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June 3, 2012 3:17 PM

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Angelina Jolie talks about her famous face

By: Overtime Staff
Topics: Correspondent Candids

If you Google "Angelina Jolie beautiful" you get 26 million search results. Rather than click through them, Bob Simon just asked her straight out about those famous features during his recent 60 Minutes interview with the actress.

Simon, who usually covers topics like war, revolution, and politics, tells Overtime that he sat down and gave some serious thought to his line of questions about Jolie's famous face while preparing for the interview. He even did a bit of research with female friends. When your face is a million-dollar global brand, it's not just a matter of "do you feel pretty?"

Angelina's thoughts on the nature of beauty, and what she sees in the mirror every day, proved one thing to us: she's much more than just a pretty face.

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by ukramichael June 5, 2012 12:47 PM EDT: by ukramichael June 5, 2012 7:15 AM EDT
I enjoyed the interview and realized how Angelina could be upset with her grandfathers funeral and thus wanting to help to change it by becoming a funeral director. Certainly to most people this would seem like a bizarre profession, and up until couple of years ago I would have agreed with the status quo. What changed my mind was when my wife's grandmother passed away two years ago in a hospital in the Ukraine. How her passing was almost straight out of a Mark's Brothers comedy , yet at the same time very very sad. From the hospital she was brought by ambulance and dropped off at the front door, of a five floor apartment building (outside on display to everyone passing by), it was up to the family to place her into a coffin and with out a elevator, carry her up to the fourth floor to an apartment that she shared with my wife's mother and her sister. First we had to find strangers from the street to help us carry grandmother up the stairs on a stretcher. Next came the coffin up the stairs, as the stairwell was to small to allow the coffin to be carried up in a horizontal fashion. Once in the apartment the grandmother was on display for two days and three nights in 38C temperatures in the living room of a two room apartment (my wife's mom was constantly swatting at flies).On the day of the funeral the whole process of removing the grandmother and placing her outside on the ground on a stretcher while the coffin was retrieved was repeated. Afterwards I was disgusted by the lack of dignity that my wife's grandmother received during this time. For me it was a shocking eye opening experience, I grew up in Canada in a whole different way of life and culture. Afterwards I too much like Angelina wanted to do something to help better and dignify a person's passing, I started checking and found out that Ukrainians do not have any choice at all other than having a home funeral. In order to give Ukrainians the dignity in death that is fundamental to most people in the world I am trying to start Ukraine's first funeral home, the only thing holding me back is the lack of financing.; Reply to this comment


by Molly-Pchr June 4, 2012 5:46 PM EDT: Another American Hollywood phoney. Acting. Publicity hound.; Reply to this comment


by blue_moon916 June 4, 2012 12:44 PM EDT: Whenever anyone mentions Angelina's mother, she tears up and I tear up with her. She's so very inspiring, compassionate,and beautiful.; Reply to this comment

by ella516 June 4, 2012 12:14 AM EDT

At this point she still had to "prove" to CBS that she is more than a pretty face? Wow, what a vise they turn beauty into.

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by jkemm June 4, 2012 7:18 AM EDT: She is beautiful inside and out.


by RealiteBites June 3, 2012 11:31 PM EDT: Didn't somebody do a computer scan of a bunch of celebrity faces, and Angelina scored very high - 2nd to Beyonce. Third if you count Brad Pitt (seriously! lol)

That Indian lady's super beautiful too - Raj ...; Reply to this comment


by THETinaG June 3, 2012 11:10 PM EDT: The beauty of Angelina is her heart:) She has been so generous to the world. I envy the fact that she can travel and learn to appreciate the differnces in cultures. I, like many, are unable to get out of our own heads. We want our own to care for our own first and look to other countries later. I would probably think differenty if I were more worldly. We probably have it pretty good...even at our worse. Struggling in America:(; Reply to this comment

by VagabondG November 27, 2011 11:20 PM EST

Aishwarya Rai is the most beautiful woman in the world, not Angelina Jolie.

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by kimbryn June 3, 2012 8:50 PM EDT: Surely beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But Angelina Jolie has a special beauty that transcends extreme prettiness. An aura like Ms. Jolie's is probably only attainable through the cultivation of vibrant and pursued spiritual beauty. Genes and glamour can create a Hollywood icon, but not an Angelina Jolie.


by kuning2 November 27, 2011 10:38 PM EST: This refers to the story of " Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars "

For Arielle who wants to become a Defense lawyer................Is it possible for CBS (60 minutes) to set up a trust fund where we can donate money for that purpose....

Pelley: I wonder what education means to you two?

Austin Metzger: It's everything.

Arielle Metzger: It is everything to us. I plan to be a child defense lawyer. If I focus on my studies, I have that opportunity.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8601-18560_162-57330802-0.html?assetTypeId=41&blogId=&tag=contentBody;commentWrapper#ixzz1ey3gXrHE; Reply to this comment


by squida1 November 27, 2011 8:49 PM EST: You've got to be kidding when you call her the "most beautiful woman in the world". By whose standard? Once again, Hollywood trying to tell us what and who is beautiful. Why because of high cheek bones and that hollowed hungry look? Give us a break!; Reply to this comment

by MamaofMila November 27, 2011 8:25 PM EST

Angelina Jolie is a hero to many of us who have worked, or still do, with UNHCR.

Angelina is dedicated, down-to-earth and an amazing woman. I was in Chad/Darfur just after Angelina had been there. By all accounts, no one would have even known she was not just another humanitarian worker. She slept in the very rough conditions, never let down her smile, and worked along side everyone else trying to bring relief to the refugees. God bless Angelina Jolie for all that she does for refugees around the world.

Mila's Mama
Lori Handrahan
Saving Mila Social Media Campaign
http://www.facebook.com/savingmila
http://www.lorihandrahan.com

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7389405n&tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel#ixzz1exWM0y9b

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by Tish-Love November 29, 2011 12:02 AM EST: This is just another reason why she is beautiful. How many of you would do this.
Some of you should Stop being so critical....give credit where it is due! Thanks for sharing Lori Handrahan

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