<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, pax thien jolie]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, pax thien jolie]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/paxthienjolie http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/paxthienjolie <![CDATA[Saluting The Most Expensive Celebrity Photos In History]]>
Forbes.com's Slideshows of the Rich and Famous series continues with their gallery of "The Most Expensive Celebrity Photos," featuring some of the largest sums ever lavished by gossip weeklies upon celebrities in exchange for the photo-exclusives to the milestone moments of their lives (first natural child, third adopted child, first European fairy tale wedding, last photo of deceased son, etc.). Pictured, Jolie-Pitt all-access chronicler People magazine pays a cool $2 million for touching photos of mother and newly abducted/rechristened family addition Pax Thien, a fee tied Dannielynn paternity sweepstakes winner Larry Birkhead for the first pictures of proud dad holding his darling bundle of cash joy.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=281598&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Bitter Weeklies Hitting Jolie's Kids Where They Live While She's Busy Working]]> ustwisted-s.jpgToday's Page Six weighs in on the trend of creeping anti-Jolieism currently sweeping the celebrity weeklies, who have quietly banded together to destroy the orphan-collecting actress for her selfish choice of hated rival People for all of her self-glorification needs. The relentless quest to punish Jolie for giving all the cutest, officially sanctioned photographs of her family to People reportedly has left her children vulnerable to tabloid attacks, even at the presumably safe haven of on-lot day care services:

When Jolie is in L.A., even though she has four full-time nannies, she leaves her three eldest kids at the $931-per-month preschool/day-care center on the Warner Bros. lot, Star reports, where other parents are upset with the special treatment Jolie gets. One flashpoint is a ban on cellphones because Jolie fears parents will take pictures of her kids.
Pitt's rep, Cindy Guagenti, told Page Six, "I wish people would leave them alone. They're trying to do something good." Jolie's manager, Guyer Kosinski, did not respond to questions e-mailed to him.

Since the calling of this jihad against Jolie, the Warner Bros. day care center has gone from a friendly place where a harried actress can drop her children while she's off earning a living to a paranoid holding cell filled with toddling spies, where the only thing that stands between her vulnerable brood and an Us Weekly cover story promising an EXCLUSIVE REPORT: MADDOX HOGS ALL THE GOOD CRAYONS; PAX SLOW TO MASTER EVEN SIMPLEST ENGLISH PHRASES is a daily pat-down to ensure that the Garanimals of suspicious-looking newcomers aren't filled with tabloid-supplied recording devices.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=249972&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Angelina Jolie AdoptionTracker: Mission Accomplished]]>
Angelina Jolie's mission of orphan-gathering mercy, it seems, is finally complete: Despite a last-minute sprint in which she barely evaded the giant butterfly nets of corrupt Vietnamese adoption officials trying to capture new son Pax Thien in hopes of reselling him to another wealthy celebrity, Jolie managed to board her plane with her precious cargo, safely stowed the child in its urchin-hold, and successfully smuggled him onto the cover of this week's People. The actress exclusively! tells the official in-flight magazine of Air Jolie:

"You can imagine what courage it takes to be in all new surroundings, with new people and a new language," she tells PEOPLE in its new issue. "He is very strong."

But she is committed to making his transition as smooth as possible. "It will take him a while to realize he has a family," she says, "and that his new life is permanent and that it won't keep changing."

Indeed, the transition process is never an easy one, but Jolie has had great success in smoothly assimilating previous ethnic outsiders Maddox and Zahara into the family. The key in this instance will be patiently answering young Pax Thien's every question about his new life, never betraying a hint of frustration that his impish older brother has taken it upon himself to teach the former Pham Quang Sang to ask, "Mommy, what's my name today?" in English, even if immature partner Brad Pitt giggles uncontrollably each time he hears it.

[Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=246326&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Angelina Jolie AdoptionTracker: Fleeing To Hanoi And Magic Umbrellas]]>
There have been precious few developments in Angelina Jolie's ongoing attempts to smuggle newest acquisition Pax Thien out of Vietnam with a minimum of governmental meddling since Friday's installment of the AdoptionTracker, but today brings the happy news that her family's International Toy Shortage Relief Committee voted three-to-one to approve a resolution to leave behind their playthings for the unadopted children of Tam Binh orphanage , a decisive, pro-sharing victory that kept mother/chairman Jolie from having to cast an awkward tiebreaking vote that may have alienated the selfish faction who strenuously objected to giving up his favorite Tonka dumptruck. Reuters further reports that Jolie has arrived in Hanoi to obtain a visa for young Pax from the U.S. Embassy, but not before she fell victim to a devilish urchin at the Ho Chi Minh City airport who tricked her into overpaying for the "magic" umbrella pictured above, whose mystical, paparazzi-deflecting properties were vastly exaggerated by the greedy imp.

[Photo: AP]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=245417&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Angelina Jolie AdoptionTracker: Passport Obtained! First Moments Had!]]>
Details about every virtually moment of press-shy orphan collector Angelina Jolie's ("Photographs and press coverage will make him upset. I'm very worried about that. I would like to say I'm sorry for bringing this into Pax's life," she recently wept into a tape recorder, lamenting that there was no television camera nearby to more fully document her visible distress) trip to Vietnam to pick up her latest toddler acquisition continue to flood the media, with orphanage officials willing to go on the record about the Orphan Formerly Known as Pham Quang Sang's earliest moments as an official member of the Jolie clan. Here, one describes how some harmless subterfuge was used to coax the child into a large burlap sack held by Pax Thien's new mom to complete the adoption process:

"We did not say anything to him, afraid we might put pressure on him and more frightened," Tuyen said. "We just told him that we are taking him out. You are going to play outside - play with a mother and father."
Still, the orphanage staff prepared him as best they could: They packed a small box with two sets of clothes for him to take, and his favorite toys, especially a small plastic piano. They also taught him a few phrases of English: "How are you?" and "What's your name?"

The orphanage staff was careful not to train him to say his own, newer moniker, knowing that the "very clever" boy might use the English constructions he'd already been taught to start asking the kinds of uncomfortable questions like, "Why did Famous Mommy give me a new name? The one I had was perfectly fine," which are best tackled in the presence of a child psychologist experienced in the tricky dynamics of celebrity cross-cultural adoption.

[Photo: AP]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=244847&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Pax Thien: The First Photo! Also: A Bunch Of Other Kids Who Lost The Jolie Adoption Sweepstakes]]>
The first photograph of latest Angelina Jolie orphan acquisition Pax Thien (née Pham Quang Sang) comes not, as we might have expected, in an impeccably shot Annie Leibovitz Vanity Fair spread dramatically depicting the actress's multicultural brood as delegates within the world's most adorable United Nations assembly, but in this simple wire service image of all the children available at the now world-famous Tam Binh orphanage at the time of Jolie and Brad Pitt's Thanksgiving urchin-scouting trip.

As you can clearly see in the photo, veteran collector Jolie selected the current cutest specimen from the group, bypassing the rookie temptation to gamble that the smaller, younger-seeming child at the bottom right might ultimately have a higher ceiling of attractiveness. And don't feel bad for the kids passed over in favor of young Pax; the exposure they'll soon receive through this photo's dissemination throughout the media will almost definitely land them in the homes of lower-tier celebrities looking to get a piece of the soon-to-be red-hot Vietnamese adoption trend.

[Photo: Getty Images/AFP]

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