Angelina Jolie Makes Brad Pitt Imitate Robert Redford
By Chip Hilton

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CANNES - Ever since Angelina Jolie met Brad Pitt, she has been quietly suggesting that it's time for him to leave childish things behind. That advice, first applied to Jennifer Aniston and then to baseball caps worn backward, has now been extended to Mr. Pitt's hairstyle.

During the brief time that Mr. Pitt, 43, and Ms. Jolie, 31, have been together, his hair has staggered from Billy Idol blond to Maddox Jolie-Pitt Mohawk, but that lurching devolution appears to have ended this week at Cannes.

Mr. Pitt accompanied the Oscar-winning Ms. Jolie to Cannes to attend the premiere of her ultra-serious, small-budget film, A Mighty Heart—and to break out the slicked down, Robert-Redford-does-the-Great Gatsby look that Ms. Jolie is said to have engineered.

Although Ms. Jolie may find that 1920s throwback look—and perhaps Mr. Redford—dashing, at least one of Mr. Pitt's friends finds it laughable.

"Billy Idol called. He wants his look back." J. Aniston

"First she made him her bitch, now she wants to make him her Robert Redford," quipped Mr. Pitt's AHB, George Clooney, who stars with Mr. Pitt in Ocean's Thirteen, which also premieres at Cannes this week.

"The hoops that guy has to jump through just to get laid. I swear if that snatch-smacked fool calls me 'Old Sport' one more time, I'll punch his lights out; and if I see him in one more freakin' tennis sweater, I'm gonna rip it off and shove it up his ass."

In addition to subjecting him to some grief from his friends, Mr. Pitt's new look almost brought him serious grief at a Mighty Heart post-premiere party. When Mr.

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Pitt imitated Mr. Gatsby-Redford's trademark move of leaning toward the woman to whom he was speaking across the table at dinner, he leaned too close to a candle, and the pomade in his hair began to smoke.