Sin City 2: Angelina Out, Rachel In

Hi Stardust,

Thanks for replying to my post in an earlier thread re: Angie’s possible pregnancy. I didn’t see the post until I read it last night. I also wanted to let you know that I always enjoyed reading your posts. I do hope that there would be a new Jolie-Pitt soon.

I’m on the asian boy train. While I can’t wait for them to have another bio baby, I don’t think it would be in the best interest of the family to have another so soon - especially IF they are adopting. Of course, a lot of that would depend on the age of the new Jolie Pitt. I’ll be interested to see if a trip to Vietnam is mentioned in my Yahoo Pitt update. There was nothing in today’s.

Mrs. Smith - I loved your post and agree. I get dizzy just trying to keep up with them. Must be easier if you ARE them huh?

Hollywood Confidential
Exclusive: Six of the biggest names in showbiz sat down for a talk about fame, failure and fans—an exclusive sneak peek at NEWSWEEK’s annual Oscar Roundtable.

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By David J. Jefferson
Newsweek
Updated: 12:35 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2007
Jan. 14, 2007 -
Leonardo DiCaprio was a “Romper Room” reject. Helen Mirren was a rotten schoolteacher. Penelope Cruz kept running to the bathroom between takes to cry while making her first English-speaking movie. Forest Whitaker nodded off while filming a crucial scene in “Bird” and didn’t realize he was on a movie set when he awoke. Cate Blanchett says she would like to have been Gregory Peck. And Brad Pitt once had a job chauffeuring strippers to bachelor parties.

These and other celebrity confessions were part of NEWSWEEK’s Oscar Roundtable on Saturday, which for the first time in its 10-year history was held before a live audience, at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. (The full report of the Roundtable will be in the Jan. 29 issue of NEWSWEEK, which hits newsstands Jan. 22 and will be available online the same day.) In a lively conversation both humorous and touching, the six stars—all of whom hope to make the cut when Academy Award nominations are announced Jan. 23—candidly revealed their fears and fallibilities to NEWSWEEK Senior Editor David Ansen and Senior Writer Sean Smith. “I get mortified at being looked at. I hate being looked at,” Mirren admitted, giving lie to the notion that actors are born extroverts. Then again, as a 3-year-old, DiCaprio was thrown off the set of “Romper Room” for shaking the camera and yelling, “Look at me!”

These actors may have star power to burn, but success was a struggle for each of them—even DiCaprio, who says he tried to get an agent when he was 7 or 8 but couldn’t. (Wouldn’t you hate to be that agent?) This year, the “Titanic” heartthrob could land Oscar nods for his roles in both “Blood Diamond” and “The Departed.” Whitaker—a best-actor front runner for his portrayal of brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland”—says he didn’t have many role models growing up in the days when Sydney Poitier was the only black star in Hollywood. Helen Mirren’s parents didn’t want her to become an actress, so she tried her hand at teaching for three years. “I was a horrible, really bad schoolteacher,” admits Mirren. Blanchett got her start as an extra in an Arabic-language boxing movie, where “I earned five Egyptian dollars … and free falafels.” This past year, Blanchett costarred in “Notes on a Scandal” with Judi Dench, “The Good German” with George Clooney and “Babel” with Pitt.

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Pitt gets the Oscar Roundtable award for best starving-actor story. After making his way to Hollywood, Pitt spent a couple of months driving strippers around to parties. One of them, it turns out, was taking an acting class and convinced Pitt to join—and it kicked his career into gear
“So a stripper changed the course of your career?” NEWSWEEK’s Smith asked, laughing.
“Strippers changed my life,” Pitt said.

“Put that on the National Enquirer next week,” Ansen piped in. To which Pitt could only look heavenward, shaking his head, and plead, “I just want one week off!”

For someone who gets chased by paparazzi as he guns his motorcycle around Los Angeles, Pitt is surprisingly at ease with his celebrity: instead of slipping into the Egyptian Theater Saturday morning through a side door, as his fellow panelists did, Pitt strode right through the front entrance as if arriving for a premiere at the old movie palace, now home to the nonprofit American Cinematheque.

NEWSWEEK’s complete Oscar Roundtable will be available in the Jan. 29 issue, on newsstands and available online Jan. 22

Oh yes I just wanted to add. Does anyone think it’s just a little odd that Cindy confirmed the NO house rumour? When has she ever done that? Did she do that when they were in Edmonton? In France? Maybe because this time they bought the house, BUT it begs the question. BOUGHT? Pourquoi? They’ve never felt the need to do that before. So perhaps they will be staying a little longer. But maybe the answer is not so much because Angie’s pregnant (didn’t stop her from travelling much before), but because they want to be near the site where the 20 houses are being built and want to be there for the duration. How long do houses take to build anyway?

But no matter how you slice it, it’s odd, they actually bought a house. Maybe it’s a matter of saving money in the long run. They can probably sell the house for a profit anyway.

oh, sorry, i posted to the wrong thread

“The only thing bigger than brad and angelina? Nuclear Holocaust.”

Thanks Missouri Fan,
I am always happy to see your post. Hope you can perfect the Espasol recipe soon. I am very excited that there might be a new Joli-Pitt baby.

Ohhh awaiting moderation!! dang it. As annoying as the Access Hollywood piece was…it was my favorite interview.

And I like the fact that Brad looked back to see where Angie was. I guess they planned on being together side by side on the red carpet….which is why Angie went with him while he was interviewed …dem critical ********.

each and every woman there is lies within themselves the bitchiness. i am bitchy at times and am sure most of you are here. AJ moves in a world full of crap and backstabbing people. If some describe her as bitchy, manipulative or calculating I would like to believe it comes with the situation and territory. but these are no way to define her. she’s a very independent and strong woman, and you can’t be one by being toothy candy. but if you look at the whole how people who she works with and people she meets describe her it’s totally different. she’s no saint but I applaud her more for being who she is and owing it without being apologetic.

Ugh! This is much longer than I meant it to be…but those damned tabloids are a freaking riot! The STAR is a must read this week!

While I was at the grocery store earlier tonight stocking up for this weekend’s expected snow storm - did I mention that I hate winter? - I read the tabs…and I gotta say…these people need to turn off their computers and go get some fresh air. Cuz if the air in their lungs is as stale as their stories, those poor folks are gonna suffocate in no time flat. The lack or originality in these tabs is most disappointing. Are they teaching these kids nothing in journalism school these days?

Both the Star & L&S have the same theme this week - Angie anxious as Brad and Jen prepare to meet. And from there they have wildly diverging stories. The other tabs are also recycling themes - OK has Brad trying to mend fences between Angie and JV, US is declaring that there’s a media backlash against Angie (like that’s something new!) and OuttaTouch is going for the homespun, “just one of the girls” side of Angie. If the NE concocted a tale this week I mercifully missed seeing it. People only mentions B&A in the GG coverage.

Alrighty…here we go…and remember ladies…I don’t make this stuff up…I’m only reportin’ it…

- OK: OK has been digging and digging and digging until it reached the depths to which L&S sinks for stories. Their story this week is that Brad is trying to get Angie to reconcile with her father. This is a story that the Star had 6 months ago when B & A came back from Namibia. BUT…the OK has a new twist, according to them Brad is afraid that Angie’s “anger will tear them apart” and Brad feels it’s his “RESPONSIBLITY” (WTF? he’s not her daddy!) to make peace between Angie and JV…for the sake of their kiddies, natch.

Brad is upset the status of Angie’s relationship with JV because he’s worked hard to make sure that his family has gotten to know Angie and the kids, and he wants to “recreate his own happy childhood for his kids,” and that includes both sets of grand parents. Brad also thinks that as the children get older they will start asking questions about where their other grandfather is. (Sidebar: JV is freaking 70 years old. By the time the kids are old enough to ask where he is the answer will be, “Six feet under.”)

OK also says that, as they previously reported, Brad has reached out to JV in the past and tried to engineer a reunion with Angie. They claim that in Aug 2005 while both he and JV were shooting in Canada that Brad and JV went out to dinner and Brad promised to help him reconsile with Angie. (Sidebar: Yeah, right…they’re the only ones who reported this fictional dinner meeting. If it had happened WE’D have seen the scuttlebutt on the net long before it hit the OK mag! And somebody correct me if, I’m wrong but Brad didn’t even go to Canada until the very end of August or early Sept!)

OK further explains that Brad has to “tread lightly” because his good intentions could ruin his relationship with Angie. (No sh!t Sherlock.) OK then trots out their resident expert who says that Brad’s fears that Angie’s anger at JV will destroy their relationship is justified. (This is just my personal opinion, but I would think that Brad would be more afraid that Angie’s anger at HIM for butting into her beef with her idiot father would ruin their relationship a lot faster than Angie’s anger at JV! Could just be me though…)

Not knowing when to quit, OK goes on to say that Brad was really hurt by Angie’s statement in Vogue that she didn’t trust anyone completely, but that Brad knew she had major committment issues and the root case was JV. (Pardon my ass for bein’ dense, but I don’t see what not trusting anyone completely have to do with committment issues? People who can’t trust fully get married all the time!) Furthermore, OK says that although JV’s absence helped Angie become the strong, independent, kickin’ ass in the morning and takin’ names in the evenin’ woman that Brad loves he “secretly longs for a more traditional partner”…BUT…he’s “not looking for a stay-at-home housewife”. (Pardon my ass again, but he had “a more traditional partner” in Putrid and she cheated on his ass!)

In conclusion, Brad doesn’t want hurt to consume Angie.(As opposed to the anger she feels at the man she loves going behind her back to her father when she’s asked him to butt out? Yeah…that’s gonna put a crimp in a relationship…)

BTW - What does JV say about all this? According to “a friend” of his - who is most likely his “god-daughter” because nobody else can stand the old goat - JV wants a reconcilliation and that even though he’s never met them, ” he loves ALL THREE of his grandchildren.” (Even little Shakira? Is it just me or do they make that sound like he wouldn’t love all 3 of them if he’d actually met them?)

- OUTTATOUCH: They’re all touchy-feely-happy this week…cuz Angie’s just a regular girl out having fun with her homegirls and doin’ a little bar-hoppin’ in NOLA. They say that Angie and 3 girlfriends hit the bars (The Abbey in particular) along the street where Brad and Angie are currently living. It’s interesting to note that another rag says she was ONLY with Holly. The folks at the bar said she was walking and since she was by herself (I guess the 3 BFFs went off and left her there by her lonesome with no way home) 2 of their doormen walked Angie home (”down the street”) so she’d be safe. They said Angie called Brad before she left the bar and told him she was on her way home and the 2 guys said when she got there Brad greeted her at the door with a hug and a kiss. (No mention of butt-grabbing was made, but considering what we’ve seen and heard lately from both Vogue and the GGs…I’d say that him grabbing her butt was a given.)

They also said that Brad & Angie like to hang out at Cafe Maspero and the waitress said, “Brad is so cute with Angelina.” Brad also likes to go to the Gordon Biersch Brewery & Restaurant where he hangs out and watches football. (Uh, yeah, right…we saw 1 picture of Brad in that bar and now he’s a regular on football Sundays. Damn…this sh#t is sooooooo lame.)

It was a slow week for OuttaTouch cuz then they jump over the GGTOU premiere where they said that when Brad ran into Catherine Keener he asked her to say hi to X for him. (What he actually said is, “You still friends with that conniving, back-stabbing, famewhoring b!tch I was dumb enough to marry?”) BUT…Brad almost got the chance to say “Hi” to X himself because, conveniently, he and Angie went to the Mastro Steakhouse after the premiere, but they were told that X was in the house and elected to eat elsewhere. (Now, you’re just gonna have to pretend you didn’t already read that story last week that said at 11pm Angie tapped her wrist-watch and reminded Brad they had to leave so the babysitter could go home.)

- US Weekly - Most of the caca in the US has already been leaked earlier in the week. They’re theme is basically that Angie’s been getting a lot of negative press lately and they chronicle what it entails…and they kill me with these uber-legitimate publications they cite

* London Daily Mail (’nuf said) - They say Angie she pushed her way through the crowd at GGTOU for a photo-op with the refugees. (Puh-leeze…the Red Sea would part automatically for this woman!)

* New source…London Daily Mail…same as the old sh#tty source - They wrote a story saying that Angie left Brad and their kids and checked into a hotel because “she was being disturbed by the children” while trying to study French. (Hello, US! She said that in the very same Vogue article you quoted 2 weeks before for you story one how Angie admitted to having an affair with Brad while he was married to X…and now you’re acting like this is news? It’s not like she was studying French for fun…she was WORKING!)

* The Elle mag quote about calling Shiloh a “blob”

* Dissing Madge’s adoption methods…

* Women’s Wear Daily - They said that St. John’s was having to “work overtime to keep her happy”. (Well, duh! She’s the one that’s got to be seen in public in the clothes, you morons! If SHE think they look like sh#t then chances are…she ain’t gonna be the only one!)

* The ever popular “inside source” who says that Angie was a pain in the ass at the Vogue photo shoot and says Angie & Annie Liebovitz didn’t get along. Said source described the shoot as “a nightmare” and claims that “it became all about Angie fussing over her hair and makeup.” (Uh…What the fuh? You moron…she’s gonna be on the cover of a national magazine! She wants to look half-way decent unlike some women with long chins and beady eyes who couldn’t look half-way decent with a paper bag over their heads! And besides which Annie Liebovitz has already gone on record as saying that Angie was fab to work with and they had fun and talked about their kids.)

Unsurprisingly US says that Angie’s rep couldn’t be reached to comment on the story. (Uh, yeah, you dipsh#ts, that’s because Angie doesn’t have a rep, which you damned well know, and that you’re too chickenshit to tell the public, otherwise they’d know that you wrote the story knowing all along there’d be no one to deny it!).

They then pose the question - is there a backlash against Angie? They trot out an expert who says that “over-exposure can be damaging.” (I fcuking kid you not. They wrote this whole dumb ass story and ended it with this trite quote. “Over-exposure can be damaging.” Well, who fcuking told? Surely it wasn’t…X?)

Speaking of X - Janice Min didn’t let her off the hook this week. Now that she’s on a quest to expose X for the fraud she is, Min has decided to blow X’s cover every chance she gets. First of all, they claim she had a boob job. Their expert says it looks like ” a well-done SMALL BREAST job”. Then a stylist chimes in to say it’s the construction of the dress…her boobs are the same. However…the plastic surgeon says that a little extra weight wouldn’t account for such a damatic size increase. (Personally I say we should just all thank the Iced Nipple Gods that her perky’s weren’t perky-ing that night (the PCAs).)

US also mentions that at the PCA X was wearing a yellow canary diamond ring that looked similar to the one VV didn’t give her when they didn’t get engaged. But, it wasn’t the same ring because she gave the ring she never had back to Vince. This one was by Bulgari. Their next expert, a shrink, says that she thinks X was sending VV a message and that “It was a goodwill gesture, saying she’s OK with it all.” (Sidebar: If I find out what state this dumb b!tch is practicing psychiatry in I’m getting her license yanked. The only statement X was making by wearing that ring is, “I want America to think to themselves, ‘Yeah, he cheated on her flat ass…but…b!tch kept that half-mil dollar rang-thang…heyyyyy!’”

Since Min was ragging on X she thought she may as well throw into the story what a big-ass liar David Arquette is. The X story mentions DA’s comment on HS that B/X wouldn’t have broken up if not for Angie, but they say (I was ROTFLMAO!!! Woo-hoo! Go Janice, go Janice!)

I guess since she was exposing DA’s lies Min figured she’d unmask the biggest of them all - that he’d never seen X cry. Well, guess what..he has! (I know…we’re shocked…and the world was shocked!) Once again, a source close to X says, “She’s very emotional. He’s been with her as she cried DOZENS OF TIMES. He was just saying that.” (DUH! Too bad he didn’t just say, “B!tch cries like a New York City fire hydrant they open for the kids in the summer!”)

As her charity gesture this week, Janice proffers the question…Who next for X? Well, the always available and reliably informed “friend” says, “We all want a nice, normal guy, like an agent or a lawyer for her, but SHE ALWAYS GOES AFTER SOMEONE WHO WILL GET HER ATTENTION.” (Hell-o! Janice Min put away you cat claws, woman! Meow.)

Oh yeah…a couple of small Angie items: Because Min can’t be nice to anyone and let sh#t go, she drags Jenny Shitzu into the picture by mentioning that she’s writing a tell-all book about her romancing Angie & Madge at the same time in the mid-90s. (US did not need to even give this item the time it took to type it out and hunt up a picture of Shitzu that was semi-flattering. It’s just downright petty and unnecessary…unlike her comments about X…cuz those REALLY need to be made.)

Back to NOLA - They have the photo of Angie at the Abbey bar where they say she ate pizza - and was ONLY with Holly, not 3 women - and watched a parade (that’s where the green beads she’s holding in the photos came from). Everyone at the bar said she was very nice.

And now for featured match of the evening - Star Magazine vs. Life & Style: A Tale of Two Tabloids.

Each tab has a similarly themed story - Angie is anxious as Brad & X prepare to meet. Let’s start with the Life & Style so you can see how Star is the master and Life & Style is only a pretender to their throne…

- LIFE & STYLE: Here are the points L&S makes in their story as they attempt to prove that Angie is a fraidy cat where X is concerned -

* At the GG when Babel won Brad & Angie hugged everyone…but each other
Angie has been making tearful calls to Brad’s SIL Lisa asking her to stop talking to X. (This is the same SIL who they said months ago can’t stand Angie…BUT…Angie’s calling her ass and confiding her inner most insecurities…yeah, alrighty…it could happen…NOT!)

* Angie has confessed that she and Brad fight a lot over X. Their rep denies the story…BUT…”an insider” says “Angie told Lisa there have been a couple of nights when Brad got so mad that he stormed out - and didn’t return until the next day. He also sleeps in a different bedroom some nights.” (To which I say, “BBBBBBWWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! The man can’t keep his hands off the woman’s ass on the Golden Globes Red Carpert with 20 MILLION PEOPLE WATCHING…but…he can sleep in another bedroom cuz he’s mad at her? Yeah…and I’ll weigh 120 again. Not gonna happen.)

* The same insider says, “Angie’s been crying to Lisa wanting to know how she can fix things. It’s amazing - you wonder how someone as beautiful and smart as Angelina could be so insecure.” (Methinks L&S thinks they’re writing a story about X, not Angie! Puh-leeze. Did they forget that Angie just told Vogue magazine that she has trouble sharing her “personal things” with EVEN BRAD…and he’s the person closest to her? Do they really expect us to believe she’s spilling her guts to Brad’s SIL…who she’s probably only met a handful of times AND who’s she’s begging not to talk to X? Why in the hell would she confide in a woman who’s going to turn around and tell X everything she said? Didn’t an editor at L&S read this sh#t before they went to press? It’s totally illogical!)

* Angie is scared because X is ready to meet with Brad. X sent Brad a message at Paramount’s GG after party “via mutual friends” that she was prepared to meet him AND Angie. (ROTFLMAO!!!! It’s already been all over the net that B/A went directly home after the telecast and didn’t go to any of the parties! BBBBBWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! The fcuking idiots can’t even check a simple thing like that before printing this sh#t.)

* Angie is concerned that Brad has lingering feelings for X. (Yeah, he does…he feels like he’s glad he left her leathery old ass!) When they visited Brad’s family in MO, his mother had photos of X all over the house and Brad had to TELL his mother to take them down because they were upsetting Angie, “She’s driving herself crazy. She’s scared of losing Brad.”…this was according to “a Pitt family friend”. (Mmm-hmmm, right. They just forget to mention that it’s not a friend of Brad’s family, but a friend of the Maude & Harold Pitt family in Glen Grove, Idaho, who’s the source…but all the Pitts all around the world are kin to Brad…so don’t worry, the source is legit.

(And might I just add a comment about thes bit about Brad “telling” his mother what to do? Folks…I live in Missouri…”telling” your parent what to do will earn you a smack upside your head and that’s about it. It’s disrespectful. Brad may have ASKED his mother to remove the photos, but he didn’t TELL her to do it!)

Just to appease the B/A fans L&S puts a little one line disclaimer on the story - Insiders close to B/A say their relationship is as strong as ever…(but…it doesn’t fit our story, so we’re going to ignore that little fact)…

Not to put too fine a point on their “evidence” L&S trots out the requisite “expert” who says that it’s “Natural for Angie to feel insecure.” (Please note that the expert is not being specific about WHAT is they think Angelina is insecure about it…just that it’s “natural”.)

Now L&S switches over into “warm and fuzzy” B/A mode to appease the fans instead of the haters….They also say that Angie’s shakiness is due to “being in unchartered relationship territory” because she’s not used to sharing parenting duties (yes, I know…it’s been a year-and-half already, but don’t tell L&S!). “Angie says the stakes are so high because their kids are invovled and that same Pitt family friend says that “Mad idolizes Brad”. Furthermore, Angie’s feelings for Brad are just as strong, if not stronger, and “She says she’s never loved anybody as much as she loves him. She’s given her heart to Brad, and she’s terrified he’s going to break it.” (Like he’s not in the same boat with the exact same fear?)

In a sidebar a friends says that B/A have survived stress in their relationship before and despite their problems, “I can see them celebrating their 50th anniversary some day with kids and grandkids by their side. And I can see them being just as much in love then as they are now.”

So…L&S starts out knifing B/A and end up on a warm-and-fuzzy note. I guess no one has ever epxlained to them that it’s a good idea to keep the same tone thoughout the story? That way you don’t come off like you’re making the sh#t up as you go along! Morons.

Now…watch the master at work…

- Star: This week’s Star is a thing of beauty. Bonnie Fuller has pulled out all the stops. It almost appears as though she and Janice Min are ganging up on X. Whatever it is…I like, I like! The Star story is probably closer to the truth of what would happen if X ever grew a spine and tried to meet Brad or Angie. In their story Angie isn’t cowering and crying, she’s saying, “Bring it on, b#tch!”

* At the GGTOU premiere - Brad kissing Angie on the side of the head was in “stark contrast” to his RC days with X when they “stiffly held hands”. There were rarely any spontaneous displays of affection. (Only because Brad couldn’t keep himself from gagging when he tried to kiss her. I’m sure he didn’t think it was polite to throw up on his wife in public.)

* That this OBVIOUS public display of affection proves the “triangle” was more complicated than X might believe, and X says she wants to know WHEN B/A REALLY got together, even though B/A maintain it was AFTER the separation she thinks it was before.

* Star says that B/X are set to meet, and B/A want to clear this all us before THEIR NEXT BIG BABY ANNOUNCEMENT.

* At this hypothetical meeting Angie is going to tell X that “Brad had one foot out the door when they met” and if it hadn’t been her it would’ve been some other woman. (Nitpicking here: Bonnie…could ya make Brad sound a little more selective than that!)

* Angie would tell X that she (Angie) knows that Brad and X were having SERIOUS PROBLEMS LONG BEFORE BRAD MET ANGIE…and that Brad has told her that. (Notice how Angie’s always responsible when a man doesn’t tell her about his current relationship problems? It was the same **** with BBT/Laura Dern!)

* The Star further says that BRAD/X WERE LEADING SEPARATE LIVES AS FAR BACK AS JANUARY 2004 when Brad & Angie met on the M&MS set; AND that X never went to the LA set of M&MS despite rumors that B/A were getting friendly on the set. (Any other woman would’ve been their with her hand on Brad’s family jewels!)

*Friends say that X’s attitude was that things would work themselves out. “That’s why Angie feels she did nothing wrong” and Angie’s “sick of being called a homewrecker” and she has a clear conscience about what happened between her and Brad.

* Angie wants X to know she didn’t mean to cause her any pain (somehow, at this point I doubt Angie gives a rat’s ass anymore!) but that “she didn’t lure Brad out of his marriage”.

* If X gives her any attitude at this hypothetical meeting Angie will tell her “SHE DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF HER MAN”! (Daaaaayyyyyyuuuuuummmmmm! Star’s throwing down the gauntlet!)

* X refuses to admit that her marraiage was at risk and she’s upset at seeing Brad happily building a family, BUT…she’s most upset by Angie’s comment in Vogue that when she met Brad it was clear that he was “with his best friend, someone he loves and respects”. X says Angie is “implying the marriage lacked spark”. (No fcuking kidding! It wasn’t even as much chemistry as Angie has with her own brother!)

* Because of that Vogue comment X wants Angie to know that “her marriage was solid - no matter what Brad might have said.” (ROTFLMAOPIMP!!!! This statement is so illogical that I can just see X actually saying this! Hello! The man left…obviously the marriage wasn’t solid!)

* X’s problem is that if what Angie says is true and she didn’t “lure Brad away”, then X would have to face some “harsh truths”, which she doesn’t want to do. The ever available “friend” says, “If she were to accept that Angie didn’t steal her husband, SHE’D HAVE TO ADMIT SHE FAILED HER MARRIAGE.” (And you know that sh#t ain’t happening!)

* Star, not to be outdone by L&S, trots out their expert, who says that BLAMING THE OTHER WOMAN ISN’T REALISTIC. THERE HAD TO BE PROBLEMS TO BEGIN WITH FOR A MAN TO LEAVE HIS WIFE FOR SOMEONE ELSE. “MEN DON’T LEAVE HAPPY MARRIAGES.” (DING, DING, DING, DING!!!!! Somebody FINALLY said it! I’ve been waiting 2 years for someone to finally get the nerve to print that statement!!)

* To shore up their case for X being a big ass fraud the Star says that anyone paying close attention in Dec 2004 when Brad did the Diane Sawyer interview would’ve seen how upset Brad was by the state of his marriage and that he was crying because he wanted kids…and that same night he did the interview X was seen partying it up in London with her Derailed co-stars.

* Star says that Brad & Angie are committed to the future no matter how they came together…AND…lo and behold, shocker of all shocks…they have an exclusive! (You just knew they were building for a big conclusion, didn’t you?)

* Star has learned EXCLUSIVELY (translates in English to, “We made this sh#t up.”) that Brad & Angie are planning on having another baby! Angie has told Brad that she’s ready to get preggers again. When they were in the Caribbean Brad & Angie decided it was time for baby #4 and when they got back she went to her OB/GYN to see if she was cleared to get preggers again and has gone off the pill! (I am appalled, appalled I tell ya, that Angie’s doctor has shared confidential patient information that could get his license to practice medicine yanked with the Star mag! Doggonit…that’s just not right and I’m going to stamp my little foot and howl at the injustice of it all!)

At the very end of the article the Star says that Brad hopes to make peace with X, but both of their reps deny that they’re set to meet, BUT…the Star’s incredibly reliable source who’s telling the truth because no one would ever dare lie to the Star and the Star would never knowingly print falsehoods…maintains that it’s merely a matter of when. And that hopefully it will give X some peace of mind.

And there you have it…this is why the Star is Da Vinci and L&S is just little kid dabbling with their Etch ‘n’ Sketch. There’s just enough truth in this story to be believable…and just enough bullshit to know that the Star doesn’t fully expect you to take their word for it, so they’re going to throw in the kitchen sink and see if you notice.

One last Star item - ALL of the mags had something to say about X’s newfound cleavage and whether or not it’s real or bought. Most everybody is voting for bought, but they hedge against a lawsuit by giving a viable alternative to how it could just be a push-up bra, but they ALL agree that X was deliberately showing 99% of her chest (ITA - in another one of her pathetic bids for attention). But…here’s the Star’s twist on this - they have a photo of Courtney covered in mud for a promo for Dirt and her boobs are looking suspiciously high and round for a 42 year-old woman. They think X and Court, as bestest buds will do anything together…got boob jobs at the same time. They cite a 2 week period when both were suspiciously absent from public and they expert platic surgeon said that’s about the right time-frame for a boob job. That it’s a 1-hour out-patient surgery procedure and takes about 2 weeks to heal up. So now I’m gonna have to hunt down some photos of Courtney and see if her girls are looking extra perky these days. See…this is what BFFs are for…when you’ve got a discount coupon for a 2-for-1 Boob Job…

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Passing Through Says:

January 20th, 2007 at 5:03 am
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Thank you for the recap.

1293
Passing Through Says:

January 20th, 2007 at 5:03 am
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Everyone is sleeping now, I am the only one who is smiling and laughing at my throat (no noise) in front of the computer. Thanks for the recap as well.

Angelina’s red carpet blues
Was Jolie’s Globes gloom caused by bad memories? Or her new outlook?
Elizabeth Snead, The Envelope
January 19, 2007

Why so glum, Angelina?

Several people have mentioned how cold and aloof Angelina Jolie appeared at the Golden Globes in her understated gray chiffon St. John Couture strapless gown.

It was a marked change between Angie’s upbeat and smiling demeanor at the previous week’s premiere of “God Grew Tired of Us,” an award-winning documentary about the Lost Boys of Sudan that her life partner Brad helped produce.

But she may have had her reasons for looking so downbeat.

First, my red carpet sources overheard her say that one of their kids was upset and crying when they left the Malibu house. Which could help explain why the couple headed home right after the show, skipping the big Paramount post-party celebrating their “Babel” and “Dreamgirls” big wins.

Then there was that embarrassingly lame Ryan Seacrest red carpet interview with Brad and Angie. Bacon and Eggs? C’mon, Ryan, you can do better than that. Watch interview.

My theory is that award shows hold some unsettling memories for Angelina.

At the ‘98 Globes, she won for her role in “George Wallace” and posed for photos with her dad Jon Voight - whom she no longer speaks to - at the Miramax post party. At the ‘99 Globes she won an award for “Gia” then jumped into the pool wearing her beaded gown, making scandalous headlines.

At the 2000 Globes she won for “Girl Interrupted” and celebrated with her date, brother James Haven. At the 2000 Academy Awards, Angie shocked the audience by kissing James hard on the lips when she won for “Girl” and said “I love You!” to him from onstage. Oh, the press had a field day with that one.

She also attended the 2002 Globes with husband Billy Bob Thornton, even making out with him on the carpet. She was big into red carpet PDA’s back then. But their relationship fizzled shortly after she brought home an adopted Cambodian baby boy. Personally I think she was mortified at the memory of those black penciled brows.

Remember all this stuff was back when Angelina was Hollywood’s Wild Child: all knives, tattoos, blood vial necklaces, black leather jeans, bisexual lovers and rumors of drug use.

She’s a different woman now: a devoted mother of three, a committed life partner, a United Nations spokesman, a seemingly tireless force for social change who wants to be taken seriously.

And she definitely doesn’t like attending frivolous events that don’t help the poor, hungry and suffering in the world. And let’s face it, those unfortunate people are probably not watching the Globes.

Maybe she’ll change her mind about awards shows if Brad gets an Oscar nomination on January 23.

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/globes/env-sneadggangelina-19jan19,0,6956329.story?coll=env-home-headlines