"People who are against gay marriage do not understand the very freedoms that they themselves are enjoying. What if someone said, ‘Sorry, no Christianity here? No Judaism. Certainly no Mormons.’ No one would stand for that, and I wouldn’t allow anyone to say that either. I’d fight them in the same way." — Brad Pitt, speaking to W
In 2006, Brad Pitt told Esquire that "Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able", but according to this puff piece interview, the couple will now get married when their kids ask them to. A few caveat's here: Brad Pitt not only donated $100,000 to the No on 8 Campaign, he's wearing a gay porn star's mustache to show solidarity with the gay community. Also, it's Angelina Jolie, talking to the Italian version of Vanity Fair, not Pitt , who said that they will marry when the kids start asking about it. So, it's entirely possible that Jolie has been unaware up to this point that the reason she's not Mrs. Brad Pitt is because of the gays.
Of course we all know the real reason Brad and Angie aren't married is that Jennifer Aniston still has another six years left on her post-nuptial "Let's have a tabloid fight to drum up publicity every time I have a new project out" contract. Whoops, did we say that out loud?
Brad Pitt's family photos are finally ready for public consumption…
Joining the ranks of fellow celebrities Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg and Pete Wentz, out actor TR Knight donated some of his hard-earned cash to fighting Proposition 8, a measure that would re-ban gay marriage in California. Knight, who appears on Grey's Anatomy, gave $50,000. [Advocate]
With regard to the earlier story on Hollywood's involvement in the Proposition 8 fight: "Jonathan Lewis, entrepreneur and political activist and scion of the Cleveland-based insurance fortune, is pledging to chip in $500,000 to defeat Proposition 8 if the entertainment industry does the same… His matching offer comes after Brad Pitt, and Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, each chipped in $100,000 for the No on 8 campaign, after a flurry of stories showing that backers of Yes on 8 have out raised their counterparts. Curiously, at the time, little money to defeat the measure had come from the entertainment business, but the pace of fund-raising appears to be picking up. David Geffen recently donated another $50,000, adding to the $50,000 he already has given." [Wilshire and Washington]
Of all this election season's ridiculous stories, one of the most memorable must be John McCain's ridiculous "celebrity" commercial campaign.
Hoping to diminish opponent Barack Obama's respectability, McCain portrayed the Senator as a tabloid idol on the same level as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. That tactic, like so many others, blew up in his face. Even Paris Hilton was making fun of him!
As sad as that may have been for McCain, the candidate had the right idea: rank-and-file Republicans aren't too keen on Hollywood, where it's all glittery and liberal. Stars and celebrities do not have American values, what with their headline grabbing divorces and bastard children. It's sick!
Well, none of those people will be surprised to hear that a number of Hollywood's elite have come out against Proposition 8, a ballot measure intent on overturning gay marriage in California.
Steven Spielberg and Brad Pitt - who has at least three illegitimate children - have both donated large sums of money to fight the measure. And now Pete Wentz - a gay-friendly singer who knocked up his girlfriend Ashley Simpson - dedicated his name and donated his dough to the good, gay fight. Though he hasn't specified a dollar amount, the singer did describe Proposition 8 as "fucking lame," a profanity social conservatives most likely frown upon.
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The Mormons have been dominating the Proposition 8 fund raising, but Hollywood's elite are doing their damndest to counter right wing attacks.
Director Steven Spielberg and his actress wife, Kate Capshaw, join Brad Pitt and other A-listers in donating to the fight against Proposition 8, a measure seeking to reverse this year's gay marriage win. Upon making their $100,000 donation public, Spielberg and Capshaw had this to say:
By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation. Such discrimination has NO place in California's constitution, or any other.
You can tell they're serious by the fact that they capitalized "no."
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Brad Pitt, the liberal lion of Hollywood, has donated a cool $100,000 to fight anti-gay Prop. 8. "No one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8," Pitt said in a statement. Pitt is one of our truly great movie stars/philanthropist. Leave him some love in the comments. Thanks Brad!
People magazine today releases its $15 million pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's new twins.
They're precious, they're cute, they're the new Shiloh. Bow down and grovel, pesky pedestrians.
The birth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s new twins — son Knox Leon and daughter Vivienne Marcheline — is not just the second coming of Jesus, but also the culmination of nine months (longer, if you count the speculation period) of a gossip industry frenzy.
Everybody had an opinion. Everybody was a spectator. And everybody wanted in.
You either love or hate Chris Matthews (pictured, younger). There's really no middle ground with this MSNBC newsman. Some complain that he's too smug. Other's find him disinterested. We, for the record, love him. First of all, he's cute. Second of all, he talks gay all the time, like last night, when he addressed our nation's comedic obsession with Larry Craig and bathroom cruisers.
Matthews first brings up a talking Craig doll and then offered a clip of Boston Legal's James Spader defending William Shatner in a lewd conduct arrest. Says Spader: "We‘re actually sitting in a courtroom wasting tax dollars because my client had gas. He was constipated."
From there Matthews veers toward that George Clooney/Brad Pitt toe-tapping send-up and ends his brief segment with this:
Isn‘t it great how we Americans can laugh at—even at the most desperate of human acts?My own response to the Craig story is to side with gay marriage. If we don‘t respect people, how do we expect them to respect themselves? Anyway, that‘s just my reaction.
And that's exactly why we love you, blondie.
George Clooney and Brad Pitt took a pot shot at Larry Craig. Literally. George Clooney couldn't attend the American Cinematheque ceremony honoring Julia Roberts. Rather than leaving an empty void where a tribute should be, Clooney sent along a little video. Marc Malkin reports:
George Clooney wasn't able to make it, but he sent a video tribute. Gushing over his Ocean's costar while sitting in a bathroom stall, Clooney suddenly found himself in a Sen. Larry Craig situation. Someone was in the next stall trying to tap shoes with the Hollywood hunk.When Clooney jumped up and quickly opened the stall door next to him, he found the culprit to be Brad Pitt!
A wide-eyed Pitt joked, "I have a wide stance."
Um, right.
This isn't the first Larry Craig send up unleashed upon the world. And, we're sure, it won't be the last. If Craig has done anything productive during his Senatorial tenure, it's vanquish the once ubiquitous Brokeback references.
Television's about to get a bit more queer - and with a surprising supporter: Brad Pitt.
Brad Pitt is taking his business to the small screen, taking his first stab at series TV, according to Variety.He will exec produce FX drama 4 oz., an unusual and ambitious drama is about the metamorphosis of a man who realizes he is a transsexual.
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4 oz. tells the story of a married male gynecologist, who shares a medical practice with his father, with two sons whose life takes a radical gender turn.
Also attached? Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy, as well as the medical series' writer, Brad Falchuk.
Brad Pitt's down in New Orleans sans Angelina for a little good-hearted community service.
The super star's lending a helping hand by building Katrina victims new homes, thus quenching his fame-induced guilt and, as a bonus, providing Today with an exclusive, totally un-PR related interview.
Don't you love when one hand washes the other after a hard day of construction…
