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Jun 22 2007 12:00am EDT

Controversy, Oscar and Angelina Jolie

As Variety points out this morning, controversy seems to follow Paramount Vantage's A Mighty Heart everywhere (even Thursday night's screening at Paramount for Muslim, Christian and Jewish organizations, designed to promote religious tolerance, had its challenges, with an upset Jewish activist likening some participants involvement to "David Duke co-sponsoring Schindler's List." But the movie, about the tragic kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and directed by Michael Winterbottom, is already generating early Oscar buzz for Angelina Jolie, who plays Pearl's wife Mariane. For those interested in reading more about Jolie's transformation from sex symbol to statesman, Sean Smith has written an excellent profile of the actress and her causes in Newsweek.

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