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Date Posted: 06:10:15 03/02/09 Mon
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Report this postReply with quote Fake Golden Couple
by Guest on Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:44 pm
In part 3 of Angelina History month, I briefly touched on one of the miracles that helped launch Angelina on the path to Sainthood: the incredible and rapid shift in public sympathy towards Jennifer Aniston from scorned woman to deranged stalker who can’t let go. It is only this shift that enabled American women to change their allegiances from Jen to Angie. All the more remarkable because polls showed that women overwhelmingly sympathized with Aniston following the public breakup and saw Angie as a cold, calculating, manipulative husband-stealer. How, then, did Jolie manage to win the hearts of women in such a short time while reducing Aniston to a caricature? In part 3, I implied that this miracle was achieved as fraudulently as the ones attributed to her fellow saint, Mother Theresa. But let’s take a closer look at exactly how it was achieved.
If one were to poll Americans today about why Brad left Jen for Angie, they would overwhelmingly cite one factor and one factor alone: Brad wanted kids, Jen didn’t. She didn’t want to put her thriving career on hold to start a family, despite Brad begging her to have kids. How do they know that? Because they read it or heard it somewhere. Everybody knows that. Didn’t Brad himself admit it? Or was it Jen?
I always thought the same thing. The sheer volume of media reports at the time reporting on the kids factor meant that there must have been something to back the claim up. And when Brad and Jolie started increasing their brood almost as fast as Octo-mom, it proved how much Brad must have always wanted children. How could that bitch Jennifer refuse to give Brad the family he always wanted? Look how happy he seems in all those photo shoots holding his babies.
So being an investigative journalist, I decided to look for the interview where somebody - Jen or Brad - first talked about Jen’s decision to put her career over starting a family. Either I’m the worst journalist since Judith Miller (look her up) or no such interview exists. I did find literally tens of thousands of articles reporting the story. But each of them were either unsourced or quoted a “friend” of Jen or Brad. In 2004,story. But each of them were either unsourced or quoted a “friend” of Jen or Brad. In 2004, Jen did tell Oprah that she didn’t want to have kids while she was on “the show” (Friends), but then added, “this new chapter is perfect” and called the prospect of having a baby “exciting.” Around the same time, she told Diane Sawyer, “”I’ve liked working right now — I really love it. But I also feel that this’ll be probably the most important job I’ll ever do, having a baby, so that deserves time like my career deserves time.” Around the same time, Aniston and Pitt added a nursery to their home. Soon after these interviews, Pitt took up with Jolie.
Have I failed in my quest to find the source of the original story? Not exactly. Two different people that are usually reliable have now told me that it was Angelina Jolie who personally orchestrated the campaign to rehabilitate her image at a time when she was being savaged for “stealing” Brad from Jen.
“It was Angelina who came up with the whole story about Jennifer not wanting to have kids,” said one source connected to her publicity machine at the time. “She was convinced that is the story that would resonate with all these women that saw her as a man-stealing bitch.”
Why should you believe my source any more than the aforementioned . “friends”? You shouldn’t. But let’s take a look at what one of the main players had to say.
Personally, I’ve always been disgusted by the sexist double standard that blames the woman who broke up the marriage instead of the man who actually committed the adultery, thereby breaking his vows. So let’s not go placing all the blame on Angie. Brad Pitt has not been exactly innocent in this sordid tale. In retrospect, however, he has not been as much a prick as most of his fellow adulterers in this long-standing Hollywood tradition. And that’s been part of his problem. Rather than acting like the typical cad, filing for divorce, and taking up with another woman, Pitt apparently engaged in a long ill-conceived drawn out charade to avoid hurting the woman he always called his “best friend.” His denials at first that he was sleeping with Jolie were ludicrous, of course, but they appeared to be designed to avoid hurting Jen. Of course, they ended up humiliating her instead for an extended period of time. And I suppose it could be argued that he carried on the charade because it would have hurt his own public image and career. Ok, nevermind, the guy’s a prick. But here’s what struck me when I was trying to find evidence that Jen didn’t want kids. Not only did Brad go out of his way in almost every interview to demonstrate remorse for what he did to Jen, but he did something else of note. He denied strenuously and convincingly the myth that he wanted kids and Jen didn’t. Listen to his own words:
Asked by GQ in 2005 about the rumor that he wanted kids and Jen didn’t, he responded: “That was one version, and total bullshit, by the way.” In a primetime interview with Diane sawyer the same year, she asked him if was true that his marriage ended because he wanted children and Aniston did not. His response? “Ridiculous bullshit.” He went on to call the reports “completely fabricated.” Each time he’s been asked about the story, Pitt has issued similar denials. In one interview, he even implied that it was him who wasn’t ready to have a baby when he was with Aniston and that only when he met Jolie did he know that he was meant to be a father. Mystery solved, sort of. Is Brad aware that it was Angelina who orchestrated the hurtful campaign against Jennifer in order to qualify for Hollywood canonization? Probably not, but who really knows?
We often forget that Hollywood is all about illusion and that whatever we think we are watching off the screen is just as scripted and fictitious as the epic stories we pay to watch at the Cineplex. The fun only really begins when the illusion begins to dissolve and we get to watch the carefully crafted spin unravel before our eyes. In that spirit, 2009 should be an eye-opening year as we get to watch the Brangelina saga take a fascinating turn as we watch the claws come out, the accusations, the custody battle and six children used as pawns in the most entertaining and disturbing Hollywood battle since Ben Hur.
Will we learn a lesson from observing the fiasco that’s coming to doubt the illusion the next time a fake golden couple is presented for us to swallow? Of course not.
http://ianundercover.com/2009/03/02/iuc ... en-couple/
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