Angelina Jolie has been pretty serious these past few years about becoming the perfect human being -- intelligent, giving, talented, gorgeous, selfless, do we honestly need to go on? -- and at this point, it's pretty safe to say that she's been successful. It's hard to even find words to accurately describe how amazing she is, that's how serious this situation has gotten. But she did a new interview with Vogue, and she talked about a few things that deserve our attention, so instead of documenting all her virtues, let's just get down to business.

   Angelina and her soulmate/husband, Brad Pitt, have been working on a movie together. It's called "By the Sea," and it's about a married couple with issues, apparently. Angelina wrote and directed it, and she also starred in it, along with Brad -- their first movie together since the fateful "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" all those years ago. She says that they called the script for the movie "the crazy one" and "the worst idea," but don't worry, their beautiful marriage is fine:

   “This is the only film I’ve done that is completely based on my own crazy mind ... It’s not the safest idea. But life is short ... It’s not autobiographical. Brad and I have our issues, but if the characters’ were even remotely close to our problems we couldn’t have made the film.”

   We could spend forever analyzing the comment of "Brad and I have our issues," but we won't, because who wants to believe that Brangelina is mortal and not much different from the rest of us? Instead, let's move on to Angelina's talk about her preventative mastectomy and the removal of her ovaries and Fallopian tubes:

   “It really connected me to other women. I wish my mom had been able to make those choices.” The procedures themselves were, she says, “brutal. It’s hard. They are not easy surgeries. The ovaries are an easy surgery, but the hormone changes”—she laughs, nods her head—“interesting. We did joke that I had my Monday edit. Tuesday surgery. Wednesday go into menopause. Thursday come back to edit, a little funky with my steps ... I feel grounded as a woman. I know others do too. Both of the women in my family, my mother and my grandmother, started dying in their 40s. I’m 40. I can’t wait to hit 50 and know I made it.”

   At the risk of sounding too cheesy, this woman is such an inspiration. To be a little more like her would be to be a better person, and goodness knows it wouldn't hurt anyone to be a little more like Angelina Jolie.