Angelina Jolie Gets Best US Celeb Vietnam Welcome Since Hanoi Jane?

Being Angelina Jolie certainly has its privileges.  The one time wild child of Hollywood now commands celebratory welcomes from around the globe.  While she receives heavy criticism for what many believe is preferential treatment, she seems to try and hold her head high.  That's likely to get tougher after her adoption of a little boy once named Pham Quang Sang.  A New York Post item describes the Jolie welcome this way:

Angelina Jolie Gets Best US Celeb Vietnam Welcome Since Hanoi Jane

"Vietnam officials gave Jolie the warmest reception for a U.S. celebrity since they let Jane Fonda take anti-aircraft gun practice, as they rolled out the red carpet for the pillow-lipped mega mom."  Ouch!  Many people are not pleased with Jolie's seemingly lightning fast adoption.

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Todd Venezia adds:  Jolie immediately gave the child a wacky Tinseltown title by changing his name to Pax Thien Jolie. The boy's new name is a Frankenstein fusion of Latin and Vietnamese meaning "peaceful sky."

The boy takes Jolie's last name, since boyfriend Brad Pitt, who is dad to her two adopted kids and one biological child, was not listed as a parent on the child's adoption papers.   In Vietnam, couples who are not married are not allowed to adopt, so Angelina made the trip without Brad.   The naming nuttiness wasn't the only special treatment for the tot and Jolie.   While she whisked into the country and quickly scooped up the boy, other would-be parents were forced to huddle in a cramped, un-air-conditioned government office for hours to fill out paperwork.

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Spin control is in high gear as the criticism mounts.  The U.S.-based 'Adoptions From The Heart' agency, which handled Pax's adoption, said in a statement that Jolie was given no preferential treatment when it came to the adoption, which the organization says was begun last summer in Vietnam.

"Contrary to earlier reports, her application was not fast-tracked," claims a statement from the suburban-Philadelphia-based agency.  Good luck selling that.