Angelina’s dad Jon Voight says the actress is ‘holding on’ after her split with Brad Pitt

ANGELINA Jolie’s father has given an update on how she’s doing in the wake of her shock split with Brad Pitt.
             

This will be Jolie’s first Christmas alone with her and Pitt’s six kids — Maddox, Zahara, Pax, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox — after she filed for divorce in September.

While the breakup has undoubtedly been hard on everyone, when asked by E! News for an update on his daughter, Jon Voight, 77, replied: “She’s OK. She’s holding on.”
The actor also revealed that he was planning to spend the holidays with Jolie and his grandchildren.

“Christmas is family, and I have lots of family. I’m hoping to see my grandchildren. I’m hoping to see my grand-nieces and nephews and be with them. I’m making the plans now,” Voight said, while posing on the red carpet at the Critics’ Choice Awards.
“By the way, I’m supposed to be making these plane flights right as we speak.”
Jolie, 41, is currently maintaining physical custody of the estranged couple’s six children, while Pitt, 52, has “agreed upon therapeutic visitation.”
It comes after Jolie sent a none-too-subtle message to her estranged husband, filing court documents earlier this month to make their temporary custody arrangement public — even though nothing had changed since it was struck in October, according to documents obtained by People magazine.
Days later, a judge rejected Pitt’s counter-request to seal the details of the custody dispute.

The story of Marilyn Monroe and that dress

Fifty-four years later, one might suppose that the famous dress came on to the stage of its own accord, as if it had life as well as destiny. But yes, in 1962, there was a warm body inside it. This was 19 May 1962, and Marilyn Monroe was bringing happy birthday wishes to the president of the United States. She was 10 days early: the actual birthday of John F Kennedy, his 45th, would not be until 29 May. So what? The Democratic party wanted to have a super fundraiser at Madison Square Garden in New York City, so they needed not just JFK himself, but a hook and bait. The birthday was a pretext until the breathy song, “Happy birthday, Mr President ...”
                     

That was Marilyn Monroe. But did the Dems ask her or did the president himself arrange it? Sometimes a president can be an instrument in his own PR. Marilyn would be 36 on 1 June, which would prove to be her last birthday. On 5 August, she was found dead in her bed in Brentwood with just a sheet around her.

You can say that only demonstrates her victimhood and makes her wishing more wistful. But then you have to see the plain delight with which she did these preposterous things, these moments, as if she could not resist or do without the comfort that came with the gasps and the whistles at Madison Square Garden when she came into the platinum light, shrugged off her wrap and stood there, with her massed blonde waves jutting off to one side, like the control on tower an aircraft carrier, in a dress that could have been painted on her. And she did not seem like the hesitant neurotic of fame and constant lateness when she broke into the birthday song. Just take a look.

Katy Perry to Perform Free Concert in Philadelphia

Katy Perry will hold a free concert in Philadelphia a few days before the presidential election, Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced this morning.
           

Perry, a pop-rock superstar with nine number-one singles in the U.S. and more than 100 million records sold worldwide, will perform at a yet-to-be-determined location in Philadelphia on November 5th, the Saturday before the election. The Clinton campaign has not yet announced how tickets will be distributed, but they’ll be free.

Perry performed “Rise” and “Roar” at the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in July. The performance is part of Clinton’s Love Trumps Hate series, which will have performances around the country by Perry, Jon Bon Jovi, Jennifer Lopez, and other artists.

“The performance series will feature a number of artists performing in battleground states who will energize our supporters,” a release from the Clinton camp says, “and encourage them to turn out to vote on Election Day or to take advantage of early voting options in their states.” There’s no early voting (besides absentee) in Pennsylvania, so Perry will have to stick to encouraging voters to head to the polls on Tuesday.

Angelina Jolie Is The First Blockbuster Female Action Movie Star

Angelina Jolie has been many things in her film acting career, including an Oscar winner and a director who specializes in “the kind of films that otherwise would never get made absent her capital” like The Land of Blood and Honey and By the Sea. But as her name dominates the headlines for reasons I’m not going to discuss here, I’d like to reference a different portion of her career, something I was planning on discussing in December in the run-up to Rogue One. She was, almost from the beginning, an honest-to-goodness female action hero.
                 

As in, she was a movie star whom audiences paid to see as a big-screen action star. She wasn’t just an actress who happened to star in an action movie or two. No, she built up a steady stream of action-specific blockbusters where at least part of the draw was seeing Jolie kicking a** and blowing stuff up.

And for many/most actresses, they were lucky to get one action franchise (Uma Thurman’s Kill Bill, Kate Beckinsale’s Underworld, Jennifer Lawrence’s Hunger Games, etc.) as part of a career that alternated between starring/supporting vehicles in other genres and supporting roles in male-driven action movies (Michelle Rodriguez, Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, etc.).

That she did it while making dramas like A Mighty Heart and The Changeling only masked the notion that she was basically a female equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger during an era when old-school action stars were going out of fashion.

Singers who charted in the ’70s raise the volume on Clinton fundraising

Trivia fans: What do the performers of “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves,” “Evergreen” and “I Feel the Earth Move” have in common?

Two things: All three scored No. 1 hits in the 1970s. And about four decades later, the three women — Cher, Barbra Streisand and Carole King — have composed fundraising pitches on behalf of Hillary Clinton and fellow Democrats.
             
         

On Tuesday, King put forward the latest solicitation, asking donors to help elect Democrats to the U.S. House so that “Hillary’s presidency lives up to its potential.”

Earlier this month, Cher — who previously pledged to move to Jupiter if Republican Donald Trump is elected president — sent an emoji-filled email declaring: “I’m Proud 2 Support Hillary!!”

Clinton, 68, has also engaged younger performers — pop star Katy Perry has joined her several times — but the Democratic nominee seems to have a particular fondness for artists from her generation.

Entertainment was provided at a major Clinton fundraiser Tuesday night in the Hamptons by Jimmy Buffett and Paul McCartney — both within Clinton's age range — as well as Jon Bon Jovi.

During a recent campaign stop in Cleveland, Clinton diverted her motorcade to the arena where McCartney was playing that night for a chance to schmooze with the former Beatles member. Meanwhile, Paul Simon, who split with Art Garfunkel in 1970, belted out “Bridge Over Troubled Water” at the Democratic convention.