Aniston & Vaughn's First Photo Shoot
Here's a sneak peek at the June 2, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn on the 'All About Their Break-Up' cover -- their first photo shoot together. This issue hits newsstands tomorrow. More pictures in the gallery of Aniston leaving her hotel this morning!UPDATE :: Added all of the scans to the gallery! Entire article transcribed after the jump. Enjoy!
The thigh-baring Jennifer Aniston shows she has one leg up on the
towering Vince Vaughn in EW's black and white four-page
pictorial. The cover couple posed while playing Whitney
Houston in the background. Vince sang away
to "I Wanna Dance With Somebody."
Jennifer Aniston & Vince Vaughn
Entertainment Weekly -- June 2, 2006
You've read all about them in the tabloids and matched Lord-knows-how-many reports about their romance on TV. But here's one fact about Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston that you probably haven't heard a lot: They make one hell of an odd couple.That was evident earlier this month, when the actors took separate breaks at separate ends of Los Angeles to discuss the romantic comedy on which they met a year ago.
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, Aniston breezes into her luxurious office in Beverly Hills and snags a bottle of water that her assistant has set out on the counter. The bright room contains stylish furnishings and expensive works of art. A natural sisal area rug emits the faintest smell of hay. Aniston is tan and looks uncommonly healthy, and she wears a casual vest that exposes her trim arms. She smiles and perches herself attentively on the edge of a white sofa, ready to answer queries about her life and career, which she does with succinct words and refreshing frankness.
Twenty-four hours later, Vaughn appears in the doorway of his dim workplace in the San Fernando Valley. A bare desk crowds one corner, a TV sits askew from the wall, and a Wedding Crashers poster rests on the floor. The room smells like stale tobacco. Wearing a Notre Dame T-shirt, his hair mussed, he sinks his imposing 6-foot-5 frame deep into a brown rec-room couch, taps on a pack of cigarettes, and fires up a smoke. He's never enjoyed sharing details of his personal life, he notes in his rapid, punctuation-averse cadence, but he offers to try: "Feel free to ask me anything."
Hey, man. don't worry, we will.
As ironic titles go, The Break Up is a doozy. It's a story about a man and woman who fall out the most publicized divorces in history. Aniston's split from her husband of five years, Brad Pitt, and anybody seemed to he talking about when The Break-Up began shooting last summer. Paparazzi followed Aniston's every move. But when it grew clear that she and Vaughn were becoming more than mere colleagues, the media turned up the heat full blast. To this day, the actors are trying to keep their relationship quiet. But their unmitigated failure to do so has made The Break-Up one of the most buzzed-about films of the summer.
And yet, even without all the artistic imitations of life, The Break-Up--about a Chicago odd couple who split but refuse to leave the condominium they jointly own-would have been news: Opening June 2, it's one of Hollywood's few hopes for a breakout romantic comedy this summer, and it features two big stars with a lot to prove.
Aniston, 37, is two years removed from her jackpot-striking 10-year run on Friends, and despite the box office success of Bruce Almighty three years ago, her film career has yet to soar. Derailed. Rumor Has It, and Friends With Money all failed to announce her arrival as a movie star, and The Break-Up (for which she's earning $7 million-what she once made in just seven episodes on TV) will go a long way in helping Hollywood determine whether she can be
counted on to draw the legions that she once commanded on the tube. "I'm not sitting there trying to figure out ways to get people to go in and see movies," she says. "The last couple I've done have not been successful, but I didn't do them thinking they would be a success or not. You never know."
Vaughn, 36, has bounced around Hollywood since the early 1990s, weathering years of rejection and failed movies like Psycho and Domestic Disturbance. Not until the smash success of Wedding Crahers last summer did he fulfill the promise of his memorable turn in Swingers a decade earlier. During the past year, he's become one of Hollywood's most in-demand talents: He's now commanding $20 million to play Santa's brother in 2007's Joe Claus, and he has the clout to assemble projects like his live road production Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show. The Break-Up--which he conceived with first-time screenwriters Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender three years ago, sold to Universal with the guarantee of a hefty $50 million production budget, and made in his native Chicago-could solidify both his audience appeal and his industry power. "This marks a big moment in his career," says Jon Favreau, Vaughn's longtime collaborator and pal, whom he met on 1993's Rudy and who appears in The Break-Up as his best friend. "This is a movie that he put together on his own. He produced it. He came up with the story and hired everybody. He really made something happen."
Vaughn and Aniston had never met-and Vaughn won't cop to any long-distance crush-but the actress was always key to his vision for The Break-Up. "I had her in mind when I was writing, because I wanted someone who was good with comedy but also a good actor," he says, referring to her ability to modulate between moments happy and sad, of which there are plenty in the film. "There was no second choice." So after hiring director Peyton Reed, whose spirit he admired in Bring It On and Down With Love, Vaughn set about piquing her interest. The filmmakers swear that Aniston's real-life woes had nothing to do with their decision to approach her. "It wasn't like anybody was saying 'Who's an actress who's going through a really painful public breakup that we could cast in this movie?'" Reed recalls with a chuckle. Still, getting her attention wasn't easy.
ANISTON Everybody was so nervous to come to me with a movie called The Break-Up, thinking, Well, she'll never do that! I went, "You've gotta be kidding.
Really?" Of course, with me, I didn't think, How dare they? I actually thought, That sounds really funny.
EW How did you come to the resolution where you said to yourself, "Okay, I can do this"?
ANISTON I didn't know I could. I didn't want to take advantage of [my divorce]. But then I thought. Well, there's a reason this movie came to me at this time.
EW Would you say doing this movie was cathartic?
ANISTON It was. It's not always you have the opportunity to go through a breakup and then shoot a movie called The Break-Up. I just find it luck, truthfully. Good luck. Because you're able to exercise something quicker. I had a little hit of a well to dip into.
The Break-Up went before cameras in Chicago last June. The shoot was pretty quick (46 days) and apparently pretty happy. During her spare time, Aniston explored the city's architecture and savored a sloppy late-night hot dog at the legendary haunt the Wieners Circle, while Vaughn hit some jazz clubs, quit smoking, and packed on 25 pounds. But with the June 10 premiere of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (which, by pure coincidence, featured Vaughn in a supporting role) and revelations that Pitt and Jolie had become a couple, the focus on Aniston and her new flame intensified; in the salacious ongoing tabloid narrative that ensued, The Break-Up emerged as a sort of bizarro twin of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Over the years, Aniston has grown accustomed to the tabloids trailing her every move-"You've gotta have goals," she deadpans. "You've gotta have something to do, so you may as well stalk people"—and claims that her experience in Chicago was par for the course. "In terms of Jen's attitude at work," Reed says, "I would not have known it was going on because she has this extraordinary ability to shake it off."
The firestorm was something new for Vaughn, however; until then he had succeeded in keeping a lid on his private life. (Even now, all we know for absolute sure is that he once dated Joey Lauren Adams, his costar from 1998's A Cool, Dry Place, who appears in The Break-Up as Aniston's best friend.) Perhaps that's why he took up smoking again at the end of the shoot-and consequently lost the 25 pounds he'd gained during production. Still, he hopes people just want to see him and Aniston happy. "You can't really be like, 'Oh, I'm an actor, I'm being followed by the paparazzi and it's horrible. I just think that there's a bounty for a picture, and if that gets higher they're prepared to do more and more," he says, philosophically. "In the scheme of life, it's ridiculous."
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston are dating. There. Can't we just go and say what everyone already knows? Because darned if they will, even if their behavior—-be it in reports of them looking at property together in suburban Chicago or merely in the way they speak about each other—-indicates the contrary. Reed refers to the relationship as "whatever may or may not be going on." Aniston is even more cryptic, calling it "the stuff that's happening."
As for Vaughn, remember when he invited us to ask him anything?
EW Are you and Jennifer dating?
VAUGHN You know, here's my answer to that stuff. I'm not a person who discusses all the ins and outs of what's going on with me ad nauseam, because I feel like it betrays something that's mine, that's special to me. It's private, it's my stuff. Ultimately, if people know or don't know it won't change their lives. And it's not out of not being happy about something or proud or excited, it's just not what I do. I've [never discussed] girls I was dating. I felt that that's a good way to hurt a relationship.
EW Do you get tired of the questions?
VAUGHN I truly don't. I've obviously dealt with this a lot recently and I don't tire of it because I would do the same. It's something that people are curious about and I totally understand it. I just always have chosen to keep my private stuff to myself.
EW How do you respond to the suspicion that you and she actually are not an item but that you just let all the buzz continue in order to generate interest in the movie?
VAUGHN [smiles] That's not my style with stuff.
Still, nobody can deny that the buzz around their relationship is integral to the movie's success. "Just about everyone knows this movie is coming." says Universal Pictures marketing president Adam Fogelson, who adds that such awareness makes filling seats much easier. "All the attention that Vince and Jen have gotten over the last many months is substantially responsible."
From Eyes Wide Shut to Bounce, Vanilla Sky to Sahara, movies with romantically linked leading couples litter the recent cinematic landscape--and their box office results arc as erratic as most of the relationships themselves. Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan's real-life tryst seemed to turn viewers off from Proof of Life. But Mr. & Mrs. Smith became a $186 million hit largely because ticket buyers were eager to revel in the delicious spectacle of Pitt and Jolie trying to kill each other right when news of their affair was exploding. Will that scenario prove a harbinger of The Break-Up's success? It's possible. No matter what, though, these "office romances" surely put increased strain on both the stars and their relationships.
A Small Statue of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddhist goddess of compassion, sits high on a shelf, presiding over Aniston's office. It's easy to guess why Aniston might find that statue reassuring just now. She has a major movie opening that could mark a turning point in her career. She's coming off a tough divorce. She's almost a year into a relationship that's under major scrutiny. And the fact that people will be watching The Break-Up to get a sense of her chemistry with Vaughn disappoints her. "I didn't shoot this movie so that people would go see it because it reflects what's happening in my private life," she says. "I'd like to be given a little bit more credit. I know that that's been said, but I don't give a s— what people think. I do parts based on what speaks to me and what I feel I could do a good job at. This just happens to be that."
Aniston has largely been painted as the victim in her divorce. But her decision to play a spurned and sometimes vengeful lover in The Break-Up, she makes clear more than once, was not retaliation. She doesn't have much to say when the conversation drifts to her split with Pitt--"There's nothing that's new information" -- but, understandably, it's still very much on her mind. During the course of our interview, she returns to the subject regularly, always in vague and general terms like "past stuff" and "all of this." She utters the name "Brad" once, but only in passing.
As the conversation winds down, Aniston gets up to fetch ice from the freezer. She returns to her seat, pops open a diet root beer, and addresses her future while watching her soda fizz over ice.
With no new projects lined up right now, she's looking to take a break. She says she used to love the LA sunshine, but life here under the shadows of zoom lenses has grown dreary. She smiles and speaks with striking optimism about fleeing the city and the "stalk-erazzi" soon--maybe to Chicago, where Vaughn lives in his spare time, maybe somewhere else. Just... out. "This can't be the only place to live," she says. "There's so much dark, it's nice to have some light."
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Just read the EW article.... Yawn.....BOORING....... (thanks Jared) and IMHO, I think that Jen and Vince became good FRIENDS not LOVERS! Just my opinion :D
Vaughn's GAY and everyone close to him knows it. Why do you think his best friend Jon Faverau said he was confused with this hook-up? Please children.
And can this chick really for once in her life stop with the underhanded comments and digs? She's stuck and probably will be for a very long time because she's mean spirited
After the divorce ,Aniston has been seen in all the mag. covers half naked or her twin towers(iced nipples) . All pics featuring the top half of her body. Guess it did'nt worked. Her movies bombed. Her PR got a new idea. Now she is nude in the movie, latest photos are focused on the legs. Even on her appearance at letterman's show. Hope TBU will make some money or we are
in for another novel idea from her & huvane.
Riding naked downtown ala LADY GODIVA----
or PLAYBOY covergirl? She did rolling stones,
why should anybody be surprised!!!!
AWW!!! They look so cute together! Jennifer has never looked so happy and it's nice to see that she found someone that does that for her.
Everyone, please stop the Brangelina comparisons, it's just sad. If anything, Jen and Vince are a much more real, and down to earth couple who seem to really be in love. Can't say the same for Brad and Angelina.
And to everyone who is bashing them for their looks, shame on you. Judging people on looks is such a degrading thing to do, and it only makes you come off as bad.
I happen to think that she is very pretty, and he's hot as hell!
I think Jen looks fierce. And with Vince, hotter! I truly adore their pictures together, almost all of them are caught off guard. Absolutely loving the last image on EW page. I like the fact that she’s sticking with these shorts given that it honestly looks fabulous on her. And the shoes. YUM.
Though there’s one thing I do not get. When she smiles, even just a glimpse of a smirk, people immediately utter it’s entirely phony. Is it immoral that a woman can achieve contentment EVEN for a fleeting second even if the cynics disagrees. Brad and Jen are apart. He’s with Angelina, ultimately having his own family. Jen is moving on within her own way. Why can’t the pessimists do the same? She’s not attempting to be the wallowing divorced-wife. Nor trying to get him back, destroying his family.
are the pictures supposed to show that VV is her bitch or something I don't get it
She looks great, too bad she can't compare to all you beauties, who no doubt made the top 100 list with AJ and LL haha. Speaking of not talking or responding correctly, what kind of formal education does AJ have, Ann Curry had to complete her sentences, or answer her own interview questions. Ummm, Umm, giggle, giggle
my gosh stop copying everything brangelina!! they'll never get as much buzz as them anyway! first with dating vince who starred in MAMS, then movie coming out at about the SAME time AS MAMS LASt YEAR, then acting like B+A on the PREMIERE, NOW THIS!! copying their W mag PHOTOSHOOT!! how come i feel like i know what's gonna happen NEXt.......except that their movie will tank!!! JEN AND VINCE ARE SOOOOOOOOO ORIGINAL!!!
#127 Billie,I saw that interview you are exaggerating.If you want to critique interviews how JA on Letterman?Did she come off as highly educated person,uh no.What did she talk about besides the movie?Not a damm thing worth hearing.
Variety and The Hollywood Reporter have slammed the movie, basically calling it a mess
THIS JUST PROVES JEN"S NOT OVER BRAD!!
she's still can't get over him...."very much on her mind"
It doesn't pop like W did with Brad and Angelina. I hope their movie doesn't bomb, but they are a little bland.
THIS JUST PROVES JEN"S NOT OVER BRAD!!
she's still can't get over him...."very much on her mind"
#129 - Since when not talking about someone’s private life became and tagged as uneducated?
AND can people please stop with Jen and Vince trying to copy trying to imitate Angelina and Brad? Jen did not arrange or possess profit share if this issue sell out. Let’s face it, being married for years to a man, I don’t think you can just erase the memories in just months. Brad will always be part of Jen. That does not clearly mean she will suddenly disrobe and lure him back. She’s accepting the reality he made a choice and started a family with someone else.
Just out of curiosity, these people who makes degrading remarks, have you ever been in an ACTUAL relationship/s?
The Break-Up
By Michael Rechtshaffen
Bottom line: Don't believe the hype.
Given Vince Vaughn's recent success with landing punch lines, there was considerable hope that if anybody could inject a little zip into the stagnating romcom, he'd be the guy to pull it off.
And he still might -- one of these days.
In the meantime, there's "The Break-Up," a major disappointment of an anti-romantic comedy for which Vaughn shares producer and story credits in addition to sharing the screen with real-life squeeze Jennifer Aniston.
After a promisingly quirky start, "Break-Up" suffers a major breakdown from which it never recovers.
Audiences expecting a good time will instead be rewarded with wildly unsympathetic lead characters and uncomfortably long stretches without a laugh in sight. While they might initially be drawn in by the marketing department's promise of something a lot more entertaining, the end boxoffice result will likely be less than amicable.
Initially meeting at a baseball game, Chicago tour guide Gary Grobowski (Vaughn) manages to persuade art gallery employee Brooke Meyers (Aniston) to dump her male friend and go out with him basically by buying her a hot dog.
Flash forward to the couple living in what isn't exactly domestic bliss, with Brooke running around getting ready to host a dinner party for their families while Gary contentedly parks himself in front of the television.
With the cracks in their relationship finally reaching the breaking point, Brooke finally calls Gary for the jerk he is, but in her little schemes to make him realize the errors of his ways, Brooke only ends up matching him in the bad behavior department.
But what could have at best played out like a wilted "War of the Roses" ends up looking a lot more like Rob Reiner's misbegotten "The Story of Us."
It would have helped if director Peyton Reed ("Bring It On," "Down With Love") had been as concerned with giving his audience characters worth investing in as he was with all those stylish visual compositions, but the script, by first-time feature writers Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender, constantly leaves its actors in the lurch.
While Vaughn and Aniston do some solid emoting, the comedic element, such as it is, never feels organic to the rest of the film. Hints of what might have been can be found in colorful supporting turns from Vaughn's old "Swingers" pal Jon Favreau as his bartender buddy Johnny O; Judy Davis as Aniston's hysterically harsh gallery boss, Marilyn Dean; and especially Christopher Guest regular John Michael Higgins as Aniston's brother, Richard, who is obsessed with singing in his all-male a cappella group, the Tone Rangers.
But by the time the tacked-on ending to end all tacked-on endings arrives -- in which Vaughn's considerable, continuity-throwing weight loss is dealt with by Aniston noting, "You've lost weight" -- "The Break-Up" and its audience have long ago parted ways.
My dear Lindsay beat both Angie & Jen from the Maxim's Sexy list. More power to Lindsay. Too bad for Jen she almost did not make it to the 100th.
The Break-Up
By BRIAN LOWRY
Misleadingly marketed as a boisterous comedy, "The Break-Up" may be the first "last-date movie" -- the one you see with someone that you're about to dump. Sporadic rays of sunshine emanate from the broad and gifted supporting cast, but the core story is almost relentlessly unpleasant, like sitting through a dinner party where the host couple does nothing but bicker. Pic's built-in curiosity about the onscreen Vince Vaughn-Jennifer Aniston pairing should quickly dissipate faster than one of Vaughn's rat-a-tat riffs as word of mouth spreads.
Ill-conceived virtually from the opening frame as a self-described "anti-romantic comedy," Vaughn plays Gary, a Chicago tour operator who meets Brooke (Aniston) at a Cubs game. Their entire romance then unfolds in a series of pictures flashed during the opening credits, so when the audience meets them there's no sense of why they connected. Instead, the two are already engaged in the kind of shrill exchanges that generally persist for the rest of the film.
After a disastrous dinner party where Gary refuses to help clean up, Brooke dubs him an "inconsiderate prick," and it's hard to argue. Both, however, are committed to keeping the posh condo that they jointly own, so they continue living together, even as Brooke goes on dates trying to stir jealousy in Gary, who takes up residence in the living room and does little more than watch sports and play videogames.
There is vulnerability in these performances, but it's an uncomfortable mix -- especially because the rest of the cast seems to be performing in an entirely different movie during the limited screen time afforded them. Those taking best advantage of the showcase are John Michael Higgins in an amusing turn as Brooke's closeted brother, Judy Davis as her eccentric art-gallery owner boss and Vaughn's "Swingers""Swingers" pal Jon Favreau as Gary's loutish friend.
Gamely as the others try, though, what transpires between the leads is painfully awkward and often not the least bit funny, from her asking their couples bowling team to oust him to him erupting at her during a game of Pictionary. Nor does the comedic conceit of broken-up people cohabiting -- the central image of the movie's ad campaign -- ever quite materialize despite vague echoes of "The Odd Couple," an inspiration cited by producer Vaughn (who also shares story credit with first-time writers Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender) in the production notes.
Vaughn's verbal dexterity remains impressive, and he exhibits genuine pain as well as flashes of the comedy chops that, arguably, were the strongest element in last summer's hit "Wedding Crashers." Helmer Peyton Reed ("Down With Love") has clearly given his producer-star free rein to improvise, but there's not much evidence of any direction, and the character proves almost consistently unlikable, which works against the film.
As for Aniston, she, too, delivers persuasive dramatic moments but has been so overexposed in undistinguished romantic comedies as to be ill served by showing up in another one, even if it's considerably darker than expected. And the movie's supermarket-checkout line aspects can only go so far as a marketing hook.
Pic does make reasonably good use of its Chicago locales and song score, though given how obnoxious Gary is, it's hard to imagine his bus tour representing a major attraction.
Near the end, a weary Brooke concedes, "I don't know how we got here." It's a sentiment most of the audience will doubtless share.
#134 LoVe,I never deemed JA as uneducated,I simply pointed out that her interviews aren't exactly a wealth of knowledge.
Please don't flip out all you Jen fans who hate Brad , I know you all think Brad's an idiot and she's so over him and Vince is the shit .. But after reading this and seeing her in interrviews she IS NOT over Brad, she misses him i'ts so obvious and I feel bad for her for the first time.
hey you guys are right! everything seems so coincidental with brad and angelina last year. it's actually starting to be really freaky. i'm thinking it kinda like "check things off my list"
pose in a magazine. CHECK
pretend i don't know my co-star. CHECK
make a movie with him. CHECK
date him. CHECK
play it cool. CHECK
get a tan. CHECK
#100. Fuck you too darling. :)
And to those who believe that we Brangelina fans need to "grow-up" I suggest that the simple fact you are here attempting to mediate this discussion by telling us we need to "grow-up" is a clear indication that you, in fact, are the ones who need the talking to. I, for one, am in my late teens and am certainly very mature for my age. I just tell it like it is and that frightens you folks who enjoy Ms. Aniston because the woman hasn't spoken an honest word in the last year and a half(unless at some point she admitted she was a horrible actress and I missed it). Regardless, I am not trying to piss any of you off, it just sometimes seems like you M-Aniston fans live in this alternate celebrity reality where Jennifer is still married to the hottest piece of ass on the planet, is still acting in something that the general public wants to watch and is still one of the most beautiful people in the world (I didn't notice her on the 100 Most Beautiful People list this year...too bad). Fact is, she is now a washed-up television star who has revoltingly used her ex-husband to manipulate the public into feeling sorry for her. And I will even come out and admit that I use to be the biggest Jennifer Aniston fan there was; I loved the girl. But as soon as she did that God-awful Vanity Fair interview and every subsequent thing she has done since I lost all respect for her. All she has done is showcased how much of a petty, disgusting, manipulative, ugly bitch she really is. My comments do not stem from some deep rooted hatred for her; they are the simple observations of a former fan. Vince Vaughn deserves better, because as soon as they break-up (and as soon as the movie bombs, they will) Jennifer will use Vince the way she did Brad and that isn't fair to him because he seems like a solid, genuine, nice guy. He's a fug, no doubt, and it's retarded how he's decided to let Maniston use him as a marionette, but I believe that he is a good person, deep down. But that's all you'll hear for me on the subject of The Fugs.
As if Jennifer Aniston doesn't have enough to worry about right now. With Brad's baby coming, and negative buzz about her forthcoming movie, and now she has hair issues. What is the cause of her hair problems? Extensions. Jennifer made a rash decision to cut her hair shortly after her split with Brad Pitt. She regretted that, and ended up having hair extensions put in to recover from her rash decision.
"So I decided to have a couple of extensions, never knowing you end up with 400 things in your head that cause your hair to break off.
"Nothing destroys your hair faster than extensions. It's taken a year and a half to get my hair grown out."
Miss Aniston's comments follow celebrities including Nancy O'Dell, Kate Beckinsale and Christina Aguilera all being spotted with temporary bald patches caused by hair extensions.
"Hair extensions are one of the worst possible things you can do to your hair," said trichologist Leonora Doclis of hair specialists The Belgravia Centre.
"Extensions are glued onto your normal hair and they often break off because they are too heavy. Sometimes they break off close to the scalp, giving you a temporary smooth area and at other times they break off about half an inch down."
"Although the damage is usually minimal, sometimes it can be long term. There are also very few occasions in which hair extensions do not cause some sort of damage to your hair.
"I am very against them and advise my clients with thin hair to get a wig rather than hair extensions as they can only cause more damage."
She is so not over Brad yet, she continues to refer to him subtly or in passing. Its understandble she's been with him for 7 years. I wish her relationship with Vince is for real and for keeps, she deserves to be happy, too.
cheers to that virgo!
Even from the pics, you can notice that VV is a bit effiminate, though not too obvious. I suppose, if he is really gay, I suppose JA would be more aware and acceptable, since she would know better, she seems to be always surrounded by gay people, her haistsylist and publicists are gay and I read that while she was staying in Bev Hills Hotel, the reception clerk said that he has never seen so many gay people descended on their hotel as when JA was staying there.
50 Imheretotellya: I agree that people shouldn't be mean and
judgemental to Jennifer - anymore then they should be mean
and judgmental towards Brad and Angelina. 2 wrongs has never
made a right. We are each individually responsible for acting
correctly.
I agree with you that insofar as Brad and Angelina are concerned
"Things happened way too quickly after the separation for there
not to have been, at the very least and affair of the heart" but I
don't agree with you that an affair of the heart "is no different
than an actual physical affair." To my mind, they are quite
different. A desire to kill your boss is not equal to slipping cyanide
into his coffee. Socially and legally, I can dream all I want of killing
my boss, but I'm not a murderer until I do. Neither is Brad an adulterer or Angelina a homewrecker for having nothing more then an affair of the heart.
When I entered into my first long term relationship, a wise old friend said to me, "you are both human beings and you will be attracted to other people in your life. but you don't have to act on that attraction. When you are deeply attracted to someone else, you should take a look at your relationship and see if there is something missing in your own relationship and try and fill that missing piece in own relationship".
Its been good advice. Have I been attracted to other men - when I've been in a long term relationship going belly up? Yes, as have other of my girlfriends. Can and did I control myself? yes, I did and so do other people I know. People control themselves all the time. Why would I assume that Brad and Angelina can't when I've been able to do so?. I don't consider that I've been unfaithful, in any relationships.
I've now been married for 9 years plus 3 when we were just living together. Have my husband or I been tempted by other people? Of course we have. But we came back to work on our marriage. I do however, have a good, functioning marriage because we've worked hard on our down patches - which means putting in the time. My husband and I want the same things in life and we spend much time together. If you look at Brad's and jennifer's filming schedule (not that difficult to do really), you'll see that they must have been away from each other for long periods of time. I dont believe it is enough to spend "quality time" together. You actually have to just spend the time together. Even if it is doing the supermarket shopping together.
If you read Jennifer and Brad's interviews circa 2002 and 2003 before Brad and Angelina even met, you'll see that there was divergence in views about family, number of children. This is one of the most important issues to have a clear agreement on in a marriage. Becuase as long as you stay married, there's no other person with whom you can have a child. Jerk your spouse (and that's either the husband or wife) about children and the resentments will build up very quickly because one or the other party will feel put upon or trapped. And no, I don't think either Jennifer or Brad are being selfish about anything - just that they did not appear to be on the same page on an absolute critical issue.
So, looking at it, I'm not sure if there was much of a marriage by the time Brad and Angelina did meet. And for the lack in any marriage, both parties need to take responsibility - equal in every way.
As for how Brad and Angelina are feeding a media frenzy
appearing occassionally on a bike, going to a seafood restaurant
etc. I don't agree with you at all. No one asked the paps to hang around in Namibia. No one asked that journalist to trespass on private property resulting in his arrest twice. At least they have more protection in Namibia then in the US which is a good thing.
If you don't want others to be judgmental and mean on Jennifer, how about extending the courtesy to Brad and Angelina. Fanistons and BAMZER seem to be arguing for ever and its not even our relationship. We would all be much happier being less judgemental and more forgiving of each other and recognise that what ever our opinion of the celebrities, it says more about who we are then about the celebrities who are mere objects of our fantasies.
I'm a BAMZ fan, I have posted that I wish Jennifer well and I'll do the same today. I hope Jennifer succeeds in achieving the goals which are important to her. Will you wish the same for Brad and Angelina as they appear well on their way to achieving success with their life goals of having large family, working towards certain humanitarian goals, achieving success as actors and actresses?
A for Effort??? Everyone including Jennifer Aniston herself knows that the only reason even AT ALL she even has had publicity good or bad has been because of Brad Pitt. Before Friends during Friends after Friends, was because of Brad Pitt. It's the truth. So she should thank Brad for everything that's happened to her good or bad, once again.
Like #140 said, it's getting kind of freakish, somewhat looking like a check-list. Well let her thank Brad then spontaneously combust.
HAHAHA!! LOOK AT THESE TWO SORRY EXCUSES FOR ACTORS ( WELL, JEN REALLY. LOOK AT HER LAST 3 MOVIES, HAHAH PATHETIC) WOW, JEN REALLY AMAZES ME. HOW CAN SHE BEAR HER CHIN IN PUBLIC AFTER HER PATHETIC ATTEMPT AT A MOVIE CAREER? HOW COME SHE CANT STOP TALKING ABOUT HERSELF AND HER MOVIES AND HER LIFE AND ALL THAT OTHER BORING SHIT REAL PEOPLE DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT,. THAT IS HER PROBLEM, SHE THINKS WE ARE ALL INTERESTED IN HOW SHE HAS "MOVED ON" HAHA BULLSHIT!! HAS THAT WOMEN'S CHIN GOT TO HER BRAIN SOMEHOW? I WILL BE LAUGHING WHEN THE BREAK UP TANKS AND ENDS UP IN THE CLEARANCE DVD BINS LIKE HER OTHER BOX OFFICE FLOPS. HAHAH ALL THE CHINNIFER FANS WILL BE PULLING THEIR HAIR OUT WHEN THE BRANGELINA MESIAH BABY IS BORN AND UPSTAGES THE MOVIE . GOSH, IF I WERE CHIN, I WOULD HAVE SLASHED MY CHIN A LONG TIME AGO....
Enough with the divorce already! Jen fans will never understand that as long as they keep talking about it, they're helping their *idol* to never get rid of her victim tag, and thus, discarding her new man completely.Because, if you keep talking so much about it, then you're still hung up on the fact that Jen is not with Brad anymore, and isn't that an insult to Vince?No matter how much you say that Vince is funnier!better!has a bigger dick! won't change a thing but make her fans looking even more desperate to just stick it to Brad, while Brad clearly does.not.care about her.
To Brangelina fans.Flaming the discussion even further won't change a damn thing, since it'll come back to bite you in the ass when Jen fans come post at Brangelina threads as a revenge.If you have something unpleasant to say, keep it to yourself.
Maybe both teams should call a truce and agree to not post anything negative about respective stars in their threads.Don't say anything nice either, but for fuck's sake, let go of this stupid war. People on both sides are nice and like Jen or Vince or Brad or Angelina for whatever reason, and THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO DO SO. If you say that you don't care, what better way to prove it then Not Post at all?
Sorry for my rant. Let it go people.Vince and Jen look cute but I'm not entirely sold on their relationship.That's it.
# 60 | Lena
this is sarcasm , right?