YIKES

As a United Nations ambassador, Angelina Jolie often travels to some of the worst places on earth, sometimes at great personal risk, and these trips are becoming more and more troubling for her boyfriend Brad Pitt.  Now Jolie admits those fears were almost realized.  She tells a London paper that there was a recent plot to kidnap her, and it was only foiled at the last minute.  Jolie says:

"It was in a small village.  I won't say where, or with whom, but some gangsters planned to kidnap me and extort a massive ransom. I was warned at the last minute, and managed to escape, luckily."

Despite this, Jolie says she has no intention of curbing her trips to global hotspots.

"I don't want to act like the Mother Teresa of Hollywood, but I want to help where there is poverty and destruction. I love Brad very much and on our trips we pull together as a team. Things only get difficult when it affects our children."

Wow this chick is like one of the damned Super Friends, traveling wherever it sucks to see if she can help.  I kinda do the same thing in my home movies starring my stuffed animals and my rocket ship made up of a recliner tipped backwards.  We sometimes “gotta get outa here” because it “looks like we got company”.   Does that make me a hero, like Angelina?  Yes.  Yes it does.  The greatest hero of all, some would say.