Celebrity news is one of those. In case you've missed it (which is pretty hard to do, since this has been so in your face that it's impossible to miss), Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were once married for a period of five years, and were divorced in 2005. Yes, that was 2005, and we're in 2012 now. That's seven long years, in case anyone hasn't noticed. One would think any normal, healthy adults should have moved on with their lives in that seven years, wouldn't you think?
Apparently, that's not the case with the Pitt/Aniston fans who were so taken in by their fairy tale romance and wedding, and couldn't handle their eventual divorce. Worse still, there's a third party involved. Who else would that be, but Jolie that took the blame for the breakup of the marriage. Jolie then commits the cardinal sin of getting together with Pitt. That seals her label by the Aniston fans of Jolie as the despicable woman.
Every reasonable person (adults, no less) should know that relationships and marriage are complicated matters. There are feelings and emotions to handle, the needs and wants that might stay unmet. The guy wants kids, and the woman doesn't want it (she wants career first, then babies later). The woman wants to party and romance and nights-out with friends, and the guy just wants to stay home and quiet evenings (how boring!). Stuffs like that. If one has to be fair and reasonable, the only conclusion is, if the parties are not ready to reconcile the differences and compromise, then the split is just a matter of time, with or without any third party involved.
I'm not fans of Pitt or Aniston or Jolie. Aniston's acting is boring since her repertoire never deviates too much from her role in Friends. (I've wondered if she ever gets tired of the romedy roles that she keeps playing, 20 years on. Is she going to grow old in those roles??) Jolie alternates from over-the-top acting (like her role in Beowulf) to reasonable acting (like her performance in Changeling). But if one needs validation of her propensity to perform, her Oscar should be quite a solid proof. Pitt has some reasonable performances, and I sometimes almost feel pity for him since he never seems to break out from the golden boy image due to his good looks. (Perhaps Moneyball would provide him with much needed vindication.)
What I find amusing is that, their fans still can't get over what happened seven years ago. It doesn't matter if Jolie or Pitt have done so much good work for humanitarian causes; nor does it matter that they have since started a family together, with happy kids, and they are visibly blissful. Aniston, for her part, has tried numerously times to defuse her loser image in this whole setup. That includes her pronouncement that she's happily single, that she would love to be a mother one day (even though it was said she didn't want kids while she was still married to Pitt), that nobody should feel sorry for her, yada, yada.
Apparently, Aniston's fans still feel mighty sorry for her and angry at Pitt/Jolie, as evident by the outburst in the readers' forum of an apparently innocuous comment about how Jolie appreciates and is proud of Pitt's putting the kids first and taking a fall in order to protect the kids. No matter, the only thing that everyone drills on, is her calling Pitt "hubby." OMG, you have no idea of vicious some readers' comments are, just for her saying that simply because, what, they're not formally married yet? Has the civility of our society really come this low, condemning a loving couple and parents simply because they delay marriage?
It's not a bad thing, that Pitt/Jolie have mostly been able to ignore all these nonsense, and shield their kids from all these nonsensical hot air. Aniston has remained mostly civil, if only she would drop those veil bitter comments from time to time, of what happened seven years ago.
For one, I'm soooooooo over this, and I want news headlines to be used for something for that true purpose, ie. hard news, for a change.
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