Brangelina In Bollywood: Don’t Make Me Pull This Rickshaw Over!
October 9th, 2006 by Summer
Hot Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, have taken their international family to Pune, India, where they are starring in A Mighty Heart, a biopic of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was gruesomely beheaded in 2002 after being taken hostage by terrorists in Pakistan. On Sunday afternoon, Brad and Angelina left their little ones, two year-old Zahara and four month-old Shiloh, back at the swanky Le Merdidian hotel, to take five year-old Maddox on a motorized rickshaw ride through the city.
As a family unit, “Brangelina” has built its reputation being devoted globe-trotting do-gooding humanitarians, and so it is a tad ironic that the family’s rickshaw ride turned into a rumble when their bodyguards ran roughshod over the trailing paparazzi.
The ill-fated Pitt-Jolie family outing immediately brought to mind similar trips from my youth. Having endured another Sunday morning church service, I would be in the backseat of the car looking forward to a lazy afternoon of unstructured activity when Mom would say the words that I feared the most… “isn’t it a lovely day for a Sunday drive?”
To be honest, there really never is a good time to be trapped inside a motorized vehicle with your family. My parents weren’t internationally famous movie stars being stalked by paparazzi, but they had their own personal demons. Once behind the wheel of a car, my father refused to stop or slow down for any reason whatsoever. My mother was a romantic, who was completely oblivious to the boring reality of being a kid stuck in a car on a Sunday afternoon.
I spent the duration of our last family outing laying on the backseat reading the entire contents of the church program out-loud. As we returned home, my mother was muttering under her breath how disappointed she was that I had never even once looked out the window at the pastoral scenery. But why should I? Dad wasn’t going to slow down long enough to let anything outside the car window be more than just a blur of color.
So my heart goes out to little Maddox Jolie-Pitt who had to endure the humiliation of having his family’s overzealous bodyguards beat up some photographers during his family’s tour of Pune, in the process potentially damaging the family’s reputation and quite possibly causing a lawsuit. Dear Maddox, there are much worse things that can happen to you during a Sunday afternoon drive…
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