Crowds gathered in the Spanish city of San Sebastian today as fans jostled to catch a glimpse of Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt.

But the hunky actor, who is in town to promote his film Inglourious Basterds, was barely recognisable, hiding his chiseled features behind a bushy, grey-flecked beard and moustache.

Brad further played down his good looks by donning a huge pair of sunglasses and an unflattering flat cap.

The dad-of-six is in town with director Quentin Tarantino to attend the 57th San Sebastian International Film Festival, held today.

The film, which is described by Tarantino as ‘a spaghetti western but with World War II iconography’ was released last month and was accepted into the main selection at the Cannes film festival.

It was the only U.S. film to win an award at Cannes this year, earning a Best Actor award for Christopher Waltz.

Brad, who travelled alone leaving his brood and partner Angelina Jolie in France, visited the northern Spanish city of Aviles earlier this month.

The 45-year-old is said to be interested in supporting a building project which will boast an auditorium, sight-seeing tower and exhibition center.

It is intended to revive the town’s fortunes and is scheduled to open in 2010.

Keen architect Brad is already involved in a project which aims to rebuild homes in New Orleans after it was struck by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Aviles mayor Pilar Varela said: ‘He is interested in supporting the project, the cultural as well as the architectural aspects.’

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrived at their chateau in the South of France and immediately went to work to make the place kid friendly. They went with the two boys Maddox and Pax to a local pet shop and bought gerbils and goldfish. Maddox also got a cactus! Brangelina and the kids drove together in a rental car without any security.

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While Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt headed to France to work on their relationship — after all, it’s where they shacked up when Angie was expecting their twins, Knox and Vivienne — a Jolie-Pitt insider reveals that the couple’s retreat has gotten off to a very rough start. “Brad has been adamant that Angie spend time with the family and focus on them with as much passion and energy as she does all her projects,” the source explains to OK!.

However, “right after they got to France, Brad found a box of scripts that Angie had said she wanted to read. She and Brad got into a fight over it. Angie stormed out of the room and went into the bedroom.”

In fact, the Wanted star was so mad that she demanded Brad sleep on the couch! Angie walked away from the fight to keep the kids from witnessing it — Maddox, Pax and Shiloh were there while Zahara and the twins napped in another room — while Brad did his part to downplay the spat.

“He played video games with the boys all night and made breakfast for the family in the morning, including fresh grapefruit juice for Angie,” says the source. While reconciliation isn’t always easy, the two seem to be doing their best to make their kids feel that all is well, including taking Maddox and Pax to the pet store the next day, Aug. 20, to expand their brood with gerbils and goldfish.

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Could Spencer Pratt be the next Brad Pitt?

That’s what The Hills star is hoping!

In his new book, How to Be Famous, the reality star discusses his desire to be like the Inglourious Basterds actor.

What impresses him most?

How Pitt handled his 2005 divorce from Jennifer Aniston amidst an affair with Angelina Jolie.

“There literally is not another situation in the history of Hollywood where a man left a woman as beloved as Jennifer Aniston for someone like Angelina Jolie (a home-wrecking head case) and still ended up the good guy,” Pratt writes. “We salute you, Mr. Pitt!”

In the tome — which is being published by Grand Central Publishing and hits bookshelves in November — Pratt opens up about his eagerness to be the bad guy.

“If I weren’t me, I’d hate me,” he adds. “When you’re the villain, you don’t have to worry about how your enemy feels.”

Case in point: He bragged that he couldn’t have cared less that he was blamed for leak of nemesis Lauren Conrad’s alleged sex tape. He even said he made a point of telling every blog that the tape — which he claims was “beyond boring” — existed.

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Ruh Roh Reorge!

As far as Brad Pitt is concerned, his new film Inglourious Basterds is the be all and end all of Nazi movies.

“The second World War could still deliver more stories and films, but I believe that Quentin [Tarantino, director] put a cover on that pot. With Basterds, everything than can be said to this genre has been said,” Pitt tells the German magazine Stern. “The film destroys every symbol. The work is done, end of story.”

As for another WWII Hitler assassination movie with a famous Hollywood star, he says there is no comparison. When the Stern reporter mentioned Tom Cruise’s recent turn in a film about a real plot to kill Hitler, Pitt simply said, “It was a ridiculous movie.”

Pitt also revealed what movie he does find note-worthy – even life-changing – Saturday Night Fever.

“When I was a teenager, I saw Saturday Night Fever at our drive-in, but it wasn’t the dancing that electrified me. It was the life and culture in Brooklyn. I’m from Missouri, the southern part of the Midwest in the U.S., and I never heard families talk that way to each other. From that point on, I wanted out to see more of the country and of life.”

Have you seen Inglourious Basterds yet? If so, how was it?

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I agree Brad, it was ridiculous! I turned Valkyrie off, about 20 minutes in.

As far as Brad Pitt is concerned, his new film “Inglourious Basterds” is the be all and end all of Nazi movies.

“The second World War could still deliver more stories and films, but I believe that Quentin [Tarantino, director] put a cover on that pot. With ‘Basterds,’ everything that can be said to this genre has been said,” Pitt tells the German magazine Stern. “The film destroys every symbol. The work is done, end of story.”

As for another WWII Hitler assassination movie with a famous Hollywood star, he says there is no comparison. When the Stern reporter mentioned Tom Cruise’s recent turn in a film about a real plot to kill Hitler, Pitt simply said, “It was a ridiculous movie.”

Pitt also revealed what movie he does find note-worthy — even life-changing — “Saturday Night Fever.”

“When I was a teenager, I saw “Saturday Night Fever” at our drive-in, but it wasn’t the dancing that electrified me. It was the life and culture in Brooklyn. I’m from Missouri, the southern part of the Midwest in the U.S., and I never heard families talk that way to each other. From that point on, I wanted out to see more of the country and of life.”

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Quentin Tarantino’s latest film is already dividing critics and will surely divide audiences too. Inglourious Basterds looks like Brad Pitt in a World War II romp. Don’t be surprised if you spend a lot of the time with two German characters played by actors you don’t know.

“To me the film has three leads,” Tarantino said. “It has Aldo, Shoshanna and Lando. Even the structure of the movie, the first three chapters are setting up these leads. Then, chapter four and five is okay, now the adventure begins. The other aspect though is you can say that everybody in this movie is an inglourious basterd. Doesn’t just have to mean the one little group.”

That said, the group of Jewish Nazi killers that Pitt leads are basically background players. “If you consider the Basterds the six other guys in the background, yeah, they become incidental to the actual mission themselves once the story gets going on.”

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