vaughn in 2005 at the same time she was going on talk shows talking about Brad’s missing ‘sensitivity chip;’ and that the Jolie-Pitt twins don’t have Down-Syndrome. 🙂
and Esmom, as we all well know, NO ONE (general public) knew about Jolie and her double mastectomy and subsequent reconstruction until she wanted people to know.
clear cut evidence that, with just about any celeb, we only know what they want us to know. everything else out there may or may not be the “truth”.
Thank you for the most sensible comment I have ever read on this blog.
See Aniston also do selfies https://twitter.com/dangerousdavegb/status/532009168073289728 – I think most celebs do (must be a little annoying in the long run).
There is a reason why every man, she has dated dumped her. Jennifer is not that nice. We know Justin is on Huvane”s payroll and his career is based on his dating Aniston.
Bingo – none of her exes have anything nice to say about Jennifer.
Behind her good/nice/sweet girl image – she clearly isn’t that nice nor friendly. Her friendship choices like Chelsea Handler, Terri Richardon & Joe Francis shows who she really is – you are the company you keep.
Because the worst thing a woman can be is “not nice”? I don’t see movies becuase the actors are nice. If you can act and the movie is well written I don’t care if you are a grade A bitch, I’ll see the movie. Both AJ and JA are poor actresses in my opinion so I don’t see their movies. Who gives a rats ass about the personality. Everything we see is contrived anyhow.
I can personally attest to Jennifer Aniston not being very fan friendly. About 8 years ago she went to the Sundance Film Festival for the movie ‘Friends with Money.’ My sister and I were at the festival and happened upon a press conference for the movie and all the stars were there, including Aniston. We watched the conference and after it was over, we were walking down the hall to leave and she passed us. My sister asked if we could take a photo with her, but she said she couldn’t. We were both a little shocked because she was the only celeb to say no to taking a photo. Even Steve Carell and Ashley Judd took a photo with us that year, but not Aniston. I used to like her a lot before this happened, now not so much.
Why do people still compare these two women? That is so high school mean girl. They’re both different women, with different goals in life.
@Leslie …
Nope … ‘that’s’ not the high school mean girl part.
Have you guys seen the post regarding her Oscar chances at Lainey today? It looks like she is giving Moore a run for her money with all of the campaigning. My question is this, wouldn’t you want to win on talent and not on game playing? If she wins, it will be clear that it was solely because of the hustle and not on the fact that she was the best.
And how do you know this? Have you seen the movie Cake? She’s getting rave reviews for her acting. The movie not so much. Personally I’ll reserve judgement until I see both.
Actually that is not true at all. She is getting borderline at best, reviews. She has not gotten any rave reviews. Sorry.
I have to agree with Leah-I have not seen any rave reviews-nor was she on anyone’s radar until after the Oscar strategist was hired (as far as Oscar experts are concerned-particularly Awards Daily which is my personal favorite).
She got a standing ovation at TIFF. Read some of the reviews on other sites. I dont have time to link them but they are out there. Have an open mind!
I never watch her movies but I will watch this one because I’m curious. Once it’s available for download that is. But I have to agree, I’ve not read one rave. Everything has been “good for her for trying”, “better job than the Adam Sandler dreck”. I’m paraphrasing but the only “rave” I saw looked a bit questionable but I’m the suspicious type naturally.
@Maddelina: standing ovation at TIFF? Seriously? Every single movie gets a standing ovation at TIFF – it doesn’t matter if it’s crap or brilliant.
Again a people have mentioned – rave reviews for Jennifer does not exist. The people who were there at TIFF were her fans and even they weren’t bowled over by her performance- it was good for her but not great.
I thought receiving a standing ovation at TIFF was the norm for most movies/performances.
Nice try, maddelina, but nope.
Lol, hate to break it to you, but EVERY TIFF screening gets a standing ovation – its customary. That doesn’t count. sorry. If that’s what you’re going on, lol, sorry, but no dice.
TIFF crowds are notoriously star struck and JA was in attendance at the screening. Critics and others in the theatre said she got the standing O, not her performance or the movie.
Check out Variety girls.
Variety for a rave review?? They called her performance strong and tongue in cheek “brave” for trying something new. They did call the housekeeper wonderful though. I think she needs a better PR rep.
It’s impossible to judge anyone’s level of fan-friendliness while on the red carpet or at a premier when the cameras are rolling.
Those celebrities that genuinely want to connect with their fans are either working with the Make-A-Wish Foundation or serving Thanksgiving dinner at a homeless shelter or participating alongside fans in some other charitable endeavors.
It’s impossible to judge a star’s fan-friendliness at what is essentially a fan event?
Angelina is hoping for a best director nod and a best picture, correct? And Jennifer is hoping for a best actress. I’m sorry, why are they being compared? Why? Why must this stupid triangle continue to go on? ALL INVOLVED HAVE MOVED ON. Brad and Angelina are married, have children and live a fun looking life jet-setting. Jennifer is engaged, enjoys Cabo and seems to be enjoying her fun-filled life as well. Why must media outlets keep doing this? Pinning women against each other even in round-about ways such as this?
Because we haven’t moved on! Look how many posts are on this topic! And I feel so compelled to read them all. I’m sickened by myself. Maybe it’s nostalgia?
yes, nostalgia. The good old days when the 3 people involved where interesting. It was tabloid gold. Now they all are boring…. older and really really boring. Nothing wrong with that, they all seem happy. The big problem is no one is interested in happy “perfect life” successful people. That´s why the triangle is still a thing.
Vale Joe Cocker. 🙁
@Leah …
Yeah, I just heard! I have very fond memories of Joe Cocker from the early 70’s. I still contend that Joe Cocker’s Live Double-LP “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” is one of the best albums ever recorded. 🙂
Sorry, Kaiser! I just had to give props to Joe Cocker, who passed away today. 🙁
Angie has always been friendly to her fans even in the 90’s. That’s just her personality. She’s a people person. I can’t believe people are saying she’s this way now because of the Sony hack, man they are a wrong. She’s always willing to take pics and sign autographs. Brad is the same way. I hate that these two women are being compared. Page Six is a tabloid, that says it all.
Page Six is terrible. So many made up lies and usually with a pretty nasty spin on everything.
Jennifer shot a movie in my area not long ago, and the word around town was that she was not a pleasant person – to say the least. People both inside and outside the production were not left with a great impression.
I have always been a huge Angelina Jolie fan. And because I never got – and kind of oddly resented – the brouhaha over Jennifer Aniston back in the Friends days I have had a kind of guilty enjoyment over some of the comments about her on this site. Lately though, especially regarding her movie Cake, the hate seems over the top. Great if she wants to try something new. Great if she is ready to stand behind it and promote it. Great if she gets an Oscar! None of that takes away from Angelina Jolie who has created a life full of joy and love and compassion and ambition. Two women leading two completely different lives. It’s all good.
I sort of agree. I think it’s good that Jennifer’s at least backing up what she’s saying, and trying to branch out (now, if she’d sink her money into producing/directing like she said she was gonna 10 years ago), and good that she thinks she’s done a good job, and wants to be recognized for it.
It just strikes me as a little….fake??? Like she says she shocked and humbled at being nominated for a GG/SAG, while going on every talk show under the sun, with her industry friends going on about how she should be nominated for an Oscar. Or that that the first words out of her mouth was about how ‘dreamy’ and ’empowering’ it was to go without makeup. And then, I’ve just read that the movie isn’t that good, and that she’s good–but a lot of reviews I’ve read are just in awe that Jennifer Aniston isn’t wearing makeup and gained ten pounds. It’s The Good Girl, all over again.
So that IS the question. Does she deserve kudos in the form of awards because she went outside her box…and really, she just dipped a toe out. I’m just more confused as to why she’s going all out for a movie that just isn’t that good.
And I’m also wondering why none of the other actors are promoting the movie with her. It’s just her.
I kind of get it. I have that same dual thing with work sometimes. I know I did a great job and really deserve the accolades, but at the same time I suffer from the irrational “I’m not truly qualified and people are going to find out” fear that some 90% of people suffer from. LOL maybe I am projecting. I haven’t seen Cake (and probably won’t) but it seems like the awards are just such a game anyway. I think I’m just saturated with the vitriol all of a sudden. Jennifer Aniston seems pretty harmless to me so I can’t really muster up the outrage.
Well, I think with Jennifer, it’s the idea that she’s not earned it. I mean, I think it’s great that she found a way to get promo for her film that hadn’t done so well (as in no one was really interested in buying it). But a full scale Oscar/awards show run for a movie that wasn’t that good, and in which she was praised because it wasn’t a comedy (that’s what I get out of the reviews, that people are praising her for doing something different, decently), is a bit much.
I think with awards like this, it IS a big game, but for the most part, I think they deserve to be nominated. With Jennifer, I’m not so sure. My personal thing about it is that no one was interested in buying it. The only reason the movie is coming out for a week in theaters, is because the production company had a deal with a studio to release (internationally) five movies of their choosing. They chose to release Cake–not because the studio wanted it.
That’s why I feel that all of this is a bit much. I mean, a lot more people will probably go see it now because of all the press the movie’s getting, but I don’t think we can pretend that this movie or Jennifer was so amazing that they couldn’t wait to get it out. I think that’s what bothers a lot of people.
Personally, I don’t think she can act, so I’d snark on her getting nominated for anything BUT a PEOPLE’S Choice Award, but I wouldn’t have this much snark if it hadn’t been that no one wanted the movie to begin with. And not because Jennifer was so raw in the movie, but because it was a meh movie overall.
I really get what you are saying and I mostly feel sorry for JA with so much comparison to AJ and BP. It’s not fair to any of them. But her PR machinations drive me crazy because they are obvious but nobody talks about them. And it really gives me the sense that she is a fake and superficial person. I mostly try to ignore her (and posts about her) but this award manipulation is just gross. I don’t care if they all do it, she is doing it the most right now and it’s gross.
I like how Oscars now are all about campaign now. It’s doesnt matter who is best. What is matter – who campaigned harder…..
Of course people were stunned that Jolie was accessible because she rarely is. Yep, she’s not campaigning for awards.
I just have to say that I have enjoyed reading these posts so much. Actually as much as I enjoyed reading the Scott Rudin emails. Scott would be proud. The fact that Jennifer is actually probably going to be nominated for an Oscar has really brought out the crazy. Could not care less about the Oscar but loving the melt down 🙂
Clearly, the campaigns are different: AJ wants to win the box office. She wants ticket sales. And yes, probably some Oscar noms.
But JA doesn’t care if no one other than the Academy voters see Cake. She doesn’t need to court fans for the movie because she knows none of them will go see it. Cake was not for the fans; Cake was for the Oscar voters and being taken seriously by her peers.
Jolie has always been wonderful to her fans… Aniston, I don’t know nor I care…
Jolie has always been wonderful to her fans… I don’t know with Aniston, I don’t follow her…
Who cares? Both of their movies are not good enough for Oscars. Everyone just get over it. Geeze.
Little plaid jumper : just like my school uniform when I was 8 years old…
Gee, she seems so accessible in her Aveeno commercials! (C’mon, even Aveeno knows that she doesn’t use their stuff…)
The public have no vote in most of these awards so it won’t matter if Jen stopped and signed autographs for fans. Her publicity machine and Hollywood friends will make sure she will bag the big awards. Just watch and see.