Mocksure

Of course Sienna Miller ain't the only 'famous actress' making noise in the entertainment gossip world. Angelina Jolie got caught pulling a Faith Hill at the recent CCA. It seems that Jolie some how got it into her head that she was gonna win best actress for her work on the Changeling. Maybe Clint has been pumping her impressionable head full of nonsense. Well anyhow Anne Hathaway won for Rachel Got Married - she'll probably bag an Oscar for that - and the cameras were right there to catch Jolie's reaction. Her reaction was to pull a 'shit face' until she noticed she was being taped.

This lead to some debate on the gossiprocks message board. Well the upshot of it was that some posters - yours truly/Agent Orange - concluded that the real reason Jolie is pissed is because she knows her career in Hollywood is over. The argument goes something like this: Jolie raised a major stink in Tinseltown when she stole Brad away from Jenn. In fact it's now pretty much admitted that she did Mr & Mrs Smith in order to bag him. Despite the PR about her living her life with a fuck you attitude, she's actually a scheming, dishonest, and insecure woman. Her play for Brad was very much a repeat of Liz Taylor's play for Eddie Fischer, back when he was with Debbie Reynolds. Liz dropped him immediately, and was never fully forgiven. Her long downward spiral has been the punishment inflicted on her by the powers that be.

When Angie stole Brad she put herself in a similar position. Only this time instead of Hollywood picking up the heavy hammers to break her down, a sort of compromise agreement was reach in which it was decided that Jolie had used up her life time line of credit at the Bank of Karma. "We'll let you get away with this one this time, but you can't ever ask us for anymore favours". That means that in order to keep her place on the pecking order she had to deliver results every time. Well Angie hasn't hit any home runs lately.

Most of the movies she's starred in, like The Mighty Heart, have bombed. She recently got hooked in to the Changeling, a Clint Eastwood project, and that seemed like a chance at Hollywood redemption.

The desperation showed too. Jolie overplayed scenes to a laughable extent. Her face was twitching and pulling in so many different directions at once that it made it look like her idea of emoting was having a stroke. Clint went to bat for her - but mostly for his film - when he praised her up to the press as both a world class beauty and a world class actress. However the box office returns were lackluster.

Now when a movie disappoints, then the blame game starts. You've got to find some one to point the finger at so that failure isn't your fault. "Don't blame me, I didn't do it". Clint probably pointed the finger at Jolie. She's an easy target right now, and he just had to insist that she's some kind of box office poison (remember Wanted??). Since everything else that Clint's been involved with lately has done well, it supports his case. In fact his new on camera gig - Gran Tarino - opened this weekend and looks like it's gonna be No 1. So once again it supports the idea that Jolie jinxed Changeling.

So naturally being all out of friends and second chances she's not doing so well at the Hollywood popularity contests that masquerade as awards. When Anne Hathaway beat her out it was a sign that her time was up and that she should really get lost now. Since Jolie is bright enough to know that, her dirty look at the CCA's was more about realizing her career was over, than anything personal against Anne. It won't take long for the other shoe to drop either, 'cause the GG's are going on right now. If Jolie gets passed over there too, then she'd better make herself content with Brad and the kids, cause she sold her star in Hollywood for that. If Anne wins again, then look for her to bag an Oscar.