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Angelina Jolie's Semi-Homemade Birthday Cake for Maddox
Originally posted 10/23/2009 07:30PM
She's a working mom – one who juggles six kids, a movie career and philanthropy – but Angelina Jolie still found time to whip up a sweet treat for son Maddox's birthday in August, thanks to TV chef Sandra Lee.
"I was really surprised when her friend let me know she made my No Bake birthday cake," says Lee, whose show hit Food Network show, Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee, provides viewers with no-fuss recipes prepared in minutes. "She's a Semi-Homemade mommy just like the rest of us!"
The cake, which Lee says is "a beautiful display that anyone can do in five minutes," starts with a store-bought white sheet cake, topped with a plain white round cake and then surrounded by cupcakes and pre-decorated cookies. "What's great is that you get to personalize that beautiful display," says Lee.
"She's a very busy, overextended mother," Lee, 43, tells PEOPLE. "I'm very proud not just that she made my cake but that someone of her stature isn't delegating these [tasks], like her children's birthday, to other people. I'm glad she loves the show and that the kids apparently also watch it too."
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PHOTOS: Angelina and Brad Visit Orphaned Children in Jordan
Originally posted 10/20/2009 11:45AM
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were out with the kids again – but this time they were bonding with residents of the SOS Children's Village in Amman, Jordan.
The couple visited the orphan charity's village Oct. 1 after receiving an invitation from Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, who is Honorary Chairman of SOS Children's Villages Jordan.
It was a return trip for Jolie, 34, who had visited the Amman village in 2003 and committed to covering the running costs of one family house, but Pitt, 45, was there for the first time.
"The SOS model of providing care for children without parental care is one of the best, as they are still in a family setting within their own country," said Jolie. "We hope more people learn about their programs and give them support."
The SOS Children's Village was the latest humanitarian visit for Jolie, who has visited refugee camps around the world since being named a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Goodwill Ambassador in 2001.
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PHOTO: Brad and Angelina Take the Twins for Ice Cream!
Originally posted 10/03/2009 11:30AM
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stepped out for ice cream in Amman, Jordan – and brought along the littlest Jolie-Pitts, 14-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
Ihab Fakhouri, a co-owner of Licky Licious ice cream shop on Rainbow Street in Amman, snapped a photo of the family that was later posted on Twitter.
"They were walking down the street and saw our shop. Brad stopped and said, 'Do you guys have ice cream?' I said 'Are you kidding? Of course! '" Fakhouri tells PEOPLE.
During the foursome's 10-15 minutes in the shop, Pitt sampled several flavors and ended up with a cup of pecan, caramel and vanilla ice cream, which he shared with Vivienne. Jolie decided on the mango ice cream and gave Knox some. "Knox loved the mango. He was like, 'Wow!' " says Fakhouri.
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PHOTO: Angelina & Brad Visit Refugees in Syria
Originally posted 10/02/2009 05:10PM
After spending some time in Ethiopia, the south of France and on the Mediterranean coast, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt continued globe-trotting Friday – not for vacation but for a good cause.
Jolie, 34, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations' refugee agency, UNHCR, visited Iraqi refugees in Syria with Pitt, 45, and urged the world to not forget the thousands who have been displaced.
"Most Iraqi refugees cannot return to Iraq in view of the severe trauma they experienced there, the uncertainty linked to the coming Iraqi elections, the security issues and the lack of basic services," Jolie says in a statement released by the UNHCR. "They will, therefore, be in need of continued support from the international community."
The actress's trip to Syria comes two months after Jolie returned to Iraq to visit a refugee camp and two weeks after she met with Somali refugees in Africa.
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Angelina Jolie Takes Zahara to Ethiopia
Originally posted 09/15/2009 11:30AM
It turns out that Angelina Jolie's recent goodwill mission in Kenya was also a homecoming for one member of the Jolie-Pitt family.
While Jolie, 34, and Brad Pitt, 45, were "on a trip to Kenya with their children, Angelina stopped in Dabaab Refugee Camp, and also flew to Ethiopia with Zahara and Shiloh for two days," a close family friend tells PEOPLE.
The girls' trip was "the first time Zahara had been back home since her adoption," according to the friend. Zahara, 4, was adopted from Ethiopia in 2005. "The trip was about keeping up that culture for her."
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PHOTOS: Angelina Jolie Reaches Out to African Refugees
Originally posted 09/14/2009 02:05PM
While other A-listers let their checkbooks do the talking, Angelina Jolie is back in Africa spreading good will in person. On Saturday, she spent the day visiting a dangerously crowded camp for Somali refugees.
The Dadaab camp, on the Kenyan-Somali border, was opened in 1991 to house up to 90,000 people, but the population is now 285,000 – and growing by as much as 7,000 people a month. Experts say a deadly cholera outbreak is likely with the rainy season coming in October.
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Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie's Pre-Labor Day Getaways
Originally posted 09/01/2009 08:45AM
Like any couple with large family commitments and a late-summer vacation, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are seemingly making up for lost time with a pre-Labor Day getaway.
The couple – who have been ensconced in their South of France chateau for two weeks – took separate daytrips over the weekend, demonstrating that with access to helicopters and private aircraft, their interests are quite far-flung.
In a "Honey, take care of the kids! I'm off to see Napoleon's birthplace" excursion Friday, Jolie took Shiloh to Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. The actress and her daughter strolled around the palm-lined Place Foch, past the pastel-washed Napoleon Museum – and even squeezed in a little shopping before local photographers discovered them.
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Brad & Angie's Post-Basterds Party
Originally posted 08/12/2009 06:00AM
• Brad and Angelina kept the party going after the L.A. premiere of Inglourious Basterds with a bash at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood. The couple was the life of the Skyy vodka-sponsored fete, and they held court at a window table, being social and sipping cocktails. Jolie also chatted up two of her female pals and actor Eli Roth, while Pitt had some business-related conversations with his manager. Nearby, his costar Diane Kruger had a dapper date in beau Joshua Jackson, though she also mingled with girlfriends.
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Caught in the Act!
Originally posted 08/12/2009 06:00AM
• Brad and Angelina kept the party going after the L.A. premiere of Inglourious Basterds with a bash at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood. The couple was the life of the Skyy vodka-sponsored fete, and they held court at a window table, being social and sipping cocktails. Jolie also chatted up two of her female pals and actor Eli Roth, while Pitt had some business-related conversations with his manager. Nearby, his costar Diane Kruger had a dapper date in beau Joshua Jackson, though she also mingled with girlfriends.
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Brad Pitt: I'm Aware That 'Time Is Fleeting'
Originally posted 08/05/2009 03:45PM
Even though he's only 45, Brad Pitt is starting to feel his own mortality.
"As I've gotten older I've become aware that time is fleeting," the leading man tells Parade.com. "I don't want to waste whatever I have left. I want to spend it with the people I love, and I want to do things that really mean something."
And while he happily acknowledges that he enjoys being a family man with Angelina Jolie, Pitt views the relationship as follows: "I have love in my life, a soul mate – absolutely." As for marriage, he sticks by a response he gave some time ago: "Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else."
That stance, he says, has not proved popular in all quarters. "I took a lot of flak for saying it – hate mail from religious groups," Pitt says. "Just the other night, I heard this TV reverend say that Angie and I were setting a bad example because we were living out of wedlock, and people should not be duped by us! It made me laugh. What damn right does anyone have to tell someone else how to live if they're not hurting anyone?"
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