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Photoshoot Robert Deutsch Year: 2008

Angelina Jolie - Cosmopolitan - January 2009 - Germany Source: Scanned by Sandiego003 at Celebutopia

Gwen Stefani’s Post-Christmas Special Gwen Stefani and rocker husband Gavin Rossdale take their two sons, Kingston, 2 1/2, and Zuma, 4 months, to a post-Christmas party at a friend’s house on Friday afternoon (December 26) in Beverly Hills, Calif. Gavin recently gave a telling interview about his family: On naming his oldest son: “The stuff you read on Wikipedia especially is such rubbish. They have some stranger as my mother and the family names are all wrong. I’d like to complain to Mr. Wikipedia. How do you do that? Kingston is named for Kingston, Jamaica, not Kingston Ferry. So it’s really not that traditional. At least I don’t think there are a lot of kids named for Kingston, Jamaica.” On Kingston’s music tastes: “He likes anything with a good beat. He’s big into drums. He likes my record. He likes Gwen’s record. He plays some Pharrell and Snoop. Anything that’s good for head-bobbing. He’s a good head-bobber.” http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/12/26/gw...istmas-special/

Celebrities At The Lakers Game Actor Mark Wahlberg and daughter Ella Rae Wahlberg attend the Los Angeles Lakers vs Boston Celtics game at the Staples Center on December 25, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. ]

Mark Takes Ella To The Game Actor Mark Wahlberg took his 5-year-old daughter Ella to the Staples Center in LA to watch the Lakers take on the Boston Celtics. (The Lakers won, 92-83). Mark also has sons' Michael, 2 1/2, and Brendan, 3 months, with partner Rhea Durham.

Mark Wahlberg Shows The Lakers Some Love Mark Wahlberg takes his oldest child, daughter Ella Rae, 5, to cheer on the Los Angeles Lakers as they face off against the Boston Celtics at the Staples Center on Thursday, Christmas Day (December 25) in Los Angeles. The Lakers beat out Boston, 92-83, breaking the Celtics’ franchise-record 19-game winning streak. Mark, 37, sat next to former The King of Queens star Kevin James, and next to him was Adam Sandler. Also sitting courtside was Mark’s older brother, Donnie, as well as Cisco Adler (with his producer father Lou), Dane Cook, Denzel Washington, George Lopez, Prince, Samuel L. Jackson, Snoop Dogg, and Wilmer Valderrama. http://justjared.buzznet.com/2008/12/26/ma...ahlberg-lakers/

Awwww! http://x17online.com/celebrities/gavin_ros...262008.php#more

Special Delivery Gwen Stefani totes her son Zuma Nesta on their way to her parents' home in Los Angeles with husband Gavin Rossdale and 2-year-old son Kingston on Christmas Day.

Stephanie Seymour and daughter Lily in St. Barts December 25, 2008

11 Questions - 2008 Year in Review http://www.kare11.com/news/local/mornings/...61&catid=16

Do Lunch With Christmas Leftovers Katie Lee Joel Shares Recipes, On The Early Show; How About Soups And Paninis?! http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/26/...in4686885.shtml

Cookies Perfect To Leave Out For Santa The Early Show: Katie Lee Joel Gives Viewers The Gift Of Her Recipes http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/24/...in4685445.shtml

Brad Pitt owes a debt to Benjamin Button “You start reexamining the math of it all,” Pitt says. Aging backward in 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' has given the actor a new perspective on his colorful life. The days may be numbered for the old Brad Pitt -- the Hollywood heartbreaker, the absurdly handsome leading man who couldn't seem to keep his shirt on in a movie for more than five minutes, the prankster who once ran amok through the streets of L.A. in a gorilla suit. History. Outta here. Going, going, gone. Now it's time to meet the new, older (and presumably wiser, but no less photogenic) Brad Pitt, who a couple weekends ago reflected on the themes of his latest film, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which opened in theaters on Christmas Day. Portraying the title character, a man who's born as an octogenarian and ages backward into infancy, Pitt says he had some personal reckoning to do with the temporality of things -- a fitting assignment for a man at life's midway point. "Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all," says the actor, who turned 45 on Dec. 18. So far, he indicates, the pluses and minuses are adding up just fine. "I'll trade wisdom for youth any day," Pitt says. That existential swap lies at the heart of David Fincher's film, loosely adapted by screenwriter Eric Roth from a whimsical 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Brought into the world on Armistice Day, 1918, as a slack-skinned, 80-year-old man, Benjamin bears witness to many of the century's epochal events, while the film leapfrogs from New Orleans to Murmansk to New York to the Ganges. Finally he and the film come home to rest in the Crescent City just as Hurricane Katrina is about to strike. But none of Benjamin's picaresque adventures or brief encounters shapes him more than his passionate, odds-defying relationship with Daisy Fuller (Cate Blanchett), a ballerina who meets Benjamin when she's still a child. Although the pair's prime years overlap oh-so-fleetingly, their souls merge in a lasting union. The bittersweet irony of their predicament raises the question of whether "Benjamin Button" is, in the end, a tragedy. "It's a tragedy in the sense that any love involves loss, and that's the risk you take," Pitt responds. "And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I'm with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary." As everyone but a handful of Himalayan monks doubtless knows, the woman who sleeps by Pitt's side these days is Angelina Jolie, with whom he shares parenting duties for six children (three of their own, three adopted). During an interview of an hour's duration, Pitt refers repeatedly to his satisfying home life and the way it has refashioned his priorities. "I had a whole other life and I got to experience a lot. And I probably got away with more than I should," he says. "And it kind of ran its course, you know, it kind of hit a dead end." Fatherhood, he notes, is "the direction I always thought I would go in. But not until, with Angie and it felt like a natural evolution, a natural direction." Colleagues and friends who've witnessed it confirm Pitt's gradual metamorphosis. Even though he has known the actor for 15 years and directed him in two previous movies, the gruesome crime-thriller "Se7en" and the darkly satirical "Fight Club," Fincher says he was unprepared "for the degree to which he [Pitt] has become comfortable with who he is," both on set and off. "I think a lot of it has to do with his family," Fincher says. "It's like he wants to cut to the chase and go at the thing, and get it and work it and play with it and then be done with it and live to act another day." Pitt agrees that, as he has matured professionally, "I don't have to grope as much for the character." "I can get there quicker, so it's not as much trial and error," he says. "Also, as I get older, more experiences, I'm more fine-tuned in what I'm after, what I think speaks in the piece. And lastly I want to hurry and get home to my kids." Decked out in a subdued, gray three-piece suit, Pitt comes across as a contemplative and polite professional, engaging and intellectually curious. His substance is more than just style: He recently moved his family to New Orleans, the better to help facilitate his foundation's ambitious project to provide the city's flood-ravaged Lower 9th Ward with dozens, if not hundreds, of affordable new housing units. In some ways, "Benjamin Button" plays as an elegy for New Orleans and for a lost (or rapidly vanishing) part of what culture critic Greil Marcus called "the Old, Weird America." Personally, Pitt says, he won't be sorry to see the current White House administration exiting stage left. But he thinks it would be premature to start writing a national obit. "America's known for our ingenuity," he says. "We put a man on the moon, for Christ's sake. And it'd be a shame to lose that definition because of some kind of fear of losing what we were, or what we had. That's the quickest way, I think, to end it all. We're going to be all right." In the nearly two decades since his appearance as a hunky cowboy hitchhiker in "Thelma & Louise," Pitt has engineered a balance between high-profile leading-man parts and layered character roles. His amusing turn as a nit-witted gym instructor in the Coen brothers' espionage satire "Burn After Reading" this year was miles removed from his title-role portrayal of a legendary outlaw in Andrew Dominik's "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" or the buffed-out pugilists of "Troy" and "Fight Club." Because it spans the character's entire life, "Benjamin Button" inadvertently serves as a showcase for Pitt's various cinematic personas. At one point in the movie, he evokes Jack London's Sea Wolf as a craggy sailor of fortune. Later in the film, when Benjamin reaches his prime, Pitt brings to mind James Dean on a motorcycle, or John F. Kennedy on his sailboat, navigating the swells of destiny. Pitt's startling appearance "from the neck up" as the aged Benjamin was achieved with the help of several smaller body doubles and a bevy of CGI effects. Pitt says he "focused on the knees, and the spine giving out, the relaxed vocal quality, the loss of elasticity." Movies are a kind of fountain of youth, in which the stars of our memories can remain forever immune to mortality. But Pitt, the onetime golden boy of Hollywood, sounds ready to turn to the next chapter. Lately, he says, he has been acquiring "more friends who are older than myself than younger" -- even though, as he puts it, "I wouldn't say our culture leans toward respecting the wisdom of age and those who've been around a lot. It's Beavis and Butt-head: 'You're old!' " What matters more than one's age, he suggests, is maintaining a creative spirit that lasts a lifetime. "Another thing the film points to," he says, "you meet someone who is maybe in their 60s, 70s, even 80s, and you meet them as that person, anyone beyond the age of retirement, so to speak. And you seldom realize they had a whole life of experience. They were just as virile and ingenious and capable as you believe yourself to be." Source: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/...0,4238161.story

Brad Pitt owes a debt to Benjamin Button “You start reexamining the math of it all,” Pitt says. Aging backward in 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' has given the actor a new perspective on his colorful life. The days may be numbered for the old Brad Pitt -- the Hollywood heartbreaker, the absurdly handsome leading man who couldn't seem to keep his shirt on in a movie for more than five minutes, the prankster who once ran amok through the streets of L.A. in a gorilla suit. History. Outta here. Going, going, gone. Now it's time to meet the new, older (and presumably wiser, but no less photogenic) Brad Pitt, who a couple weekends ago reflected on the themes of his latest film, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which opened in theaters on Christmas Day. Portraying the title character, a man who's born as an octogenarian and ages backward into infancy, Pitt says he had some personal reckoning to do with the temporality of things -- a fitting assignment for a man at life's midway point. "Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all," says the actor, who turned 45 on Dec. 18. So far, he indicates, the pluses and minuses are adding up just fine. "I'll trade wisdom for youth any day," Pitt says. That existential swap lies at the heart of David Fincher's film, loosely adapted by screenwriter Eric Roth from a whimsical 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Brought into the world on Armistice Day, 1918, as a slack-skinned, 80-year-old man, Benjamin bears witness to many of the century's epochal events, while the film leapfrogs from New Orleans to Murmansk to New York to the Ganges. Finally he and the film come home to rest in the Crescent City just as Hurricane Katrina is about to strike. But none of Benjamin's picaresque adventures or brief encounters shapes him more than his passionate, odds-defying relationship with Daisy Fuller (Cate Blanchett), a ballerina who meets Benjamin when she's still a child. Although the pair's prime years overlap oh-so-fleetingly, their souls merge in a lasting union. The bittersweet irony of their predicament raises the question of whether "Benjamin Button" is, in the end, a tragedy. "It's a tragedy in the sense that any love involves loss, and that's the risk you take," Pitt responds. "And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I'm with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary." As everyone but a handful of Himalayan monks doubtless knows, the woman who sleeps by Pitt's side these days is Angelina Jolie, with whom he shares parenting duties for six children (three of their own, three adopted). During an interview of an hour's duration, Pitt refers repeatedly to his satisfying home life and the way it has refashioned his priorities. "I had a whole other life and I got to experience a lot. And I probably got away with more than I should," he says. "And it kind of ran its course, you know, it kind of hit a dead end." Fatherhood, he notes, is "the direction I always thought I would go in. But not until, with Angie and it felt like a natural evolution, a natural direction." Colleagues and friends who've witnessed it confirm Pitt's gradual metamorphosis. Even though he has known the actor for 15 years and directed him in two previous movies, the gruesome crime-thriller "Se7en" and the darkly satirical "Fight Club," Fincher says he was unprepared "for the degree to which he [Pitt] has become comfortable with who he is," both on set and off. "I think a lot of it has to do with his family," Fincher says. "It's like he wants to cut to the chase and go at the thing, and get it and work it and play with it and then be done with it and live to act another day." Pitt agrees that, as he has matured professionally, "I don't have to grope as much for the character." "I can get there quicker, so it's not as much trial and error," he says. "Also, as I get older, more experiences, I'm more fine-tuned in what I'm after, what I think speaks in the piece. And lastly I want to hurry and get home to my kids." Decked out in a subdued, gray three-piece suit, Pitt comes across as a contemplative and polite professional, engaging and intellectually curious. His substance is more than just style: He recently moved his family to New Orleans, the better to help facilitate his foundation's ambitious project to provide the city's flood-ravaged Lower 9th Ward with dozens, if not hundreds, of affordable new housing units. In some ways, "Benjamin Button" plays as an elegy for New Orleans and for a lost (or rapidly vanishing) part of what culture critic Greil Marcus called "the Old, Weird America." Personally, Pitt says, he won't be sorry to see the current White House administration exiting stage left. But he thinks it would be premature to start writing a national obit. "America's known for our ingenuity," he says. "We put a man on the moon, for Christ's sake. And it'd be a shame to lose that definition because of some kind of fear of losing what we were, or what we had. That's the quickest way, I think, to end it all. We're going to be all right." In the nearly two decades since his appearance as a hunky cowboy hitchhiker in "Thelma & Louise," Pitt has engineered a balance between high-profile leading-man parts and layered character roles. His amusing turn as a nit-witted gym instructor in the Coen brothers' espionage satire "Burn After Reading" this year was miles removed from his title-role portrayal of a legendary outlaw in Andrew Dominik's "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" or the buffed-out pugilists of "Troy" and "Fight Club." Because it spans the character's entire life, "Benjamin Button" inadvertently serves as a showcase for Pitt's various cinematic personas. At one point in the movie, he evokes Jack London's Sea Wolf as a craggy sailor of fortune. Later in the film, when Benjamin reaches his prime, Pitt brings to mind James Dean on a motorcycle, or John F. Kennedy on his sailboat, navigating the swells of destiny. Pitt's startling appearance "from the neck up" as the aged Benjamin was achieved with the help of several smaller body doubles and a bevy of CGI effects. Pitt says he "focused on the knees, and the spine giving out, the relaxed vocal quality, the loss of elasticity." Movies are a kind of fountain of youth, in which the stars of our memories can remain forever immune to mortality. But Pitt, the onetime golden boy of Hollywood, sounds ready to turn to the next chapter. Lately, he says, he has been acquiring "more friends who are older than myself than younger" -- even though, as he puts it, "I wouldn't say our culture leans toward respecting the wisdom of age and those who've been around a lot. It's Beavis and Butt-head: 'You're old!' " What matters more than one's age, he suggests, is maintaining a creative spirit that lasts a lifetime. "Another thing the film points to," he says, "you meet someone who is maybe in their 60s, 70s, even 80s, and you meet them as that person, anyone beyond the age of retirement, so to speak. And you seldom realize they had a whole life of experience. They were just as virile and ingenious and capable as you believe yourself to be." Source: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/...0,4238161.story

Before They Were Stars: Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr. & More http://www.accesshollywood.com/before-they...re_video_847962

Australian TV Interview for Australian TV, unknown air date.

Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale rollerskating with Kingston December 22, 2008

Angelina leaving her hotel in London, UK. July 13, 2004 Angelina and her assistant Holly out shopping in London, UK. February 25, 2003

The Rossdales Hit Up Church Service Gwen Stefani and husband Gavin Rossdale got an early start to midnight mass as they took their two boys, Kingston and Zuma, to St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. The festive foursome looked adorable in their colour coordinated ensembles as they strutted their way to attend an afternoon service. Meanwhile, in a new interview, Gavin is dishing on all things parenting. Here are some highlights: Gavin on whether he is enmeshed in the drama over which pre-school they’ll send Kingston to: “I don’t feel that much pressure about it yet. I want to home-school him. I feel so bad for him, because school is just so relentless. When you’re two or three, the idea that you have twenty years of being told you have to get up and go to school… I probably went to the wrong school, because I used to hate getting up and going.” Gavin on what music Kingston listens to: “He likes anything with a good beat. He’s big into drums. He likes my record. He likes Gwen’s record. He plays some Pharrell and Snoop. Anything that’s good for head-bobbing. He’s a good head-bobber.” Gavin on how he keeps the romance alive with Gwen despite having two young boys: “We just try and spend time together. When we’re not touring it’s a lot easier. Most music happens after five o’clock, so we find time to spend together, to do stuff together.” Gavin on whether he has any desire for a baby girl: “Yeah. I don’t know. I just have the desire to be nice to everyone.”

Harper's Bazaar Bulgaria January 2009 Source: The Fashion Spot scanned by radolgc

The Stefani-Rossdales Attend Services Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale took their two sons, Kingston, 2 1/2, and Zuma, 4 months, to the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic church in Los Angeles for Christmas Eve service. Gavin and Kingston wore matching suit jackets, while baby Zuma kept warm snuggled under a blanket. December 24, 2008