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Us Weekly chatted with actress Laura Allen, who stars on "Dirt" with Courtney Cox and hung out with Jennifer Aniston while the former "Friends" star was filming her guest appearance.
"Jen was doing a total cleansing," says Allen, 32, who adds that the actress "did a lot of yoga to stop smoking."
"Between takes, it would have been tempting to go outside and have a cigarette. Instead, Jen was clinging to Courteney. She said how hard it was."She had also chosen to nix her caffeine intake at the same time.
"I had a Diet Coke on-set, and she was really jonesing for it," Allen adds.Isn't she nervous that quitting caffeine and cigarettes might cause her to gain 2 whole ounces? You crazy lady, you. Being healthy is for fat people.
Jojnjo says:
Must be Sheryl Crow's influence.
rob says:
this chick needs to start spiking her arm with some h and coke and then shake it. Fucking coffee and smokes ain't nothing anymore. She was already spotless.
Dave says:
Maybe she is prego
jzat says:
this beeaatch is a dyke. she dont like the cock enogh to be preg
kikistar says:
thats not stopping cigs and coffee that will make her smart and beautiful. she 'll never hav e the glow of generous and warm people anyway. Ugly cow.
Rhondy says:
Good for her. Any habit is hard to break and if Aniston cares at all about her health and looks, she'll put that one down.
blondie says:
Jen is so beautiful!
Patty says:
In response to lazarati;
By CARYN JAMES
Published: January 22, 2007
Before she set a toe on the red carpet at the Golden Globes last week,
Angelina Jolie's carefully molded image as humanitarian and mom was already
showing some cracks. The Internet had been flooded with reports, picked up
from European interviews, that she had called her biological daughter "a
blob" with less personality than her two adopted kids, and had criticized
Madonna's adoption of a baby boy from Malawi. Women's Wear Daily reported
she was being difficult about designs from St. John, the staid company whose
ads she appears in and whose conservatively elegant gown she wore to the
Globes.
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Haughty and humorless walk down the red carpet? Angelina Jolie with Brad
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By the time she reached the end of a haughty, humorless walk down that red
carpet on Brad Pitt's arm, the Good Angelina image had crumbled to dust. In
the next days columnists from The Washington Post to LA Weekly attacked her
for a television interview with Ryan Seacrest on E! that made it clear she
was above such drivel. His red carpet questions were drivel, but that was no
reason to sneer the words "Cereal, we made cereal" when asked how the family
had spent the morning.
Video of the interview was spread and ridiculed on Web sites like TMZ and
YouTube; Mr. Seacrest complained about her on his radio show; the current
issue of Us Weekly reported on more behavior fit for a queen in an article
headlined "An Angelina Backlash?" There was really no need for the question
mark.
Once famous as a tattooed wild woman, Ms. Jolie has soared to the saintly
realm and plummeted again in record time. Madonna, her only rival in
shape-shifting, has maintained the devoted wife and mother image for more
than six years now, despite her recent adventures in adoption. Good Angelina
didn't even last two. That shattered image, a lesson in the limits of spin,
is the product of a lethal combination: a public that never bought into the
reformed persona and a star who may have bought into it too much.
The backlash had been building all along, and not simply because, while
married to Billy Bob Thornton, she wore a vial of his blood around her neck.
(No fair blaming the press for her vampirish image.) She adopted her son,
Maddox, from Cambodia just before that marriage broke up, and has always
seemed sincere about motherhood. But from the minute her name was linked to
Mr. Pitt's, there was plenty of snickering at her claim that they were just
friends while filming "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," when he was married to Jennifer
Aniston. Only the Jolie-Pitts know the truth; let's just say the public
remains skeptical. Once they became an acknowledged couple, Ms. Jolie
assumed a saintly manner, deglamorizing to the point of wearing a bandanna
on her head for a "Today" interview while visiting orphans in Africa; did
she think viewers wouldn't spot her cat's-eye makeup and heavily glossed
lips?
Such doubts about the noble Angelina accelerated especially fast over the
last month. In the January issue of Vogue, talking about how her
relationship with Mr. Pitt developed, she restated that they were "very,
very good friends" for a long time, sounding as disingenuous as ever. And
she added, "It was clear he was with his best friend," which on the surface
is matter-of-fact, yet manages to desexualize Ms. Aniston. Venom in the
guise of kindness?
The new Us Weekly article reports that Ms. Jolie was "a nightmare" during
the Vogue photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz; that she pushed through a crowd
at the premiere of "God Grew Tired of Us," a do-gooder documentary about the
lost boys of Sudan that Mr. Pitt helped produce; and that she coolly pulled
him away from a conversation with Courtney Cox Arquette, Ms. Aniston's close
friend, at the Golden Globes. Even if some of those incidents are
exaggerated, the backlash is real. A kitschy painting of Ms. Jolie as the
Virgin Mary holding her children and hovering saintlike above a Wal-Mart, a
work too banal to be half-good as satire, made a media splash when it was
shown at Art Miami 2007.
The backlash isn't entirely her fault. The press helped it along by playing
fast and loose with her quotations, gleefully picking up the
Shiloh-is-a-blob comment without context. In the full interview in British
Elle, when Ms. Jolie hesitated in describing her newborn daughter, the
reporter suggested the word blob. Ms. Jolie foolishly responded: "Yes, a
blob! But now she's starting to have a personality."
In response to a question about Madonna, she did tell the French magazine
Gala that adoptions are illegal in Malawi and, "I prefer to stay on the
right side of the law." You can almost hear her coo her superiority as she
says it, and you can almost hear anyone who reads it thinking, "Witch." But
her first response was to say that the happiness of Madonna's child is all
that matters; most second-hand reports made that seem like an afterthought.
Still, at best her own bumbling led her to this state. At worst, blame her
self-importance. When she was interviewed on the Globes red carpet for
"Access Hollywood," she was shown an old clip of herself jumping into a
swimming pool fully clothed after the 1999 awards, not exactly a tough
reminder of her wild past. Yet New Angelina seemed royally unamused. And
while she looked ultra-glamorous at the premiere of her latest film, "The
Good Shepherd," the perfectly upswept hair and self-contained demeanor of
her recent appearances have also made her seem plastic.
In part she is suffering from a common problem: movie stars who make too few
movies and are forced to coast on their fame. In "The Good Shepherd," as the
wife of a buttoned-down C.I.A. agent (Matt Damon), she goes from vibrant
young femme fatale to brittle, middle-aged alcoholic. It's a fine
performance but a minor part. Her next film, "A Mighty Heart," isn't
scheduled to arrive until June. That leading role might help restore her
saintly image; she plays Marianne Pearl, whose husband, Daniel, was
kidnapped and murdered while reporting in Pakistan.
But as Ms. Jolie's horrific month has shown, reshaping an image is harder
than you might think. Despite the charity work and the bun on her head, the
burning question all along has been: Who is that woman in the St. John suit,
and what has she done with Angelina Jolie?