Brad Pitt News

PITT FILM CLOSES TORONTO SHOW

The Toronto International film festival closed last Saturday with the world premiere of the controversial film Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt. The film tells about an Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer (Pitt) who teaches Dalai Lama the things of his world. Pitt’s character had to undergo changes because of recent revelations that Harrer in real life is a Nazi.

CHARACTER IDENTITY

Matt Dillon, in his new character portrayal in the upcoming comedy In & Out talks about his character. "The tuxedo came from Brat Pitt at the Oscars," he says, but the lines about trashing hotel rooms and his model girlfriend (played by Shalom Harlow) not eating were definitely more (Johnny) Depp than (Brad) Pitt. Scott Rudin, the producer of In & Out sees the character differently. "It's not Brad Pitt," he says. "It's no more him than it is Johnny Depp or Keanu Reeves or anyone else."

BRAD'S POSSIBLE FIGHT CLUB

Actor Brad Pitt is reportedly in talks to do a another movie with Seven director David Fincher for a new drama Fight Club. The film is based on Chuck Palahniuk’s book about two men to start a secret club that gives an opportunity for young professionals to brutally fight each other.

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL OPENS

Many celebrities and directors attended as the Toronto International Film festival opened. The festival opened with Canadian Atom Egoyan's Cannes Grand Jury prize-winning film The Sweet Hereafter and will close with director Jean-Jacques Annaud's Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt. The next 10 days will be filled with 279 other films from 58 countries.

BRAD CAN'T SHAKE OFF FANS

Brad Pitt just can’t get rid of those fans, even when he is in a small town in South America. While Brad Pitt was shooting Seven Years in Tibet in a small town at the foot of the Andes, a group of females leapt on him. Co-star David Thewliss says "Brad wanted to play this very conflicted, internal role and there were all these girls wanting his body. It was very embarrassing for him." It was so bad that the producers ended up having to spend $60,000 on a barbed wire fence around the barracks where Pitt slept. Poor Brad.

BRAD'S MOVIE NAZI CHANGES

Recently, while filming the movie Seven Years in Tibet they found out that in real life the man who the movie is based on Heinrich Harrer was actually a Nazi storm trooper and a sergeant in Hitler’s elite S.S. The movie character of Harrer (played by Brad Pitt) was quite different so, now the director of the movie, Jean-Jacques Annaud made some changes to some scenes. Annaud has changed the dialogue in to parts of the movie. One of the changed scenes, Harrer is handed a Nazi flag before leaving on a Nazi-funded mountain trip. Originally, in the scene the Harrer has referred to as "the man who planted our flag at the top of the Eiger." Now, he's called "a distinguished member of the National Socialist Party." In the other scene, Harrer watches Chinese generals arrive in Tibet before the country is invaded. In original scene, he draws a parallel between those troops and the Nazis. In the new changed scene Harrer takes responsibilities for his actions. The film opens on October 8, 1997.

STONE & PITT TOP POLLS

A recent poll on Hollywood's hottest stars conducted by Paris-Match magazine shows that actress Sharon Stone is liked by thirty-seven percent of French men overall, and forty-five percent of those who’s age is twenty-five to thirty-four. Stone came out on top, beating supermodel Naomi Campbell (twenty-nine percent) and Baywatch star Yasmine Bleeth (eleven percent). Brad Pitt scored thirty-eight percent of French women overall, and sixty-one percent of women under the age of twenty-five.

RECALL OF PLAYGIRL

A Recall of the August issue of Playgirl magazine has been ordered by a judge. The issue features unauthorized nude photos of Brad Pitt. Playgirl’s attorney, Kent Raygor said that the ruling raises "very serious First Amendment concerns". "It restrains Playgirl's freedom of speech and censors the public’s right to see information that is newsworthy and of great public interest." The photos were taken at a Caribbean hotel, where Pitt and his then-girlfriend Gwyenth Paltrow were vacationing. Now, not only is the magazine restrained from any further sales of the issue but now ordered the recall of the magazine which has already been mailed to subscribers and sold throughout the U.S. The magazine has become a collectors item and selling for as much as $100 for one copy.

POLL OF HEVENLY BODIES ON THE WEB

The fifth "People Magazine-Lycos Web Watch" survey results have come. The most visited website featuring heavenly bodies, is Pamela Lee, and Jenny McCarthy followed by the planet Mars! Brad Pitt was fourth, then Spice Girls, Cindy Crawford, Alicia Silverstone, Demi Moore, Anne Nicole Smith and Carmen Electra. The survey was conducted by ranking the number of request submitted to the Lycos search engine.
Brad is one of People Magazine’s 50 most Beautiful People http://pathfinder.com/people/50most/1997/brad.html

BRAD TAKES ON GAMBLING

July/97
Actor Brad Pitt has been offered the lead role in a film The Gambler. The movie is based on the novel about the gambling addiction. There have been other movie versions of the book, but now Pitt is offered to do another one through mandalay Entertainment, the company behind Brad's most recent up-coming movie, Seven Years in Tibet, which comes out in theatres in October.

NO MORE DUETS FOR PITT

July 16/97
Still wondering about Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow's breakup? Well, apparently director Bruce Paltrow (Gwyenth Paltrow's father), decided not to ask the studio to go on with the film Duets. The movie Duets was supposed to star, Gwyenth Paltrow and ex-fiancé, Brad Pitt. Bruce says it is in the best interests of his daughter and Pitt. "Everybody loves their children," Bruce said, "and I think that whatever each of them is going through, they need to not have this hanging over them. When we talked about doing this together, we were at a different place and a different time."

STOP DISTRIBUTION OF PLAYGIRL

July 15/97
If you are hoping to find pictures of Brad Pitt nude, they are in the latest issue of Playgirl. But they won't be there for long because a judge just approved Pitt's request to stop distribution of any more copies of the Augest issue. The photos were taken in 1995 by a parparazzi who trespassed in a hotel where Pitt was vacationing with girlfriend (now ex. fiance) Gywenth Paltrow.

NEW MOVIE FOR BRAD

June 30/97
Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton is apparently in talks to direct the movie Arkansas. Brad Pitt is going to be in the movie, set in the 1800s, about a farmer who adopts some orphans to work on his land. The farmer's heart begins to open as the children help save his farm.

BRAD AND GYWNETH KAPUT

Hollywood's hottest couple, Brad Pitt and his fiance Gywneth Paltrow broke up. They both agreed to break it off, but the cause? No one is really sure. Rumours suggest that it was because Brad had an affair or that the couple faked the break-up so they could marry in private.

NAZI TRUTH COMES OUT

June 2/97
The truth is found about Brad Pitt's latest movie, Seven Years in Tibet. Apprently the character that Pitt plays in the film, Heinrich Harrer. In real life Harrer was a Nazi. Harrer recently told that he served as a gym instructor for Hitler's S.S. and was a sergeant. The character in the movie is totally different from this they will just have to go on.