Brad Pitt is filming a commercial in Prague today, so Angelina was on school drop off and pickup duty. WENN notes that she looks “frail,” and points out her super skinny arms as if it’s news.

US Weekly notes that A Mighty Heart did really lousy at the box office its opening weekend, coming in tenth. My husband and I just saw Oceans 13 on Saturday and it was a lot more fun and not as hard to follow as I expected. We wouldn’t have gone to see what’s widely perceived as a depressing movie on our rare date night out. I think that people really want uplifting movies and when you know the ending already, there’s not much motivation to see the film despite its star power.

Still, Angelina’s performance is being praised and the film could do well overseas and on DVD. If she wins an Oscar it’s sure to get a boost from that too. Maybe they should have waited until the end of the year to release it for that reason.

Jolie is quoted in a recent interview as saying that she’s helping her family by travelling and doing charity work and that it wouldn’t help her kids if she stayed home. “I do no service to my children by staying home and allowing the world to be what it is. That’s not teaching them anything, it’s not raising them properly.”

If she really said it that way she should be more careful in the future. A lot of moms and dads who stay home with their kids say they’re helping the world immensely by raising caring, well-adjusted children who know they can depend on their parents to be there for them. It is teaching them that you’re reliable and that they’re important and loved. Children who are well cared for grow up to care for others and that’s an important way to help change the world.

I’m not saying that what Angelina does is wrong at all or that she should stay home. It’s just that if she meant that staying home with kids isn’t teaching them anything I don’t agree. Maybe we’re reading too much into it, and she did add that part about “allowing the world to be what it is,” so it doesn’t logically follow that she meant that staying at home by itself isn’t teaching them anything. You can certainly change the world from home, though especially when you’re raising happy and thoughtful children.

These photos are from Splash News, and something is wrong with WENN’s downloads today or I would publish the pictures of Brad Pitt on the commercial set as I have a subscription for them. Here’s a link to those photos of Brad making the commercial.