I guess only so much of Mariane Pearl rubbed off on La Jolie.
Yesterday was the premiere of A Mighty Heart, her and Brad’s biopic about the Daniel Pearl kidnapping and onscreen slaughter, and the time that the six-months pregnant Mariane spent in Karachi waiting and trying to piece together the reason for Danny’s disappearance.
Cut to NYC, to the event tied to the Reporters Without Borders organization, and what happens?
Angie insists that all reporters covering the event sign an agreement wherein they surrender any right to ask her anything about her personal relationships. This led to a kerfuffle, with Fox and others stomping off in a huff (and rightly so).
Was she worried someone might say something like “Do you feel uncomfortable about any parallels between Mariane Pearl’s loss of a husband, and that of Jennifer Aniston?”
Ok, Filmiholic, I understand your point.:) But nobody knows what goes on in someone else’s marriage. Nobody knows why they broke up, etc.
I’ll look forward to your next post.
Thanks, Ana.
Of course, both women suffered very different losses, and both due to very different causes. Daniel Pearl seemed to be the absolutely sweetest husband a girl could ask for and he was treated with such an absence of humanity at his end.
Brad Pitt, well, the timeline of the filming of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and the divorce from his wife and his subsequent appearances at the side of AJ can be interpreted as the observer wishes…
But, I was struck by this when I saw an interview Angelina Jolie did on NBC, where she said words to the effect of “…and when I was pregnant I was so happy and had the baby’s father with me, and I thought of Mariane and that she had lost her husband and was alone, and I just couldn’t imagine going through that” and then I found myself thinking, when she and Brad started things up, did she ever do the same thing, put herself in the shoes of the wife whose marriage was being affected?
Her ambassador and humanitarian work is great, if it brings more attention to the countries she visits, but if she wants the publicity for her causes and her work, she’s got to understand that she’s going to run the gamut of questions, including uncomfortable ones about herself and Brad.
I really like your blog, but that last sentence was really uncalled for and seems mean spirited. How can you compare Marianne’s tragic loss to Jennifer Aniston’s.