Angelina Jolie
Tattoo Upper Back Tiger Tattoo
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ancient hymn to
bless the tattoo to ensure the bearer would be rich and powerful.
The design itself - a
snarling tiger baring its teeth and claws - represents luck, power and
good fortune. (Jolie earns up to Pounds 10 million a film which might
also be said to represent good fortune. But that's another story.)
Jolie, 29, flew to Bangkok with her two-year-old adopted son Maddox, who
was born in neighbouring Cambodia, in her private jet.
In April last year, Kanphai emblazoned her left shoulder with a
traditional Cambodian Khmer tattoo.
Many other celebrities share
Jolie's penchant for tattoos on the lower back, where the skin is
thicker and offers a flat canvas.
Victoria Beckham has four
tattoo stars on her lower back representing herself, sons Romeo and Brooklyn
and husband David, who has the name Brooklyn on his lower-back.
Singer Anastacia has a large tattoo sun on her lower back, as does tennis star
Anna Kournikova. Geri Halliwell had a six-inch black panther tattoo but
had it removed.
By Richard Simpson
(c) Associated Newspapers Ltd.. Provided by ProQuest Information
and Learning Company. All rights Reserved.
Angelina
Jolie
involved in a tattoo cover-up with Billy Bob
The black tattoo on her back
consists of five vertical rows of ancient Cambodian
script, designed to ward off bad luck, the Nation
newspaper reported Thursday.
"I like it a lot. It looks very sacred. I think I'll
have a new tattoo the next time I come to Thailand,"
the 27-year-old actress was quoted as saying.
It was applied Wednesday by well-known tattoo artist Noo
Kamphai in Pathum Thani, 16 miles north of Bangkok, the
newspaper said.
Jolie is reported to have many tattoos, most
notably a dragon on her upper left arm. Above that is
etched "Billy Bob," the name of her estranged husband,
Billy Bob Thornton.
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  When she attended the British Academy of Film and
Television Arts awards in London earlier this year,
"Billy Bob" wasn't visible, apparently covered by
makeup.
Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nation's
refugee agency, became enchanted with Cambodia in 2000
while filming "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." She later
adopted an infant from Cambodia.Her upcoming films
include "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life," "Sharkslayer"
and "The World of Tomorrow."
Angelina
Jolie -
Interview by Michael
Atkinson
IF RULES WERE MADE TO BE
BROKEN, SHE WAS MADE TO BREAK THEM
Angelina Jolie wouldn't know how to tread on the safe,
middle path if you marked it for her in fluorescent road
paint. Born into Industry aristocracy, she took fame in
stride; in the process, she's made Hollywood bend to her
will, not vice versa, winning an Oscar just as she's
vamping up magazine covers and making her headlong,
wherever-the-chips-may-fall love life a rich source for
gossip. (You just know there are a few lovers' quarrels
resulting in trashed-hotel-room stories in her future.)
Jolie may
very well own the world's best-known tattoo, and then of
course there are her lips--as defining a physical trait
as Belle Davis' eyes or Lucille Ball's hair.
  And, like several stars of
an earlier day (and too few of our own), she raises
audience attention-spans the moment she enters a
picture. That Jolie seems to be one of our most sexually
incendiary actresses is inarguable. What's not as
conveniently acknowledged is her bruised current of
darkness, which have been easily exploited in her
award-winning turns in Gia (1998) and Girl, Interrupted
(1999) but a surprise when injected into the froth of
comedies like Playing by Heart (1998) andPushing Tin
(1999).
From the beginning Jolie has successfully straddled the
great Hollywood divide, doing time in formula blockbusterdom (Gone in 60 Seconds, for example) while
lighting out for territories unknown. Her 2001 releases
include her franchise-hopeful turn as video-action-minx
Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, the role of a terminal femme
fatale in Original Sin (based on the Cornell Woolrich
novel that Truffaut adapted into Mississippi Mermaid
[1969], and starred Catherine Deneuve as the vamp), and
Ralph Fiennes' romantic interest in Beyond Borders,
Oliver Stone's epic about relief workers. With such a
varied run, it's impossible to know what the future
holds--all that's clear is that Jolie is hardly content
to traipse down the Julia Roberts-Meg Ryan-Sandra
Bullock romantic comedy route. Otherwise, anything goes,
as long as it's different from where she's been.
In that, Jolie seems to be demonstrating what in
Hollywood passes for a chin-stuck-way-out machisma,
which is another way of saying she will not be told
which star to steer by. Who knows how long her
rebellions will sustain her; movie audiences seem to
prefer safer, tamer beasts, and Jolie's surfeit of
attitude sometimes seems to be aimed at the very people
who made her a star. Such is fame. In the meantime, the
fireworks will be hot and colorful.
Michael Atkinson is a film
critic for The Village Voice and mrshowbiz.com.
COPYRIGHT Brant Publications, Inc. & Gale
Group
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That's one way to get the UN's
message across, Angelina
ANGELINA JOLIE clearly feels
strongly about her beliefs - she
has had one of them tattooed onto
the back of her neck. Ever the
philanthropist with her busy
schedule of charity work, the
30-year-old actress chose an evening
in aid of the Worldwide Orphans
Foundation to show off the new
etching which reads: "Know your
rights."
Her growing tattoo collection also
includes an "H" on her left arm, a
reference to her brother James
Haven.
Author
Alistair Foster (c)Associated Newspapers Ltd..
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