Why I Might Not Hate Angelina Anymore

I used to have a serious vendetta against Angelina Jolie. (And I hesitate to use the past tense there because I'm pretty sure I'm still not sold on her.) But then I read this Esquire article (that I highly recommend you read before going any further, as otherwise I think you'll just be lost, because I'm too lazy to even try to summarize it for you), and it kind of changed my life. Not really. But, it did make me kinda, maybe, sort of like Angelina (a little bit).

Read it? OK.

Besides the relatively awkward and uncomfortable fawning the author does over her "moistness" (eeek...), the whole thing was really, really interesting. And well written, and refreshing. And really, the fact that she did that whole thing with the Asian tigers and the Asian Elephants (and the subsequent creation of the "largest elephant migration area in Asia"), and the Asian Millenium Village (which includes ten villages, 6,000 people, and 72 employees), all of which is directly paid for by Angelina and Brad, well, that stuff was pretty awesome.

Whew. Who knew? (Probably the bajillion people that actually read, or read about, this article back in July when it was published...)

In any case, I might have to retire my Team Aniston shirt. But don't worry, I won't be picking up any Team Jolie shirts (or any other Team shirts for that matter; I'm notoriously non-competitive. Unless we're playing Monopoly, or Connect Four, or Taboo, or any other board game really, but that's a whole other blog post.), because what I'm trying to say here, is that while I don't officially love her yet, I don't hate her any more.

And to boot, my whole "OMG, I, LIKE, TOTALLY HEART AJ NOW" moment was a little bit tempered by this Slate writer who apparently hated the article, [and probably hates Angelina, though to be fair, I did (do?) too.]

So, there.

Oh, and thanks to Jezebel for opening my eyes to this whole thing, and also writing about it in a far more original and coherent and interesting way.

I'm out.