Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie To Host Same Party

And the long awaited meeting will finally happen. Reports are circulating that Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie are about to meet face to face as they are both scheduled to appear in one same event.

Brad Pitt's past and present women are both set to help host the Oscar Awards' Night Before' party. The Mr. and Mrs. Smith stars are reportedly added to the list of hosts at the party, which ex-wife Aniston has been hosting since its start in 2003.

"Everybody in town is talking about what will happen that night," a source says.

The media are set and ready to document the most anticipated meeting just as they have documented the trio's highly publicized relationship. Pitt and Aniston married in 2000 and divorced in 2005. The public speculated that the marriage ended because Pitt had grown closer to his co-star, Jolie, on the set. Both had denied adultery. To date, Jolie and Pitt have four kids together, 3 are adopted. They said they have no plans to get married.

According to reports, Aniston is unsure if she will be able to attend and host the party as she has other commitments although she is ready to reconcile with Jolie. "Jen's been ready to make peace for a while," the source says.

Source : http://www.allheadlinenews.com/

All Blue Eyed People Related to Brad Pitt

According to a new paper by a Danish researcher, blue eyes come as the result of a single mutation that occurred 10,000 years ago. Which means that all people with blue peepers have a common ancestor.

What do Frank Sinatra, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow have in common? According to a new study, they all share the same ancestor.

The paper, published Thursday by Danish geneticist Hans Eiberg in the journal Human Genetics, links all baby blues to a single mutation that occurred 10,000 years ago.

Eiberg says the mutation shuts off the production of the pigment responsible for brown eye color, resulting in a pure blue iris. Because the mutation is so specific, it can only be explained one way: "There must be a common ancestor for people with blue eye color," Eiberg told

Eiberg started his search for the elusive mutation close to home. Using the Copenhagen Family Bank, a massive genetic database with detailed information on over 6,000 Danes, Eiberg found a family with three generations of blue-eyes. Looking at DNA from their blood, Eiberg homed in on a single, tiny blip in the genetic code. "All of the family had the same mutation," he said.

Originally, Eiberg says, everyone in the world had brown eyes. But the mutation acts as a switch that shuts off the OCA2 gene, which controls the eye's production of melanin. Melanin is the pigment that gives color to eyes and hair.

The mutation limits the OCA2 gene, restricting production of melanin in the eye. The result: The eye's brown color is diluted, giving people with the mutation pure blue eyes. (Shutting melanin production down entirely would result in albinism, affecting hair and skin color as well.)

People without the off-switch, on the other hand, have eye color ranging from deep brown to blue flecked with brown. (Green-eyed people can thank an entirely different part of the genome for their pretty peepers.)

The mutation is extremely specific: All people with blue eyes have the exact same genetic variation, and anyone with brown or green eyes do not. As a result, Eiberg said, it must have been passed down from a single person. "It's not a guess," Eiberg says. "It has to be."

To make sure the Danish family wasn't a fluke, Eiberg tested hundreds more samples, including people from Turkey with dark hair, light skin and blue eyes and Jordanians with dark hair, dark skin and blue eyes. They all had the same mutation as the Danes. "I have analyzed 800 samples," Eiberg says. "Out of the 800, 799 eyes are the same."

Eiberg has long been fascinated by the genetics of eye color. In 1996, he discovered the OCA2 gene, which helps control eye color. The blue-eye mutation works directly to turn off the OCA2 gene's production of melanin in the eye.

Eye color is a good example of how research is complicating our understanding of heredity. "Eye color is a textbook example of how genes work in a simple way, and now it turns out it's a bit more complicated than that," said Zoltan Bochdanovits, a statistical geneticist at the Vrije University in Amsterdam. "They do present quite convincing evidence it's a single mutation causing this."

Where and when the mutation occurred is more speculative, but based on the number of people with pure blue eyes in the world today, Eiberg argues that the original Ol' Blue Eyes lived between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. Existing research on prehistoric population movements suggest that the original blue-eyed babe may have lived around the Black Sea, near modern-day Ukraine or Turkey, and that their descendants migrated to Northern Europe during the Stone Age.

Like freckles, hair color or baldness, there's no real physical advantage to being blue-eyed. Says Eiberg: "It simply shows that nature is constantly shuffling the human genome, creating a genetic cocktail of human chromosomes and trying out different changes as it does so."

That doesn't mean eye color isn't important. After all, that long-distant ancestor managed to get quite a few copies of his or her mutation passed along. "I can very much imagine mate choice depends on eye color in humans," said Vrije University's Bochdanovits. "Personally, I tend to believe if you're blond and blue-eyed you have an advantage, at least in some populations."

Source : http://www.spiegel.de/

Will Brad Pitt Become a Green Movie Star Mayor?

Move over John Edwards: You might be losing your title of Politician with the Best Hair. There's a rumor spreading that Brad Pitt will be running for office in New Orleans.

The actor sometimes lives in the city with his partner Angelina Jolie, and has been working there with his Make It Right (MIR) campaign. MIR is an organization building affordable, sustainable homes in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, the area hit the hardest by Hurricane Katrina. The goal is to build 150 homes that use solar power, natural light, energy efficiency, and other green design features for displaced residents, and to show that the system can be replicated.

Now there's some buzz that Pitt is interested in really taking charge of The Big Easy, and we're pretty sure we haven't seen a politician like him. An elected official who not only believes that global warming is a real threat but who has initiated a sustainable building project? A politician who has openly talked about our dependence on foreign oil? A politician who showed up to his movie premiere in a BMW Hydrogen 7, and who models organic cotton t-shirts that benefit his charitable organization?

Ok some things might have to change with the new job. But seriously, The Big Easy could only benefit from having a leader who genuinely cares about the environment and citizens' health. The rest of the country would be impacted by learning about the importance of sustainable design—and by visiting the city's official website to see pics of Mayor Pitt.

Source : http://www.thedailygreen.com/

Brad Pitt tops plastic surgery requests

Brad Pitt has been named the man most other men want to look like in a new poll.

Men undergoing plastic surgery request the 44-year-old actor's eyes, nose, lips, chin and bum more often than those of any other star.

The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery asked 20,000 surgeons in 84 countries which celebrities most influenced patients' decisions to go under the knife.

The survey found that most females asked for Angelina Jolie's lips, Pamela Anderson's breasts, Jennifer Lopez's bottom and Sophia Loren's eyes.

However, doctors also said women often mentioned celebrities whose breasts they did not want, particularly Anderson, Dolly Parton and Victoria Beckham.

Source : http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/