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Angelina Jolie Crashes?

Jul 9, 2007

No one can really seem to pinpoint when the backlash started for Angelina Jolie. But it is really hard to deny that it is underway. Now can she reverse it? It depends on whom one asks. Jolie and the family Pitt bailed on America and Angie is back to work in Prague and not a moment too soon.

Angelina Jolie Crashes?
Angelina Jolie Crashes?

"A Mighty Heart" tanked at the North American box office, Jolie was dubbed as "A Mighty Hypocrite" for her heavy handed attempts to control the press and now E! Online is exploring exactly when it will all go bad for Oscar winning actress. When will Jolie crash for good? Or is she able to fend off the bad PR

The Answer B!tch gives this: Most agree Jolie will suffer some sort of public backlash within the next few years. What remains to be seen: what flavor of disaster we'll get. Some believe it's only a matter of time before her innate doolalliness—in dormancy since her divorce from Billy Bob—bubbles up once again, spurring Jolie to finally let loose and create a line of jewelry encasing bits of Maddox's DNA.

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Continuing: "Hey," Hollywood Reporter columnist Ray Richmond points out, "she was with Billy Bob, so she can't have all of her marbles." But more likely, Jolie watchers say, the public will simply grow sick of her African photo ops and strategically selected native bandannas, and call her out as a phony, whether she is or not. And when that happens, the media will respond with the appropriate level of backlash necessary to keep circulation decent.

"It's just going to get sickening after a while," confirms marketer Mark Stevens, author of the forthcoming book God Is a Salesman. "The way she pivots between $20 million a movie and then pretending to live with the impoverished, she's not cutting it. If she really believes in that, then build a hut and move to Africa."

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The last adoption seemed to be a tipping point for many observers. The watched as Jolie claimed that she was getting no special treatment and then it was reported that she had to adopt a little kid that she quickly renamed Pax Thien Jolie as a single mother while living with Brad Pitt.

The backlash is in full force, the real question is whether or not she can stop it.

More here at E!.

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