Hailee Steinfeld
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Angelina Jolie: I HATE Being Single!
Angelina Jolie is making it clear …
She has not been having a good time in the year since she filed for divorce from Brad Pitt.
To hear her tell it, she’s not just experiencing the typical heartache that comes from such a significant split.
No, the aftermath of this divorce is darn near tearing her apart.
In an interview with Vanity Fair published in July, Angelina said said that she and her children have been going through “the hardest time,” and “we’re just kind of coming up for air.”
Not only that, but “We’re all trying to do our best to heal our family.”
She also revealed that in the months before she filed for divorce, “things got bad” — but she corrected herself, saying “things became difficult,” because she “didn’t want to use that word.”
What’s the big difference between saying things were “bad” and things “became difficult”?
We’re not sure, but it seems significant to her — and she made it clear that things were both bad and difficult by hinting at some traumatic events that led to the divorce.
“We’re all just healing from the events that led to the filing,” she explained. “They’re not healing from divorce.”
“They’re healing from some … from life, from things in life.”
Do you kind of wish that she’d either actually talk about what happened or hush about it?
Same.
But in a new interview Angelina did, this one with the Sunday Telegraph, she’s still being vague — but by piecing together these quotes with the Vanity Fair ones, we might be getting an accurate picture of what went down.
About the divorce, she says “Sometimes maybe it appears I am pulling it all together. But really I am just trying to get through my days.”
“I don’t enjoy being single. It’s not something I wanted. There’s nothing nice about it. It’s just hard.”
So it really sounds like she felt she had no other choice but to divorce Brad, right?
In the few interviews she’s done in which she mentions Brad and their breakup, she really does sound miserable — he must have really done something she felt he couldn’t come back from.
In this interview, Angie goes on to say that “Emotionally it’s been a very difficult year.”
“And I have some other health issues. So my health is something I have to monitor.”
In the past year, she’s said that she developed hypertension and Bell’s Palsy, thanks to all the stress. So yeah, it makes sense that she’s having to keep a close eye on things.
“I feel sometimes that my body has taken a hit,” she says, “but I try to laugh as much as possible.”
“We tend to get so stressed that our children feel our stress when they need to feel our joy. Even if you are going through chemo, you need to find the ability to love and laugh.”
“It may sound like a postcard,” she adds, “but it’s true.”
In trying to find that joy and all that love and laughter, she’s put aside her film career for the moment, and instead she’s been “going to cooking classes.”
“Cooking is one of those things you do when you are settled in your life and you can take the time,” she explains. “But somehow I am just very impatient and I am a little bit erratic.”
“But I am getting into it now. I feel like, if I cook, the kids can all hang out. Although they often take over and tell me that they can do it better.”
Angelina goes on to say that, at this point in time, “I need to rediscover a little bit of the old me. I think we lose our way a bit.”
“I have had a lot happen in my life, from certain people passing to health issues to raising the children. And it’s been a very good time to absorb and develop and grow.”
“But maybe now that my kids are growing up I am starting to realize that my own sense of play has been put on hold for a while,” she says.
“And maybe them hitting their teens is going to bring out a little more fun in Mom. So maybe I am going back. It may be time.”
It sounds like she’s still reeling from the divorce, which is understandable, but also like she’s ready to move on to a newer, better phase of life.
Best of luck, lady!
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Walter Becker Dies; Steely Dan Musician Was 67
The world has lost yet another legendary musician today …
Walter Becker, one of the co-founders of Steely Dan, passed away earlier this morning.
He was only 67 years old.
The announcement of his death was first made on his personal website, with no other information than the date of his birth and today’s date — the day he passed.
As of now, we don’t know the cause of death, but we do know that he was having health problems earlier this summer that caused him to miss some Steely Dan concerts.
Donald Fagen, the other co-founder of the band, said in July that ‘Walter’s recovering from a procedure and hopefully he’ll be fine very soon.”
Tragically, as we know now, that was not to be the case.
Walter and Donald founded Steely Dan together all the way back in 1972, with Walter playing guitar and bass and co-writing the songs with Donald.
They were successful up until 1981 when they broke up, but they reunited in 1993, and they’ve been touring since then.
Though we don’t have any details about Walter’s death at this time, we do have a touching tribute written by Donald for his longtime bandmate and friend.
Read the tribute in full below:
Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967.
We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small siting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm.
We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the twenties through the mid-sixties), W.C. Fields, the Marx brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind.
Also soul music and Chicago blues.
Walter had a very rough childhood — I’ll spare you the details. Luckily, he was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter.
He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny.
Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people’s hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art.
He used to write letters (never meant to be sent) in my wife Libby’s singular voice that made the three of us collapse with laughter.
His habits got the best of him by the end of the seventies, and we lost touch for a while.
In the eighties, when I was putting together the NY Rock and Soul Review with Libby, we hooked up again, revived the Steely Dan concept and developed another terrific band.
I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band.
Our condolences to the people close to Walter — it sounds like he will be missed.
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