Oscar-winners Sandra Bullock and Jesse James and Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.
Pitt stars in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a long-delayed drama about the notorious American outlaw.
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There are some Hollywood examples: Sandra Bullock wins an Oscar-for The Blind Side and Jesse James is found creeping with tattoo lady, days later.
In this movie, as in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, " the physically slight, baby-faced actor is called upon to soak up a lot of patronizing put-downs.
Before the premiere, Pitt picked up an award that he won in Venice last year - the best actor's prize for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Bullock told People magazine that she and soon-to-be-ex-husband Jesse James (Bullock has officially filed for divorce) brought Louis home in January, just weeks before her low-key Hollywood life went into overdrive.
He acted in several uncredited movie roles in 1948 after he left the Army, leading to his role as the outlaw Jesse James in "Fighting Man of the Plains" in 1949.
Jesse James, a distant relative of the outlaw from the 1880s, nervously scans his e-mail on a recent afternoon from a tiny office inside his 250, 000-square-foot motorcycle shop in Long Beach, Calif.
Perhaps 100 custom builders ply this trade in the U.S. Jesse James' garage, West Coast Choppers, is a sprawl of warehouses in a rundown neighborhood of wrecking yards and auto body shops.
It will be interesting to see if the drawing power of Russell Crowe and Brad Pitt (in the forthcoming "Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford") can buck that trend.
Either way, from there the sales of HD DVDs really drop off, so much so that the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Crawford only sold 6.45-percent as many copies as Beowulf.
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During the same period, Pitt spent time both in front of the camera (Oceans 13, The Assassination of Jesse James) and behind it (The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, A Mighty Heart and Tree of Life).
Bullock has always had lot of goodwill in Hollywood, and after her win for Best Actress last year in The Blind Side was quickly usurped by a tabloid frenzy involving her serial cheating ex-husband, Jesse James has even more so now.
Bullock is unique on the list because she has been touched by scandal: Her husband, Jesse James, was caught cheating on her just after she won an Oscar for her role in the 2009 film The Blind Side, leading to their divorce.
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Brad Pitt plays Jesse James, who is at the tail end of his career and joins up with his brother Frank (Sam Shepard) for one last train robbery, then spends the rest of the story skulking under an alias or settling scores.
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Although in a quite remote corner of Marion County, it is visited by 50, 000 tourists a year, who not only get to see the production process but are regaled with tales of the outlaws Frank and Jesse James, who had connections with an earlier distiller on the site.
Films are steeped in lore of the little guy raging against injustice, sometimes based on historical figures such as Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Frank and Jesse James, said Elayne Rapping, a retired professor of American and media studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo.
Debutant opening batsman Jesse Ryder did everything that was asked of him, flicking James Anderson for six over midwicket in the fourth over and making 31 in all before holing out in the deep off Broad in the 13th over.
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