In next month’s Vanity Fair magazine, pregnant actress Angelina Jolie gives an interview in which she mentions that she’s never seen her father’s movie Coming Home:
Angelina also spoke about her Father, Jon Voight, with whom she has been estranged for quite some time. Jolie had this to say about her dad, “We don’t really have a relationship, but we’re in contact. And wish each other well. I think we’ve realized there’s been too much discussion. Him discussing me publicly. I’ve had to comment on him. I think it’s best that, if we try to have any relationship in the future, we do it quietly.
Angelina also said she had never been able to view her father’s oscar-winning performance in Coming Home.
“Because that was when my father left my mom, and the woman who he cheated on her with is in the film,” Jolie says.
Well, hmm. Guess she’s never been able to watch a little movie called Mr. & Mrs. Smith, huh?
Curry: You have said, “To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning, if I did that.”
Jolie: Yeah, that’s right.
Curry: That says a lot.
Jolie: Yeah, well, I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
I wonder, when Brad and Angelina role play, just which one is Pot and which one is Kettle?
Of course, if Angelina bothered to actually do some research, she’d see that the movie was released in 1978. Angelina was born in 1975. Her parents separated in 1976. So, Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand seperated in 1976, the movie was filmed sometime between 1976 and 1977, and was released in 1978. You do the math.
Wonder if Marcheline fed this to her daughter, or if Angelina thought this one up on her own?
Earlier this month, crushing rains left 20 people dead and over 20,000 stranded when overwhelming rainfall left five feet of standing water in the low-lying areas. This is on top of already taxed landscapes that flooded when melting Himalayan glaciers burst the 200 rivers that web across the country last year. Bangladesh under water is seeming like a real and permanent possibility.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — whose claims are usually conservative — said that Bangladesh is heading to lose 17 percent of its land and 30 percent of its food production by 2050. That's like California and New York drowning, and the whole Midwest ceasing production of food.
If this happens, more than 20 million Bangladeshis will be without a patch of land to stand on. Though hardship in the country isn't entirely recent: since 1971, Bangladesh has endured over 200 disasters that have left a total of 500,000 dead and affected a total of 500 million people.
And I haven't even said anything about the plague of rats that's consuming all of their food. A plague of rats. I wish, wish there was more room for stories like this in the general consciousness — shouldn't we be hearing about this every night? Not to dwell on the gloomy, but just knowing about this makes the answer to this question pretty clear to me.
Reuters - The Polish prosecutor's office is
investigating allegations that there was a CIA prison in Poland
where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards might have
used methods close to torture, the prime minister's top adviser
said on Friday.
