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Hollywood's Super Woman Angelina Jolie, In 'A Mighty Heart'

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Once branded a siren, Angelina Jolie is now known as a peace activist. She tells Ivor Davis about playing Mariane Pearl, whose husband was murdered by terrorists. Not so long ago, Angelina Jolie was cast as Hollywood's scarlet woman. The headline-hugging actress had stolen Billy Bob Thornton from the arms of his actress fiancee Laura Dern. Jolie and Thornton then married, spoke endlessly about their choice of jewellery - vials of each other's blood as a token of undying love - and then swiftly divorced. Soon after, she ran off with her Mr And Mrs Smith co-star Brad Pitt, leaving his wife, Jennifer Aniston, bitter. Thereafter, Jolie was portrayed as a man-eating seductress with all the morals of an alley cat. What a difference a few years and a ton of good publicity can make. The 32-year-old star with legendary pouting lips has turned it all around. She's more likely to be seen on a list of the world's most admired women than vamping it up with a new lover. She's Hol...