Wow Brad Pitts views on gun control

You are an idiot.

Here is a piece of an interview with Pitt about what he has and is doing in New Orleans:

[link to www.nola.com]

The tragedy of Hurricane Katrina brought out the best in American volunteerism. Actor Brad Pitt, who has a home in New Orleans, responded with extraordinary creativity and commitment. The Lower 9th Ward houses of Pitt’s nonprofit Make it Right Foundation – individualistic and energy-efficient – are among the most inspired responses to the storm’s ravages. As the fifth anniversary of Katrina approached, Pitt spoke with historian Douglas Brinkley, his longtime friend, about his love of the city and his dreams for its future. Brinkley provided this exclusive interview to The Times-Picayune.


Whenever actor Brad Pitt is in New Orleans, he gets on his old thrift-store bicycle and tools around the city enjoying the architecture and ambiance. It’s his way of staying in shape. His favorite destination is pedaling across the retractable North Claiborne Avenue Bridge to the Lower 9th Ward to inspect his Make It Right Foundation houses.

The entire Make It Right saga is a “Hail Mary” pass that worked.

Starting in 2006, Pitt’s foundation commissioned 13 architecture firms to design affordable, eco-friendly houses. Pitt decided to build these houses -- nearly 50 at last count -- on the exact spot where the Industrial Canal levee breached on Aug. 29, 2005.

Pitt is in New Orleans this week to attend Katrina anniversary events. A true Hollywood workhorse, seldom getting a day off, Pitt spoke to me following a brutal 50-hour-a-week production schedule on a Hollywood set. — Douglas Brinkley

Tell me about your love affair with New Orleans. You’ve become perhaps the city’s most effective booster. How did that happen?

I came to New Orleans back in 1994 doing the “Interview with the Vampire” movie, based on the Anne Rice novel, and fell in love with the city. It got under my skin. Everything was sexy and sultry. I’d ride my bike all over the place, amazed by the architecture. I’d return to New Orleans every chance I could. What can I say; it’s got the best people, the best everything. It’s the most interesting city in America.

Where were you when Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005?

In Calgary, up in Canada, making the movie “The Assassination of Jesse James.” I couldn’t get my eyes off the TV. It was frustrating seeing all those people on rooftops screaming for help. It was abhorrent. I was gutted. I remember thinking we can do better in America. Everybody seemed to make mistakes at a federal, local and state level. I used to ride my bike around the Lower 9th — usually going to the Holy Cross area to look around. My instinct said that we have to find a way for those people to find a road home. New homes were clearly going to be needed.

When did the idea of Make It Right houses come into focus?

I got involved with Global Green and various Bill Clinton initiatives. I met a lot of smart people. But nobody was doing what I thought needed to be done. Look, I’m an architecture junkie. And the holy grail of architecture is finding ways to design sustainable urban communities. The Lower 9th had become a clean slate. Everything had been washed away. So quite naively — and I know I’m naive — I said let’s start at ground zero, the very historic neighborhood that got devastated by Katrina. We brought architect William McDonough into the picture and things took off. We started building prototypes. The Lower 9th is the iconic spot of Katrina. It’s where the levees breached. It represents a marginalized people stuck in a man-made disaster. I met Katrina victims who had been given FEMA trailers and had nothing to hook them up to. Others had formaldehyde problems. What was the message? We were telling people to come home and yet when they got back to New Orleans they were treated in a substandard way. I just thought it was atrocious.

How do you feel seeing those Lower 9th families living today, on the fifth anniversary of the storm, in beautiful Make It Right houses?

Great! I was in the Lower 9th for Memorial Day. Families were barbecuing and swimming in the little, you know, pop-up swimming pools. And families were coming together and saying hi. You know, the simple acts of kindness. A lot of residents no longer have only a cynical view of Katrina, they have a brighter perspective about life. And when I say kindness I mean Make It Right was built on the donations of people. Americans donated. That has a deep effect on the people living in these homes. We have solar panels providing the energy, and it works and fellow Americans paid for it. Not the government.

who cares what that ugly lookin dude thinks

really bullshit because he acts. do you have millions to give. judge if you would.

Tell me about it. I just hope liberal Hollywood doesn't make them conform or be out of work.

Of course, he's from Missouri. Hes not some limp wristed city boy...

Brad Pitt is a good man.

He was one of the first to help with the victims of Katrina; he supports Doctors w/o Borders and he and Angelina are some of the top contributors to charity in the US. (Most of the people who give more on paper, are actually giving to their own charities.)

As far as Angelina being a "globalist"- she travels world-wide to personally visit American soldiers who have been injured. She does this quietly and w/o fanfare. If you know any "globalists" that do this, be sure to let us know.

Tell me about it. I just hope liberal Hollywood doesn't make them conform or be out of work.

I'm not saying they are bad people...sheesh!

But Jolie is a member of the CFR, an avowed globalist para-governmental group. It's not illegal, I was just stating that many globalists tend to be of a more collectivist nature...

I wonder whether Jon Voigt talked some sense into them?

I have always admired this couple, but now they are my heros.

Of course, he's from Missouri. Hes not some limp wristed city boy...

Maybe the Manson Murders would have turned out much differently if they walked into the home of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Of course, he's from Missouri. Hes not some limp wristed city boy...

Brad Pitt is a good man.

He was one of the first to help with the victims of Katrina; he supports Doctors w/o Borders and he and Angelina are some of the top contributors to charity in the US. (Most of the people who give more on paper, are actually giving to their own charities.)

As far as Angelina being a "globalist"- she travels world-wide to personally visit American soldiers who have been injured. She does this quietly and w/o fanfare. If you know any "globalists" that do this, be sure to let us know.

It is funny to watch the right-wing get on their knees and suck a celebrities dick as soon as a single line in an article can be presented as in line with their very narrow ideological positions.

They do this because their world revolves around double standards and hypocrisy.