While everyone in political news circles is talking about a Bill Clinton editorial in this month’s Vanity Fair, it’s impossible to ignore that Angelina Jolie is actually on the cover. “Uncensored” overstates how revealing Angelina is, but the interview does manage to shed a sliver of light on her mysterious aura.

Quick bits..

Do you read gossip magazines/blogs?

“I would never do that. because I have good friends I would be reading about and I don’t want it even in my head … a negative fairy tale about somebody I like. I don’t want it in my thoughts. I owe it to them not to pay attention. I know it’s not true.

Over 95 percent of what’s said about us is entirely untrue.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.”

Why celebs breed celebs - her father is ..

“Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.”

Enlightening their 4 - soon to be 6 - kids.

“Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It’s a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That’s how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We’ll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We’ll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We’ll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.”

One of her ‘retired’ hotel aliases >> Shiloh Baptist!

“It was a name my parents almost named their first child - there was a miscarriage. My father had been shooting in Georgia and that was the most southern name my parents could come up with. It’s a name I always liked. I used to go under it in hotels: Shiloh Baptist.

I’d gone under it when [Brad] called hotel rooms where I was staying.”

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The complete story at “A Woman in Full”