Angelina Jolie’s Hypocrisy
Angelina Jolie is an actress. I’ll be honest when I state I don’t hold actors in high regard. After all, why should I? They make their living speaking the words others put in their mouths and doing what they are told to do by another person. People working the drive thru do the same thing.
But they are stars – and are treated like modern day royalty. At least, a very select few are – like Angelina Jolie and her orphan-carrier, Brad Pitt.
So this doesn’t surprise me:
Jolie is touting press freedom these days, playing the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in a new movie called “A Mighty Heart.”But Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to her own freedom of the press. Her lawyer required all journalists to sign a contract before talking to her, and Jolie instructed publicists at first to ban FOX News from the red carpet of her premiere.
Ironically, Wednesday night’s premiere of the excellent Michael Winterbottom-directed film was meant to support an organization called Reporters Without Borders. Jolie, however, did everything she could to clamp down on the press and control it.
We can’t expect actors to have brains and use them. After all, they’ve never had to use them before, so what are the odds that they will begin to do so once they’ve achieved superstardom?
UPDATE:
Jolie’s backpedalling some, blaming her overzealous attorneys. Maybe she should hire Mike Niphong.
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