Angelina Jolie: Cambodian

August 12, 2005 7:36 PM

Angelina Jolie: Cambodian.Has anyone else noticed that the press doesn't really know what to make of her lately, if ever. I mean, she broke up Brad and Jen! But she does good work for humanity! But she's crazy and seems like she may have had sex with her brother! But she's a good actress! Who makes bad movies! Well, apparently Cambodia wants her. Cambodia and every 16-year-old boy on the planet, as well as most of the girls.
posted by maxsparber (61 comments total)

I tell you, that Tom Cruise -- is he a little wacky? Did you see him on Oprah?
posted by argybarg at 7:42 PM on August 12, 2005

... and?
posted by dobbs at 7:43 PM on August 12, 2005

She just got gifted Cambodian citizenship too

That's a seriously cool gift. Citizenship in multiple countries is a damn useful thing to have. Expecially (as in her case) if you spend a lot of time in the country in question.
posted by -harlequin- at 7:49 PM on August 12, 2005

Wait, that was in the FPP link, so another link was pointless.
Oops.
But it's still a fine gift.
posted by -harlequin- at 7:50 PM on August 12, 2005

She's pretty.
posted by undule at 8:00 PM on August 12, 2005

Doesn't the US frown on taking another citizenship as well as the American one?
posted by clevershark at 8:01 PM on August 12, 2005

It frowns on taking Jen's husband, I'll tell you what!
posted by maxsparber at 8:02 PM on August 12, 2005

Hey, did you know a gifted Cambodian citizenship only costs $1.5 million? Cool, I'm gonna start saving today!
posted by fenriq at 8:03 PM on August 12, 2005

Politics in the US too much for you eh? Off to Cambodia instead?
posted by state fxn at 8:09 PM on August 12, 2005

Bluglughluigulhuhluhl GREAT POST
posted by jimmy at 8:10 PM on August 12, 2005

I have been intending to spend more time being concerned about the lives of attractive, wealthy, famous people who I will never meet and who also have no impact on my life, but other things seem to keep getting in my way.
posted by flarbuse at 8:11 PM on August 12, 2005

It is almost as if she is a real hu-man being, driven by a complicated web of emotions, ideals and drives, but whose every decision and action are for some reason broadcast to millions of people.
posted by Capn at 8:11 PM on August 12, 2005

Legal permanent residency (green card) in the US is $1 million -- not citizenship, but the next best thing.
posted by 5MeoCMP at 8:12 PM on August 12, 2005

She's got enormous lips!
posted by homunculus at 8:21 PM on August 12, 2005

And some big ass titties, according to these gentlemen.
posted by eatitlive at 8:25 PM on August 12, 2005

Okay, this shitass FPP was worth it for homunculus' link. Thanks!
posted by dobbs at 8:33 PM on August 12, 2005

Doesn't the US frown on taking another citizenship as well as the American one?

No. And American Citizenship can never be revoked, so what diffrence would it make?
posted by delmoi at 8:39 PM on August 12, 2005

Doesn't the US frown on taking another citizenship as well as the American one?

The US doesn't do anything to you, if that's what you mean. About the only thing they could do is take away your US citizenship, but that turns out to be very hard to do even if you want to give it up.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:49 PM on August 12, 2005

Those lips are quite ridiculous.
posted by fungible at 8:57 PM on August 12, 2005

Anyone see Ong Bak, Thai Warrior?
posted by eatitlive at 8:58 PM on August 12, 2005

Something is wrong with me because I find I have absolutely no interest in the personal life of a complete stranger who, I gather, is named MS. Jolie.

...she broke up Brad and Jen!

Psst . . . it takes two to have an affair. I'm sure that mysterious and sultry vixen did not wrest that poor defenseless man, Mr Pitt, from his wife's arms unwillingly.
posted by johnj at 9:00 PM on August 12, 2005

but that turns out to be very hard to do even if you want to give it up

...unless you cheese off the local consulate with your anti-American screeching, then you're fucked. If you know who Debito Arudou is, you know what I'm talking about...
posted by Heywood Mogroot at 9:01 PM on August 12, 2005

Yeah, Ms. Jolie has too much lip collagen, and I'm wondering what she looks like without her makeup. And them "big ass titties", given Hollywood, are probably fake ass too.

But poor Jenny seems so whitebread, like Bradney must really be. Or so it seems, given that all I really think I know about those alleged people is what I saw on magazine covers in checkout lines and stuff. I never saw "Friends" or any of her movies, and the only movie I saw with Bradboy in it was where he played a surfer who sits on a sofa -- and I only saw that once (and that was years ago on TV).

But I'd rather sip bourbon watching Brad watch them chicks together. His lips would tremble and his chin would sweat.

(On the other hand, "J Lo" has a nice ass booty.)
posted by davy at 9:54 PM on August 12, 2005

And yes, I really mean that.
posted by davy at 9:54 PM on August 12, 2005

i did...
i saw ong bak...
posted by MonkNoiz at 10:04 PM on August 12, 2005

Yes, yes. We're all far too cool to be interested in celebrities. After all, we're much better than everyone else...
posted by Elpoca at 10:06 PM on August 12, 2005

I can be interested in celebrities, as long as I don't have to actually work at it or spend any money. Like, I can participate in a bullshit celebrity thread here without reaching across the conveyer counter to pick up any of those magazines, so that's okay. But those people who actually bother to buy the magazines, or worse, buy the damn movie tickets, have something wrong with them: if there was anything you could really get from that that you can't get from looking at a magazine cover for thirty seconds then those celebrities would not be celebrities in the first place. Ain't y'all never read no Foucault and/or Didion?
posted by davy at 10:23 PM on August 12, 2005

Heywood, even then the problem was Japanese refusal to allow dual nationality. The consulate dickhead couldn't say "Naturalized in Japan, huh? Then you ain't American no more, boy," all he could do was threaten to tell the Japanese government that DA hadn't expatriated himself, which would cost him his Japanese citizenship.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:30 PM on August 12, 2005

That may be the most unfappabbleflattering picture of her I've ever seen.
posted by pmbuko at 10:30 PM on August 12, 2005

pmbuko, it must have been a long flight. I'm surprised she didn't get Deep Vein Thrombosis and have a fatal stroke. I mean it must weigh her leg veins down a bit carrying all that implanted collagen, silicone, saline and plastic, not to mention the weight of all that eye makeup.

That Brad can't be too bright. Main thing I don't understand is why those celebrities marry each other. Would they be somehow diminished by marrying, say, his mother's friend Zelda's niece Harriet, or the grad student at the UCLA library reference desk? Why even get married at all, to one woman especially? Is being a celebrity so low-paying that you need a spouse's income? Me, I'd have a best dyke buddy and an endless parade of escorts to share with her. And wife schmife, I'd rather hire a Punjabi chef.
posted by davy at 11:11 PM on August 12, 2005

Is it just me, or has MeFi gotten painfully elitist?

If you think the post was stupid, don't read it, don't comment on it.
posted by JPowers at 11:19 PM on August 12, 2005

If you think the post was stupid, don't read it, don't comment on it.

But what if it is really, really stupid? You see the quandary.
posted by LarryC at 11:28 PM on August 12, 2005

Now that's a stupid comment. Sheesh.
posted by loquacious at 11:28 PM on August 12, 2005

Damnit, now that was a stupid comment. Rearrange the previous one with LarryC's comment and vice-versa, and pretend this one doesn't exist.

PRETEND I'M HOLDING A LARGE KILLOZAP RAYPRETEND IT DOESN'T EXIST.
posted by loquacious at 11:30 PM on August 12, 2005

MetaFilter: Your local middle school chess club, with meth and guns.
posted by loquacious at 11:36 PM on August 12, 2005

It's not that I think the post was any stupider than most of what we see around here; same for the comments. I think it's refreshing that we can have a whole long thread going without anybody once mentioning pedophilia.

OOPS.

Although somebody did already bring up middle school.
posted by davy at 11:51 PM on August 12, 2005

Let's bring up the Nazis. Damn they were nasty, weren't they?

Somebody should cast Angelina Jolie as a nasty concentration camp guard... just imagine the metafilter thread we could have!
posted by slater at 12:03 AM on August 13, 2005

In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away---
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
posted by snarfodox at 2:07 AM on August 13, 2005

Nice link eatitlive, big ass titties :)
posted by zouhair at 4:27 AM on August 13, 2005

Is it just me, or has MeFi gotten painfully elitist?

You haven't been around long have you?
posted by brittney at 5:02 AM on August 13, 2005

Given her parents, and how she looked 13 years ago, I'm not so sure she's made entirely of plastic.
posted by Kwantsar at 5:10 AM on August 13, 2005

I shall forever rue the day that Angelina and I parted ways. If only I'd have realised how successful she'd end up...

/lives in a fantasy world of beautiful large-lipped women.
posted by longbaugh at 5:43 AM on August 13, 2005

I'm a major fan, but this doesn't make for good fpp.
posted by Radio7 at 5:58 AM on August 13, 2005

Thanks for watching folks, now lets all go home and masturbate.
posted by furtive at 6:00 AM on August 13, 2005

eatitlive: Thanks for the mammaries.
posted by alumshubby at 6:10 AM on August 13, 2005

Ong Bak kicked some serious ass. The RZA even did a promo for it a while back.
posted by joedan at 6:39 AM on August 13, 2005

I was in Cambodia when she was filming the Tombraider movie (perhaps it was the sequal?) She spent a good deal of time trying to raise public (non-Cambodian) awareness of the problems of UXO and land mines. She didn't have to, and the cynics among us could say she did it for publicity. But when you've just walked by the hundredth amputee in a weekend, it starts to get to you, and you start to wish there was something you could do besides give them a handout.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 6:48 AM on August 13, 2005

She could give me a handjob if she wants.

/thumbing a lift to hell already...
posted by longbaugh at 7:10 AM on August 13, 2005

Who's got the meth, now?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:25 AM on August 13, 2005

Huh, if only Cambodia were as nice to its asylum seekers as it is to Ms. Jolie...

Technically, under Vance v. Terrazas citizenship can only be renounced voluntarily, but the problem is that your intent to renounce only has to be proved by a "preponderance of the evidence" (a very low standard in U.S. law.) But the State Dept. regulations on renunciation are actually more generous than they strictly need to be under the law, so the protection for the average joe with dual citizenship ends up being pretty good.
posted by footnote at 7:55 AM on August 13, 2005

I should also add that Jolie actually does seem to be very sincere about her work on refugee issues -- you can read her online journals about her travels with the UN refugee agency.
posted by footnote at 8:00 AM on August 13, 2005

davy - Main thing I don't understand is why those celebrities marry each other. Would they be somehow diminished by marrying, say, his mother's friend Zelda's niece Harriet, or the grad student at the UCLA library reference desk? Why even get married at all, to one woman especially? Is being a celebrity so low-paying that you need a spouse's income?

It's easier to marry someone who understands your life and the industry you work in. For celebrities, this often means pairing up with another celebrity; they would have a far better understanding of what you're going through.

Nothing to do with income...but with compatability.

One of my best friends works in the media industry and is quite famous in this region. Even I have a hard time trying to grasp some of the gazillion things she does. It's seriously complicated.
posted by divabat at 8:49 AM on August 13, 2005

A friend's daughter met Angelina a few years ago. The daughter had just suffered a major loss in her life--her mother. She was (is) a fan of Angelina's. Angelina took time, sat down on the steps, and talked with her for some time. She even posed for a photo (she had no make-up on). Because of this kind act, I will always be a fan of Angelina's. The business is complicated, I have friends in it. On preview, what divabat said.
posted by 6:1 at 9:34 AM on August 13, 2005

Hey, those "Big-Ass Titty" guys are in Louisville!
posted by davy at 12:44 PM on August 13, 2005

I have gotten way too old for popular culture, and don't think I've ever seen Angelina in a movie (and Brad maybe only in 12 Monkeys and Thelma & Louise). It's almost impossible to imagine being at all normal in the face of so much overpowering media attention, so obviously she has to be at least a little odd, but she seems like a nice enough person. If she came by the house I'd make her some soup or something.

Having said that, though, I was startled while walking through the public library this afternoon to see last month's issue of W magazine on the table with a cover that promised 60 pages of photos of A & B. 60 pages! It seemed a bit, I don't know, excessive.
posted by LeLiLo at 1:23 PM on August 13, 2005

Nothing to do with income ..... but with compatibility.

But doesn't being a celebrity presuppose a certain income bracket?
posted by blucevalo at 2:08 PM on August 13, 2005

...It’s a holiday in Cambodia
It’s tough, kid, but it’s life
It’s a holiday in Cambodia
Don’t forget to pack a wife...
posted by TedW at 2:10 PM on August 13, 2005

beautiful large-lipped women

You know those chinese paintings of girls with the tiny heart shaped lips? They are supposed to imply something about, um, lips in general.

And it works the other way too, some say.
posted by StickyCarpet at 2:36 PM on August 13, 2005

Uh, i just came back from cambodia. That country is fucked. I'm sure the cambodians just want her money, and to donate more so they can pocket more themselves.
posted by brygo at 4:13 PM on August 13, 2005

But doesn't being a celebrity presuppose a certain income bracket?

Not necessarily. Being a celebrity just means you are famous at something (or, in some cases, just famous). The amount of income celebrities earn can really vary - the "millions of dollars" thing is actually quite rare.

Quite a number of people in the industry, ranging in degrees of fame, have to work multiple jobs to support themselves. The income is irregular; sometimes you can get a lot of money at one go, other times you're just scrimping.

The friend I mentioned earlier does all sorts of work - TV, radio, print, so on and so forth - yet she still struggles to pay the mortgage on her apartment.
posted by divabat at 6:37 PM on August 13, 2005

It's a funny thing about interesting people. People are always interested in them. She could murder someone, but that would only make her more interesting. She broke up a marriage, but then again, is it her fault that Brad Pitt isn't a big enough moron to look the other way?

Her rumored bi-sexual slant doesn't hurt her chances of striking up a fanbase in just about any circle.

Her being hot doesn't hurt either.
posted by MikeP at 10:46 PM on August 14, 2005