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Jolie's ongoing publicity as Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, plus her high-profile foreign adoptions, family life and films
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Ian Halperin, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson", explores the relationship of the world's most famous celebrity couple with exclusive revelations and personal anecdotes. This Supercouple, unlike any other, consistently turns heads, rolls cameras, and delivers action. The rugged, yet debonair, actor Brad Pitt ("Fight Club", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Inglorious Basterds") and the always sexy and illustrious actress Angelina Jolie ("Girl Interrupted", "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", "Changeling") have made a lasting impression through their movies and their magic...Find out the truth behind Angelina's notorious French kiss with her brother James at the 2000 Oscars. Learn about her childhood and estrangement from her father Jon Voight. Discover the truth of Brad's marriage to everybody's friend, Jennifer Aniston, and of her readiness to have children. Read about the true circumstances of the affair between Brad and Angelina along with their stormy & unstable relationship. Find out about Angelina's ongoing lesbian relationship with her former Foxfire co-star Jenny Shimizu.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I did not enjoy this book and felt it was a total waste of my money and time. It uses old information and reads rather like a psychiatric manual when talking about Angelina's mental state. He does not seem to have any proof and I threw my copy into the recycling bin.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Ian Halperin should have called this book "Angelina Jolie... And Oh Yeah That Guy She's With."
It's quite a bit closer to the truth than the more provocative title "Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie," which doesn't really bother to study the so-famous-you're-sick-of-seeing-them-already celebrity supercouple. Instead it's a fluff piece cobbled together from a thousand interviews and news clippings -- and Halperin is clearly more interested in the Jolie half than the Pitt.
As he explains, Jolie came from a far more normal environment than she often admits, as the daughter of actor Jon Voight -- but became a wild child in her teens, experimenting with drugs, sex, cutting and knife collecting. And she didn't lose her wild streak for awhile, marrying the British actor Jonny Lee Miller but immediately running into problems, particularly when she discovered that she liked women as well as men. Also: brother snogging.
Meanwhile, Brad Pitt was a golden boy of all kinds in his all-American household, who rocketed to fame and pretty much cemented himself in place there. And after Jolie took an interest in adopting orphans and humanitarian work, he and she fell in love (around the time his marriage to a sitcom star was falling apart) and got together -- prompting more adoptions and a few biobabies. Stay tuned for further developments.
You'd be hard-pressed to find any actual new information about Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt from this book -- Halperin cobbles together virtually the entire thing out of interviews (sometimes cut and pasted right into the book), news reports, rumors, innuendo, and other fluffy celebrity biographies (Rhona Mercer). The same applies to the photographs -- almost all are red-carpet or tabloid pictures, and they don't even bother to show all of the couple's children.
And it's heavily slanted towards Angelina, to the point where describing it as a story of Brad Pitt seems like false advertising -- the guy gets one measly chapter in the whole first half of the book. It feels like Halperin was writing a Jolie biography, only to realize it wasn't long enough, so he dashed off some chapters on Pitt. In fact, "Brangelina" only enters the picture a few pages before the book's end -- and even then, he basically falls into the same misogynistic approach as many tabloid "journalists," portraying it as a black widow capturing a clueless pret.
And the entire book is heavily padded, apparently because Halperin couldn't find enough interesting info on his subjects -- so we get chapter-long meditations on sibling incest, pages of self-mutilation study (as well as lists of celebrity cutters), and a whole bizarre chapter where Halperin listens to a bunch of gay buddies chatter about which celebrities are secretly gay (with all juicy material carefully removed).
"Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie" doesn't live up to its name in any way -- it barely touches on Pitt, and there's little between its covers that is "untold." It's a biography so fluffy that it practically floats away.
It's quite a bit closer to the truth than the more provocative title "Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie," which doesn't really bother to study the so-famous-you're-sick-of-seeing-them-already celebrity supercouple. Instead it's a fluff piece cobbled together from a thousand interviews and news clippings -- and Halperin is clearly more interested in the Jolie half than the Pitt.
As he explains, Jolie came from a far more normal environment than she often admits, as the daughter of actor Jon Voight -- but became a wild child in her teens, experimenting with drugs, sex, cutting and knife collecting. And she didn't lose her wild streak for awhile, marrying the British actor Jonny Lee Miller but immediately running into problems, particularly when she discovered that she liked women as well as men. Also: brother snogging.
Meanwhile, Brad Pitt was a golden boy of all kinds in his all-American household, who rocketed to fame and pretty much cemented himself in place there. And after Jolie took an interest in adopting orphans and humanitarian work, he and she fell in love (around the time his marriage to a sitcom star was falling apart) and got together -- prompting more adoptions and a few biobabies. Stay tuned for further developments.
You'd be hard-pressed to find any actual new information about Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt from this book -- Halperin cobbles together virtually the entire thing out of interviews (sometimes cut and pasted right into the book), news reports, rumors, innuendo, and other fluffy celebrity biographies (Rhona Mercer). The same applies to the photographs -- almost all are red-carpet or tabloid pictures, and they don't even bother to show all of the couple's children.
And it's heavily slanted towards Angelina, to the point where describing it as a story of Brad Pitt seems like false advertising -- the guy gets one measly chapter in the whole first half of the book. It feels like Halperin was writing a Jolie biography, only to realize it wasn't long enough, so he dashed off some chapters on Pitt. In fact, "Brangelina" only enters the picture a few pages before the book's end -- and even then, he basically falls into the same misogynistic approach as many tabloid "journalists," portraying it as a black widow capturing a clueless pret.
And the entire book is heavily padded, apparently because Halperin couldn't find enough interesting info on his subjects -- so we get chapter-long meditations on sibling incest, pages of self-mutilation study (as well as lists of celebrity cutters), and a whole bizarre chapter where Halperin listens to a bunch of gay buddies chatter about which celebrities are secretly gay (with all juicy material carefully removed).
"Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie" doesn't live up to its name in any way -- it barely touches on Pitt, and there's little between its covers that is "untold." It's a biography so fluffy that it practically floats away.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A lot of speculation, but surprisingly litte new information. If you are interested in hard facts and sordid details, look elsewhere. If all you want is a well-written and fairly entertaining compendium of all the gossip surrounding Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, then this is the book for you.
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Don't bother with it
I am a huge Ian Halperin fan - his book on Michael Jackson is the first book i recommend to ANYONE (it's brilliant, well-written and moving), however I was so excited to buy this... Read more
Published on 25 May 2010 by GW
Quite interesting...
This book was quite strange as although I didn't feel it went into Brad and Angelina's relationship (there is basically one chapter at the end about their relationship) it did give... Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2009 by C. Silvester
Very revealing
I thought this book was well researched and a fascinating snapshot into the PR machine that is "brangelina". Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2009 by Moonchita
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