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From Pittsburghlive.com Does the world really care about Jennifer and Brad ? (sarah michelle gellar mention)By Eric Heyl Sunday 16 January 2005, by Webmaster The split is it. For more than a week, the headlines have been dominated by the breakup of one of Hollywood’s cutest couples, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. Some have suggested the enormous amount of attention devoted to their breakup reinforces the notion that America is a singularly shallow, celebrity-obsessed society. I thought so, too — at least until reading the international reaction to the split: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — In a sharply worded message, Pope John Paul II unequivocally condemned gay marriage and criticized Jennifer Aniston’s reluctance to start a family with husband Brad Pitt before the couple split. "Family must never be undermined by laws based on a narrow and unnatural vision of man," he said. "And you know, Jennifer should have acquiesced to Brad’s desire for a baby. Her long-running TV show has ended, the couple is financially secure and her biological clock is ticking." BAGHDAD (Knight Ridder) — Iraq’s principal Sunni Muslim political party admitted yesterday that Jennifer Aniston had every right to leave Brad Pitt if, as reported, she caught him engaging in phone sex with actress Angelina Jolie. "While that would be no conclusive proof of an affair (between Pitt and Jolie), it would constitute considerable circumstantial evidence, don’t you think?" said Ayad al Samaraee, deputy chairman of the Iraqi Islamic Party. "I mean, c’mon." Al Samaraee also acknowledged that his party’s effort to delay Iraq’s parliamentary election had failed and conceded the vote would take place as scheduled on Jan. 30. ALONG THE AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER (AP) — Osama bin Laden blamed Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s breakup on divine retribution against America’s continued Middle East presence. Bin Laden also predicted a vindictive deity will tear more seemingly stable couples apart unless there is swift, dramatic change in U.S. foreign policy. "What you are seeing now, the two infidels of questionable acting ability no longer cohabitating, is only the beginning, " he warned in a newly released videotape. "Allah willing, the tears you are crying now are nothing compared to the sobbing in the streets that will follow Freddie Prinze Jr.’s supposedly amicable split from Sarah Michelle Gellar, she who once filleted vampires." See? America has plenty of company worldwide in our pathological obsession with the Brad-Jen breakup. The only reason to think otherwise would be if someone concocted the above news accounts to illustrate the absurdity of believing anyone outside this self-absorbed nation gives a damn. 3 Forum messages |
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