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Brad & Jen 
The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Golden Couple 
By Mara Reinstein & Joey Bartolomeo 
The first book examining the real story behind the legendary romance
and shocking breakup of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston!
We've known them and loved them for years: Brad Pitt and Jennifer
Aniston, each a sensational actor, a sexy, beautiful Hollywood A-list
celebrity. When these two stars met, fell in love, and married,
America - and the world - took notice and a new quintessential
fairy-tale couple was born. They became the very embodiment of
celebrity royalty, with wealth, stunning good looks, and a
picture-perfect relationship. Their love story became headlines:
wedding, multi-million dollar homes, Hollywood projects, and hopes for
a family that never materialized. Their every romantic gesture and
kiss sought after on film.
Now, Mara Reinstein and Joey Bartolomeo, senior writers at Us Weekly -
the ultimate celebrity insider - take you beyond the photos and
official announcements for a no-holds-barred look at the anatomy of a
love story ... and where it all went wrong for Hollywood's "Golden
Couple."
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An exclusive excerpt from:
Brad & Jen: Chapter 10
The Trouble Begins
For more than two years, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt – successful,
gorgeous, rich and hopelessly in love -- reigned as Hollywood’s
definitive, larger-than-life couple. But as their popularity grew, so
did their stress of being under the public’s microscope. 
By January 2003, every time the Pitts went out in public – which was a
semi-rare event in itself -- they faced the scrutiny. There was the
inevitable when-are-you-having-a-baby question; The Good Girl Oscar
buzz (would Aniston get nominated?); and the hoopla surrounding the
late December announcement that Aniston and her pals would film a
tenth and final season of Friends for $1 million an episode. The
barrage was enough to drive them crazy. 
Or, at least, drive them out of the country. The couple – along with
Courteney Cox and David Arquette (and Pitt’s assistant and her fiancé)
– took a five-day trip to Mexico in early January. It wasn’t a
complete disaster, but it was hardly a second honeymoon, either. The
women often went off by themselves, as they enjoyed workouts at a
nearby gym and a house call from a personal masseuse. The men,
meanwhile, chartered a fishing boat and went snorkeling. 
Aniston and Pitt, meanwhile, kept the displays of affection private,
never held hands or looked too cozy. According to one cab driver, as
the group traveled from the San Jose de Cabo airport to their villa
outside the city (at the exclusive gated community of Villas de Mar),
Pitt and Aniston did not kiss, hug or even hold hands in the back
seat. And a saleswoman at the Villas del Mar reported that she never
saw the couple get romantic. 
Upon returning to Los Angeles, the couple added even more fuel to the
proverbial trouble-in-paradise fire. In January, Aniston turned up
stag at The People’s Choice Awards in the Pasadena Civic Auditorium,
where she won a trophy for Favorite Female Television Performer.
Though the event was hardly a must-attend, Aniston curiously sat
beside a random seat-filler, which led some to assume producers held
out hope that Pitt would make a last-minute appearance.
The same week, she was quoted in the new issue of W magazine
questioning whether Pitt was her soulmate. “Is he the love of my
life?” she hesitantly mused. “I think you’re always sort of wondering,
‘Are you the love of my life? I’ve never been someone who says, ‘He’s
the love of my life’ He’s certainly a big love in my life.” (The
comment drew so much outcry, Diane Sawyer grilled Aniston about it one
year later during a Primetime Live interview. Her reply: “I didn’t
hesitate. That was something I hated reading. I can’t imagine being
with any other human being. I married him because he was the love of
my life. So when these things are written in magazines and taken out
of context, it’s so frustrating ‘cause people then take it and run
with it.”) 
The curious behavior reached its peak at the Golden Globe Awards on
January 19. To the disappointment of fans, photographers and the
media, the couple turned up on the red carpet mysteriously late – and,
with literally minutes to spare, had time to do just one rushed TV
interview (that lasted under 30 seconds). Backstage, Aniston blamed
the tardiness on “a dress dilemma. I was stressed and we had to drive
all the way around the block.” 
Almost immediately after they settled into their seats at the Friends
table, Aniston had to take the stage to accept a trophy for Best
Actress in a Comedy Series. Pulling her flustered self together with
the aid of a cane (she broke a toe on her right foot), she gave an
appreciative speech: “Thank you. Thank you, Foreign Press. Thank you.
I have to thank these five people: Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer,
Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox and Matt LeBlanc. I love you guys. You
started out as my colleagues, and you’re my friends – and you’re my
family.” 
One small problem: She did not thank her husband of more than two
years, who beamed with pride nearby. Even worse, cameras caught the
disappointed look on Pitt’s face after Aniston finished her speech. Of
course, Aniston wasn’t the first actress to forget to thank a spouse
during an acceptance speech -- Hilary Swank blanked on Chad Lowe when
she won a Best Actress Oscar in 2000 and Sarah Jessica Parker snubbed
Matthew Broderick at the Golden Globes in 2002 – but she was certainly
the most high-profile. Was it a simple slip or a telltale sign of
marital strife? 
Aniston realized the gaffe and immediately went into spin control for
an hour backstage. “I forgot to thank my husband, like a nincompoop!”
Aniston told Matt Lauer. “And I love you, Brad Pitt, and I thank you
so much.” To Entertainment Tonight: “Can I just say that I love Brad
Pitt? I love you!” After the awards, the couple stopped by a small
party at the Beverly Hills Hilton, but they left within minutes –
reportedly because Aniston, though a newly minted winner, wanted to go
home. 
Though only Aniston knew what was really going on, perhaps there was
an external reason for her gloom: That pesky broken toe, which she
busted after hitting it on a piece of furniture. “Having a broken bone
in a foot is extremely painful and may have affected her mood,” said
New York City podiatrist Dr. Rock Positano. “The average person takes
10,000 to 15,000 steps a day. You try putting your foot down with that
much pain all the time and you wouldn’t be in a very good mood,
either.”
A more likely explanation for the couple’s unhappiness was the lack of
the pitter-patter of little Pitts. Sources said that Brad, on the
verge of his 40th birthday, had become increasingly anxious to have
children. “We want to start a family,” he said in January 2003. “But
it’s not like we have a date set for that.”
Aniston, meanwhile, had always maintained that procreation would start
after Friends wrapped, so it was a mild surprise when the cast
suddenly renegotiated their contracts. But The New York Post reported
that Aniston, in an effort to appease her impatient husband, insisted
on a shortened 18-episode season that would wrap months ahead of
schedule. Her rep said this was false, but a Friends source confirmed
that she did “express interest” in the shortened season. “She will
start a family after Friends. She will also produce with Brad and star
in some films,” said the source. Added another, “I’m sure it’s true
she wants to start a family, so that’s why she wasn’t crazy about
doing a full season of the show.”
 Other friends of the couple defended their struggles and claimed they
had simply experienced the usual growing pains. “People are making too
much about them not having babies,” said the Friends source. “How many
other couples who have been married two years have started families? .
. . It’s unfair to put any married couple through the kind of pressure
they go through.” Another Friends source insisted, “She’s extremely
happy these days.  I don’t think they have any more trouble finding
time to be together than most working couples do.” 
 Aniston, for her part, dismissed any dust-ups. In the same interview
in which she questioned Pitt as the love of her life, she also
remarked about the relatively peaceful state of their union. “We do
fight,” she said. “Well, we have discussions. I am not a fan of
fighting when it is screaming. I like accomplishing something. But I
don’t trust a couple that says they don’t fight.”  She waxed even more
about her husband’s kindness: “He’ll hate me for saying that, but when
you grow up in a family where people are not always very kind to each
other, you realize how important that is.”  
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 and shocking breakup of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston!
Un libro che, se i due involontari protagonisti tornassero assieme e
mettessero in cantiere un bebé, finirebbe dritto dritto nei cestoni dei
libri da un dollaro senza passare dal via.
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 dei libri da un dollaro senza passare dal via.
tempo fa ho trovato un libro di cucina siciliana molto ben fatto in una 
libreria chiamata Europa, vado alla cassa pronto a pagare 
tranquillamente una ventina/trentina di dollari e la assiera mi chiede 
1$!!
boh, ho fatto un affare, ma mi sono sentito offeso!
om'è che a volte si trovano certe cose a sti prezzi!!??
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 libri da un dollaro senza passare dal via.
e lo compreremmo, ah se lo compreremmo :)
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libri da un dollaro senza passare dal via.
si', ma vuoi mettere il piacere di possederlo.
un cimelio.
un feticcio.
fra trent'anni il revisionismo lo idolatrera' come una delle massime
espressioni delle societa' di inizio secolo. 
lo voglio. :)
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 lo voglio. :)
Lo hai già messo in preorder su amazon? :)
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