Jolie's lawyers wanted interview agreement

LOS ANGELES, June 19 (UPI) -- Lawyers for actress Angelina Jolie asked journalists to sign an agreement limiting what they can do in an interview that Jolie believes went too far.

Jolie's law firm -- Sloane, Offer, Webster & Dern -- wanted to condition interviews with the actress on journalists' consent to not ask any questions about "personal relationships." The journalists were also asked to agree that the interviews "only be used to promote the picture," and "not be used in a manner that is disparaging, demeaning and derogatory," Daily Variety reported.

"Many of the people who covered the junket felt it was an example of the publicists taking it one step too far," says Mark Coleman, executive news director of Star Magazine. "You can't really say it's an interview when you're so constrained as to what you can ask that you might as well be talking to a studio executive."

Allan Mayer, managing director of the public relations firm Sitrick & Company, said "This wasn't so much a take-it-or-leave-it proposition as a shot across the bow."