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Brangelina, RIP
Finally, a story that might shake Election 2016 from the headlines:
It’s over. The world’s most famous couple (apart from Kim and Kanye) are no more. Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from husband Brad Pitt after two years of marriage, and more than a decade together.
Dearest Ricochetti: How are you coping with this earth-shattering news?
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This is clearly the result of gay marriage weakening the institution.
At least on Brad’s side, she’s a 40 year old French actress who’s very involved with Greenpeace. So the paramour doesn’t fall too far from the spouse. And, no, I don’t have anything better to do with my time.
Can you blame him? Marion Cotillard is much better looking than Angelina.
And then Jennifer Aniston turned to the camera, flashed a beautiful smile and waved. Without a word she walked into the sunset.
Fine.
Which reminds me that I got a headache watching Inception, but I think that I liked it anyway.
I don’t trust her. Look what she did to the Batman.
Then he really is a jerk, @hoyacon
Whattaya mean, like a toast?
What did you do?
Yeah, my wife still hates Angelina for breaking Brad and Jennifer up.
Jon,
You know Kim & Kanye made Brangelina look classy. Sort of the way that a salamander makes a lizard look classy. Maybe the Zika virus makes Pneumonia look classy. Maybe Cancer makes Polio look classy.
Maybe…
Regards,
Jim
I wasn’t going to comment on this story, because nobody’s perfect. But this story has so many elements to it and the outcome is not surprising. She had an affair with a married man. He seems to have a penchant for his leading ladies, and apparently pot and booze…. I saw Brad on an awards show – I forget the award, but he was accepting it for The Fight Club and was praising Quentin Tarantino and accepting the award with his co-stars. There were flames (I don’t know why) as the backdrop, and he mentioned for some reason that he was an atheist. I am not being critical of non-believers or even atheists, but it stuck in my mind with the weird roaring flames background. Then he did something really bizarre – he grabbed his nipples!! I know – I’m laughing too, but I’m not making this up! He was on stage with Ed Norton – it was weird!! Then after several kids and adoptions, people started asking when will you get married? His answer was when gays can marry. When you have to make a social justice or political statement before you can marry the woman you have children with, it doesn’t speak that highly of your character. She is beautiful, but I suspect has her own issues. I think he is a really good actor – but his personal life? It is just a reflection of society, but celebrities get loads of attention.
So true!
I can’t remember if Jolie is a singer, an actress, or a model. She’s famous, though. She’d have to be for me to have heard of her. I think Pitt is an actor.
That’s a stretch.
Is that like the guy who said, “I’m not an actor, and I have 50 movies to prove it?”
I’m not sure it Tom is deliberately making this joke, but Brangelina was together for over a decade -they met making Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2005, which means it was probably 2004 or so -the 12 years mentioned up-thread. And in traditional Hollywood style, they declined to get married until after the Obergefell decision.
So technically…
And if you’d like to argue the merits, you should probably start another thread.
Oh, as to the OP: Whatever.
He and she are catching up with Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas and all the rest for multiple affairs and marriages. They have everything – success, wealth, nice family – not enough.
Brad is a lot less interesting now. Angelina gave him some depth.
I am devastatingly underwhelmed. ?
I haven’t read all the comments so someone may have beat me to it. But without SSM they never would have gotten married. If memory serves that was their excuse for not getting married for so long – they wouldn’t do it until everyone could
Isn’t a paramour something you use to cut the grass?
Me, I’m just boring.
How about Bennifer? They didn’t turn out so well either…..
OH for pete’s sake.
I’m good with the “first” part.
First no marriage, then divorce. Makes sense to me. I was ever-so-much relieved to hear Bret Baier announce that Jolie has announced that she is suing for divorce “for the health of the family.” Looking forward to having her opinions on raising healthy children and, of course, on taking care of herself.
She and Gwyneth Paltrow are going to start a podcast.
Oh yes, how noble to have a passel of children with a person you’re not married to.
Thanks, Jon Gabriel, for bringing up this item, because it has made me think over once more celebrity more broadly considered. Hollywood celebrity is one thing, and a thing pushed into our faces all the time. But every profession has its celebrity; is that not so?
In every calling or profession there are those who labor quietly and brilliantly; there are those who labor to promote themselves and who achieve success in that, success gratifying to all if they are productive and exemplary, appalling if they are larcenous charlatans. Then, then, every once in a while there is someone who labors productively without promoting himself and is subsequently recognized and given due honors.
Anyone who has worked long enough in any field has seen all these. There are so many “old guys” in my field who are accorded only fleeting recognition, or none at all; obscurity is their lot. Or it is better to say that general or large-scale obscurity is their lot; they have helped immeasurably and received the gratitude of the people with and for whom they have worked. It helps – it helps to ease the hurt, for example – to see empty celebrity given the status it deserves – at least in one field. So, thanks yet again, Ricochet people.