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Brad Pitt: Family
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With Angie off in Jordan, Brad Pitt is busy holding down the fort back in LA. Yesterday he had some special time shopping around town with Zahara. With the possibility of a baby (or two) on the way, it's only going to get harder for Brad and Angie to spend alone time with each of their adorable kids, but luckily they've seemed to master the art of hitting the town as one big happy family.
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In 1988, Pitt had his first starring role, in The Dark Side of the Sun, where he played a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic to find a remedy for a skin condition. The movie was shot in Yugoslavia in the summer of '88 with Pitt being paid $1,523 per week for seven weeks. However, with editing nearly complete, war broke out and much of the footage was lost; the film was released years later. Pitt won a part in the TV movie Too Young to Die?, about an abused teenager given the death penalty for murder. Pitt played the part of a drug addict, Silly Canton, who took advantage of a runaway played by Juliette Lewis.
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In addition to increasing his family in 2006, Pitt began expanding his career by acting as producer on a number of high profile films including Martin Scorsese's The Departed, the Best Picture Winner for 2006. He ... acted opposite Cate Blanchett in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's drama Babel. Interestingly, that film hit theaters the same year as The Fountain, a film that was originally set to star the duo. Pitt also stayed busy as an actor, reteaming with many familiar on-screen pals for Ocean's Thirteen. At about the same time, Pitt teamed up with Ridley Scott to co-produce a period western, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; Pitt also stars in the film, as James.
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Pitt's first starring role in a feature film was in Dark Side of the Sun, The (1997) shot in pre-war Yugoslavia during the summer of 1988. As editing neared completion civil war tore apart the region and much of the footage was lost. In 1996, after a five-year search, all of the lost footage was found and returned to producer Angelo Arandjelovic, who is currently working on getting a distribution deal for the film. Pitt was paid $1,523 per week for seven weeks. He played a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic Sea to search for a cure for a rare skin disease.
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As a Role Model: Brad listens to his "voice within." It told him to leave college early. It told him to try acting. It told him to let Gwyneth Paltrow free of their engagement, that she would never be his wife. Brad has strong family values. A fellow-classmate described him as a guy who sent her flowers after borrowing her notes. She said he was very family-oriented.
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Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to Southern Baptist parents William A. Pitt and Jane Etta Hillhouse. The Pitt family is mainly of English descent. He and his two siblings, Doug Pitt and Julie Pitt, gr...(continue reading)
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