Gotta Hand it to Her
Ignore the Jolie-Pitt jokes and tabloid journalism for a moment and listen up; the following sentence relates to Angelina Jolie:
– Angelina Jolie, quoted in CNN article
How often do you hear that from a Hollywood A-list star?
Yes, she owns her own plane (a remarkably safe and, comparatively economical choice, for someone with her kind of funds — a Cirrus SR22, which she pilots herself.) Yes, she’s still worth a mint even if you subtract 1/3 of her income annually. Yes, she’s had some questionable relationships, collects tattoos like most of us collect (and lose) socks, and travels worldwide the way most of us travel to the grocery store. She’s also been (still is?) a U.N. Ambassador for Children and does a lot of humanitarian work, rather than just writing a check and waving away any real work.
P.S. I love that one of her newest tatoos, covering up her Billy Bob Thornton tattoo, has the GPS coordinates of where she adopted each of her kids:
– Wikipedia: Angelina Jolie - Tattoos
{geek}I wonder what GPS map datum she’s using?{/geek} (I didn’t bother to check where both kids were adopted from.)
Noah said,
June 17, 2006 @ 8:06 am
I love the fact that her *tattoos* get their own entry on Wikipedia! (And now I’m trying desperately not to ponder the fact that the entry on me is all of three sentences long, and that 99.9999% of the rest of us will never be seen as deserving of a whole frickin’ encyclopedia entry devoted to aspects of our anatomy… oh, wait, that’s a GOOD thing, never mind…)
Shannon said,
June 17, 2006 @ 12:09 pm
Actually, it’s just an inline link to the “Tattoos” section of her Wikipedia entry. I suppose if they had photos of every single tatto, though, it might merit its own Wiki entry.
Look at the bright side… ‘my’ only Wikipedia entry is hijacked by a semi-pro God-awful wrestler that shares my name.