Angelina acquaints a man with strange bedfellows

Samizdata reports that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are poised to take the leading roles in a screen adaptation of Atlas Shrugged.

The report describes Angelina as a "long-time devotee" of Ayn Rand. Can this possibly be the same Angelina Jolie that just more-or-less endorsed Gordon Brown as our next Prime Minister? I can't quite see Gordon settling down for an evening's Objectivist reading. Rand developed a philosophy of, essentially, righteous selfishness (she called it rational self-interest); Brown's is more self-righteous compulsory charity. Rand was a confirmed anti-statist; Brown is, at heart, the very definition of an old-style collectivist.

Assuming the article's accurate (dangerous, admittedly), then either Angelina's a bit stupid and doesn't understand a word of Rand's writings, or I pretty much need to make the acquiantace of her dealer.