OlderJennifer Aniston’s Curtain Call
Jennifer Aniston took her curtain call on stage earlier this evening for her Broadway debut in the 10-minute play, Three Girls and Bob. Jen played a single woman who attends an intimacy workshop with two friends (Rosie Perez and Lynn Whitfield) and then tries out its lessons on a hapless man (David Cross).
Jen’s play was part of The 6th Annual “24 Hour Plays” on Broadway to benefit the Working Playground, Inc. at NYC’s American Airlines Theatre. Jen, 37, arrived at 8 AM and rehearsed through the day. Technical rehearsals ran from 5 PM to 7:30 PM. Doors opened at 7:45 PM and the curtain rose at 8 PM. I am oh so curious to hear the reviews…
Co-star Rosie Perez said: “We had a real boost from Jennifer Aniston. She was as sweet as pie. I really appreciated her coming because she raised the profile of tonight’s event and that is going to help so much. She didn’t have to do this. She didn’t have to take time out of her schedule.”
Jen, 37, was accompanied on stage by fellow actors Nia Vardalos, Anna Paquin, Lynn Whitfield, Kieran Culkin, and Erika Christensen (pictured below). More pictures in the gallery!
UPDATE :: The New York Post says: “Jennifer Aniston made a hit debut on Broadway last night.”
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lookwhaticando - if you’re talking about the actors in the 24 Hour Plays not liking Aniston, People on people.com is quoting them, as is the New York Post. They all said glowing things about her attitude and her work. There was a lot of appreciation that she lent her name to this charity effort. This is the first 24 Hour Plays session (this has been running since 1995) that has sold out and it sold out weeks ago.
It’s interesting that the 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic on October 8th, grossed over 200$K, a record for them, and this record box office was credited to Vince’s participation.
Don’t presume that others don’t like Aniston because you don’t. Jennifer has always been considered a real pro in her work and those who work with her say glowing things.
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Seriously Meg, what are they going to say? They weren’t as effusive as they could have been, they just gave their opinion. Rosie Perez actually runs the charity, so I’m sure she was indeed grateful that this media ho who made her name marrying movie stars and getting dumped by them, was joining the cast - she knows that press will spill over to her project and that’s all she cares about. Ditto the other actors. But they weren’t exactly falling all over themselves, they just were being cordial and nice - because People Mag, was making the entire project all about her…asking each one, ‘what they thought of Jen’ and ‘how Jen did,’ and ‘Did Jen hack it.’ I’m sure they went to the bar afterwards and and threw up. lolol Here these are seasoned actors and stage people, and their getting asked about ‘Brad Pitt’s EX’ because she’s ‘Brad Pitt’s EX.’ Wake up and smell the toast hon. Don’t think it’s for any other reason. No one would care about the 10 minute play Tate Donovan’s EX did, and you know it! LOL
FOR ME, THIS IS WHAT THE VANITY FAIR PIECE BOILS DOWN TO.
The Mediator for August 5, 2005
“Jen Finally Talks!”
And so we turn to the September 2005 issue of Vanity Fair. Let’s see — is there anything in here that might appeal to the Fametracker reader?
Graydon Carter’s monthly conspiracy rambling, complete with a bonus picture of the month’s featured starlet in her underwear…a short spotlight on a good-looking polo player and what products he favors (jeans: Diesel; watch: Rolex; car: Porsche)…Christopher Hitchens on those bewildering Red States (Nascar? Whaddup with that?)…James Wolcott on porn bios (porn stars! They can’t write!)…a piece about crooked Marine recruiting…Karl Rove is a big fat liar…hmmm…anything? Anything?
Oh. Yes. There’s some piece in here about Jennifer Aniston.
Let us say straight off that we can’t blame Vanity Fair, or the writer in question, Leslie Bennett, for the article on Aniston presented herein. Any way you slice it, this exclusive interview is a formidable coup — so much so that tabloids from the New York Post to the US/Star/People triumvirate — or, as we like to call it, Ustarple — have trumpeted snatches of quotes from the piece as though they were radical new translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This issue will no doubt fly — fly — off the newsstands. When I stopped in a Manhattan magazine store earlier this week to see if the issue was yet on sale (for I too needed to devour it! Pronto!), the weary clerk answered my panicked query with a testy “Tomorrow, tomorrow,” clearly indicating this was not the first or fourth or fortieth time that someone had come looking for the magazine that day.
And so: a tip of the hat. This article is less…well, an article than a tremendous publicity coup. The only person who stands to benefit more from its publication than does Vanity Fair — Jen Finally Talks! — is, of course, the finally-talking Jen herself.
For those of you who’ve yet to read it, or may be inclined to skip it altogether (pagans! Luddites! Communists!) here’s a short summary:
Jennifer Aniston: Plucky, tough, sexy, modest, maternal, valiant, wronged but not a victim. Most definitely not a victim.
Brad Pitt: Lying, conniving, *****-*******, emotionally stunted, two-faced, hard-hearted ****.
Now you may get on with your day.
It should be pointed out, however, all this preamble not withstanding, that there’s nary a sentence — not a paragraph, a word, a quote — in this piece that could not have been blissfully written by Aniston’s publicity team. We at Fametracker would love to know what veto power Team Aniston had over the photos, the layout, the quotes (”Why, none! None!,” we imagine VF protesting) but, in the end, it probably didn’t matter. There’s no agenda here except to present Jen’s side of the story: airbrushed, polished, and stridently advanced, in the places where she discretely demurs, by her friends, allies and, occasionally, anonymous sources, who may or may not have been prodded to participate by the industrious Team Aniston itself.
It is not our place to question the veracity of this account. It is only our place to point out excerpts such as these:
On Angelina Jolie: “the twice-divorced Jolie — previously known as a tattooed vixen with a taste for bisexuality, heroin, brotherly incest, mental institutions, and wearing her husband’s blood…”
On Brad Pitt: “Pitt could have done more to refute the mean-spirited rumor that his wife wouldn’t bear a child…”
On photos of Pitt with Jolie and her son Maddox: “As Pitt publicly flaunted the instant family he had created…”
On Aniston’s friends: “Her friends are filled with admiration for the way she’s handled the whole mess…”
On Aniston herself: “Although she isn’t talking to Pitt these days, Aniston remains in regular contact with his mother, whom she loves dearly…Aniston is struggling to find a deeper meaning in the debacle…Aniston remains calm and thoughtful…she still has faith in the redeeming power of love itself…’I believe in happily ever after.’”
In this corner: Twice divorced! Bisexuality! Heroin! Mental institutions! Mean-spirited rumors! Public flaunting!
And in the other corner, wearing the saintly trunks: Mother loving! Admiration! Deeper meaning! Calmness! Thoughtfulness! Happily ever after! The redeeming power of love!
Why, it hardly seems like a fair fight at all.
Damn that vicious vixen, Angelina Jolie, who’s blinded the world into believing she’s a caring mother and strong woman, through shameless stunts such as, er, appearing in a flattering photo spread with her son in Vanity Fair just a few months ago.
Damn that duplicitous Brad Pitt, who will no doubt never again grace this magazine’s cover, shirtless, dripping, smiling, with a movie to promote!
Let us denounce those villains and sweep Aniston into our understanding arms, as she comes to us, wounded, in her, um, pajama top and black undies and professionally tousled hair.
In fact, if there’s any message in this article — besides the, you know, Aniston = angel, Pitt = devil, Jolie = homewrecking heroin-fiend brother-******* Delilah message — it’s that, while Aniston may well have the best publicists in the world, she could sure use a better joke writer. Of Pitt’s spiky blond hair, she’ll “toss off a crack” with a “sly smile”: “Billy Idol called — he wants his look back.” Ho, snap! No you did not!
Wait, there’s a call on line two. David Spade called, and he wants his joke back.
And when the writer, Bennett, helpfully prods Aniston for a quotable quip, citing Nicole Kidman’s totally-not-scripted remark on Letterman, after splitting with Tom Cruise, that she was looking forward to “wearing high heels again,” Aniston throws out a jab of her own, complete with a “wry smile” (not to be confused with the sly smile): “I can have a comfortable couch.”
You what? Comfortable who?
Oh, yes. Because Brad likes harsh, uncomfortable modern furniture of the type never featured in Vanity Fair. The *******!
Is Brad Pitt even a human being?
Needless to say, nowhere in this moving paean to the tug and tumult of the human heart does Bennett mention that Aniston is, like, the eighth richest woman in the world. Instead, it’s all “it was so hard for them to find time together,” with very little “they’re so rich they could take ten years off and vacation in Bali full-time if they so chose.” Because, you know, the only thing more gruelling than the schedule of a sitcom star — those brutal, twenty-four-week work years! — is the schedule of an ex-sitcom star, forced to survive on her syndication millions.
And so it goes. But did we rush out and grab our copy of the issue off the quickly dwindling stack on day one? Yes, we did. Did we read this Puff the Magic Profile in one orgiastic sitting on the hot and stuffy subway ride home? Yes, we did. Do we now feel like we’re one iota closer to understanding the “real” story behind Brad and Jen’s break-up? No, we do not. Do we care one whit, as we toss Vanity Fair aside, barely sated, and grab at the nearby mound of salty and salacious Ustarples, gobbling them up like roasted peanuts and pausing only for a quick look at brave Jessica’s new beach-ready bod? (Nick! What Are You Thinking?!)
No. No, we really don’t.
- MFF
Anyone with brains can see what she set out to do and it’s very stupid of her fans to claim she had nothing to do with how it was written.
But I think the suit wasn’t about Jennifer Aniston…it was about things said about her, right? I think they (the writers that were being sued) were talking about more than one person here…and, no offense, but they are men. Just because a man says something about a woman, doesn’t mean it is true.
oh my oh my, picture 6 and 7 ( stare with eyes wide opened) . click it to blow it up and you will know why.
CLINIQUA,
Just because your life revolves around Brad Pitt doesn’t mean everyone’s does. Jen can stand on her own. And, she did not marry movie starS, just one. Contrary to what you believe, Jen has talent, and her fans appreciate her.
And to say no one would care about the play if it was Tate Donovan’s ex just shows how shallow you are. Charity is charity, doesn’t matter who is doing it. What you’re saying is that people will only give to causes of someone famous…tsk tsk tsk
Jared, can you please put up some pic, any pic of Angelina so CLINIQUA will go there??????
i know she did a charity event with reese witherspoon.
i think what she meant in the interview was that she was not into the globe trotting life style. but she does do charity.
Why I don’t like her….those are the exact reasons why I do like her…imagine that!
oh my oh my, picture 6 and 7 ( stare with eyes wide opened) . click it to blow it up and you will know why.
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LOL, she really does look like Dustin Hoffman (pic 6) no joke. I’d say it even if I didn’t have a problem with her, honest. It’s almost uncanny.
They were still being kind, because these pictures have been blown out so you can’t see skin texture and wrinkles. But just imagine if they had not. double whoa.
#107 and 111
do you have pictures of yourself on the internet? we’d love to see them!
The word around Hollywood is that Maniston is superficial and snobby. Now this comes from the inside.
She is also a phony, she knows she is not with Vince, but she is too phony to pony up to the truth.
She looks like Dustin Hoffman’s twin.
You know, this whole divorce thing is just played out. The fact is, they divorced and he moved on with his life before Aniston. No one can deny as much as they try that Aniston set out on a hatchet job for Jolie and Pitt in the VF article and subsequent ones she did.
While Aniston was talking to the press he was living his life. And because of how she handled the whole thing there has been backlash against her. Why? Because people can see through it and they can see she tried to put herself in an innocent victim role in VF to only little by little with the rest of her interviews admit truths.
Like: Her marriage was over when she went to go film Rumor Has It, that she’s discovered some things about herself through all of this and they are not very nice, etc.
Clearly she is a woman scorned not because of her divorce but because the man fell in love with someone and created a family. She’s obssessed with the issue that people accuse her of not wanting children and/or a family so Brad having a family now she takes as a personal assault/attack against her. In Aniston’s world that is not allowed because she needs people to like her. She’s admitted in ALL of her interviews that’s a ball of neurotic ramblings and a control freak. She couldn’t/can’t control Brad and this is the biggest upset for her because it is about her.
She’s done so much damage to herself with this whole thing. When you’ve got young actresses saying Aniston is an example of what not to do, play the victim card with the pity parties then you know she’s failed.
She looks sad, dead in the eyes because she knows that her truth will come out. She’s not with Vaughn, the whole thing was/is a charade. No more lonely walks on the beach Jennifer. She needs to actually do some of the things she’s said she’s wanted to do for a long time like travel, etc then maybe, just maybe she’d gain som credibility but right now she has NONE
Jenny you look so happy!! Stay that way!!
The word around Hollywood is that Maniston is superficial and snobby. Now this comes from the inside.
She is also a phony, she knows she is not with Vince, but she is too phony to pony up to the truth.
113 | Heather | 10/24/06 11:34 AM | Flag Comment
Are you expecting us to believe that YOU have the inside scoop?? I doubt it! If you did you would me making money selling your INSIDE story - blah, blah, blah!
I think that people jus need to bash Aniston because they have nothing else to do. So much negativity on this website. I really want to see your pictures people. It’s interesting how people on this website can’t handle someone else’s opinion. I’m glad that I don’t know you.
Aniston has a lot of negativity because of the stuff she pulled last year. She should of kept her mouth shut because she clearly wasn’t ready to be talking to the press at the time she did VF. She would of gotten more respect if she wished Brad well in his new life and moved on. Now she just appears obsessed with him, her image and really bitter. The whole Vaughn debacle w/USweekly doesn’t help her either.
She messed up and bad
They were still being kind, because these pictures have been blown out so you can’t see skin texture and wrinkles. But just imagine if they had not. double whoa.
111 | CLINIQUA | 10/24/06 11:18 AM | Flag Comment
Lets see a picture of you - you truely are such a negative person - and juvenile. How can you possibly wish to be so negative all the time unless your speaking of B&A?? Im not trying to attack you - Im being serious - you have a lot of hate in your heart - how heavy that must be.
Solomon: I see from your post your one of the Jen haters..and thats fine, you have a right to your opinion..but to say she went on VF to start a hatchet job on AJ and BP..its my opinion that Brad did whatever he could to embarrass Jen in front of the world, they barely announced thier separation and he had Jolie move in and started traveling the world with her, had Maddox calling him daddy..regardless of who was at fault, you would think after being with someone for 7 yrs, you would be a little more compassionate..but Not Brad or AJ for that matter, so Jen was absolutely put down in front of the world, and I don’t blame her for being mad and doing what she did..good for her for getting it off her chest in front of the world..Im still a fan of Jens, but I know for a fact that some people I know who really liked AJ, don’t anymore..because of how Brad and her handled the whole thing…
Now she just appears obsessed with him, her image and really bitter.
119 | Area 47 | 10/24/06 12:00 PM | Flag Comment
Hello POT this is KETTLE! Get over it already - move on and heal your heart wounds - haha!
121 | someone
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I don’t understand people like you. Pitt and Aniston were seperated in Jan of 2005 which means they clearly were over long before that. She filed for divorce and he moved on. He just happened to move on with someone who had a child. If Angelina was single would those pictures in Kenya have been as bothersome to her fans? I dont’ think so.
It does really boil down to the whole child issue for Aniston with people apparently. Aniston and her fans need to let that one go. It appears deep down her fans are afraid that those stories about her not wanting kids are true and they’re lashing out at Angelina because she has them. It’s sad really. People need to really move on
you would think after being with someone for 7 yrs, you would be a little more compassionate.
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Tell that to the woman who signed on for more years of Friends after saying she wouldn’t in order to start a family. Say that to the woman who didn’t visit her husband for three months while he was away filming a movie. Say that to the woman who signed on for movie after movie after movie again putting off starting a family. It goes on and on.
That guy needed to move on with his life and he did. If she was that concerned about children and whatnot she would of created a family with him. I agree if the woman Brad was with didn’t have kids would it be as upsetting to the jenjen fans? No. It wouldn’t. That is what it boils down to and they *know* it
She was on for 10 mins. LMAO
CLINIQUA / I am just wondering why you hate her soooooooooo much. Could it be because she was the Mrs. Pitt once..One that you will never be!!!
121 | someone | 10/24/06 12:02 PM | Flag Comment
So true and lets not forget the W spread (COVER) that B&A put out right after the split was announced and prior to Jens Vanity Fair article. They showed no respect or decency and certainly sensitivity at all. Now, I believe all people should be with the person they love but they could have done it with a hell of a lot more class & dignity - and because they didnt they will always have people that dont like them and rightfully so. You dont puiblicly humiliate your wife and shack up with a starlet (letting her son call you Daddy) and expect people to say “Wow what a wonderful new couple”. They were thinking only of themselves and it was blatently obvious! I dont however think people should forever hate them but I do believe they created this monster all on their own. You make your bed and then you must lay in it.
She could ‘ve gotten pregnant on Friends and had the writers work it into the story line……oh but wait , she was pregnant on the show. Hmmm
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