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Brad Pitt Turns 53

December 18, 2016  Ali Stagnitta

Happy birthday, Brad Pitt! It’s one of our favorite Hollywood hunks birthdays, and so we’re obviously celebrating by bringing together all of his hottest pictures for your viewing pleasure! Sit back, relax and enjoy the show!

Brad, you don’t look a day over 25! No seriously, you actually don’t. What’s your secret?

We don’t know how he does it, but Brad Pitt has definitely gotten hotter with age and now, we are celebrating him in all his glory for his 53rd birthday on December 18, 2016.

Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1963, Brad is a college drop-out who left University of Missouri two weeks before graduation to pursue a career in acting. With a number of supporting roles and guest appearances throughout the late ’80s, Brad rose through the acting ranks and eventually began to capture the eyes and hearts of America — namely, the women.

Since his supporting role in Thelma & Louise in 1991, Brad was labeled an international sex symbol. In ’95, he was named one of the top 25 sexiest stars in film history by Empire, and was People’s Sexiest Man Alive that same year, a title he won again in 2000.

From there, he thrived. From his dark and brooding role in Fight Club, to his sexy, witty Ocean’s Eleven character, Brad has a number of sexy moments that are totally worth looking back on.

One of our faves is from the 1994 film, The Favor. Brad, who plays an unstable artist in a tumultuous relationship, shows off his signature blonde locks and a pair of wire-rimmed glasses throughout the film. And that moment he takes off his shirt to draw…Mmm-mmm, good.

Another worth mentioning is long-haired Brad in Troy. Brad plays Achilles, the ultimate Greek hero, so he obviously got in ridiculous shape and looks like a sex God. Thank you, Brad. Between the long hair, chiseled abs, and light scruff — 2004 may have been the year Brad peaked.

While the last six months haven’t been the best for neither Brad nor his family, we hope he has a wonderful birthday and finds some time to celebrate!

HollywoodLifers, send Brad some birthday wishes below and check out more of his hottest moments in our gallery!

not mine.credit and source: HOLLYWOOD LIFE

Brad Pitt Turns 50: His 10 Best Performances

By Gary Susman Dec. 18, 2013

Inside the body of a leading man is a crafty (and even underrated) actor

In fact, he’s a crafty character actor trapped in the body of a leading man, an actor whose performances are full of unpredictable, offbeat, human choices. He’s a chameleon who’s worked with his looks or against them, depending on what’s advantageous at the time. And to prove it, he’s been nominated for four Oscars (three for acting, one for producing Moneyball). In 2013, he proved himself equally credible as a hero trying to save the world from zombies in the summer spectacle World War Z and in a small but pivotal role as a laborer forced to put his abolitionist ideals to the test in 12 Years a Slave. So, to give Pitt the credit he deserves as an actor, here are 10 of his best performances.

Thelma & Louise (1991)

The then-unknown Pitt had only a few brief scenes as J.D., a slow-talking hitchhiker who knows how to fill out a pair of jeans, but he made them count. The grinning charmer didn’t just steal Thelma’s heart (and her cash), he also stole the movie. You can see him literally becoming a star before your eyes.

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A River Runs Through It (1992)

As golden-boy Paul Maclean, the idol of his bookish younger brother Norman (Craig Sheffer), Pitt resembles no one so much as the young, gleaming Robert Redford. So it’s no wonder the older Redford (who directed and narrated the picture) cast him. He’s a lovable bad boy, but he’s also an artist with a fishing pole, clearly touched by grace.

.Seven (1995)

Pitt proved he could do dark as detective David Mills in David Fincher’s descent into serial-killer hell. Morgan Freeman is there to lend him some gravitas-by-association, but Pitt is capable of plenty of bleakness on his own. By the time the film reaches its notorious climax, it’s clear that Pitt’s character won’t survive with his soul unscathed.

.Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Pitt earned his first Oscar nomination for his role as Jeffrey Goines, an asylum inmate who may have sparked an apocalyptic biological war. He could have relied on stereotypical mental-patient tics and clichés, but he went deeper, in surprising and mercurial ways. It’s a turn full of mischief and misdirection.

.Fight Club (1999)

Here’s another truly tricky Pitt performance, one designed to fool viewers, to satirize masculine behavior, and to sell viewers on anarchist revolution. Give credit to Edward Norton as the hapless narrator, but Pitt’s Tyler Durden is the multi-dimensional puzzle piece that makes it all work.

.Snatch (2000)

Pitt got a lot of flak for his impenetrable Irish accent, but that’s part of the joke, a way that his Mickey O’Neil takes advantage of adversaries. In Guy Ritchie’s colorful crime comedy, he’s a boxer with devastating fists, but he defeats opponents out of the ring just by flummoxing them with indecipherable blarney.

.The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Director Andrew Dominik tends to guide Pitt into jagged, spare, haunted performances, whether in 2012 crime drama “Killing Me Softly”  or in this earlier Western, where Pitt plays the title outlaw as world-weary man of destiny, one who meticulously polishes his own legend by selecting, courting, and goading his own Judas. Neither film was a hit; both are ripe for re-discovery.

.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Working again with Fincher, Pitt plays F. Scott Fitzgerald’s backward-aging character not as a gimmick but as a real person, eager to give and receive love. Whether he’s playing a young man trapped in a feeble old body or a wizened elder in a young man’s body, it’s hard to imagine another actor who could have pulled this off.

.Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Sure, Aldo Raine, Quentin Tarantino’s alternate-history World War II commando bent on scalping “Natt-sies,” is a cartoon, but Pitt plays him with complete conviction. He takes Tarantino’s mission – which is all about vengeance, bloodlust, and rewriting history – and makes it seem almost noble and heroic.

.Moneyball (2011)

Pitt could have played Oakland manager Billy Beane as a misunderstood genius, a prophet of a statistic-based strategy of roster-building whom the baseball gods can’t forgive for being right. Instead, Pitt goes the more interesting route of playing him as a once-promising athlete with a lifetime of regrets for bad decisions, seeking on the diamond a redemption so precarious that he can’t even bear to watch the games. He’s a man of intelligence, heart, and deep scars, and he’s surely an exemplar for the roles Pitt will be playing for the rest of his career.

not mine.credit and source: TIME

12 Best Brad Pitt Films From 'Se7en' to 'Fight Club'

Brad Pitt’s All-Time Greatest Performances

BY OWEN GLEIBERMAN
11.23.16

Introduction
Brad Pitt is as pure a movie star as they come, but if anything he remains an underrated actor. With “Allied” opening this weekend, Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman looks at the 12 best roles of Pitt’s career.

12. World War Z (2013)
A global zombie apocalypse that looks even more timely now than it did three years ago (it’s all about a society in which rage has taken over and the bottom has fallen out), Marc Forster’s teeming mass-panic horror film is not the sort of movie that tends to come up when you’re talking about inspired acting. Yet just watch the way Pitt plays Gerry Lane, a former U.N investigator who’s jetting around the world, searching for the origins of — and possible cure for — the zombie virus. Pitt energizes the movie. He’s a live wire of grace under pressure, whether he’s fighting to save his family or casually chopping off the hand of a soldier to keep her from going zombie. The last act, set inside a World Health Organization facility, was famously tacked on to save a troubled production, yet it’s the best thing in the movie — a nearly Hitchcockian sequence in which Pitt, a presence of pure alertness, dodges the death around him.

11. Se7en (1995)
After his breakthrough in “Thelma & Louise,” Pitt made a handful of movies — “A River Runs Through It,” “Legends of the Fall,” even the smash hit “Interview with the Vampire” — in which he hadn’t completely figured out how to let his charisma jell into a character. He finally did it here, commanding the screen in the sort of no-frills utilitarian-cop role that other actors disappear in. David Fincher’s baroquely atmospheric but somewhat overly diagrammed psycho-killer mystery has much to recommend it, but most of that comes from the dark side: the lavishly staged crime scenes (each teaches a tidy lesson), Kevin Spacey’s calculatedly unhinged performance, the gee-what’s-in-the-box climax. Pitt and Morgan Freeman, as the cops investigating the madness, are minimalist noir gumshoes, but this is the most forceful and stylish of Pitt’s lawman-knight performances.    

10. Twelve Monkeys (1996)
In the middle of Terry Gilliam’s squalid dystopian time-travel head-spinner, Pitt shows up as a motormouth psychotic whose itchy reaction time and convulsive, too-much-electroshock personality may be a sign of how far gone he is, or possibly an elaborate put-on (or both). The manic pleasure of Pitt’s performance is that he keeps you guessing. Pitt had tried to play a feral scuzzbucket once before, in the serial-killer drama “Kalifornia,” but he couldn’t keep his glamour from shining through. Here, for the first time, he shaves away his golden-boy persona right along with his hair,  proving that a fugly Brad can be as magnetic as a studly one.      

9. Thelma & Louise (1991)
Standing apart from all the rapists, harassers, abusers, and other louts who surround Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon), those righteous feministas on the road to nowhere, there is one man chivalrous and innocent — and sexy — enough to get on their good side, and that’s J.D., a rawhide slab of good-ol’-boy beefcake played by Pitt, in the movie that made him a movie star. Twenty-five years later, you can still see why: Showing off his dimples, miming a bank robbery with a hair dryer, he’s a dreamboat hunk, but instead of coming on like the usual Beautiful Dim Working-Class Sex Object, he acts like a guy who knows from the inside out why he’s the center of attention. Pitt’s J.D. is so convinced he’s a charmer that he makes that very conviction charming — turning this, in effect, into the audition for fame that Pitt aced in front of the whole world.  

8. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Beneath its entertainingly dizzy convolutions, Steven Soderbergh’s so-clever-it’s-delectable heist caper is really a love story — and not just because George Clooney’s Danny Ocean lines up 11 accomplices to rob three Vegas casinos all as an elaborate ruse to woo his ex-wife (Julia Roberts) back from the casino owner. This may also be the slyest comedy of male bonding ever made: The whole joke is that Danny and his key partner-in-crime, played by Pitt, just want to hang, but they need to come up with an excuse THIS elaborate to maintain their too-cool-for-school unflappability. And no one onscreen has a shaggier nonchalance than Pitt, whose throwaway ‘tude — never more knowing than when it seems oblivious — makes him the quintessential operator in this new millennium Rat Pack.  

7. Burn After Reading (2008)
Joel and Ethan Coen’s underappreciated gem is a bumptious comedy about CIA secrets and the invasion of privacy, with Pitt cast as the most stupido character of his career: a thick-witted personal trainer named Chad, who stumbles onto a CD of what he thinks is highly classified information. At the time, people made cheap jokes about how Pitt played a nitwit stud with striking conviction, but really, he does it with hilarious and knowing style, standing in for a nation of get-rich-quick scroungers.  

6. Killing Them Softly (2012)
The most unjustly overlooked film of Pitt’s career. Based on the George V. Higgins novel “Cogan’s Trade,” it was director Andrew Dominik’s sizzling noir follow-up to “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” and it’s a highly suspenseful underworld saga full of hairpin turns and vivid sleaze, but Dominik gave it an added thematic layer — about America in the Age of Obama reduced to a trough of greed — that many found preachy and obvious (though its canny upshot it to link the criminal desperation onscreen with our own). Pitt plays Jackie Cogan, a Mob hitman of awesome efficiency who prefers to kill his victims “softly” (i.e., from a distance, so they won’t know what hit them). Hunting down a pair of reckless idiots who were clueless enough to rip off a gangsters’ gambling den, he lords it over an underworld maze that’s like “The Sopranos” redrawn by Dashiell Hammett (the late James Gandolfini is even on hand, in his greatest non-Tony role). “Killing Them Softly” is a fable of sociopathic sympathy: You wouldn’t want to be on the wrong end of Pitt’s gun, but in his ice-cold impulse to sweep the streets, he’s so stylishly compelling he’s like an angel of death.    

5. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Pitt has always had moments of being a great comedian (“Burn After Reading,” “True Romance”), and his performance as Lt. Aldo Raine, the s—-kicking redneck squad leader of Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic, is a lowdown high-style comic turn. Aldo talks like a sawed-off shotgun, blasting off lines like “I sure as hell didn’t come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily, and jump out of a f—in’ air-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity.” The joke is that Pitt, with his mule-skinner drawl, makes you believe that Aldo is basically a transplanted woodland hillbilly who sees Nazi-killing as a form of hunting. At the same time, one reason he’s so good at slaughtering animals is that he knows how to think like one. He’s a savage in a uniform, but he’s on the right side of things, never more so than when he’s carving swastikas into foreheads and letting his decency loom as large as his brutality.

4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Pitt had never played a villain before, and though that’s a simplistic word to use for the Jesse James of Andrew Dominik’s serpentine Western psychodrama — you could argue that Robert Ford, played as a weasel of weakness by Casey Affleck, is the film’s real villain — Pitt seizes upon the chance to play a legendary outlaw by making the screen vibrate with coiled menace. You can see him gaining in confidence — and skill — as an actor, because in more scenes than not, he appears to be doing almost nothing, yet you can’t take your eyes off him. What’s operating almost invisibly inside Pitt’s electric presence is Jesse’s promise of violence, a threat so pure that he never has to say it aloud.

3. The Tree of Life (2011)
In recent years, the actors who have worked with director Terrence Malick — Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, Colin Farrell — have tended to come off as little more than swarthy artifacts of visual décor. But “The Tree of Life” is the rare contempo Malick film that’s more than just lyrical floating camera, breathless bursts of classical music, and amber waves of grain. It’s the director’s greatest film since “Badlands,” a poetically authentic dream of American life in the sleepy pre-media ’50s, so steeped in memory that it’s like a Proustian scrapbook, and the most haunting thing about it is Pitt’s performance as the hero’s father, whom he portrays as a fusion of reverence and stern, at times monstrous discipline. He’s a man who acts out at home the frustration he feels at being a cog in the machine that he can’t reveal anywhere else. The result is Pitt’s most complicated character, because he doesn’t just show you the deep love and the dictatorial scariness. He shows you how they can’t be separated.

2. Moneyball (2011)
It would be hard to name an actor outside the B-movie action realm (Jason Statham, etc.) who radiates the sheer confidence of Pitt, and that’s why he hasn’t often played characters who possess an undercurrent of insecurity. But the beauty of his performance as Billy Beane, the real-life Oakland A’s general manager who devised a revolutionary new way to put together a champion baseball team, is that it’s fueled by that effortless and strutting Pittian bravura, but it’s also layered with convincing, grown-up glimmers of self-doubt. Billy, a former pro player whose career didn’t work out, is trying to prove himself by boldly going where no baseball club has gone before — into the realm of computer analysis, which results in assembling a team of quirky flawed misfits who excel at one thing (getting on base). His whole mission in sports is riding on that decision, and Pitt, chewing on the most stylish baseball dialogue since “Bull Durham,” creates a character of scruffy moxie and soul who would have been right at home in a downbeat classic of the ’70s.

1. Fight Club (1999)
Tyler Durden, the scuffed and imperious ringleader of a violent club for overgrown delinquents, is a dropout, a criminal, a truth-teller, an existential rebel, the ultimate badass, and the quintessential Brad Pitt character, because he wears his attitude of who-gives-a-f— bravado like the tasty but unattainable fantasy it is. Tyler Durden is also, of course, a pure figment, and that’s the mystery at the heart of Pitt’s mesmerizing performance. It’s Tyler, in this movie, who first uttered the phrase “How’s that workin’ out for ya?,” and Pitt’s priceless reading of that line is defining, because it throws down a generational gauntlet. It really means: How’s it workin’ out for you not being as killer as Brad Pitt? We’ve been trying to answer that question ever since.

not mine.credit and source: VARIETY

Brad Pitt looks back to his best as he joins co-star Marion Cotillard at Paris premiere of Allied

BY FAY STRANG  20th November 2016, 11:26 pm

Looking healthier than he did when he returned to the public eye a couple of weeks ago, the 52-year-old showed off a more tanned complexion.

He looked particular dapper wearing a smart navy suit, overcoat and scarf, while he posed up with his pregnant co-star Marion Cotillard.

Marion looked stunning wearing a loose red one-shouldered gown, that kept her growing baby bump underwraps.

not mine.credit and source: THE SUN

Brad Pitt Insists On Monitored Visits With His Kids — So No Doubt They’re Safe With Him

Wed, October 12, 2016 3:38pm EDT by Kathleen Harper

Angelina Jolie may be playing dirty in the custody war between her & Brad Pitt, but Brad is definitely playing smart! A new report even claims he’s not taking ANY chances when it comes to protecting himself against Angie, which is why he’s insisting a monitor witness every visit he has with their kids. That way there’s no doubt that they’re safe with him!

It had been three long weeks since Brad Pitt, 52, had last seen his kids before finally reuniting with them recently, according to InTouch magazine. And during that visit, which was allegedly held under the watchful eye of a Department of Children and Family Services monitor, Brad promised his and Angelina Jolie‘s, 41, kids that it wouldn’t be long before he’d be reunited with them again “permanently.”

And part of his plan to ensure that happens? He’s allegedly after full physical custody of all six of their children: son Maddox Chivan, 15; son Pax Thien, 12; daughter Zahara Marley, 11; daughter Shiloh Nouvel, 10; and twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, 8. But in order to make that happen, Brad has to be tactful, according to the magazine’s insiders. He has to make SURE Angie can’t use anything against him, which is why he wants all of his visits to be monitored.

Days after his emotional reunion with their kids, DCFS reportedly said that they didn’t need to be present at his next visit since no concerns have arisen. However, Brad reportedly insisted that they continue sending over a monitor. “He wants it that way so that there is absolutely no doubt that the kids are perfectly safe with him.” Pretty genius, right? He wants to ensure someone can vouch for him if it comes to it!

As as refresher, following an anonymous call claiming Brad was physically abusive to his children during a Sept. 14 private airplane flight, the DCFS launched an investigation into the actor. But due to lack of evidence against him, Brad will reportedly NOT be prosecuted for the alleged child abuse charges, according to TMZ. And according to InTouch‘s insiders, the kids were super excited to finally be seeing their dad again.

“Brad told them this situation with the social workers absolutely wasn’t their fault and that no one was in trouble,” the source explained. “The visit was gut-wrenching: Vivienne and Zahara both started crying, asking when they could go home.” And by “home,” they apparently met Brad’s compound in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood. Brad will reportedly be fighting super hard against Angie in court and is prepared to pull out all the stops.

“While Angie’s camp has continued to spread lies about him and make him sound like a monster and an unfit parent, he’s refused to go dirty on her in the media,” the insider revealed to the publication. “But in front of a judge, it will be another story. Brad has compiled a complete dossier on Angelina of the serious mental health issues she has dealt with other the years. He is saving all of the pertinent and necessary information for the battle in court, where it matters.”

not mine.credit and source: HOLLYWOOD LIFE

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