Andrew mortons angelina jolie biography

(St. Martin’s, 336 pages, $26.99)

In Andrew Morton’s unauthorized new tell-all, Angelina Jolie’s very early childhood is portrayed like something out of a Grimm’s fairy tale, said Susannah Cahalan in the New York Post. Confined to a sterile white room with nothing but a white crib at its center, little Angelina had almost no contact for a year and a half with her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who lived downstairs.

Her crime, a “breathless” Morton tells us, was looking too much like her philandering movie-star father, Jon Voight. Abandonment issues were evident early: As a toddler, Angelina didn’t even like to be hugged.

Morton’s emphasis on Jolie’s childhood actually provides a “plausible theory” for the star’s sometimes inscrutable behavior, said Adam Tschorn in the Los Angeles Times. In years past, the 35-year-old Jolie battled anorexia, dabbled in self-cutting, used heroin, and gained a reputat