Hollywood actress ANGELINA JOLIE has hit out at claims she is too thin, insisting hard work has driven her to unexpected weight loss. The Tomb Raider star blames a heavy work schedule for her leaner figure - but she still maintains she is healthy. She says, "Yes of course I have lost weight. Some days are exhausting, only I'm not able to collapse. I believe in pushing myself to the limits."

Source: Contact Music.

Lionsgate has brought on Vadim Perelman to rewrite "Atlas Shrugged" and direct Angelina Jolie in the starring role.

While Lionsgate needs to get a final script before formally committing to a start date with Perelman at the helm, the move puts the company in a strong position for an early 2008 production start, just a shade over 50 years after Ayn Rand's famed novel was first published in 1957.

Pic will be produced by Howard and Karen Baldwin and Media Talent Group's Geyer Kosinski.

Perelman will work from a draft of the script penned by "Braveheart" scribe Randall Wallace, who managed to boil down the Rand manifesto of 1,100-plus pages into a 127-page script. The drama revolves around what happens when great industrialists and thinkers go on strike and the world grinds to a halt.

Wallace will remain involved, and in a recent meeting with Perelman, the pair traded Russian dialogue. Perelman was born in Kiev, while Wallace has picked up the language researching his Catherine the Great pic "The Mercenary"; Rand was born in Russia. Perelman has brought his own take that will be incorporated into Wallace's script.

Perelman's latest film, the Uma Thurman-Evan Rachel Wood starrer "In Bloom," premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. It's his first since his 2003 breakthrough, "House of Sand and Fog."

Jolie starts work in early fall on the Clint Eastwood-directed "The Changeling" for Universal, Imagine and Malpaso. She would like to follow with "Atlas Shrugged," long a passion project for her.

Source: Variety.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have enrolled son Maddox in an $18,000-a-year New York private school.

The couple's eldest son, who Angelina adopted from Cambodia, began classes at the Lycee Francais de New York on the Upper East Side on Tuesday.

Angelina and Brad both accompanied Maddox, 6, for his first day to the Manhattan campus, where lessons are all taught in French and based on France's curriculum.

A source said, "They were just like normal parents."

Brad had a special treat for Maddox after he finished his first day - he took him to see the New York Yankees' baseball game later that evening.

The 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' stars and their children - Maddox, two-year-old adopted Ethiopian daughter Zahara, three-year-old adopted Vietnamese son Pax and 15-month-old biological daughter Shiloh - are all currently residing at Angelina's Upper West Side condo.

Souce: AZ Central.

I came by to tell you that I have lots of big changes in mind for the site. For a sart, I noticed the forum died, so now there's a new forum!!! Just click on the link at the left and register to start participating in it.

In second place, I have thousands of pictures to add to the gallery, but doing every single thumbnail and page is exhausting and I really have no time for that now. I remember I tried to have a Coppermine gallery a couple of years ago, but somehow it couldn't support HQ images, which was very frustrating because the HQ pictures are the jewels of my gallery. But right now I asked the webmaster at Hollywood.com to help me again with a Coppermine system, and I have all the pictures ready to upload, so just stand by for the brand new shiny gallery anytime soon... I promise you won't be dissapointed. The quantity and quality of well-organized pictures is enormous, it's just sooooo much better than the way it is now... You won't believe it!

I'm sorry I let you down for so long, but here I am!

Enjoy these two Shiseido ads Angelina made recently!