Angelina Jolie's latest film project, "A Mighty Heart" has media insiders talking. She's portraying the Afro-Cuban and Dutch native Mariane Pearl, widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter. Why the tongue whipping? {lol! i made up that word!} Plain and simple Angelina's hertiage is far from Marianne's. {FYI: Angelina Jolie's French-Czech-American.} But at the same token Halle Berry has been enlisted to portray a white teacher in her upcoming movie project. You be the jugde? FYI: Angelina's film is being produced by Brad Pitt's film production, Plan B.

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MSNBC coincides with Crunk & Disorderly about why Angelina Jolie's casted as Mariane Pearl and not say--Thandie Newton. Read on for more...

"Aug. 2 - Mariane Pearl might be delighted to have actress Angelina Jolie depict her in an upcoming movie, but some of you are outraged. Pearl is the tan, biracial widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, whose memoir, “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl,” will be adapted into a motion picture by Brad Pitt's production company. The film, simply called “A Mighty Heart,” will tell of Pearl's experience after her husband was abducted by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in early 2002. A month later, his captors released a video depicting his murder. Pearl, who is reportedly of Afro Cuban/Dutch heritage, was pregnant with their son Adam at the time. Since the news came out a few weeks ago, message boards across the Internet have been on fire, expressing harsh criticism about Jolie playing the role of Pearl. On BET.com's own boards, user chantejoy calls the very idea a "new generation of Hollywood in blackface." “With talent such as Halle Berry, Thandie Newton and Jennifer Beals available — just to mention a few — what is Hollywood's excuse for casting a white woman this time?” she asks. “Anyone who has seen a photo of Mariane Pearl can tell she is a woman of color.”"

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