Last night, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt went out for a “date night” without the kids. They went to Guy Savoy restaurant, there in Paris, where they’ve been for the past week. At first, I thought that was Brad’s hand encircling Angelina, but that’s her hand, holding a black clutch. I can’t really make out what either are wearing – I think it was Angelina’s turn to wear leather, after Brad’s leather pants disaster a few days ago. I honestly think Angelina is wearing a leather short-sleeved blouse. Head. Desk.

With busy careers and six children to take care of, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie don’t get much time for romance. But the couple left the nannies to take care of their large brood as they enjoyed a rare night out for just the two of them in Paris last night.

The good-looking pair headed out to dinner at the Michelin-starred Guy Savoy restaurant in the 17th arrondissement of the French capital.

After enjoying an intimate meal, the pair were surrounded by paparazzi as they headed back to the suite at the five-star Meurice Hotel.

[From The Daily Mail]

Well they look happy and they had their date night and it’s all good. By the way, I just want to note two things about these photos – I think the chef of Guy Savoy walked them out personally – isn’t that the head chef in the white jacket? Also: I love Brad and Angelina’s bodyguard. This is the bodyguard’s new thing, and he’s been in a bunch of photos lately, especially when the Jolie-Pitts go out at night – he’s flashing a high-powered flashlight at photographers in the hopes of ruining their shot. Which… I mean, come on. That’s just funny. Yes, he has actually achieved his goal and ruined a couple of shots, but Angelina and Brad are on promotional duty, and they’re selling their movies. Of course they want to be photographed.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Okay, there are like a million new Angelina Jolie interviews today, probably because The Tourist’s junket officially kicked off yesterday. We saw Jolie heading into the junket yesterday, wearing her fabulous grey coat porn. Today, we have more “Angelina walking into a Paris junket” photos, this time with brown/camel coat porn. CB and I prefer the grey, but the boots and the Gucci bag are amazing, right? Anyway, here are some bits and pieces from Pop Sugar’s interview with La Jolie… she talks about The Tourist, of course, and Johnny Depp, and she even gets into her inspiration for the character. Hint: it was one of her kids (NOT FAX!).

The wardrobe in this movie is beautiful; did you have input in the process?
Angelina Jolie: [Costume designer Colleen Atwood] was very specific about what she liked, but I did certainly chime in about things I thought were right for the character. We wanted to make sure that she had a kind of sexiness and elegance, but also that she was fun, playful, and sweet. Instead of a big high slit, [Colleen] put a bow in the bum. It was very different than anything I’ve ever worn. It took me a while to get used to the heels and the gloves and how to hold the handbag. I think everyone knows I’m not necessarily that female. So it was a bit of an exercise in having the fun of being a girl. Having come off literally being a guy in Salt, it was nice to rediscover female.

Your character sort of floats through this movie, away from the action; how was that for a change?
AJ: My note that I got probably every day was “slow down.” I think as very modern women we feel the need to attack things, we’re like New Yorkers. [The director] was trying to teach me a certain way of being bred, this elegance, like time moves around you, you don’t meet it. The hardest thing for me was to kind of take a deep breath and glide a little more.

Did you have any specific inspiration for your character?
AJ: A combination of what we all think in our minds of female, all the different references. My mother had a real softness to her and was very gracious. Vivienne, my youngest daughter, is extremely female and very naturally a real girl. I kind of played Vivienne in the film. [Laughs.] I tried not to pin it down to one person so much.

What were the good and bad aspects of filming in Venice?
AJ: Not a lot of bad. The good was just everything. The kids had a good time. As a parent you feel responsible to teach your kids about culture — so you get this great feeling — done! Live in Venice for two months, have an Italian teacher, so that was great.

With such a busy career and family, how do you find time for yourself?
AJ: You just give that up at a certain point. You even try to take a bath and everybody comes in, so you give up and that’s OK. As somebody who likes to be alone, I surprise myself that I’m very happy to be surrounded by everybody in my family. I feel that comfort.

How do you find yourself choosing projects at this point in your career?
AJ: It’s getting harder to make decisions to work for the sake of working. Like everybody, I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply. Sometimes something like The Tourist comes up and it’s just fun, but it’s not as easy to find projects that I have to do. I have to be home and I have to do other things, but I don’t have to work as much. That’s why I’m unemployed at the moment.

What was the best part of working with Johnny Depp?
He’s just such a nice guy. He’s so funny and so fun to hang out with. He’s just that friend you’re so happy to come to work and do scenes with. Plus, he’s such a brilliant actor. He’s often thought of so much for his deep character work, but it really comes from an artist who is willing to try things. He’s not just somebody who’s doing these fun [movies]; he’s a real experimental deeply feeling artist, who gives a lot and is very gracious on set to everybody and to his fellow actors. He’s just a pleasure.

The story is that you arrived early and got to look around Depp’s office while you waited for your first meeting with him. Was there something in particular there that made you think you’d get along well?
I was on time, for the record, I was not early. You walk into someone’s office and you see what’s important to them. He’s got lots of books and lots of pictures of his children. That’s immediately somebody you feel at ease with.

He’s very funny in this movie. Did he crack you up on set?
There’s some footage floating around, that I’m surprised hasn’t surfaced, of a good 15-20 minutes where we could not stop laughing. We wasted a lot of film. I got a lot of producers very frustrated because we just could not get through it.

Having just made your first movie as a director, what was that like and who did you draw inspiration from?
AJ: It’s a combination of quite a lot of directors. I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who’s an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors’ director and what that is. I’ve learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I’ve picked up something from everybody I’ve worked with. I had such a wonderful experience being more with the crew. I think actors, because we’re in the world of the characters and the movie, are more isolated, and it was really fun to wake up and be a family with the entire crew. I was much more aware of the process and every different layer of it. I was really excited to watch other actresses work and do things that I maybe would have liked to try, but to see them be even better than I ever could have imagined. I wonder how it’s going to be when I go back to being an actor. It was really nice to be able to take the spotlight off myself and put it on some brilliant actors. I’m excited to show their work and their talent to the world because I’m very proud of what they gave and what they did. I felt lucky to be there for it.

King Fu Panda 2 is out next year; have you finished work on it?
AJ: I’ve done most of it, but I have a little bit more to do because it keeps changing. Jack Black goes in and improvises and I have to go back in and respond to it. I loved that first one and I think the themes are so beautiful. The next one gets into themes of adoption, which are obviously close to my heart, so I am very excited.

[From Pop Sugar]

So she drew her “girly” inspiration for the character from Vivienne? What about The Empress? She seems like a little lady too. Of course, in my mind, the Empress is also a hell raiser, so maybe not. I also like the director’s note of “slow down.”

In another interview with Reuters, Jolie talked about the criticism she’s received from a Bosnian women’s group, allegedly advocating on behalf of Bosnian rape victims. I don’t feel like going into the whole history of it, so just go here and here and here for a recap. Jolie tells Reuters, “There’s one person who has a gripe… The absolute majority of the people, population, the cast, prime minister, president have been extremely supportive.” She also said that “95 percent of the film’s cast had lived through the war” and that initially, she set out to write a screenplay about her frustrations over the slowness of the international community’s response to the genocide: “It kept leaning toward Yugoslavia at the time, I wanted to learn more about it and the people, the more I read and learnt I was drawn to that part of the world. I met artists from that part of the world and found they were extraordinary for what they’d gone through, so I wanted to give them a platform.”

Photos of Angelina in Paris on December 2, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Remember when Angelina Jolie and her family were in Venice earlier this year, and all of a sudden there was a barrage of photos taken of Jolie and various children on the balcony of their Venice mansion? Good times. Well, around the same time, Shiloh got a haircut and none of the photo agencies could really properly identify Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne. They all do look alike, even though Shiloh is two years older. Anyway, I made up a “Mystery Jolie-Pitt” child to help us identify or not identify various Jolie-Pitts. I named the androgynous child Fax Cannes “Mystery” Jolie-Pitt – and I theorized that one of the biggest secrets the gerbils of doom were holding back from the tabloids was that Fax was “the seventh” Jolie-Pitt child. Anyway, it looks like Fax has made his triumphant return to the public eye today in Paris! Fame Pictures is saying the kid in Angelina’s arms is Vivienne, but I think it looks more like Knox. So let’s split the difference and say it’s Fax.

Fax is adorable – I think Angelina is trying to show him/her the snow. Oh, here’s another theory for why it could be Knox – he/she is holding a shark toy! Do you see Vivienne with a shark toy? I don’t. I think a shark is the gift Shiloh would have picked out for her baby brother, much like the plastic alligator. Eh. Or maybe Knox got the alligator and Fax got the shark?

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Here are new photos of Angelina Jolie in Paris, going into what is probably the first day of her junket for The Tourist. She appears to be wearing a rather beautiful grey coat over a pencil-skirt-and-sweater or a fitted dress. This is actually the best dressed Angelina has been in a while – she’s usually okay when she’s doing business-casual, as opposed to her grandma styles in formalwear or eveningwear.

Speaking of businesswear – I am perhaps the only person who was really pissed off about Jennifer Garner’s recent under-dressed appearance before Congress – the photos we had of her made it appear like she had wandered in to testify in a tank top, with very little makeup or styling (I later found out the tank top was a loose, shapeless shift-dress). I don’t begrudge Garner or anyone else their lack of styling in random candid shots, but I’m a big believer in dressing for the occasion, and always being situation-appropriate. When you testify before Congress, or when you appear in court, you should be wearing some kind of suit or professional attire – no jeans, no uncovered arms, no half-assed ponytails. While I have no love for Angelina’s style in general, I have to give the bitch credit – she always looks occasion-appropriate. Plus… you know, the coat porn. The bitch has great coats.

And here are some more photos of Angelina’s outing yesterday with Shiloh, the Empress and Pax.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

There has been a sighting of the Empress, and her lady-in-waiting Shiloh. This morning, Angelina took her two oldest girls to a Paris aquarium, which sounds like a really fun way to spend a morning. Maybe it’s just me – I love aquariums. Sigh… anyway, the most notable thing about these photos, beyond the obligatory Empress Zahara worship, is that Shiloh is rocking her new zebra-print boots.

On Sunday, People Magazine had a story about Brad and Angelina taking the girls shopping, and the zebra-print boots were mentioned. I was under the impression is was some kind of Christmas-shopping excursion. Maybe it was, and maybe Brad and Angelina are the kind of parents who let their kids have their Christmas presents early. Or maybe Shiloh pitched a fit when she was told that she would have to wait to wear her snazzy zebra boots, and Angelina relented. I guess this means that story about Shiloh getting medieval knight costumes for herself and Knox is probably true as well.

Photos courtesy of Bauer-Griffin.

Johnny Depp is Vanity Fair’s January cover boy – all to promote The Tourist, which opens in a few weeks. I was slightly surprised to see Depp cover VF again – it feels like he just had a cover… but I guess that was last year? Yeah. So the photo shoot is by Annie Leibovitz and the interview is conducted by Patti Smith. Depp talks about everything, really – he covers working with Angelina (including a comparison to Elizabeth Taylor!), to Captain Jack being gay, to feeling like he should have been born in a different era. Here are VF’s excerpts:

“Meeting her and getting to know her was a real pleasant surprise,” Johnny Depp tells rock legend Patti Smith, writing for Vanity Fair, of working with Angelina Jolie on their upcoming film, The Tourist. “You don’t know what she might be like—if she has any sense of humor at all. I was so pleased to find that she is incredibly normal, and has a wonderfully kind of dark, perverse sense of humor.”

Depp tells Smith of the challenges he and his co-star faced with constant media scrutiny on set. “Poor thing, dogged by paparazzi, her and her husband, Brad…all their kids,” Depp says of Angelina and her famous brood. “There are times when you see how ridiculous is this life, how ludicrous it is, you know, leaving your house every morning and being followed by paparazzi.”

Depp tells Smith about the difficulties that arose while filming together—having to be discreet to avoid unwarranted speculation—which included “having to hide, sometimes not even being able to talk to each other in public because someone will take a photograph and it will be misconstrued and turned into some other sh-t.”

Depp compares Angelina to another famous leading lady. “I’ve had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years,” he says. “You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she’s hilarious. Angie’s got the same kind of thing, you know, the same approach.”

On the set of the upcoming installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, Smith asks Depp what it’s like to play the iconic role of Captain Jack Sparrow. “Somebody once asked [Hunter S. Thompson], “What is the sound of one hand clapping, Hunter?,” and he smacked him. Captain Jack was kind of like that for me, an opening up of this part of yourself,” Depp says. “There is a little Bugs Bunny in all of us.”

“They couldn’t stand him. They just couldn’t stand him,” Depp says of Disney’s reaction to his controversial interpretation of Sparrow. “I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, ‘He’s ruining the movie.’ Depp reveals to Smith, however, that he remained unfazed by the studio’s hysteria. “Upper-echelon Disney-ites, going, What’s wrong with him? Is he, you know, like some kind of weird simpleton? Is he drunk? By the way, is he gay?… And so I actually told this woman who was the Disney-ite… ‘But didn’t you know that all my characters are gay?’ Which really made her nervous.”

Depp tells Smith why his role of a mathematician in The Tourist appealed to him: “I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all.”

Of the complications of having played so many eccentric roles in his career, he says, “They’re all still there, which on some level can’t be the healthiest thing in the world…. I always picture it as this chest of drawers in your body—Ed Wood is in one, the Hatter is in another, Scissorhands is in another…. They’re still very close to the surface.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Depp talks to Smith about their shared fondness for the Monkees’ 60s pop hit “Daydream Believer”; the music career he almost had (“Going into acting was an odd deviation from a particular road that I was on in my late teens, early 20s, because I had no desire, no interest, really, in it at all. I was a musician and I was a guitarist, and that’s what I wanted to do”); being born in the wrong time (“I really believe that, at a certain point, if you’re born in ’60-something or whatever, you got ripped off—you know what I mean? I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time”); and what he’d still like to accomplish: “[Marlon Brando said,] Why don’t you just take a year and go and study Shakespeare, or go and study Hamlet. Go and work on Hamlet and play that part. Play that part before you’re too old…. So what he was trying to tell me was: play that f-cking part, man. Play that part before you’re too long in the tooth. Play it. And I would like to. I’d really, really like to.”

[From Vanity Fair]

Sigh… Johnny. Love him. It’s interesting that Johnny acknowledges that he and Angelina had to be wary of being photographed together, just to avoid tabloid craziness. Could there have actually been something to the stories about Vanessa Paradis trying to get Depp to withdraw from the film? Eh… I doubt it.

VF photos courtesy of VF online (there‘s a gallery of new and old images).

Here are some additional photos from last night’s Paris Megamind premiere (I covered the first photos last night). I also found out what designers Brad and Angelina were wearing – Brad’s baggy leather pants are Julius Sheep (?) and Angelina’s outfit (including the old lady harem pants with an old-school zippered taper) was L’Agence.

In other Jolie news, these Bosnian women’s groups are really out for Jolie blood – a group has issued yet another public statement about how awful it is that Angelina is making a movie about something that she’s not making a movie about in reality. The Women Victims of War (an association for Bosnian rape victims) sent out this statement:

“Angelina Jolie’s ignorant attitude towards victims says enough about the scenario and gives us the right to continue having doubts about it.”

“We have insisted to meet Angelina Jolie since we don’t want to be wrongly presented in the world . . . Our voices are worthwhile and we should have got much more respect.”

“Angelina made a big mistake. We feel that she did not act like a real UNHCR ambassador and we believe that she has no more credibility to remain the ambassador.”

[WVW Statement via HuffPo]

Jesus Christ. She’s not making a movie about rape! I’ll admit, I’m not jazzed about this movie whatsoever (I’m still a card-carrying Brangeloonie, chill out), but my ambivalence is mostly about my desire to see Angelina do better work as an actress – she directed (and wrote) this film instead of signing on to Gravity for a more than $20 million paycheck. This Bosnian story seems like it’s going to be boring, and probably dripping in sanctimony, considering Angelina considers her work as a writer/director “the voice” of the Bosnian people. Protest that, haters. Don’t go on and on and on about a piece of propaganda that was reported and denied by everyone involved in the project, and by the Bosnian government, who got to read the script. I think Angelina can tend towards to the sanctimonious, but I really, really doubt she’s so dumb (or “ignorant”) as to make a film glorifying rape or rapists. And to question her as a goodwill ambassador based on a piece of propaganda? How about this: I don’t this group has the credibility to accurately advocate for rape victims.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

Forget Javier Bardem, THESE photos are just what the doctor ordered. Tonight, today (Monday), Brad Pitt and Angelina walked the red carpet together for the French premiere of Megamind. I wish I could even describe in English how amusing these photos are. These are not just “Oooh, they’re walking a red carpet!” kind of exciting. Brad is wearing LEATHER PANTS. This bitch is turning 47 years old in a few weeks, and he’s rocking leather pants, for the love of God. Meanwhile, my girl Angelina is still rocking her old lady styles, like she’s Blanche Devereaux. I think the pants are velvet and tapered! She’s just so supremely unstylish, bless her heart.

According to Us Weekly, Brad and Angelina “were more affectionate than ever! Not only did they pose for photos together, they held hands, greeted fans and shared a smooch for all to see.” Now you know!

Sidenote: Do you think Brad is actually wearing an old pair of Angelina’s leather pants? Discuss.

UPDATE: I just added some more photos that came in!

Well, it looks like the Jolie-Pitts flew from Budapest to Paris over the American holiday, and they spent their time shopping and celebrating. Us Weekly reports that last night, Brad, Angelina and the four oldest kids went on a boat ride to celebrate Pax’s seventh birthday. Even though I like the idea of a boat birthday party, and I’m sure Paris is really beautiful at this time of year, and at night, I have to think all of the Jolie-Pitts were freezing their nads off. Especially Angie!

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took Pax for a Parisian cruise Sunday evening to celebrate his seventh birthday.

Sibs Maddox, 9, Zahara, 5, and Shiloh, 4, also joined them for the ride down the River Seine. On the boat: Cake and some birthday balloons.

Pitt, 46, was spotted filming the kids on his video camera, while Jolie, 35 (in a beige trench coat) was seen pointing out notable sights during the ride.

The gang spent the Thanksgiving holiday in Paris, where Jolie is promoting her new Johnny Depp thriller The Tourist.

They will soon have another reason to celebrate: Pitt turns 47 Dec. 18.

[From Us Weekly]

I wonder if The Tourist’s promotional tour is going to start in Paris? Do you think Angelina and Johnny Depp will be doing their press junket there? That’s pretty sweet – I imagine many of the Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood journalists will be thrilled to go to Paris for the junket. But this thought just occurred to me – Ryan Seacrest and his “girlfriend” are in Paris right now too. La Seacrest and the Jolie-Pitts are mortal enemies, you see. Could Seacrest make a move to get some kind of Paris exclusive?

Here are more pics from the birthday party… the quality isn’t that great, I apologize.

Header photo courtesy of Bauer-Griffin. Additional photos courtesy of Fame.

I don’t know if PopEater’s gossip guy got it right, and Angelina Jolie refuses to allow her family to celebrate Thanksgiving, but the Family Jolie-Pitt did spend the holiday doing somewhat unconventional things. First, Us Weekly reports that the kids spend Thanksgiving on the beach… I don’t know where, as in, what country, but Us Weekly claims the kids went with nannies rather than their parents (one photo here). Additionally, People Magazine reports that Angelina and Brad flew in to Paris with the kids either on Friday or Saturday, and spent part of Saturday shopping for the girls. Empress Zahara approves of black suede boots! Shiloh approves of zebra prints and medieval knight costumes. Take notes.

On the first day of Christmas, my sisters gave to me … a large plastic alligator?

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took daughters Zahara and Shiloh holiday shopping in Paris Saturday and it looks like they’ll be able to check quite a few things of their gift list, including pants, pajamas, gloves, sweaters, boots, stuffed animals, knights’ costumes (complete with tunics, swords and shields) and one large green plastic alligator, according to staff at the Bonpoint boutique on rue de Tournon near the Luxembourg Gardens.

“Angelina was great,” an onlooker tells PEOPLE. “She’s patient, and a very hands-on mother, making certain everything fits.”

Pitt was “very agreeable, absolutely polite and excellent with the girls” as well, a store employee says.

In town to promote film projects – Pitt’s Megamind and Jolie’s The Tourist – the couple squeezed in more than an hour of shopping with Zahara, 5, and Shiloh, 4, at the celeb-friendly boutique, where Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba and Michelle Obama have visited.

“[Shiloh] wanted pants and picked out a pair of zebra-patterned boots,” a clerk says of Saturday’s stop.

Zahara, the employee says, chose “black suede boots and a ‘Duchess’ dress.”

The Bonpoint store contains one fun feature which the girls enjoyed: an entire room that holds a child-sized farmhouse with several levels, meandering passages and see-through walls. Both girls played inside, according to a witness, while a laughing Jolie took pictures of her daughters.

Helping Shiloh try on a medieval knight’s tunic, Pitt watched while she playfully waved around a wooden sword and shield. After deciding on both the costume and its accessories, Shiloh told the shop assistant that she wanted two complete sets. “‘One is for me,’ she explained,” the clerk tells PEOPLE. “‘The other is for my brother, Pax.’ ”

Pax may get his presents before the holidays – he turns 7 on Nov. 29.

And the large plastic alligator Shiloh selected at the last minute? “That’s good for Knox,” she told the sales staff.

[From People]

I love the image of Shiloh and the Empress working out their Christmas shopping lists beforehand. Shiloh’s list probably consisted of “COSTUMES!!!” Meanwhile, I get the feeling that Zahara’s list was probably more practical. The Empress was probably like “Maddox needs a scarf. And an iPad.”

Older photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.