By Sheri

ANGELINA JOLIE NOW A DIRECTOR, WRITER AND PRODUCER

Recently, Angelina Jolie traveled to Sarajevo to direct her first film, as yet untitled, but said to be written by the mom of 6. (Come on, did she really write it all or is it just like she added so much direction and production input, she earned writing creds?) The picture is a love story about a Serbian (oops almost wrote suburban lol) man and a Bosnian woman during the 1992 – 1995 Bosnian war. Jolie was also in Sarajevo in her official capacity as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to help refugees.

If there’s anyone who can superbly combine Hollywood super-stardom with saving the world, it’s Angelina Jolie. But the hot actress (yes, but I still like  non-homewrecker Jennifer Aniston better), now turned director, writer and producer, insists that “This film is a love story, not a political statement.” Jolie, who won’t be acting in the movie, (gee why not, maybe she can do make up and costumes too) did want to hire local actors. “I would like to involve as many local people as possible and learn as much as I can,” she said.

Angelina will be working on the film along with Graham King who is the “GK” in the GK Films behind the project. Graham King is business partners with Tim Headington. Although filmed in Sarajevo, the movie with be in English and is said to have a low budget of $15 million.

If the film does good at the box office, then I wonder if Angelina Jolie will be doing more directing, producing and writing? I guess if she wants to, she will. (You know I just had a flashback of how amazingly good she was as an actress in Girl, Interrupted. It was supposed to be Winona Ryder’s vehicle, and I guess it still was, but Angelina Jolie became a power actress after that — deservedly so!)

Next up, Jolie is set to act with Johnny Depp in the upcoming GK Films thriller, The Tourist. (Depp and Jolie? Great cheekbones of the world unite!)

By Sheri

THIS RACHEL IS ON A BREAK

Unlike Jennifer Aniston’s character, Rachel Green, on Friends who had a running storyline of adamantly denying that she and David Schwimmer’s character, Ross Geller, were ever on a break, real life engaged couple, Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen, are apparently really on one.

Bilson and Christensen announced their engagement in February 2009. In August of that year, Rachel was spotted not wearing her engagement ring in public. Her rep made a statement at the time that “The engagement is on; she just doesn’t always wear the ring.” (Okay ladies, if you say “yes” and the guy springs for a ring, wear it always. Every day. Period! Would Bilson not wear a wedding band daily when she’s married too? And you wonder why you’re on a break, Rachel!)

Well it was deju vu all over again when Bilson wasn’t wearing her engagement ring again very recently at the Los Angeles premiere of her latest film, Take No Prisoners. But, this time, after Us Magazine reporters asked her how her wedding planning was going. Rachel held up her non-ringed hand and said “No, no plans.” To make things crystal clear, Bilson added “No nothing.”

Along with THQ, Rachel hosted a Take No Prisoners party at Los Angeles’ Standard Hotel on Wednesday, June 16. She attended the event alone. (A photo of her at the party is above. — Love the flowered top, hate the badly sewn skirt!)

It’s rumored that Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen have agreed to take a break for a month to decide if they still do want to get married. They are said to have started this relationship break about two weeks ago. Well, taking time to figure things out is certainly better than jumping into marriage and making a big deal about the wedding rather than considering the long commitment of the marriage! Good luck to them.

By Sheri

MEGAN FOX WON’T BE IN TRANSFORMERS 3

When Megan Fox made those shocking comments to Transformers director, Michael Bay, last fall, likening him to Hitler and saying his films didn’t take much acting, it didn’t seem then like she’d be fired as Bay made light of it (Smart move as he’d look so much worse if he made a big deal of it!) He did say that Fox “had a lot of growing up to do.”

But now, Bay has a bunch of models reading for Fox’s role opposite Shia LaBeouf. (The fact that most of them have no prior acting experience kinda supports Fox’s point about the not much acting required though, doesn’t it?) Supposedly the frontrunner is English Victoria’s Secret model, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, but others with some acting chops who are rumored to have a chance are Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia) and Brooklyn Decker (from the new Jennifer Aniston film, Just Go With It.) BTW, I can’t believe that Heidi Montag was said to have asked Bay for the role.. (If she did, she needs plastic surgery on her brain…)

Although Fox’s rep insists that Megan wasn’t fired by Bay, that she was the one who decided not to return to Transformers 3, rumors persist that it was Michael Bay’s choice not to keep Fox in the movie series. There is a lot of weight to this since it is a directing decision. Michael Bay recently commented that he thinks Shia LaBeouf needs a new love interest in Transformers 3.

Plus why would Megan Fox quit when her film, Jennifer’s Body, didn’t do great box office and the upcoming Jonah Hex may be cursed for her too if the critics are to be believed? But, to answer my own question, if Fox was pissed (and stupid) enough to call a director Hitler, well then I guess she’d be lame enough to quit too…

By Sheri

ANISTON SO SMART TO DO ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST!

So, you’re a 40-something hot, yet refreshingly down to earth, movie and TV star. You’re Jennifer Aniston. (oh, you wish…) You don’t need to cling to a man to buy your Beverly Hills dream house for you or even with you. You work for it and buy it yourself – get it all fixed up just the way you want it. Then you let that fabulous, glossy Architectural Digest publication do a feature story on you and your new home. What in the hell is wrong with that?

Nothing. Unless you’re Brad Pitt.

Especially since he was the one to leave her for the amazingly beautiful, (yet NOT refreshingly down to earth), Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt seems way out of line in his reaction to his ex’s appearance on the AD cover. He’s saying that Jennifer Aniston was “never into architecture” when they were married; it was HIS hobby and she used to tease him about it. It’s bad enough that Pitt is being totally ridiculous and whiny, but he adds insult to injury by having the nerve to be “disgusted” with her “press ploy” to get his “attention.” (Oh someone clearly needs to let go his ego!)

MR. PERFECT AINT SO NO MORE…  (Feel free to write in about my grammar!)

After carefully creating such a classy public image, Mr. Pitt shot himself in the PR foot by badmouthing his ex. Yes, he was in Architectural Digest a few months ago, apparently architecture is a big hobby of his, SO WHAT – he neither owns the hobby nor the magazine! If Jennifer’s appearance in AD affected him so passionately that he’s risking his image by making worse than caveman-like remarks, he should ask himself why… Is he pissed to see Jennifer Aniston doing so damn well without him?… Too Bad. So Sad, Loser!

Here’s a shot of Gerard Butler indesputably grabbing Jennifer Aniston’s posterior while posing for a fan photograph in France. The two are promoting their new movie, The Bounty Hunter. I’m pretty sure this is way funnier than their movie.