Angelina Jolie: I Want 13 or 14 Kids

Angelina Jolie greets fans and signs autographs before a screening of her new movie A Mighty Heart at the French Institute in New York City on Thursday night.

Here are a a few excerpts from last night’s taping of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: When you walked the streets of Pakistan, do you wear a head cover? A burka? Can I, if I may? And I say this with all due respect, Can the burka contain your hotness? It’s not possible, is it? You are our most powerful weapon against extremism.” I did actually put on a burka to see what it was like. [laughs]

How are you doing? Are you exhausted? I’m great. I’ve got a crazy big happy family and I’m used to chaos, and I’m very, very lucky.

How high are we going? Where are you going to go [in terms of kids]? It fluctuates between seven and 13 or 14. [laughs]Wow. I’ll tell you this. I admire that, because two is kicking my ***! Yeah, I understand that.

Four is kind of kicking our ***, but we kind of feel like, ‘Damn it, we’re up for the challenge!’ [laughs] Yeah man, who are they? Little bastards, think they can beat us. They can’t beat us! We’re the adults! That’s right! [laughs]PLAYDATE! And if the kids want to come, they can come. [laughs]I didn’t have to sign [a contract] to interview, what’s all this [controversy]?:

“I think people are always, unfortunately, looking for the most negative story. There was a memo that went out to ask people if they would sign it that said, don’t get into personal questions, focus on the movie and things like that. But it was not mandatory. I didn’t put it out there. It was from my representatives who were trying to be protective but it was excessive and I wouldn’t have to put it out there.”

Movies, Aamir, life: Kiran speaks her mind

This is the first time I am speaking on these things,” Kiran conceded with a laugh as this interview drew to a close, and Aamir interjected with a Kiran and Aamir (TOI Photo) More Pics “So, you have a scoop!”

Indeed, such has been the tenacity of the silence that Kiran Rao has maintained over the years that her speaking on simple things – what she is all about and what the equation between her and Aamir is like – is indeed a rarity.

“It has been a conscious call. I’ve always felt that until I have something to say as an individually creative person, who’s not just someone’s partner or aunt or mother or sister, it’s pretty pointless having a point of view. Everybody has something to say, don’t they? I was very clear that until I’ve come into my own as a creative person, I wouldn’t want to impose my worldviews on the world, not when there’s enough of it jamming the airwaves already!”

Kiran is now venturing into the territory of independent filmmaking with her own production house – which however will be part of the overall banner of AKP, she emphasises – and will also be directing the first film she is going to produce, Dhobi Ghaat , a low budget film with a story based in present-day Mumbai. In an industry that sees the family and the overarching big banner as synonymous, the tendency to take an independent track is not a common one.

Writer hired for Speilberg's Old Boy remake

That lovely man Will Smith who starred in the fantastic I AM LEGEND, and that even lovelier man Steven Spielberg, who is in fact a LEGEND have hired I AM LEGEND co-writer Mark Protosevich to work on the script for their planned collaboration, the remake of the Korean film OLD BOY.

Now, I cannot believe that these two are actually tackling this project (I'm talking about the original film's subject matter, and absolutely shocking ending). I'm just really hoping that they down PG-13 it up. Hard R boys, hard R!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Smith invited Protosevich to meet with Spielberg on the project, which is being looked after by Dreamworks.

The original OLD BOY is described by the trade as revolving around a man's mysterious kidnapping, 15-year imprisonment and feverish quest for revenge upon being released.

50 Cent joins British gangster flick

Curtis Jackson, or in monetary terms 50 Cent, is heading towards British shores to star in Alex de Rakoff's London set gangsta film DEAD MAN RUNNING. The flick started shooting today apparently, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

How about this for a cast? Fiddy is going to be starring alongside East End Danny Dyer, his mate and THE BUSINESS co-star Tamer Hussan (who by the way is a loverly loverly man), Oscar magnet Brenda Blethyn and Monet Mazur, who starred in Rolling Stones film STONED.

The film, according to the trade paper, centers on an ex-con trying to go straight who is given 24 hours to raise 100,000 pounds ($150,000) to pay off Jackson's loan shark or become a "dead man running." The mission takes him from the dog tracks of East London to the underground drug scene of rural Manchester as they try every trick and scam in the book to get the cash before it's too late.

Get this. English soccer stars Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole are acting as executive producers on the film. Not acting. Thank goodness.

John Abraham is in no hurry either. Several actors have gone ahead and signed multiple film deals with major corporate houses at astronomical prices, but John has decided to go slow.

"I am not in a hurry really, " John tells me.Seriously, doesn't he get insecure when he reads that an 'x' actor has signed a Rs. 60 crore deal or 'y' getting into a 3-film contract for a humungous figure?

Doesn't he want to be a part of this rat race? "Believe me, I have never felt insecure. And I don't believe in signing 3 or 4-film deals, even if the money is lucrative. You need to draw a line somewhere, " John states.

While AASHAYEIN is already complete (slated for release early next year), followed by Yash Raj's NEW YORK (directed by Kabeer Khan), John will begin work on Abbas Tyrewala's film. "I want to take a break once I am through with Abbas' film. I've been living out of my suitcase for a while now. I need to relax, " he states.

The media was agog with rumours of John and Katrina sharing cold vibes while shooting for NEW YORK in America. If true, doesn't it hamper the quality of work? "Yes, it does! But Katrina and I are thorough professionals. It's completely false that we didn't get along, I don't know how this originated, " he clarifies.

What about Bipasha? Is there a possibility of the much-in-news couple featuring in a film together? "I'd love to work with Bipasha. I loved her performances in RACE as also BACHNA AE HASEENO. Bipasha was gracious enough to work with me when I was nobody (JISM). It would be an honour if I get an opportunity of working with her again, " he states.

Dostana

Starring: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Kirron Kher, Boman Irani
Written & Directed by Tarun Mansukhani
Rating: ***


Get this straight. Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham are not gay. They are just happy pretending to be bed partners. In the endeavour they pull put all stops and get into the gay zone with a gusto that stumps all the moralists.


There are butt-and-bum jokes galore some even pointed at the leading lady. But hold that frown. Auntyji, chill. It's all for fun. Wanna join in?The theme of heterosexual characters pretending to be gay to get a precious abode in the bustle of the metropolis is pretty cool.Bachchan and Abraham, both in full form, get into the gay groove without going over the top.


They come out with flying colours through most of the material that's provided to them to sink their teeth into. While John combines terrific body language with some great comic timing (he's come a long way from his thanda GaramMasala days) Abhishek's expressions are a scream in their pitch-perfection.


One of the most brilliantly-written sequences orchestrates all the characters of this gay-play in the same room. There're the play-acting gay protagonists, a gay magazine editor (a flawlessly wimpy Boman Irani), a gay marriage-bureau official (who just decides to drop in for a quick –check) and of course Abhishek's homophobic mother (Kirron Kher) who screams and rants and then accepts her son's apparent sexual preference.


You could simply marvel at the two principal actors giving so much of heart and others parts to their parts. After a point you're tempted to stop counting the number of times the word 'gay' gets in the way of the narrative. From 'Mera beta gay hai' (courtesy Abhishek's mom Kirron Kher) to a 'Han main gay hoon' …. Dostana wins the how-to-say-gay-in-every-which-way award of the year. Sandwiched between the two brilliantly-poised heroes is Priyanka Chopra, glowing like a 1000-watt bulb in her immaculate wardrobe (and out of it…she too gets into beachwear, what did you think?).

So here's the bottom (oops!) line. Hindi cinema finally comes out of the closet. And going by how little John Abraham wears in most of the film. There's very little coming out of the closet.But there you have it. Bollywood's first beach-bum-chum meri-dosti-mera-pyar dildo-dil-lo preparation done on that slow-burn state of leisurely cooking where the characters get an ample chance to extend the parameters of the conventional cinema without toppling into the abyss of overstatement.

First-time writer-director Tarun Mansukhani has the zing thing in his vision. Miami shot with fetching gusto by Aynanka Bose lifts the luscious locales to more than a touristic paradise. The desi characters seem to belong to this beachside paradise.

Dasvidaniya

Starring Vinay Pathak & Friends

Directed by Shashant Singh

Rating: ***

There's something to be said about this sensitive slice-of-life cinema. And it's this. You really can't keep a good man down.

Returning to the ambit of the dull workingclass protagonist that he almost patented in Bheja Fry Vinay Pathak delivers yet another bravura performance as a man who learns to live only when he learns he has to die.

The premise done to death (pun intended) in films as disparate as Akira Kurosawa's Ikuru and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Anand, gets its power and glory from the simple yet never simplistic narrative that grows on you… piece by piece….just as the lessons of life creep up belatedly on our hero Amar Kaul.

With every dying day he lives a little more of that life he leaves behind. Though the film's leisurely pace doesn't quite capture the urgency of the moment, Dusvidaniya scores high point for its sincerity of performance reflected in every performance.

The narrative has been patterned prettily as a pastiche of ten episodes each dealing with a facet of Amar Kaul's life that he would like to retrieve from the archives of angst and claim as his own before he's gone. The pace often drops to a willowy whisper.

The tone gets predominantly stifled. The narration is constantly hushed, never rushed even as the shuffling, procrastinating hero speeds through things in his pending file that he needs done before he's through with life.

The beauty and harmony of life's essential core is obtained in passages of relaxed rumination and casual conversations that show us where we often go wrong in our daily dealings. This is done without wagging a dispproving finger at the audience.Vinay Pathak gets the sur of the tragic hero's comic escapades just right. He's partly Charlie Chaplin, and partly Robert Benigni. But finally this is an actor who does his own thing. Make no mistake about that. Helping him in his endeavour are like-minded friends like Rajit Kapur, Neha Dhupia, Ranvir Shorey, Sarita Joshi and Gaurav Gera all pitching in with transparently- sincere performances. There is not one faked moment in Dasvidaniya.

You may feel portions of the film (like the Kailesh Kher number Mumma) are manipulative in their intentions. But that's life. You win some. You lose most of it. Kudos to Pathak for making another winner out of another incorrigible loser's story.