BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Angelina Jolie and her newborn twins left the maternity clinic in the south of France on Saturday where she gave birth a week ago, according to media reports.
Jolie, 33, left the clinic in the Riviera city of Nice before dawn, avoiding photographers who have been massed outside. Associated Press Television cameras outside the hospital filmed a large white van with tinted windows leaving one of the hospital's back entrances at that time.
The twins, a boy and a girl, named Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, "were doing perfectly well," said the statement issued by the clinic. Jolie checked into the hospital on July 2.
The local newspaper has reported that an unnamed U.S. publication has paid 11 million U.S. dollars for exclusive rights to the first photos of the Jolie-Pitt twins and that the proceeds will go to charity.
Few among us would describe Angelina Jolie as a saintly figure. But her famously telegenic flesh plays canvas to tattooed prayers from religions as varied as her children's birth countries. In his weekly look at the sound bites of our times, Stephen Marche deconstructs a tattooed verse from the nape of her angelic neck There are several prayers tattooed on Angelina Jolie's body. In four long strands along her back runs a Buddhist incantation in Pali, written in Khmer script, whose effectiveness cannot be doubted: "Wherever you may go, many will attend, serve and protect you." Over her abdomen runs the trite Latin saw, "Quod me nutrit me destruit," which translates roughly as "what nourishes me destroys me." On the bump of spine below her neck, the title of a Clash album in a rather tacky Gothic font intones "Know Your Rights." "A Prayer for the Wild at Heart, Kept in Cages," the quotation on her left arm, is the subtitle of a little known and hugely overearnest young play by Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof. The latest additions to Jolie's skin text are tributes to Winston Churchill, one on each arm: Toil and Tears. Blood and Sweat apparently didn't make the cut. And soon enough Jolie will have the numbers 43.41.21N 7.14.29E added to the repertoire. Those are the co-ordinates of the Lenval hospital in Nice, where she gave birth last week to her almost appropriately named twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. Jolie has tattoos of the longitude and latitude of her other four children's birthplaces over the spot where a dragon was once dedicated to Billy Bob Thornton, but twins pose a complicated problem: Should she have the co-ordinates tattooed once or twice?
Tattoos might once have been considered wild but they're now the kind of physical decoration you wouldn't be surprised to find on the neck of your bank manager. Tattooing cannot be defined (and hence dismissed) as a trend because it is both so ancient and so modern--predating cities and starring on the bodies of the world's most of-the-moment celebrities. Readable text on bodies, however, is a break both from tattooing ancient forms and from its modern purposes: Text written on bodies has historically been a tool for marking fugitives, the sign of the criminal or the slave, the opposite of self-definition or personal expression.
Meaning itself becomes image on Jolie's body. The heart of sense is sacrificed for the shapeliness of sentiment. The power of the words is drained by their placement on her body, evidence of their own ability to be replaced. The aura of profundity devolves into a radioactive superficiality. Jolie kept her tattoos for Wanted, maybe the stupidest film ever made about assassins and the other major Jolie release of the summer. The filmmakers even added a few temporary tattoos to aid her pouty killer aesthetic. The movie unfortunately means the trend of tattoo text will soon spread even more deeply into the mainstream. I'm tempted simply to call Wanted a pile of crap, but, when you think about it, a pile of crap is evidence of the proper digestion of wholesome substance from which good things can grow, none of which is true of Wanted. Wanted is debased enough to treat a story about the transformation of a gentle accountant into a ruthless assassin as a triumph of the possibilities of humanity; ordinary existence can only be a horrifying waste of time is its basic theme. Angelina Jolie is the perfect embodiment of this rejection of the quotidian. She is the celebrity as cartoon character, closer to Bugs Bunny than Grace Kelly. The archetypes in her affair with Brad Pitt, stealing Mr. America from The Girl Next Door, were only prologue to the unreality of her current family, a multicultural brood of stylish kids straight out of X-men or Josephine Baker. The twins no doubt will only contribute to the otherworldly effect. As will the tattoos yet to come.
Antivirus experts have warned of a new wave of spam messages that use fake events related to Angelina Jolie in order to trick users into downloading and installing malware. Researchers at Romanian firm BitDefender said that this latest campaign is mostly carried via spam messages based around alleged adult video footage of the movie star. In order to watch the 'movie', users have to download a file called 'video-nude-anjelina.avi.exe' which is infected with Trojan.Agent.AGGZ.
The spam message comprises an explicit image of Jolie, along with text claiming that the email has been sent as part of the MSN Featured Offers programme. The message attempts to play a double role by trying to trick the user into thinking that this is a legitimate news message and by preventing spam filters from labelling the entire email as spam. "The spam wave is part of a larger category of unsolicited messages that rely on social engineering techniques in order to lure unwary users into installing Trojans," said Vlad Valceanu, head of BitDefender anti-spam research.
"This type of attack seems to be extremely successful, as the number of messages has quickly escalated over the last couple months. "In order to achieve their goals, spammers usually rely on international celebrities and their pictures, along with catchy yet fake news leads." This is not the only incident involving Jolie. The actress recently gave birth to two children, and spammers took advantage of the event in order to infect more computers. The spam campaign following the event announced that Jolie gave birth to no fewer than five children, and even offered users a link to a website allegedly hosting a small video of the event.
Once on the respective page, users were shown an image masquerading as a Flash video player. But when the user landed on the compromised webpage, the download started immediately without any user intervention - a procedure also known as drive-by download. The binary file was infected with Trojan.Downloader.Exchanger.Gen.1, a piece of malware that has been widely used in another spam campaign promoting an alleged antivirus utility called Antivirus XP 2008.
Washington (ANI): Angelina Jolie admits that she signed up for her new action movie Wanted to recover from her mom's death. The Oscar winner says she took up the role because she was sliding into depression and needed something to keep her physically busy, reports Contactmusic.
"My mother had just passed away and I wanted to do something physical to get it out of my head for a while," she said. "I felt I was going into a very dark place and I wasn't capable of getting up in the morning, so I signed up for something that would force me to be active."
Jolie's mum Marcheline Bertrand died of cancer in February last year (07). The actress is currently in hospital as she awaits the birth of her twins with actor Brad Pitt. The new babies will take the number of the Jolie-Pitt clan to six. The A-list celeb couple already have four kids sons Maddox and Pax, and daughters Zahara and Shiloh.
BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Angelina Jolie and her newborn twins left the maternity clinic in the south of France on Saturday where she gave birth a week ago, according to media reports.
