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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 5:40 pm
Maybe I am biased, but I think it's the parents who are the lucky ones when they receive a child via adoption. but Angelina's comment always struck me wrong.
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Merrysea
Member
08-13-2004
| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 5:43 pm
I thought it was odd that she differentiates between Shiloh being born to privilege and the others being adopted into privilege. They were young enough when she adopted them that they probably won't remember anything else. And I certainly don't think Shiloh appreciated being born into privilege before she was even six months old!
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:39 pm
Back to the question about James Brolin's acceptance speech and what was so bad about it, in my opinion the speech was fine, but he kept picking at his nose. That was most off putting.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 6:44 pm
ewwwwwww
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 8:37 pm
Naming the poor baby "Shilo Pitt" says something...
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 8:54 pm
I was worried when Angelina adapted Zahara--she was sick for a very long time. She finally seems happy and healthy. My issue (there are so many to choose from with Angelina!) was the adoption of Pax in Thailand. The adoption was handled very poorly and the boy seemed very traumatized by being separated from his caretaker at the orphanage. I hate stuff like that. I would've respected her more if she had established a fund for the orphanage and left Pax there. She changed his name immediately as well. I hope he doesn't need therapy when he's older. Maddox seems like Angelina's soul mate--a wild child like her. I thought they were a good match. I don't hate Angelina, I just don't really understand what's going on in that odd brain of hers sometimes.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 9:11 pm
I would have to think that even being with someone like Angelina is better than an orphanage any day. I just hope that her comments about Shiloh totally came out wrong and she is kicking herself more than when she kissed her brother.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 10:42 pm
Pax was adopted from Vietnam, not Thailand, not that it really matters, it's just that Thailand does not allow foreign adoptions. Angelina's comments about Shilo were odd, but I remind myself that some people don't really take well to little infants that just sleep and eat. I can imagine that suddenly having a child that's nearly a year old in your arms is so different from having a newborn in your arms. Newborns don't do much of anything at first. They don't even coo or smile. I do notice that there are now plenty of pictures of her carrying Shilo around. She clearly adores all her kids.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 10:49 pm
Funny, I was just coming here to correct that! Yes it's Vietnam. You are right, Stacey, I'm sure Pax is better off now than he was. But she seems to almost compulsively collect kids--maybe she just has some major Mother Earth mojo going on and has a lot of love to give. I sort of feel bad even slamming her for giving these kids a better life.
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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 5:32 am
On the news today, they said that there is a rumor that JLo checked into North Shore University Hospital and they are thinking she is going to give birth. Of course, it is denied and of course, she is under an assumed name. Sooo, we shall see.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 7:15 am
I see Angelina as the Mia Farrow of this generation. There a lots of American families who each adopt many children. I say God bless them all for doing something wonderful that I chose not to do.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 8:46 am
I am with you OG I could not do it personally and she has made some goofy public moves that I don't always agree with but I do think she sincerely helps/loves those kids It would be hard to grow up normal with the parents that they have, but hopefully they do grow up that way and become productive adults.
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:34 am
I completely agree Mame... I also think they make an amazing couple and utterly adore her. I wish some of the other blobs that we call entertainers had half the social conscience and desire to make a difference that she does.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 11:25 am
She said she feels for them more- I think she looks at where they came from and how as they get older they'll be thinking about where they came from and who they came from, etc. Shilo will know who her birth parents are and now wonder what her life could have been if she had not been adopted. She didn't say she loves them more or less, just that she feels for them more in a way that I see is more empathetic about their lives. Or what their lives may have been.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 1:09 pm
... as long as she doesn't screw up somewhere along the way and get the kids a Woody Allen step-father ...
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 1:18 pm
Or not make them get an education.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 2:26 pm
or.. any number of issues that.. why are we assuming any of them will happen? I just wish the best for anyone who is choosing to parent and could create a VERY long list of parents who actually have screwed up, before I assume that Angelina and Brad will.. and anyway, of course they will screw up now and then. Never saw the perfect parent. I think Maddox has attended formal school and of course he's learning an awful lot about helping others, with the foundation in his name in Cambodia and other activities of his parents. And he isn't seeing his parents driving aimlessly around LA, spending money, shouting at people, etc. and I suspect they don't routinely abandon expensive vehicles or have serial flat tires.. ==== If JLo is indeed giving birth, I wish her comfort and a pair of healthy little ones.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 2:28 pm
And Angelina hasn't flashed anyone lately that I'm aware of...
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 2:32 pm
well said Sea
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 2:35 pm
Although, if BRad wanted to flash us, hey, who am I to tell him he shouldn't. 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 4:22 pm
The 30-year-old girlfriend of 70-year-old Max Baer, Jethro Bodine of "The Beverly Hillbillies," died Sunday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Lake Tahoe, Calif. According to a sheriff's spokesman, Baer called 9-1-1 at 1:15 PM last Thursday after discovering Chere Rhodes unconscious in a bedroom, suffering from a gunshot wound. She apparently regained consciousness and told deputies she was trying to kill herself. A handwritten suicide note found at the scene confirmed that, cops said. Rhodes was flown to Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno where she was placed on life-support. Her condition did not improve and she died Sunday after her family requested she be taken off life-support. No foul play is suspected.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 4:33 pm
Sad for her family. Suicide is so permanent.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 4:47 pm
OMG how sad for Baer to find her like that.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:00 pm
She was only 30 with everything to live for... very sad, and very odd. Plus he's 70, I hope this doesn't give him a stroke or heart attack.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:15 pm
That's so sad 
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