Angelina Jolie and Madonna both have their strong points; Angelina Jolie is good at drawing attention to herself and not making very good films, and Madonna is good at drawing attention to herself and not making very good music – but things end there.
Angelina Jolie senses that Madonna is starting to encroach on her territory, and she isn't happy about it. First Madonna started to make films that weren't as good as they should have been – typical Angelina Jolie turf – and then Madonna started zipping over to Africa to adopt as many children as her claw-like hands could carry. Which, we now know, totals one child. Perhaps fearing that Madonna will adopt all the cute African babies and leave her to pick from the ugly or deformed ones, Angelina Jolie has stuck out at Madonna's adoption of David Banda from Malawi – although Angelina has said it's because Madonna did it all illegal and that.
When it comes to adoption, Angelina Jolie and Madonna are the two big guns. Sure, Leonardo DiCaprio claims he's adopted a girl from South Africa, but he hasn't filled the two biggest adoption prerequisites – dragging the terrified child around an airport with a blanket on its head and making the kid annoy Graham Norton – yet, so he hardly counts.
No, when you think adoption, you think Angelina Jolie and Madonna. Angelina Jolie is an old hand at adopting, having adopted little Maddox from Cambodia, little Zahara from Ethiopia and little Shiloh Nouvel from inside her own guts. Eventually, scientists claim, Angelina Jolie will have adopted every single human being on earth, such is Angelina's rabid love of adoption, even though we get the feeling that Angelina Jolie only adopts kids so that she can have loads more Christmases than everyone else.
On the other hand there's Madonna. Madonna has a slightly different adoption tactic to Angelina Jolie, in that she prefers to swoop into a country like Malawi, deny that she's going to adopt anyone, then make off with a boy leaving behind angry human rights groups, a father who's bewildered about Madonna taking his boy and all sorts of repercussions that Madonna has tried to wriggle out of by blaming the media. And this tactic has got Angelina Jolie all indignant – she's been spouting off to a French magazine about just how much better she is at adopting kids than Madonna, as The Telegraph reports:
She told the Paris-based magazine Gala that the singer should not have paid a visit to an impoverished African country last year with the sole intention of picking up David Banda. "Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where he was born," said Jolie, 31, who has two children of her own from the Third World. "It's a country where there is no real legal framework for adoption. Personally, I prefer to stay on the right side of the law." Asked if the Madonna episode would put her off adopting more children of her own, Jolie said: "I have been horrified by the attacks she's been subjected to. All that should count is the happiness of her little David."
Quite right too – here's hoping that Madonna reads what Angelina Jolie has to say about her and the next time she adopts a baby maybe she can act less like a woman who will satisfy her domestic desires with morally and legally dubious methods, and more like a massive colonial overlord with a blacked-up face.
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Jolie Criticises Madonna For Her Malawi Adoption – Telegraph
Don Reelin says
Nobody’s going to know the winner of this fight for another 20 years, and it should be decided by seeing if Madonna’s boy or Angelina’s kids end up more helplessly fucked up. Too close to call right now I’d say