Jolie-Pitt Love

Not only did they make a mark on Our Town -- Chicago kind of made a permanent mark on them as well.

Seems longtime tattoo devotee Jolie and Pitt treated themselves to more tattoos while the actress was here filming ''Wanted.''

According to a good source, an artist for the Chicago Tattooing Co. on West Belmont slipped up to the 18th floor of the Peninsula Hotel and spent the better part of a day needling not only Angelina and Brad, but also some members of their staff and security team.

The couple's children were left out as they are below the legal age for tattooing in Illinois.

When I called Chicago Tattooing owner Nick Colella to confirm all this -- and hopefully learn details about the couple's new tattoos -- he politely, but very firmly, refused to comment on the ''Brangelina'' inking story.

''I can't say anything,'' said the tattoo titan.

But, just as we were hanging up, Colella did ask, ''Who called you about this?''

Well I can't wait to see their new tattoos. Especially Brad's.

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Hip hop star Eve has admitted to having various celebrity lesbian crushes.

The 'Let Me Blow Ya Mind' singer told HX: "My girl-crush is Angelina Jolie. That's an everybody girl-crush -that's my dog's crush!"

The rapper added that she also has a soft spot for Marilyn Manson's former lover Dita Von Teese. She commented: "I want a Dita Von Teese doll and I'll be happy. She's just bananas!"

Talking about her gay fans she said: "Gay women are way more aggressive than men - I will definitely say that.

"But it doesn't bother me. I've never been disrespected in any way. If I'm like, 'Yo, I get it, but I don't swing that way,' then it's all love."

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Paparazzi frame up Angelina Jolie as she makes her way to the CTA platform near the Harold Washington Library. (Tribune photo by E. Jason Wambsgans / August 17, 2007)

Tires screeching, we wheeled around the corner of Rush and Chicago, barely missing a pack of pedestrians. "Sorry folks -- watch it!" the photographer yelled as he pounded the accelerator of his SUV and sped east on Chicago.

He was on the hunt, chasing a black Ford Expedition belonging to the Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt entourage, and it had just departed the Peninsula Hotel. I'd been interviewing the photographer in his SUV, and when the chase began I went along for the wild ride.

He and the dozen other paparazzi tailing the Expedition had no clue who was inside. At the moment, though, the vehicle's human cargo was beside the point. Thanks to the caprices of a traffic control aide, eight taxis, a Ford F-150 and an OfficeMax truck, the photographer -- with me, slightly nervous, in the passenger seat -- was trailing his quarry by several blocks.

Then word from a fellow photographer and friend came in over the two-way radio, announcing that the Expedition was nearly at Lake Shore Drive. Cursing, my driver floored it, using the turn lane to bypass traffic. As he reached the Drive, his cell phone rang. Another photographer was right on the Expedition's tail, and he was willing to give directions.

The SUV's speedometer quickly reached 80, well over the Drive's 45 m.p.h. limit. Per instructions, he exited at Wilson and headed west, using the wrong side of the street as a passing lane and narrowly avoiding several head-on collisions as he snaked in and out of traffic. Finally, sweating and out of breath, he pulled up behind a line of paparazzi at a stoplight.

Then, for the first time that day, he reached into the camera bag at my feet, pulled out a camera and slung it around his neck. We weren't done yet.

Our chase began at the Peninsula, the luxury hotel where Pitt, Jolie and their ever-expanding brood stayed while Jolie was in Chicago shooting the movie "Wanted." When I arrived there that morning, I saw no signs that a dozen or so paparazzi were staking out the hotel.

I later found out that most remained in their cars, hiding behind their tinted windows and making the most of the air conditioning. Several said they paid the valet at Rosebud on Rush $40 a day to secure parking spots with a view of the Peninsula and its loading dock, where Jolie and Pitt loaded up their SUVs before attempting to venture outward. A paparazzo might have left his car for the occasional cigarette break or to run to the Giordano's across from the Peninsula for a slice of pizza, but the ones who knew what they were doing stayed out of sight, watching, until their quarry presented itself.

The paparazzi are a secretive lot. Some are tight-lipped because they want to safeguard their turf and tipsters. Others worry about the negative publicity that accompanies their work. The paparazzo I was with asked that we not use his name because he was concerned it would upset some of his clients, acknowledging the hypocrisy of invading others' privacy while protecting his own.

"People do a lot of things in this business that they aren't happy about, that they don't tell everybody else about," he said. "People know who I am. It's just a little different when you make the paper and you're the poster child for an organization."

While some photographers work full time as paparazzi, many alternate chasing stars with more conventional gigs.

"Sometimes, the people who do this work for the local newspaper and are just [photographing celebrities] on the side to make some money," said Francois Navarre, founder and president of X17, which is one of the largest paparazzi agencies in Los Angeles.

The paparazzi are aware of the negative implications associated with their job. Critics say that their pursuit of their targets borders on stalking, and that the high-speed chases they instigate endanger celebrities and innocent motorists. But most paparazzi are quick to say that they're just another part of our celebrity-driven culture, that the stars are perfectly aware when they're being photographed and that many don't exactly mind when they see their faces in People magazine.

"We aren't trespassing; we're just trying to get a story," said Raul Rodriguez, a paparazzo from L.A. who came to Chicago in pursuit of Jolie. "I haven't seen any pictures from when she's been here where she looks upset. She's smiling, enjoying her work, enjoying being with her kids and Brad.

"It's part of the game," he added. "We're basically contributing to their publicity."

Rodriguez said that in the eight years he's been photographing celebrities, he's never been involved in a car accident. But he acknowledged that sometimes things can get out of hand when the paparazzi are chasing a target.

"In L.A., it's really tense," he said. "There are people who don't have the skills to drive. They're nervous. They want to get the photos."

Driving in Chicago has been more sedate, he said, although the city's numerous one-way streets and the abundance of pedestrians on the Magnificent Mile, near the Peninsula, have caused occasional snags.

It might seem odd that Jolie and Pitt's brief jaunt to Chicago has drawn Rodriguez and other paparazzi away from the star-laden streets of New York and Los Angeles. But Jolie and Pitt are at the top of the celebrity A-list not necessarily in terms of talent, but in terms of their ability to draw readers to celebrity magazines.

"It changes every week, but they're always in the top 10," Navarre said. "Right now, No. 1 is Britney [Spears], then Katie Holmes, then Angelina."

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I apologize for the lack of updates. Sometimes real life takes up a lot of time, lol. anyway I'll make it up to you now with these little tidbits

Brad is expected to make an appearance at the Toronto Film Festival-Globandmail.com
Brad and Angelina will attend a fundraiser in Springfield, MO-SBJ
Brad will produce a transsexual drama for FX-Hollywood Reporter

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Finally! It's looking pretty good!

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Long time no see... on to some updates

Brad Pitt shares hopes, dreams for New Orleans
Hollywood star lends his time, celebrity to rebuilding Ninth Ward

Brad Pitt doesn't pretend that the 18 apartments and five homes rising in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward are anything more than a start toward the massive job of rebuilding from the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Katrina. But the Hollywood star believes the project he's putting his time and celebrity behind is an important step toward shaping what the area could become.

“It doesn't feel like much of a victory when you look at the overall problem here,” he told TODAY’s Ann Curry during a tour of the construction site one week before the second anniversary of the killer storm. “Katrina was a manmade disaster. The misconception is that it was nature. But this is manmade — decades and decades of erroneous engineering moves and really, really bad, bad irresponsible moves that I believe government has a responsibility to make right.”

Pitt and his wife, Angelina Jolie, have adopted New Orleans. In January, they bought an early-19th-century mansion in the French Quarter. Not long afterward, Pitt teamed with Global Green USA to sponsor a competition to design environmentally friendly and energy-efficient housing for the Ninth Ward.

“I care very much for the area,” he said. “I met a 60-year-old man when I first arrived here to look into this. He said, ‘I did everything right. I got a job. I bought a home. I raised my kids in that home. They did the same. Now, one kid's in Atlanta, another one's in Houston. We're all split apart and we've been wiped out. What do I do?’

“He’s right,” Pitt said. “That’s unacceptable.”

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