Brad Pitt says he would never be elected mayor of New Orleans

The essence of this early August interview with Brad Pitt by London Times writer Martyn Palmer zeroes in on the rowdy Oklahoma kid makes good side of Pitt.

We saw this down-home bad boy side of Pitt this week, responding to questions about marrying partner Angelina Jolie and becoming mayor of New Orleans, in Ann Curry’s TV interview with Pitt, and in the ‘Inglorious Basterd’s’ Parade Magazine reflections on his family life and personal values.

“I’m running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform,” Pitt jokingly told Curry. “I don’t have a chance.” (via NY Daily News)

Clearly Brad Pitt has come a long way from his Missouri, Southern Baptist family days where mother Jane was a high-school counsellor and his father William ran a truck company.

Yet, Pitt seems intent on being a regular guy, evolving out of his single-guy, bad boy days into an exemplary father who says he stopped smoking dope for his kids. Brad continues to enjoy ‘the bottle’, a source of endless Internet speculation on his forever-crashing relationship with Angelina Jolie.

Brad Pitt being the perfect ‘big daddy’ via LA Times ‘The Dish Rag’This summer’s spate of new interviews should put to rest the idea that a Branjelina household meltdown is coming any moment. The headlines sell magazines and Intenet clicks, feeding a mob frenzy around the couple. It’s impossible to know how much is grounded in any truth.