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[trinityvixen]

I'm reading aaaaall about celebrity babies these days. It's suddenly fascinating. Hm, I wonder why.

That said, I in no way am going this far off the deep end. That's fantastic that Angelina Jolie has a baby with Brad Pitt. It will either be the ugliest or most terribly beautiful child in the world. That does not mean my future nephew/niece MUST have the shirt the kid was wearing in the $4 million photo. What the hell is wrong with people?

Matt Damon just had a baby with his wife? Uh, why didn't anyone inform me he was married? Actually, no, I prefer not to know. I find it, you know, better not to know the intimate details, thanks. I don't want to know about the Pitt-Jolie-Aniston-Vaughn thing (if I didn't read movie magazines, I wouldn't know such a thing even existed; tabloid stuff barely makes my radar, but in this case, it affected the films they were in, so I knew about it). I FUCKING HATED FUCKING Jennifer Lopez's drama over her thirty billion husbands and husbands-to-be. Earth to Ben Affleck? NO ONE WANTS TO THINK ABOUT YOU HAVING SEX. THAT IS WHY YOU HAVE NO CAREER AFTER THE "JENNY FROM THE BLOCK" VIDEO.

Ahem. Once again, I am validated in my choice of Damon over Affleck. Fantastic. And Jack Black and his wife had a baby, too? Aww, that's cute, too.

This just in: Britney Spears thinks she's a good mother. Well duh, do bad mothers ever think that they are bad mothers? She's what, a biscuit older than me, married for fewer years than I've been out of college, and already on baby number two? This is a great way for her to reclaim her white trash roots. Sudden marriage to proven faithless, ugly guy? Check. Immediate pregnancy after marriage? Check. Man nowhere to be found around new baby? Check. Sudden second pregnancy? Check. Welcome to White Trash-ville, population Britney Spears.

Just as well that someone has helpfully posted some advice for the fallen pop idol regarding the next steps she shouldn't take in her life. Brilliant, I'm sure Britney is copying that into her diary as we speak. I hate online advice targeted to famous people. Thanks, Google News, for catching this wonderful link for me. I loved it.

Comments

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't go as far as to call myself a fan of Ben Affleck but I'd say he's redeemed to some extent by Changing Lanes, a movie I thought was actually very good, and his participation in the films and commentaries of Kevin Smith movies, in which he's pretty funny (Jersey Girl excepted).

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I gather he can laugh at himself, which is admirable. He was quite funny mocking his exploits in the tabloids on SNL that I saw. Doesn't make him any less tiresome.

And I still resent the fact that he played Jack Ryan in Sum of All Fears because of my undying love for Liev Schrieber in that movie. He was sooooooo good as Clark, and then I have to waste the entire rest of the movie with the Affleck. Grrr.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

I'd defend Sum of All Fears, 'cause I kinda liked it, but I've also seen Gigli, which totally and resoundingly cancels that urge out.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Sum of All Fears was enjoyable enough on the whole, but Ben Affleck really, really bothered me. On the plus side, though, it made Clark's cheerful torture of him that much more fun.