The whole stink about Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston has gone global. Angelina Jolie was reportedly approached in a Berlin restaurant by a woman screaming “Where is that home-wrecking Angelina?” That’s Berlin, Germany, not Berlin, Wisconsin for those of you keeping score at home. It’s the sort of thing I’d expect to see in the USA, but what’s even stranger is where the news was reported.
The story wasn’t just news in Germany (which would have made sense because that’s where it happened), or in the USA (homeland to Aniston, Jolie, Pitt and media crazed masses with way too much time on their hands). It made it all the way to The Hindustan Times and Ireland On-Line.
That isn’t where it ends. Some web site called Global Geopolitics News decided that the nation of residence of Pitt and Jolie was worth mention. Maybe they just wanted to let everyone in their homeland to know that it was safe to dine in public again?
All that news got me worried that the balance of power in the celebrity world is shifting overseas faster than our hold on technology has. What if another nation stole our obsession with celebrities? How could I sleep at night knowing another nation had taken that which was most dear to us?
Then I found this: A Texas man has had Maddox Jolie’s face tattooed on his arm.
I can rest easy tonight. America is still #1.
[...] Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are reportedly getting married - in the middle of a lake. And not just on an island, on a boat. That’s presumably to avoid the photographers, reporters, hangers-on, fans, stalkers, vengeful fans of Jennifer Anniston and third-world orphans hoping for a shot at the good life. One can only assume that paparazzi are getting quotes on suba and mini-submarine rentals. [...]
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