Archive for November, 2008

Jennifer on Vogue

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

With two great new roles and a body that won’t quit, Jennifer Aniston is reinventing what it means to be 40 and female in Hollywood.

By Jonathan Van Meter. Photographed by Craig McDean.
Here she comes, in faded cutoffs and a tank top. Has there ever been a more casual star? A more unrepentant Southern California girl? I am standing in the midst of the dust and chaos—the clattering hammers, the buzzing saws—of the massive construction project that is Jennifer Aniston’s sprawling new Beverly Hills home. It is midday in late September, and Aniston is picking her way through the site. As she heads toward me she looks comfortingly—almost defiantly—the same as she always has. Long, sun-streaked hair. Check. Tanned yoga body. Check. Toe rings and hippie beads. Check. There will be no moody movie-star transformations, no fresh tattoos to prove how unpredictable she is.

When I arrived a few moments earlier, a big, genial security guy helped me park my car among all the construction vehicles and then took me to an office where a man named Phil introduced himself as Aniston’s “estate manager.” An elegant fellow with a British accent, he is a holdover from her only slightly more grand life with Brad Pitt, when they owned a 12,000-square-foot Normandy mansion not far from here and a big spread in Santa Barbara. “He’s very…Phil,” says Aniston with a laugh. She stops for a second and, as she so often does, rethinks out loud. “Maybe we don’t mention that I have an estate manager.” And then: “He’s more like the butler.”

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Jennifer Aniston talks about ‘uncool’ remarks on Oprah

Friday, November 14th, 2008

This article is a little tended to speculation, Jen said “He [the Vogue journalist] asked me a question and I, basically, just answered it as honestly as I could,” Aniston said in a taped interview Thursday. “I don’t go there. It’s a 100 years old.”. It’s always nice to have the full quote, and not just one phrase ;)

Jennifer Aniston called Angelina Jolie “very uncool” in her new Vogue interview.

But when Oprah asked Jennifer on her show today about calling Jolie’s remarks about falling in love with her then-husband Brad Pitt “really uncool,” her defense was that she responded to the reporter’s question.

“I basically just answered it as honestly as I could,” Aniston says on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

Yeah, because stars NEVER say “I don’t want to discuss my personal life” or “Next question.”

All this comes as her film is about to open and has stirred up interest in in her divorce from Brad Pitt. And while it’s great publicity for Aniston, it’s become pretty annoying to Brad and Angelina.

Brad and Angelina were said to be “totally thrown” by Aniston’s Vogue interview, thinking she had already ”moved on … and wouldn’t want to reopen this old wound,” a close source told the Chicago Sun-Times, adding that Pitt had personally called Aniston to voice his displeasure.

Aniston’s spokesman has refused to comment to the Sun-Times on the alleged Pitt call. The e-mailed response? ”That’s personal information. … That really is no one’s business.”

On Oprah today, Aniston also said that she feels she’s been “unbelievably lucky with love.”

Wow, I shudder to think what her unlucky looks like.

Jennifer also insists she has no feelings of competition with her ex, whose Oscar-buzzed movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” just happens to open the same darn day (what are the chances?) as her upcoming film, “Marley and Me.”

“We all want our movie to do well. … Can we have a tie?” Jennifer joked on the show.

Hahahahaha. No, we can’t.

And surprise, guess who else showed up on Oprah today? No, besides Beyonce.

You guessed it, Jennifer’s “Marley and Me” costar Owen Wilson.

What do you think? Is Jennifer milking the Brangelina affair to boost her own box-office? Has she opened a hornets nest?

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Jennifer Aniston to Angelina Jolie: Zip it!

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Angelina Jolie recently told the press that she and Brad Pitt fell in love during the filming of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.”

And even though it’s been four whole years since her divorce from Brad, Jennifer Aniston thinks Angie should keep such intimate information to herself. Then she proceeds to fan the flames of the catfight by spilling secrets of her own in the upcoming December issue of Vogue.

Blazing headline on the new Vogue cover: “What Angelina did was very uncool.”

Inside the mag, Aniston complains that Jolie went too far in outlining the exact timeline of her relationship with Pitt on the set of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.”

“There was stuff printed that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening,” Aniston says of the Jolie interview, which appeared in Vogue about two years ago. “I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss.”

“That stuff about how she couldn’t wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool.”

Despite this, Jen says her split with Brad was not that horrible.

“I mean, in the end, we really had an amicable split,” she tells Vogue. “It wasn’t mean and hateful and all of this stuff that they tried to create about Brad can’t talk to Jen and Jen can’t talk to Brad because this person won’t allow it. It just didn’t happen. The marriage didn’t work out. And pretty soon after we separated, we got on the phone and we had a long, long conversation with each other and said a lot of things, and ever since we’ve been unbelievably warm and respectful of each other.”

Aniston and Pitt even talk once in a while. “We have exchanged a few very kind hellos and wishing you wells and sending you love and congratulations on your babies I have nothing but absolute admiration for him, and…I’m proud of him! I think he’s really done some amazing things.”

A source tells the the London Daily Mail that this interview shows that Jennifer is no longer afraid of Angelina.

But she’s also fearless in talking about her new home, her romantic life and her relationship with her parents. About John Mayer’s blabbing to the press about their breakup, she says “Trust me, you’ll never see that happen again from that man.”

Tough talk. The source adds, ” ‘This certainly raises the bar on celebrity profiles. Jennifer opens up about her sex life, her career and her feelings about life after her divorce. ‘She must have had a lot on her mind, because she lets go on everything.’

Either that or she’s desperately trying to make her new film, “Marley & Me” a hit and save her romantic comedy movie career.

What do you think? Has Jen been silent long enough? Is she finally willing to take on Angelina? Should she?

She certainly looks amazing on the Vogue cover! You go, Jen!

Press fuels Aniston pregnancy rumors

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

While Brad Pitt’s large family with Angelina Jolie continues to make headlines, Pitt’s ex-wife, actress Jennifer Aniston, is combating a rumor that she’s pregnant.

Her rep has denied the rumor, which claims that Aniston’s on-again-off-again beau John Mayer is the father. But there’s more subterfuge at play when it comes to the Aniston rumor mill.

“Every time Brad or Angelina is in the news, and it’s a story that’s so exclusive only one outlet really gets the story, the natural reaction is to come up with a story about Jen to combat the attention,” says one magazine editor.

Does that explain the stories about a possible Aniston-Mayer wedding at the same time that Pitt and Jolie were about to bring their twins into the world?

“Absolutely. Brad and Angelina don’t have people around them leaking or saying things that maybe a reporter wants to hear. They live in a bubble. There’s little to work with,” says the editor. “But Jen? She dates, she’s out and about, there’s more material there, and everyone wants to see that she’s OK.”

One twist in the current story, however, is Aniston’s recent means of battling the pregnancy rumors.

“Usually she just left it up to her rep (to deny), if he even felt the need to respond,” the editor says. “But now she did lunch at (popular Hollywood eatery) the Ivy in a tight shirt? I mean, the Ivy? Usually Jen is above that sort of thing. She obviously knew she’d be photographed there. It makes you wonder if all of this press — hers and Brad’s —is starting to get to her.”

As for Pitt, he recently taped the Nov. 18 episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” where he reportedly discusses life with Jolie and their six children.

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JENNIFER ANISTON – ANISTON SET FOR REGULAR SLOT ON 30 ROCK?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

JENNIFER ANISTON’s guest spot on hit comedy 30 ROCK could turn into a regular role, if castmembers on the show have their way.
The actress plays a woman who stalks TV executive Jack Donaghy, played by Alec Baldwin, in an upcoming episode, and the former Friends star wowed cast and crew so much, bosses at network NBC are considering asking her to return for more episodes.
Regular cast member Jane Krakowski tells OK! magazine, “We’d love to have her.”
And sources claim Aniston is keen for a return to the small screen, four years after Friends ended its 10-year run.
An insider says, “For Jen, it’s about finding the right part, the right cast and the right fit.”

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Jennifer Aniston: Owen Wilson is ‘Brave’

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Jennifer Aniston opens up about working with Owen Wilson on his first film since the actor’s reported suicide attempt.

“I’ve never seen him play a part like this. He was a man; he was a husband; he was a father,” she tells the LA Times about working with Owen on the film ‘Marley and Me.’ “And I feel like, how brave of him, to walk through the year that he walked through,” the actress adds.

It’s been over a year now since reports surfaced that Owen had attempted suicide in August 2007.

“[Owen] has no temper, no ego, he’s collaborative and funny and sweet,” Aniston says.

On their upcoming movie ‘Marley and Me,’ Jennifer says Owen is “divine in this film.” See for yourself when the movie hits theaters on Christmas Day.

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Jennifer Aniston, John Mayer, Courtney Cox And George Clooney Celebrate Obama’s Victory

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Jennifer Aniston and her on-again beau John Mayer celebrated Barack Obama’s victory in style at Courtney Cox’s post election party.

The Friends actress and her husband David Arquette invited friends and family, including Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher to their home in Beverly Hills.

“David was in such a good mood, he walked outside his gate and poured champagne for the paparazzi,” one insider told E! News.

George Clooney also lead the celebrations by congratulating Obama on a historical win.

He told Usmagazine.com, “Now it’s time to begin unifying the country so we can take on the extraordinary challenges that this generation faces.”

Meanwhile Oprah and Brad Pitt celebrated in Chicago where Obama gave his acceptance speech.

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When a labrador tore into one of Aniston’s designer jumpers

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston and her co-star in new movie Marley & Me got off to a bad start- as the labrador ripped one of her designer jumpers on the first day of filming.

The actress, who is shooting with Hollywood actor Owen Wilson for the upcoming flick, a romantic comedy about a couple and their badly behaved pet, was dazed to see the naughty Labrador rip her belonging.

“I walked on to the set, put my sweater and my bag down on the couch and that dog leapt up, grabbed my sweater and started ripping it,” The Daily Express quoted Jennifer, as saying.

Jennifer was even more shocked to see his trainer applaud him for his deed, as he was already in his character of the naughty Marley.

“They said. ‘Good boy’ and gave him treats,” she said.

Jennifer, who plays a wife in the flick, revealed she is pretty excited with her character.

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