Angelina Jolie Buys Brad Pitt A 'Family Wedding' Ring

Angelina Jolie raises six children with Brad Pitt, so she splashed out on an extra special gift for his 47th birthday tomorrow: a personalized family wedding ring priced at $380,000.

An insider said: "The band has each of their children's names on it and Angie's on the top.

"This is a family wedding band to symbolize Brad isn't just married to Angelina but to the family as a whole. It was described as absolutely exquisite."

As well as fitting seven names onto the ring, Angelina also requested it be engraved with “mystical” references that are personal to the couple.

The source told the Daily Star newspaper: "She told me there are mystical references to his 47th birthday that have also been engraved on the band and the family all have their own interpretations of what the band means to them and of what 47 means to them."

Angelina Jolie On Her Family: 'We Are Just Nutty'

Angelina Jolie claims she, Brad Pitt, and their 6 kids are all just "nutty!" Apparently they love to goof off and are one big, happy family. Too cute.

But she has devised escape routes to escape attention.  The 35-year-old screen beauty told The Independent newspaper: "My real life is 90 per cent contained in my house with my kids, who just think I'm weird. When we are at our best, we are just nutty.

And the kids want to go out shopping to the market, but you've got 20 people behind you so you just can't. But sometimes we try to sneak out – and sometimes for us the easiest thing to do is sneak out of the front door, because everybody is checking the back door! But you try not to live your life that way – it would drive you nuts."

Angelina, who stars opposite Johnny Depp in The Tourist, also claims the public make wrong assumptions about her personality, often believing her to be a dark character, but she insists she has a soft side which she believes she inherited from her late mother Marcheline Bertrand.

She said: "Sometimes people think of me as being darker, but Johnny has seen me on set giggling; I think maybe a bit of my mom has rubbed off on me, and hopefully I'm a little softer and more female than I'm assumed to be."

Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie Among Golden Globe Nominees

Awards season is upon us, and today things got more exciting with the release of Golden Globe award nominations! Leading the pack is Colin Firth's flick The King's Speech, which is up for 7 awards including Best Motion Picture, Drama and Best Director categories.

Close behind in the Golden Globe leaders are The Social Network and The Fighter, which are each up for six awards.

Meanwhile, Johnny Depp picked up two nominations in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy category for his portrayal of The Mad Hatter in the film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland and his role in new romantic thriller The Tourist, in which he stars alongside Angelina Jolie, who is nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

Also of note, musical TV show Glee is up for five Golden Globes, including Best Actor and Best
Actress in a TV series, Comedy for stars Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele, who play Will Schuester and Rachel Berry respectively.

The 68th annual Golden Globe Awards – which are to be hosted by comedian Ricky Gervais – will be held on January 16, 2011.

Angelina Jolie Is Always Open To Having More Kids

"Larry King Live," Jolie, 35, said she has "no plans at the moment," to add a seventh child to her big brood with Pitt, 46. "But we're always open [to the idea]," she admitted.

"The Tourist" actress explained how she and Pitt keep their kids' fears in check when they're swarmed by photographers.

Jolie credit the ability for she and Pitt to split work and parenting duties to their happy partnership. "We never work at the same time. We never separate the family," Jolie said to King. "When I was shooting The Tourist for example, [Pitt] was home with the kids, and helping them with school, and bringing them to visit set," she says.

Still, Jolie knows that she is in a unique position. "My schedule is not as demanding as many, many mothers across the world who have two or three jobs and no help."

Angelina Jolie Took Manners Classes For 'Tourist'

Angelina Jolie plays a refined British woman named Elise Ward in her new flick The Tourist, and to prepare for the role Angie says she took "manners classes!" She says she just wanted to learn how to slow down and have more poise -- it's not like she's a big slob or anything.

She said: "I'm not completely clumsy or gross, but the character takes her time with everything. I'm an American! I do 10 things before breakfast."

Angelina also spoke of her hopes for the futures of her children - Maddox, 9, Pax, 7, Zahara, 5, Shiloh, 4, and 2-year-old Knox and Vivienne – and how she wants them to look back on their childhoods.

 Speaking on The Today Show, she said: "Hopefully they are happy, and they know that they were loved, and that they were encouraged to be who they are, and not pushed into something that they're not. Hopefully they'll be the strong, beautiful individuals that they are today, and be happy in their lives, be fulfilled in their lives, and be living their lives honestly.”

The 35-year-old beauty admitted she can’t understand why so many people are fascinated by her but is hopeful interest in her will fade as she gets older. She said: "I don't find myself that interesting in that way. But I feel like it happens to everybody.

It's just that it's a weird time right now. There's just so much of all of that, for everybody. It's just, it's a new world. I just assume the older I get, the more it'll go away. The more private I'll become."

Angelina Jolie Defends Bosnian Directorial Debut

Angelina Jolie has hit back at criticism of her directorial debut, saying most people back her portrayal of a love story between a Serbian man and Bosnian woman on the eve of the 1992-95 Balkans conflict.

Speaking in Paris ahead of next week's premiere of a very different film romantic action comedy "The Tourist" in which she stars with Johnny Depp Jolie said her intention had never been to stoke controversy with her movie set in wartime Bosnia.

Bosnian victims of sexual violence during the 1990s have written to the United Nations, for which the Oscar-winning actress is a goodwill ambassador, saying she didn't deserve the position and did not know enough about the ethnic conflict.

"There's one person who has a gripe," Jolie said.

"The absolute majority of the people, population, the cast, prime minister, president have been extremely supportive," she said, adding that 95 percent of the film's cast had lived through the war.

Jolie has described her movie, which is still untitled, as a love story between a Serbian man and a Bosnian Muslim woman on the eve of the 1992-95 war in which 100,000 people died.

The production team has cut back on filming plans in Bosnia, however, moving some scenes from Sarajevo to be shot in Budapest, after a Bosnian minister canceled the filming permit in October, citing incomplete paperwork.

The move came after the minister met with female victims of the Bosnian war who said they objected to details of the plot. Jolie, who also wrote the screenplay, said she had initially set out to just write to express her frustrations over how long the international community took to intervene in conflicts.

"It kept leaning toward Yugoslavia at the time, I wanted to learn more about it and the people, the more I read and learnt I was drawn to that part of the world," she said.

"I met artists from that part of the world and found they were extraordinary for what they'd gone through, so I wanted to give them a platform."

The "Tomb Raider" star has asked women war victims in a letter to hold judgment until they have seen the film in which she said "there are many twists in the plot that address the sensitive nature of the relationship between the main characters."