The american film star Brad Pitt arrived today to Avilés to work with the Niemeyer Center staff in order to define the terms of the future collaboration between him and the cultural center.

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When you first heard Brad Pitt’s accent for [Aldo] Raine, what do you think? Your characters, their encounter at the end, it’s a very strange relationship. His accent seems incredibly risky to me, but I think it works in the end. Your opinion?

Christoph Waltz: Well, I read the words on the script, and in a way, when I heard Brad Pitt speak like that, it was 100% congruent with the words. Right now, I can’t separate one from the other. Even when I go back to the written word, I hear Brad say it. So, apparently, that is how it was written. And when we worked together, I learned something from Brad, something that I really admire in him, how generous he is. And I really learned how generosity on a set, how it can actually change…how generosity has an influence on everyone who is there and working on the film. Everyone who is around him. And he has a professional calmness and he’s just such a cool guy. He’s not impersonal, and he’s immensely generous. And this generosity allowed me to rise to the occasion, I feel.

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Partners from the architectural firm Graft from Berlin, Germany — which has partners with Brad Pitt in ‘Make it Right’ in New Orleans, building affordable and environmentally intelligent houses for those affected by Hurricane Katrina — traveled to Ethiopia recently to meet with Global Health Committee workers to discuss plans for a new children’s center in Addis Ababa. The center will be run by the GHC and offer an array of support services to children who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. The project follows the model of the CHC’s Maddox Chivan Children’s Center in Phnom Penh, which opened in 2006. Both centers have been made possible by generous support from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation actor-activists Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (see CHC/GHC press release). The new center will be named after the Jolie-Pitt’s Ethiopian daughter, Zahara.

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A good friend of Gracie was so very lucky to spot Brad, Angelina, Pax and Maddox at a French Brocante yesterday and her friend took some photographs. Credit to Corey please! Thank you for sharing.
On a different note: spotted a ‘new’ tattoo on Brad’s right calve. No idea what it is though.

It was odd to see Brad and Angie walking along at this small obscure bronate. I know they sometimes live nearby. Most of the people at the brocante knew them, and to realize that Brad and Angelina did not know any of us, and probably would not remember any of this day a few weeks from now. But those of us at the brocante would remember and share over and over again… “I saw Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and two of their children at a brocante…..”

The folks over at Weinstein Co. must be breathing a big sigh of relief. Friday’s box office numbers suggest their gamble on in-house auteur Quentin Tarantino has paid off: His WWII drama Inglourious Basterds took in an estimated $14.3 million, putting it on track to win the weekend with what could be an impressive $36 million.

1. Inglourious Basterds–$14.3 million

2. District 9–$5.5 million

3. G.I. Joe–$3.6 million

4. The Time Traveler’s Wife–$3.3 million

5. Julie & Julia–$2.6 million

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In part one, we found out how the duo met and how “Basterds” came to be. In part two of the conversation, they spoke about rewriting history. Now, in the final part of this sit-down with two Hollywood icons, they discuss making a WWII movie that even Germans can love.
On the movie’s five-chapter structure:

Quentin Tarantino: To me, ["Basterds"] is structured in an interesting way. It’s structured around three characters. The first chapter is the introduction of [Christoph Waltz as Colonel Hans] Landa. The second chapter is the introduction of [Brad Pitt as Lieutenant] Aldo [Raine] and the Basterds. And the third chapter is — not the introduction of [Melanie Laurent as] Shosanna [Dreyfus] but setting her up. So they are three lead characters, and they have three separate stories going on. From chapter four to chapter five, now it’s the adventure film, and it just goes all the way. The characters start overlapping, and this happens and that happens. I am basically structuring the whole first half of the movie with a chapter each for my three leads — and then it’s just watching them comingle.

Brad Pitt: I was really intrigued by that structure. We’re used to the normal screenplay, which works in three acts and is usually in succession of events, and they’re all connected in some way. This worked more like a novel, in the sense that it was five distinct chapters, and one chapter would immensely focus on the detail of a moment and let that moment breathe and study it. And then we would jump through time — there’d be big gaps in time — and we’d move on to the next section. It’s like when a painter paints just the bends in a figure, but when it’s all together, the whole figure is there. I was really intrigued that it could work in that kind of structure — it was much more interesting that way. I mean big jumps in time, but yet, when we did get somewhere, there was minute focus on detail. And I’m exhilarated by it still.

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