Angie and Brad - Victims of Their Own Hypocrisy

Talk about Hollywood hypocrisy. Angelina and Brad apparently want to give their kids a normal life - and the world just hates them for it. But I must confess, I'm in a bit of a dilemma here. These two - I mean the parents, goodwill-Angie and look-pretty Brad - have known how to make a fortune out of their fame and boy, have they cashed in big time. In 2006, they topped the Forbes list with the $4.1 million People magazine paid them for the exclusive pictures of their biological daughter Shiloh Nouvel - and on top of that, came another $3.5 million that Hello! magazine paid for British rights to the photographs.

And even though word is they donated part of that to charity - fame, I'm afraid to say, comes at a price. And that price is media attention. And yes, people in the street will call your name, want autographs signed and pictures taken with you, but it's all part of the game they're playing. I'm sure no one actually needs to explain all this to them, and this is why I think that Brad and Angelina asking for privacy is pretty much like the proverbial drunk gorilla causing panic in a glass shop.

So the dilemma is this: how is it that your fame basically supports you more than your acting career does (and when I say fame I mean advertisements to perfumes and cosmetics and underwear and all that) and yet you resent it? They're starting to sound pretty much like Keira Knightley, and she's really annoying.

The latest funny update in the "leave them alone, they're only famous" area is that a memo was issued for the benefit of the parents who take their kids to the Lyc�e Fran�ais de New York on the Upper East Side. They were warned - well, some would say politely asked - to stop taking pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt whenever they come to pick up their son Maddox.

The memo read something like this: "Regretfully, I have seen some parents taking pictures, asking for autographs, talking to the media and even shouting at Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt for recognition. Therefore, in the best interests of the school and safety of your child(ren) I must ask for everyone to please respect the family's privacy and discontinue these practices".

The question is, why stop here? Issue a similar memo for the paparazzi as well, and ask them to discontinue hunting down celebrities - and we'll see where this leads us. I'm sure everyone struggling to take a picture of Angie and Brad will just go "OK, sorry, I'm not gonna do it anymore". But I bet you the day those cameras stop flashing, they'll come back crawling for attention. It's just my suspicion - but I'm afraid once you got your hands dirty with the fame game, there's really no way out.

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