Angelina Jolie will appear on Monday’s episode of Anderson Cooper’s talk show – it was pretaped last week. I kind of love Anderson and Angelina together, and I wish he would interview more often. In previous CNN interviews, they’ve mixed it up, talking mostly about Jolie’s UNHCR work and then Anderson always manages to get Jolie to open up about personal stuff. It just seems that they genuinely like each other, which is cute. Anyway, there’s a video clip floating around already of Jolie’s appearance, but I can’t find anything I can embed – you can see the clip here at People Magazine. Here are some just-released excerpts:

Angelina Jolie makes no apologies for her nomadic life with Brad Pitt and their six children. In fact, the world-traveling actress doesn’t even want to think about not living that way.

“I don’t want to talk about it,” she said wistfully when asked about eventually settling down by Anderson Cooper during an interview set to air on his talk show Monday. She added with emotion, “I don’t want to settle. I love traveling.”

The actress, 36, who won’t rule out a seventh child, also told host Anderson Cooper her children are all on the same page when it comes to moving around – at least for now.

“I will listen, as my mother would have, to them,” she says. “And if they start to complain about it … [But] right now they love it. Right now if they’re in one place for two months they want to know why we’re not getting on an airplane.”

Jolie, who recently made her directorial debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey, says the kids have roots even with their jet-setting lives.

“They really love to travel, and we have certain things that are comforts of home,” she says. “And also, because they’re such a big traveling pack it’s not one child moving around the world and missing friends. There are so many of them they have constant play dates and they’re always together.”

She added, “Because we have traveled a lot, we’re kind of lucky in that we have friends around the world, so if we end up in Budapest or Germany or Africa or Vietnam, they actually call their friends.”

She also admitted, however, that they day may come when the children are ready to live in one place.

“I’m sure they’re gonna say, ‘Mom, let me stay home,’ ” she said. “It’s going to happen and I’m going to cry. We’ll see what happens. They’ll probably all end up living all around the world. My old age will be Brad and I traveling around the world to try to visit our children in random countries.”

[From People]

I kind of hate when Angelina talks about how much the kids love to travel and how they always have each other to play with. Structure is good for kids. Knowing where to call “home” is good for kids. Building friendships outside of their family is good for kids. Having six kids who are constantly in a state of jet lag is bad. I understand the life Angelina and Brad are providing for their kids, and how “different” doesn’t automatically equal “bad” but I think she’s pushing her own ideas about traveling and “being at home in the world” on her children. Don’t scream at me Brangeloonies, but I think that’s one of Angelina’s flaws – not even consistency, not enough structure, and she’s not giving her kids a good enough foundation in their childhoods.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame and Pacific Coast News.

The Critics Choice (also known as the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards) nominations came out yesterday, and today, the Screen Actors Guild Award nominations came out. I’m not going to cover every single person, so if you’d like to see the complete lists – GO HERE for the SAG nomination list and GO HERE for the Critics Choice nomination list. Here are some general thoughts:

*Brad Pitt scored Best Actor nominations for BFCAA and SAG, both for Moneyball. It’s pretty much guaranteed that he’ll be nominated for Best Actor, once again for Moneyball. Same with George Clooney and The Descendants – he’s guaranteed a spot on the Best Actor Oscar nomination list. Same for Jean Dujardin for The Artist.

*There’s NOOOOOOO Michel Fassbender at the SAGs!!!!! Shame got shut out of the SAGs, as did A Dangerous Method. Fassy will be at the Critics Choice, though – he got a nomination there. Ryan Gosling got a Critics Choice nom for Drive, but he got shut out of the SAGs too.

*Leonardo DiCaprio got nominated for J.Edgar on both lists, but I think his support is soft. If anyone is getting knocked off the Best Actor short list, I suspect it’s him.

*Melissa McCarthy got nominated on both lists too, for Supporting for Bridesmaids. Is Melissa headed to the Oscars?!? But… for Best Supporting Actress, there is no front runner. It’s an even bigger mess. Octavia Spencer for The Help? Jessica Chastain for anything? Carey Mulligan, maybe?

*The supporting categories are a mess, no one really knows who to nominate for what. I’m assuming Christopher Plummer is the leading contender for Best Supporting Actor, but other favorites include Ken Branagh, Jonah Hill (Moneyball), Nick Nolte (Warrior), and… Patton Oswalt?

*Best Actress is a mess too, but it’s starting to shape up. I’m seeing Viola Davis, Meryl Streep, Tilda Swinton and Michelle Williams on both nomination lists. That are four strong contenders, but the fifth lady… Lizzie Olsen? Glenn Close? Charlize Theron?

*As for Best Ensembles/Best Picture nominees, my only guarantees are big nominations for The Help, The Artist, Hugo, and The Descendants. But that still leaves a lot of places and a lot of campaigning. I can’t believe how open everything is at this point in the awards season.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

It’s so sad, Angelina Week is over. Boo! Now we just have to content ourselves all of the photos from last week, plus tons of interviews which are still being released. On Friday, Angelina’s longish USA Today interview came out, and I didn’t get a chance to read it until the weekend. You can read the full thing here – she talks a lot about In the Land of Blood and Honey, of course, but she also throws in some personal details. Remember how In Touch Weekly’s sources claimed that Angelina was seriously addicted… to online shopping? Well, Angelina claims that she can’t even figure out Amazon. AMAZON! One of the easiest sites to navigate, honestly.

Angelina Jolie isn’t the wild child she once was — and she’s OK with that. Describing her younger self as “experimental, bold and a bit nutty,” the now 36-year-old actress tells USA Today she was “absolutely self-destructive” early in her career.

“I think a lot of young people in this business lose their way. You don’t know what is of value. You don’t know where you are. And you know something’s wrong, because it isn’t life as it actually is,” Jolie explains. “It’s like living in some warped reality.”

The actress — who shares six children with partner of six years Brad Pitt, 47 — finally settled down “once I started to learn about the world and I became grateful for everything that I certainly have. Since going through my first war zone, never have I woken up and not been simply grateful.”

Once she adopted son Maddox in 2002, the In the Land of Blood and Honey director realized there was no going back. “I knew once I committed to Maddox, I would never be self-destructive again,” Jolie says. “Now I have five more [kids], so I have to behave.”

Given her multiple responsibilities as a mother, lover, actress, director and U.N. ambassador, Jolie has learned how to multitask over the years. “I always Christmas shop early in case we have to travel somewhere,” she says.

“Brad and I were on Amazon.com for the first time a week ago. But we got lost. After an hour, we just shut it off,” she tells USA Today. “My brain is too scattered and the wires go in different directions. I’ll stick to catalogs.”

[From Us Weekly]

“But we got lost. After an hour, we just shut it off…” Because Angelina Jolie is now your mom who asks you “What’s up with all of this Facebooking?” Except that even my mother can navigate Amazon! So… Angelina and Brad just aren’t good at technical stuff? Angelina has claimed that before, so I guess I’ll believe her, but I thought more of Brad’s skills. Turns out he sucks at technical stuff too.

Oh, and what catalogs are they ordering from? I want to know! I used to work the phones at a catalog company, and I would be floored if Angelina was actually calling up and giving item numbers and checking on availability. What if you were the one who had to tell Angelina that you no longer had the Empress’s hoodie in pink?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I just spent WAY too much time looking at old photos of Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller. Jonny was Angelina’s first husband. I’m old enough to remember them when they were married, and how hot they were. Everyone loved Sick Boy, and Sick Boy had this crazy-sexy American actress-wife. Sigh… Jonny is still – to this day – my favorite of all of Angelina’s lovers. Sure, I’ve grown to like Brad a great deal, and I’m not saying that I want Jonny to leave his wife for Angelina or anything… but I really love Jonny and Angelina together.

Anyway, JLM and Angelina stayed friends after they divorced, and I’m pretty sure they even “dated” (slept together) for years after the divorce. If ever you wondered about Jonny – he’s a sexy beast. He maintained La Jolie’s sexual needs for YEARS. Besides their romance and friendship, Jonny and Jolie worked together in 2005, on her first documentary project, A Place In Time. They even did a World Peace Day photo call in 2005 together when Jolie was already with Brad (and pregnant with Shiloh). Somewhere along the line, Angelina fell for Brad and Jonny fell for his second wife, Michelle Hicks. I figured that Angelina and Jonny still keep in touch here and there, but apparently they still have a close enough relationship where Jonny showed up for the LA premiere of In the Land of Blood and Honey last night. The photo of Jonny with his wife – they’re leaving the after-party.

Brad Pitt showed up to support Angelina Jolie at the LA premiere of In the Land of Blood and Honey on Dec. 8, but he wasn’t the guest turning heads that night. It was Angie’s former husband Jonny Lee Miller!

The actor attended the screening at the ArcLight Cinema with his current wife, Michele Hicks.

“He came in and sat in the front part of the theater,” an eyewitness tells Life & Style. And Brad didn’t seem to mind the ex factor. In fact, he was interested only in talking about the unseasonably cold weather.

“It’s so cold out there; I had to come inside,” Brad remarked. “I don’t know how Angie is standing out there in that dress.”

Although Angie admitted she was “nervous” prior to the premiere, Brad was right by her side for her big night to steel her nerves.

“He hugged her and put his hand on her back,” an eyewitness tells Life & Style . “He was very loving and sweet.”

Angelina and Jonny married in March 1996 after meeting on the set of their film, Hackers, but called it quits after 18 months together.

“There are no regrets and no bitterness,” Jonny said at the time of their divorce. “Marriage was something that didn’t work out, and I had to make the decision sooner or later. I decided to make it sooner.”

But the two have remained friends since their split. In 2005, they even worked together on Peace One Day, a project focused on bringing peace into different communities.

[From Life & Style]

Damn, I want to know if Jonny and Angelina hugged. Whether his hands lingered on her body, and the comfortable familiarity seeped in, and suddenly Angelina felt 19 years old again, falling for her English boy with a good eyeliner game. Sigh…

Vintage Jolie & Miller:

From last night:

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, WENN & JLM’s fansite.

Ahh, I had forgotten this was happening last night. *slowly turns in Brangeloonie Merit Badge* In the Land of Blood and Honey premiered in LA last night, and the event was much bigger than the NYC premiere earlier this week. Angelina and Brad did another red carpet together, and I like this one so, so much more than the New York premiere. This time it’s all about how hot Angelina looks in her navy Romona Keveza gown – it’s fitted! It’s not a sack! HUZZAH. It looks great on her too, and love when she teases up her hair. Brad doesn’t look as hot as he did in NY, and I don’t know what’s happening with the big glasses. Is he trying to look intellectual, or does he really need them? He still looks good, granted, but my eye goes to Jolie.

Many of the stars of the film were there, including the two leads, Zana Marjanovic & Goran Kostic. Quick word about Goran Kostic: he’s rather sexy, right? All in black on this red carpet… he looks sort of like Daniel Craig with a weird nose – very unconventionally sexy. He has presence, I’ll give him that. And Zana is gorgeous – I’m including photos of Goran and Zana below.

Angelina’s drinking buddy (I’m assuming) and girl friend Gwen Stefani showed up to support Angie. As did Angelina’s dad. Meh on him, but I think Gwen looks kind of cute in her onesie.

Meanwhile, Angelina covers the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, joint with Jennifer Yuh Nelson, director of Kung Fu Panda 2. THR has excerpts of their conversation here. Angelina admits at one point: “I’ve scored some points at home because of Kung Fu Panda. They love Tigress, who is my alternate personality. Otherwise, they think Brad and I are just so not cool.” She also talks about what she learned from Michael Winterbottom and Clint Eastwood, and how she personally financed a large chunk of ITLOBAH. You can read more here.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Day 4 of Angelina Week. I am starting to grow tired of the media blitz. With Brangelina, it really is feast or famine. You can go months without any real news or genuine quotes from either of them, and then when either of them starts promoting something, I can’t even keep up with all of the press they do. Let’s see what we’ve got so far… Angelina will appear on the cover of the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, which is interesting. They haven’t released the interview yet, though. Yesterday, all of the Jolie-Pitts enjoyed an outing to FAO Schwartz – you can see the photos here. All of the kids were making faces, but Angelina looked happy. Speaking of the kids, I go a chance to read Angelina’s full Marie Claire interview (which I previewed yesterday), and it’s really good. She talks about the kids a lot, and she says nice things about her “love” Brad Pitt. Oh, and the quote about her lack of girlfriends… yeah, that one will make headlines. Here are some highlights:

The Bosnian War: “I think it is still hard to understand what happened, and how it could happen 40 minutes away from Italy in the ’90s, at the time ‘Schindler’s List’ came out,” Angelina says. “You can’t make sense of something that innately doesn’t make sense: to rape and kill your neighbor with whom you have lived forever,” she added.

Jolie wrote the film as “an excuse to get out some of my frustrations [with] the international community and justice issues. I just assumed nobody would ever see or read it.”

How did she write? “Some of the very darkest sections were probably conceived in Shiloh’s art class; I was in the back corner, waiting for the kids to finish. And then somehow it slowly ended up being read by Brad, and then friends. There was a discussion of making it, and I just was terrified to hand it over to anybody. It wasn’t that I said, ‘I’m going to write something, and I want to direct it.’”

On girlfriends: “It was nice for me to play with other girls; I don’t really have girlfriends in movies, if you’ve noticed,“ she says, suggesting that the same is true off-camera as well. She quickly corrects herself: “Well, I have a few girlfriends. I just…I stay home a lot. I’m just not very social. I don’t do a lot with them, and I’m very homebound.”

Eventually quitting acting: “That doesn’t mean I’m stopping tomorrow. But I woke up one day realizing, God, I’m an actor. I don’t think I intended to be an actor. I think my mother wanted it for me. I loved telling stories, and I enjoyed the profession, but it is too late to be something else?,” the actress says.

On Brad Pitt: “He has expanded my life in ways I never imagined. We built a family. He is not just the love of my life, he is my family. I hold that very dear. I suppose what I’ve learned from Brad is to be able to have the kind of family whose happiness and well-being comes before your own. I’m very, very grateful to have such a loving family, and I wouldn’t have that without him,” Angelina explains.

Giving her kids security: “If they see Mommy and Daddy in need of some private time ’cause they’re going to kiss and whatever, the kids get all giggly and happy. Because it gives them some security,” Jolie says.

Another baby? “Nothing planned at the moment, but we just don’t know. I could end up pregnant,” Angelina says.

On Knox: “Knox is very much a dude. Very physical, tough. He loves dinosaurs and swords.”

On Vivienne: “She is so elegant and delicate. Vivi will pick flowers from the garden and put them in her hair. She likes to get her nails done and collects stuffed animals. It’s funny for me to have to buy all things pink and watch princess movies!”

On Zahara: She’s begun horseback riding – “she has found her thing.”

On Shiloh: She’s been riding the four-wheel vehicles known as quads – “It’s very funny to watch Brad try to teach Shiloh because she doesn’t want to listen. She doesn’t want Dad to sit on the back. She doesn’t want to learn about the brakes. She just wants to go!… it’s the combination of the two of us.”

On Pax: “He is extremely wild, but he has a very, very good heart. You know, like those punk rockers – when you really get to know them and they are just pussycats. But at the same time, he is going to get in some kind of trouble.”

On Maddox: “I’ll be doing something and I’ll be frustrated, and he’ll hold my hand and say, ‘Are you feeling tired? Is that why you’re upset?’ Yeah, he really does take care of me.”

[From Becoming Gorgeous and The Fashion Spot]

Maddox, the little caretaker. Do you think Maddox ever wishes he and his mom could go back to when it was just the two of them? I’m sure he’s a lovely older brother, but I do think Madd and Angelina have a special bond – the bond of the first child and a single mom. And Empress Z rides horses! She really is royalty, isn’t she? She and Queen Elizabeth II should meet. But seriously, how lovely is the quote about Brad? “He is not just the love of my life, he is my family.” GAH! My Brangelina obsession just went into overdrive.

Marie Claire photos courtesy of The Fashion Spot.

Angelina Week is going full-force! And now we even have some tabloid reports to go along with all of our new photos and interviews. Us Weekly has a bizarre (or on-target?) report about Angelina’s thinness, which… I’m kind of tired of people discussing Jolie’s thinness. She doesn’t really look any heavier or thinner since last year or the year before. She lost a lot of weight after her mom died, and then slowly come back to the figure she has now, which I think it probably close to her natural state. Would I love for Angelina to put on 20 pounds? Of course. I think she would look great with some additional weight on her bones. But to me, she doesn’t look scary-skinny like too many of the girls who bulimia their way to slender figures.

Unlike some of her peers, Angelina Jolie’s pin thin frame has nothing to do with vanity.

The U.N. goodwill ambassador, 36, who travels the globe meeting the poor, “puts herself on fasts to make statements for the children she visits,” a Jolie source tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on stands Friday).

“She says, ‘If they can’t eat, I can’t eat,’” the source adds. The busy mother of six “does different cleanses from around the world. It’s very dramatic, but that’s how she gets.”

If she does eat a burger and fries, says the source, “she feels guilty about it.”

The actress — currently promoting her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey — has partner Brad Pitt, 47, worrying about her health, says a second insider.

“He’s worried about her and has made her see a zillion doctors, but they keep telling her she’s fine.”

[From Us Weekly]

Yeah, I don’t believe this. I think Jolie – or anyone who works in famine-ravaged areas of the world – has moments of guilt at being from a country of plenty, but she’s been doing UNHCR work for more than a decade. I just don’t buy that this is her thought process.

Meanwhile, Page Six had this story about Angelina this morning:

Angelina Jolie is asking politicians for their opinions on her movie, “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” set during the Bosnian war. At a Hearst Tower screening Tuesday night, director Jolie told Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles that she’s discussed the film with Bill Clinton, who “has [it], but has not watched it.”

She also said she was “nervous” for the reaction of former NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark, a consultant on the film. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright also has a copy. As for the current administration, Jolie said, “We’d hope to send it to anyone who is willing to sit down and watch it.”

[From Page Six]

Well, considering that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s elbow is Team Aniston, I’m guessing Angie won’t be sending it to Hills. But I’m sure Bubba enjoys Angelina, although she’s too skinny for his tastes. Maybe Robert Gates wants to see it? I’m surprised Jolie didn’t send it to Colin Powell – you know that she’s tight with him, right?

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

We don’t have access to the new photos of Angelina Jolie at last night’s screening for In the Land of Blood and Honey – you can see them here. Jolie wore a black velvet(y) suit that wasn’t very flattering or anything. But! We do have new photos of Jolie in a spectacular white coat, just out and about in NYC, and I’ve also included a preview of Jolie’s Marie Claire cover shoot for January. Plus, there are about twenty million new stories about Angelina too. It’s ANGELINA WEEK. Here are some highlights:

*Two nights ago, after the premiere of ITLOBAH, Brangelina, Julian Schnabel, Jason Lee and Brad’s parents all partied at the Standard Hotel’s Boom Boom Room. Page Six claims: “Angelina kept it in the family and hung with Pitt and his mom, Jane Pitt, and dad, Bill Pitt, until about 1 a.m… Jolie was overheard joking that the family should ‘take their holiday photo’ from the spot [on the hotel roof], with its sweeping views of the city.”

*Angelina told People Magazine that she adores Brad’s parents and “It means everything… I couldn’t be standing here without them.” The Pitts told People that they were “very proud” of Jolie and they admired her ability to do everything well, especially “being a really good mom.”

*BABIES. Note the cover line on Marie Claire - “I could get pregnant again.” Hmmmm? Will Jolie get knocked up again? Will she adopt again? When asked if she would consider adopting a Bosnian baby, Angelina apparently stuttered out, “There’s, I, you know, it’s not something that’s, uh, that I’ve thought of.” But the NYDN notes, “she did say she was working with SOS Children’s Villages to help support a Bosnian child through sales of the film’s soundtrack, ‘and in other ways.’”

*Angelina commented about the lawsuit against her filed by Croat journalist James Braddock, who claims that he basically owns the concept of women being raped in POW camps. When asked, Angelina said: “It’s par for the course. It happens on almost every film.” Angelina did say that “There are many books and documentaries that I did pull from. It’s a combination of many people’s stories. But that particular book I’ve never seen”.

*Angelina might work with director Luc Besson, and it might come sooner rather than later. Deadline reports:

Angelina Jolie is in talks to star in an untitled big-scale movie written and directed by Luc Besson. Besson currently has The Lady in the Oscar mix, but this film sounds like a closer cousin to early Besson efforts like The Professional, La Femme Nikita and The Fifth Element.

I’m told that there are serious talks going on for Jolie to star next spring in a dramatic thriller that is rooted in true scientific elements. Besson’s EuropaCorp developed it and will co-finance, and negotiations are already underway with a studio for domestic distribution. The Besson film would be Jolie’s next as an actress, and it would come before she teams with director Ridley Scott on a historical epic about Gertrude Bell that The Constant Gardener scribe Jeffrey Caine is currently rewriting. I’m told there’s a high likelihood that both films will land at the same studio.

The latter film is an epic adventure about a British aristocrat who helped define the current Middle East and the borders of Iraq after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. She became a seminal figure in Middle East politics during the run-up to WWI, acting in roles that ranged from archaeologist to diplomat, photographer and spy. Jolie is also moving quickly on Maleficent, the Linda Woolverton-scripted revisionist take on the Sleeping Beauty tale for Walt Disney Pictures, and she is getting closer to playing medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in the Fox 2000 drama based on the Patricia Cornwell novel series. Kario Salem has turned in a script he wrote in close collaboration with the author, based on her bestselling novel series.

[From Deadline]

Angelina working with Luc Besson? That could be interesting and weird and maybe even great. Why is it that she’ll sign on to this weird action/sci-fi, but when she was offered a bajillion dollars to make Gravity, she was all “NO!”? I still don’t understand that.

Photos courtesy of Fame & The Fashion Spot.

These are some photos of Angelina Jolie yesterday in NYC. I really like this brown dress on her, honestly. I think this would have been a much better premiere look than the black sack separates that she ended up wearing. Angelina’s style strengths are 1) Coats and 2) Business attire. She does pretty well for herself if she’s just choosing suits and business-like dresses. I’m also including some photos from the premiere too, because I just can’t get over how hot Brad looks and how much he wants the Oscar this year.

Anyway, there’s still a ton of Jolie news to cover, because that’s what’s happening this week – All Jolie, All Week. This is how she promotes films nowadays. Yesterday, we had a preview of Jolie’s ABC News interview with Christiane Amanpour, and now ABC has released the full interview:

Why she wrote the script: “I was thinking and meditating on these international themes of violence against women, lack of intervention, and how human beings are changed and warped by war, and how some people come out stronger and some people are truly broken,” Jolie told “This Week” anchor Christiane Amanpour, who covered the Bosnian conflict in the 1990′s. “There’s no safe way to tackle these subject matters, but I think the important thing is to discuss them and tackle them. This is our generation’s war. … this was, you know, the worst genocide since World War II in Europe,” she said. “It was– ‘what were we all doing?’ And ‘did we do enough’ and ‘why do we not speak about this enough’ and ‘why I don’t know enough about this?’ And so I wanted to learn. I felt a responsibility to learn.”

How it felt to be behind the camera: The actress said it felt “bizarre” to play the role of the writer and the director, but added that it was “great not to be in front of the camera.” Jolie said “writing is the hardest because it feels the most exposed. When you’re an actress, you use somebody else’s words and you can always blame the director and the director can say the editor,” she said. “But the writer is the one that kind of sits alone in the room and writes what they think is important, funny, historical, topical.”

She doesn’t think the film will be a hit: “We did it because we felt this is a war that isn’t talked about enough,” Jolie said. “I know it’s a hard film to sit through, but it’s two hours to sit through something that’s very hard, and these people lived through it for many, many years, and it was many, many times worse than any reenactment could possibly be. And I feel like it’s a gift and a duty to sit through two hours of what they lived through.”

On home-schooling the kids: “I’m being very careful with their schooling, we’re home-schooling especially when it comes to history, to make sure it’s not one country’s point of view of their country,” Jolie said. “Because it has to be very balanced and they have to learn about their country so they can form their own conclusions.”

On adoptions: “I look at them and think what their birth parents must have gone through, what their birth grandparents would have done through, and so I feel connected to it,” Jolie said. “It’s a gift when you adopt a child from another country. This whole country enters your home.”

She and Brad disagree about the death penalty: “I won’t say whose side anyone is on, but it’s the one, the thing nobody brings up at dinner because nobody wants us to go off on each other,” she said. “But it’s fun. It’s a fun debate, you know? It’s a good– you want to be able to have — to respect each other’s views and to not be exactly– we’re not identical. We have– we have strong views.”

The future: “I don’t feel needed in a position of being an actor. I feel like I’m needed at home as a mom, and I’m hoping that I’ll find other things,” Jolie said. “I’d love to be able to write or direct or work on and produce more projects about issues dealing with situations that I feel passionate about.”

[From ABC News]

Oooh, she and Brad disagree about the death penalty? I’m guessing that Brad is against the death penalty and Angelina is for it. And I would LOVE to see them fight about it.

One last thing – Patricia Cornwell just confirmed in a new interview that Angelina is still attached to play Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell said, “We’re still in the early stages of production. She’s attached to the project but all the other pieces need to fit together to make sure everyone’s happy with it – but it’s looking hopeful that everything will fall into place soon.”

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Jesus, how great does BRAD look? That was my first thought when going through these photos of Angelina’s big NYC premiere of In the Land of Blood and Honey. Brad isn’t wearing a g–damn pair of sunglasses, nor is hiding behind some gross beard. He’s relatively well-groomed (for him), he’s wearing a nice suit, his hair is sexy length, and he looks clean. He must really, really want an Oscar, right?

As for Angelina… it was her night, and she looked… okay. I was going to make a big deal about her sack dress, but she’s wearing sack separates – a Joseph top and a Ralph Lauren skirt. I mean… black sack separates, covering up her bust and her figure for the most part. I’m so tired of this look on Angelina. This time last year, she was wearing a gorgeous, white, fuzzy Versace gown to the premiere of The Tourist. I just wish Angelina’s default style was slightly better. Her jewelry is OFIRA – which surprises me. Angelina designed her own jewelry line full of 1970s-style topazes – why not wear some of those?

I’m including photos of Angelina with Brad’s parents, Bill and Jane. Bill and Jane were with Jolie all of Monday as she promoted her film in interviews, and then she posed with them on the red carpet too. Personally, I think Jane Pitt and Angelina get along really well – they seem to enjoy each other, genuinely. I’m not so sure about Bill, though. He seems grumpy, but that might have nothing to do with Angelina. Also posing with Angelina: director and artist Julian Schnabel. Do they know each other? Oh, and James Haven was there with his girlfriend.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.