Brad Pitt Loves Louis Vuitton

hey , Angie can always gain a little weight. she is a bit too skinny right now but it’s probably because she was stressing out over her mom.

Mardi Gras is this wekeend?

bluemoon Says:

Mardi Gras is this weekend?
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I always thought Mardi Gras (or Fat Tuesday) is always the day before Ash Wednesday, which is next week, February 21. Or maybe they have a mini-Mardi Gras, with the big parade on Tuesday next week.

MOI JADE - YIPEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long time no see my friend!!! Hello.

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hi and hello to my kababayans!

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Missouri Fan >> Hey thank you! Hope you had a great day yesterday!?

KT22 I am also a huge fan of Gerry, he is actually in Berlin to promote ‘300′ and it was apparently disliked by the critics… :(
There were boos and some of the critics left the screening before the movie ended… Too bad. Poor gerry must have been devastated.

Morning everyone :) Here’s an article about unmarried couples and Brad and Angie are mentioned.

Look who’s happily unmarried
By Rory Evans Get your grandma her fan and smelling salts: More and more couples are living in sin. The recent report of a Census Bureau survey found that married-couple households in the U.S. are now outnumbered. A hair more than half — 50.3 percent — of households are headed by unmarried people, and 31.7 percent of American children are being raised in unmarried homes.

No offense to Granny or anything, but “these numbers suggest that couples living together can’t be scandalous,” says Nicky Grist, the executive director of the Alternatives to Marriage Project (unmarried.org). “It’s hard to scandalize when you’re the majority.” Sure enough, the number of people reporting themselves as part of unmarried couples spiked about 14 percent in the past six years.

Unmarried couples seem to be part of Hollywood’s old guard — Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Sam Shepherd and Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, Oprah and Stedman. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, meanwhile, seem to be carrying the torch for a younger generation — with some social consciousness, too: Let the weekly celebrity magazines keep on with their “Wedding Plans Afoot?” headlines, but Pitt recently said, “Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.”

As much as the Jolie-Pitt relationship may inspire new couples to forge long-term relationships without a trip down the aisle, they’re really just a reflection of a trend that’s already in place—as the Census survey showed. These statistics have been covered everywhere from The New York Times to The Colbert Report to those maddeningly irresistible factoid screens in elevators, and anyone in a long-term unmarried relationship probably greeted the news with a resounding yawn.

“Unmarried long-term relationships are absolutely more accepted than they were a generation ago,” says Elana Katz, MSW, a psychotherapist specializing in family therapy and divorce mediation in New York City, and a senior faculty member at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. “These relationships are also popular with different age groups for different reasons. They’re an alternative for people who were divorced and don’t want to be married again. They also allow 20-somethings to dress-rehearse for either civil or religious commitments.”

Becky, in New York, was one of those 20-somethings. Nine years later and still with her partner, she says, “I have not felt any real pressure to get married, and no one has made me think that our relationship is less stable. Before we had kids, I imagine some people wondered if there was a fundamental problem, and we probably did have some commitment issues, but now, with two kids, no one questions it.”

A world with no divorce…
As Grist points out, one of the greatest benefits of being part of an unmarried relationship is that “people are happy about defining themselves outside an institution and all its baggage,” she says. After all, unmarried relationships tend to defy the stereotypes that plague marriage and keep the sitcom writers busy. “There’s a real sense of independence separate from how marriage gets defined.” It’s not such a trivial concept, considering that Oprah Winfrey — the very woman behind the worldwide brand — essentially admitted to not marrying Stedman Graham for fear of losing her own identity and devoted an entire show to “unmarriage.”

For some unmarried couples, there is concern about “What will happen if we break up?” Those who marry don’t have to wrestle with that. As Grist notes, marriage is a legally binding agreement that has no written contract spelling out all the stipulations, but it does spell out what happens when the relationship ends—which is among the greatest advantages marriage has to an unmarried partnership. “Whether it’s by death or divorce, when a marriage ends, the partners’ rights are clearly defined by law. Some people see that as a big protection,” Grist says. “Some people in unmarried couples are embarrassed to admit that they worry about their rights in a breakup, but the law [with partnership agreements] is slowly catching up to that.”

At the same time, for some couples, there’s comfort in knowing that breaking up — without a messy divorce — is an option. “My girlfriend and I have been together for almost seven years, and we’ve broken up for very brief periods at least four times,” says Frank, in New York. “But now, I think knowing we can do that at any minute keeps us together and then brings us back together in a way I don’t think we’d reconcile if we were married. I know it’s a little crazy and a lot about semantics, but it works for us.”

…And maybe no health insurance
For a while, Frank and his partner even worked at the same large company, and each always had his or her own health insurance. Access to partners’ health care and work benefits are, understandably, a top priority for those in unmarried relationships. “That’s the single most frequent complaint we hear on our web site—that they can’t get benefits,” Grist says.

In fact, it’s often those very privileges that inspire long-term couples — opposed to marriage in principle — to get hitched nonetheless. “I remember calling my partner in tears because I took a job and couldn’t get him health insurance unless we were married,” recalls Catherine Newman in Northampton, MA, mother of two and author of Waiting for Birdy and the “I do. Not.” essay in the best-selling anthology, The ***** in the House. “And he said, ‘Is this your idea of a romantic proposal?’”

She hastens to point that their city-hall wedding — which she treated much like an errand; she wore yoga pants and then went to the drug store immediately after to buy yeast-infection medicine — “didn’t change our relationship, although my parents were thrilled to be able to call Michael their son-in-law instead of, er, their daughter’s, um, special friend—which always made it sound like he was a little impaired or something,” Newman says. “I admit that when I call the plumber, I like saying ‘I think you already talked to my husband.’ It’s much less exhausting.” Besides, Newman says that she and her partner Michael had made a commitment much larger than marriage when they had their first kid. “Talk about ’til death do you part,’” Newman says. “A kid is totally forever.”

A wedding, on the other hand, “is one day that can cost between $25,000 and $100,000,” Becky says. Indeed, the preparation and thought involved in planning a wedding can scare couples off the prospect. “We decided we wanted a baby and didn’t want to plan a wedding before the baby,” Becky says. “So we put off the wedding. Then we were too busy after the first kid to plan, and then we had another kid.”

And so their unmarried life looks a lot like a married one. Which is true of so many unmarried couples: As Michael, in Westchester County, New York, says of his 13-year relationship, “We are among the most conservative middle-class couples we know, in terms of, we live in the suburbs and have two kids and two cars and the kids go to public school. We have retirement plans and we spend the weekend driving the kids to dance class.” (When they went to City Hall to get married five years into their relationship, she had an anxiety attack and couldn’t go through with it.) And — Grandma, cover your ears — “We live as though we’re married,” he says with a smile, “but we still have sex.” If you believe Michael, then that’s another benefit to avoiding the “I do’s.”

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Amaya Says:

February 14th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
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Thanks for posting that. I have a page ripped out from a magazine of a review of that book and I keep meaning to order it. Also, I recently read “What is the What”, a book by Dave Eggers as told by Valentino A. Deng, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. It was so good. It tells of his life as a refugee and how difficult it is for him to live here, etc… My words aren’t doing it juustice, I could not put it down. Also , in it he tells of meeting AJ, which was a nice surprise. What is going on with Jammy? Have you seen the previews for this weeks Office?? :)

Good Morning BAMSZ fans? I hope everyone had a good Valentines Day :) I scanned through the thread and caught about Vince Vaughn. VV is not an A-List star yet, but had a chance when filming MMS with Brad. Brad could have introduced him to the A-List stars, but he had to ruine it so, unlucky him. VV will be on the B-List star for a long while!:) hehehehe.

BTW, I meant to ask the BAMZS fans a question, but forgot. I heard that Trump and Michael Douglas said something mean to our Angie. What exactly did they say about Angie?

good morning all!

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Thank you, there’s a nut that posts here [and it IS only one] that seems to have issues with me. As if I were the only one at jj’s that dislikes ___ and says so. The night before last, IT was Hogwash [how fitting] and the target was CLINIQUA. Most of you will know the poster as Reality. IT changes it’s moniker day-to-day even post-to-post. But most of you know this ploy already. I wonder why it changes it’s name if it is so proud of it’s point of view?

sorry about the double post

Well here comes the weight issue again. I mean seriously, all of this Angie is too thin talk is getting very old. The woman has been that skin most of her life but now all of the sudden it’s a problem and ppl are question her eating habits. If I’m not correct, I think the producers on TR movies had to get her to bulk up and stay that way during the filming b/c she naturally lose weight quickly. PPl are just mad that Angie didn’t gain 150 pound during the birth and kept it on like some women. It all comes back to some women (and men) who just hate Angie b/c she’s Angie.