Angelina Jolie ‘to play Elizabeth Taylor’

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie will play Elizabeth Taylor in a film about the screen legend’s life, according to sources.

The film will be based on the book ‘Furious Love’ by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger.

According to a source close to director Mike Nichols, “Angelina just shaded it in his mind” and will now portray the icon, whose turbulent love life with Richard Burton made headlines in the Sixties and Seventies.

Russell Crowe, Clive Owen and Colin Farrell are among the favourites to play Burton, reports the Daily Express.

Pitt and Jolie buy $40 mn Italian villa

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie buy $40 mn Italian villa near Verona, the city where William Shakespeare's tragic teenaged couple Romeo and Juliet took their lives rather than sacrifice their love for the sake of their feuding families.

The 16-room villa in the style of 16th century Venetian architect Andrea Palladian is located in the Valpolicella hills northwest of Verona, according to Italian news reports.

The Hollywood superstar couple choose the villa after looking at two other properties in the area, famous for its red marble and Amarone red wine.

Brangelina pal George Clooney has a villa on Lake Como near Milan in Italy's northwest.

Angelina Jolie trying to lose 9.5kg in 21 days

Angelina Jolie is trying to shed 9.5kg in 21 days for a role in her new movie Salt.

In the film, the actress plays a CIA assassin called Evelyn Salt who is forced to disguise herself as a man.

The shooting of the film has started in Washington DC, where she has been seen running through the streets of the city wearing a blonde wig for the role.

“To play a man convincingly Angelina is adamant she needs to lose her curves,” News.com.au quoted a source, as saying.

According to reports, the 33-year-old started her detox three days before last month’’s Oscars and is already battling fatigue.

Jolie’ role was originally intended for Tom Cruise, but the character was rewritten after he dropped out.

Jolie appeals to support the Afghan refugees

Hollywood actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the UN refugee agency, Angelina Jolie, has appealed for greater support to Afghan refugees returning home to enable to withstand the approaching harsh winter.
She pleaded the cause of returning refugees after a three-day visit to the war-torn country, which was aimed at raising awareness on the issue ahead of an international conference on reintegration of refugees.
During her trip, Jolie visited recent returnees in the eastern province of Nangarhar, where almost 20 per cent of all Afghans who returned to the homeland have settled since 2002.
The returnees, who are living on desolate, desert land in tattered tents and makeshift shelters, told her they could not return to their places of origin due to a lack of land and poor security.
Jolie also visited families in Kabul who had returned from Pakistan in 2003 but have still been unable to go back to their home villages. The families have been squatting in public buildings in Kabul for several years due to the lack of available land in Parwan, their province of origin, according to UNHCR.

Angelina Jolie take her son to a special shop

Actress Angelina Jolie has admitted taking her seven-year-old son Maddox shopping for knives.

Hollywood star revealed the controversial choice of presents during an interview to the American fashion magazine W , reports dailymail.co.uk.

Jolie said, "We take him to a special shop. We also talk about samurais and the idea about defending someone as good. We talk about everything". She also said that "it is something of a family tradition" as her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, had taken her shopping for a knife when she was just 11.

The 32-year-old actress and mother of six confesses she has since held a fascination for weapons. Angelina adopted her first child Maddox in 2002, then only seven months old, from an orphanage in Cambodia.

Angelina Jolie never wanted to get pregnant

Actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that she never wanted to get pregnant, but it was Brad Pitt who made her change her mind.

The mother of six, who posed for Pitt to shoot photos for the cover story of ‘ W’ fashion magazine while breast-feeding one of her 3-month-old twins, said that it had been a life altering experience.

"I think one of the life changing things that he did, one of many, is that I was absolutely never going to get pregnant,” the New York Daily News quoted her as saying in the November issue of ‘W’ magazine.

She said: “I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world."

The 33-year-old actress added that Brad loved her adopted children like a natural father and it was her love for him that changed her mind.

She said: “[Brad] stopped talking about having other kids in the other way. So I suppose in my heart, I realized that he was happy with them as his children, completely.

“I knew he would never see them as different, and that gave me a certain peace.

“Then I suppose I just looked at him and loved him and just felt open to [getting pregnant]."

Angelina Jolie's "Wanted" ads not wanted in UK

Two movies posters for action flick "Wanted" starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy have been banned by the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority for glamorizing the use of guns and violence and are considered unsuitable for children, media reported Thursday.
A total of 18 people complained about the posters for the film, which were released in the UK in June.

One ad featured Jolie lying on her back across the bonnet of a car, holding a gun next to the text: "We drove through the night at breathtaking speed, destroying everything in our path … welcome to the fraternity. We are a team of assassins, the weapons of fate. Kill one, save a thousand."
Another advert, headlined "6 Weeks ago I was just like you" and with the text "And then I met her ... and my world was changed forever," suggested McAvoy's character's life had been changed for the better since he had become an assassin.　

"We acknowledged most viewers would understand the posters reflected the content of an action film," the ASA said in a statement. "However, we considered that because the ads featured a glamorous actress, action poses, several images of, or related to guns and aspirational text, they could be seen to glamorize the use of guns and violence."

While Universal Pictures UK defended their images, it also said the images had already been taken out of circulation, with no plans to use them again in the future.