Jennifer Aniston’s Christmas Eve Tradition: Dinner With Courteney Cox

ivermom @ 12/26/2008 at 10:37 pm
Why is it always such a big competition between Jen, Ang and Brad? Get over it.
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OMFG, you freaking little hypocrite. Like you’re not on here seven days a week promoting the competition. Give me a break. And for someone who isn’t a “bitter person”, you spend a hell of a lot of time trashing Angelina for something she never did. It’s not her fault Aniston couldn’t hold her man.

As for Mayer, I hope poor Jennifer comes to her senses and realizes she is getting laid and played once again. I don’t like her, but it pisses me off to see any woman being treated like that by any man — even if she asks for it. And by going back to him, she definitely asked for it.

The best box office receipts for a Christmas Day opening ever in the history of movie making goes to………..

Marley and Me

Male lead actor: Owen Wilson
Female lead actor: Jennifer Aniston

laura2 @ 12/26/2008 at 7:07 pm

jp4ever @ 12/26/2008 at 6:02 pm:
” laura2..And keep repeating it to yourself too…. IT’S A DOG MOVIE. Now accept the fact”
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Well the “dog movie” (i don’t see a problem with that, btw) is still making more money than your idol’s awards nominee movie!
Not bad for “box office poison” like (you love to think) Aniston is…
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I have no problem if the dog movie made more money than TCCBB. It’s still about the dog that people wants to see. I’ve seen a lot of dog movies with my son and grand kids, so I have no problem with that. But to credit Aniston for making it a box office is laughable.

Aniston is smacking brad’s axx at the BO…..take that loons!!
So much for Oscar bait……films first objectives are to make money and entertain. BB does neither.

Jill, I do not ‘thrive’ on bad things happening to Angie or Brad. If you can find a post where I do……..please prove it.

I bet Jen could care less what Brad is saying in interviews at this time, she is on cloud nine over the mutt movie! So happy for her :)

neer @ 12/27/2008 at 9:24 am
I believe Brad is a gentleman but X pushed him to the limit. When Brad saw that X involved his family (Angie & kids) in her interviews, he was mad that’s for sure. Thus, the unusual Brad replies to interviews.
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Totally agree. Although Brad never mentioned Aniston by name, I think this was his way of telling the gloves are off and unless she really wants him to do a number on her, she’d better keep her fcuking mouth shut. I doubt she’s smart enough to take the hint, though.

@Jade.

Hi sweet one. Well I have to say I am very happy I went to see Marley and Me. It was such a good movie. Full movie theatre and everyone was weaping…….everyone! Not just at the end, throughout, especially several scenes that involved Jen. She really moved me. Both her and Owen were superb. Marley of course was wonderful. Alan Arkin was really quite good, I haven’t seen him for so long, he hasn’t lost his touch and Kathleen Turner I barely recognized but she certainly hit the spot of full belly laughter with Marley.

what wrong with you all? can she have dinner with her best friend without anyone negatively judge her? where is the christmas spirit?
She love her friend and loyal to them and she do not have to glue to her boyfriend every single time..she is one independent woman..
She is a nice person if her friends always around her and if a kid love her ..she must be doing something right..
Its nice to have a tradition..
BTW..her movie beat Brad movie..so she must be doing something right wit her job..acting and promote it..

Diamond Girl @ 12/28/2008 at 1:09 am Why is it that Angelina didn’t bother to spend her terminally ill mother’s last Christmas with her? Seems like it would have been nice to let the woman spend her last Christmas with her grandchildren. But Jennifer’s ridiculed for having a Christmas Eve tradition with her close friends.

Also comical that people are screaming about JA being in a dog movie, when Jolie’s big movie was a cartoon about a panda.
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loL, Jennifer has never had a movie of her own becoming a hit, all her hit movies, she is only a support, Bruce Almighty, TBU, Along Came POlly and now Marley & Me, she is not the first lead, she is second lead and third lead in the case of the dog movie. That is a fact! Aniston’s movies are all feel good, rom-com, light movies, like Rumor has it, Friends with Money, etc, which should do well in the box office, and yet as we know, she has only one hit out of 4 movies she does.

Angelina’s own movies are hits such as, Tomb raider Movies, MaMs, she is not support there her role is same as Brad. WAnted, Angelina was marketed as the lead, even though she has little time in the movie. Even /Changeling did ok despite the depressing theme of the movie.

Marley and Me is the best movie I have ever seen Jennifer in and I’ve enjoyed her in many. Good story. Excellent cast. Enough said.

Wow - the hatred in the Aniston threads on this site is awful. I was among the fans that would call themselves “Team Aniston”, but to me, it’s all over now. Brad and Angie have finally admitted that they fell in love - right or wrong - while filming M&M Smith. Their denial of the obvious incensed many people, myself included. I think we all - or I did anyway - kept looking for a crack in the armor of Pitt and Jolie to see when the truth would leak out. They kept it up for a long time, but now it’s over. Brad and Jen were not either one’s soulmate. Brad through in the towel when he met who appears to be his perfect mate - Jolie - and told Jen about his attraction to Jolie. Jen called it quits.

I’m glad Brad and Angie have finally been honest with themselves and with the public. We can all move on from this story now. It’s as old as the hills - a marriage falls apart because they realize they are not soulmates and then one of the spouses is attracted to someone else. Something similar happens to about half of all American marriages. As a die-hard Jen fan, I can honestly say that Brad is much better matched to Angie than Jen. Jen has yet to find her soulmate. It may be Mayer. It may not. But she’ll find him eventually. In the meantime she’s doing a stunning job of showing that you don’t have to be part of a couple to be happy and fulfilled in life. Her roles as actor and, even more impressively, as producer, are impressive. Brad did an amazing job acting in Benjamin Button. And, like I said, I’m not a fan of his. But they are both achieving wonderful things in life apart from one another.

It’s time for the public to move on.

While she was still with Brad, their production company, Plan B, started work on The Departed. I’ve copy/pasted the text from the Vogue interview about her new production company with her best friend, Hahn.

Oddly enough, one of the more difficult aspects of Aniston’s divorce planted the seed for one of the most significant things that is now happening in her life: her production company, Echo Films. A decade ago, during the salad days of Pitt and Aniston’s courtship, they started a production company out of the garage of Aniston’s best friend, Kristin Hahn; it eventually grew into Plan B. In 2002, Brad Grey, now the head of Paramount, joined as a partner, and the company moved into beautiful new offices in Beverly Hills, teamed up with Warner Bros., and began producing blockbusters like The Departed. But once Aniston and Pitt separated, the partnership had to be dissolved. Hahn and Aniston took some time before deciding to start over again on their own, and now, says Aniston, “we just love it. Finding the book, the article, the right writer. We love the process.”

When I ask Hahn what it’s like to work with Aniston the producer, she says, “One of the things that people don’t realize about Jen is that she is a brilliant businesswoman. She’s a working girl! She is in her office every morning, figuring out her day and making it happen.”

Aniston is eager not only to produce but to direct. “I made a short film, Room 10, a couple of years ago and loved it so much,” she says. Hahn is convinced that Aniston will thrive at it. “In our group of girlfriends, we always joke that she can cut hair better than anyone; she can mix a drink better than any bartender. I think producing and directing for her is going to be the same way. Wherever she points that wand, flowers grow.”

Appropriately enough, all the films Echo has in development right now are about—and there is no better word—ballsy women. Counter Clockwise is a biopic about Ellen Langer, Ph.D., the first woman tenured in the psychology department at Harvard, an iconoclast born in the Bronx who has done controversial work on the mind-body connection, a subject Aniston has been preoccupied with for years. The Goree Girls is a true story about a group of women in a Texas prison in the 1940s who formed a country-western band, became a worldwide sensation through a prison radio show, were eventually pardoned by the governor, and then disappeared into obscurity. (When I ask Aniston if she can sing, she says jauntily, “I can carry a tune.”)

But it is a third project, Pumas, that is the furthest along—and the most telling about Aniston’s state of mind these days. It is a film about older women dating younger men that Hahn describes as a “high-octane comedy about sexual politics and double standards.” Aniston’s description is both funnier and cruder: “It’s sort of a female Wedding Crashers. It’s about these girls who aspire to become cougars. They just paaarty! Young party girls who just find hot young guys to play with and then dump them. Why can’t women do it?” At a time when Hollywood is obsessed with the Judd Apatow version of the infantile, directionless 40-year-old man, it is a tantalizing notion. Aniston, after all, has trained with the Big Boys—as David Frankel says, “What she does so brilliantly is play great tennis with the big stars of our day: Ben Stiller, Jim Carrey, Vince Vaughn.” Why couldn’t she create an alternative by having fun with female stereotypes—not to mention provide another option than the Carrie Bradshaw model she so detests?

There is no doubt that Aniston is noticeably more confident.

Aniston did not work on anything at Plan B. Most of the work at Plan B was done by Brad and Jen was lucky enough to be married to Brad and therefore included as partner.

Notice, her recent production “management” in which she is also a producer has NOT had any distributor.

Jen doesnt look confident to me. She tried, and she tried. But underneath, she is SCARED.

Aniston has been getting plenty of attention by regurgitating what life in ‘The Triangle’ is like. She’s made the cover of most major publications and has been a guest on every A-list talk show.
Apart from orchestrating this feud in order to promote Marley and Me, rumors are now swirling that Aniston may have even gotten involved with John Mayer again in order to avoid being single as Brad Pitt also promotes his movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is being released around Christmas just like her film.
Insiders say Aniston didn’t want to be alone since Pitt and Jolie certainly are together and she didn’t want the obvious unflattering statements that she doesn’t have a man.
Despite settling for Mayer, Aniston is still keeping the pop singer on a short leash. Mayer is expected to follow Aniston’s rules closely, and there’s already plenty of evidence that he’s doing no such thing.
Jen is not happy about Mayer and his apparent lack of devotion.
“Jen has told him if she finds out he’s flirting with any other girls, they’re through,” an insider told In Touch. “She’d also like it if he acted more mature and not go clubbing when she’s not with him.”
Right now Aniston has decided that a half-devoted John Mayer is better than not having a man at all. And when she sees the devotion that Brad Pitt is showing to Angelina Jolie, she seethes in anger and tells the whole world.
Life in ‘The Triangle’ must be very stressful, after all.