By moving to NY and making their routine well known, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are trying to reduce the public’s interest by flooding the market with pictures. At least that’s how I’m interpreting their strategy. They probably figure they couldn’t escape to the remotest region of Africa and keep the paparazzi at bay without brute force so they may as well go to a place where there are tons of people and it’s easy to find them. It’s supply and demand, and when there’s a lot of Brad and Angelina to go around people get placated and a little bored with them. That seems to be the way they handle interviews too. Just give too much information and there’s not much left to speculate about.

Everyone is watching Angelina closely to see if she’s sprouting that baby bump that showed up in a picture published over the weekend and but has otherwise proved elusive. People are divided, with some saying she’s just gaining some much-needed weight and others concluding she’s got to be pregnant considering how many hints Brad has been dropping.

Pitt will appear on Good Morning America tomorrow, Friday, and ABC has an advance look at his interview on their website. He tells Diane Sawyer that he has had some problems with depression in his life but that being a dad has helped lift his spirits. He gushes about how much he loves his children and says his kids say and do the cutest things. He says fatherhood is his greatest achievement and he calls Angelina “amazing”:

Also like Jesse, Pitt said he also understands the melancholy of those children of the prairie. Both Pitt and Jesse came from the plains of Missouri.

“He’s from the same area that, that I’m from,” Pitt said. “I was surprised how much that meant to me in the end, to do something that had a connection with home.”

Sawyer asked Pitt about a time he said that he had grown up on those plains with some unexplained sadness.

“I called it a congenital sadness. It’s something that I, that I feel in my grandparents, in my … in the people I’ve met, in a Southern way of life. It’s something pervasive, is an undercurrent that, that I think Christianity answers.”

When Sawyer suggested that this sadness was something of a “genetic background music,” Pitt agreed.

“Well put, I like that,” he said.

Pitt has said that he once thought fame or success would be a cure for the sadness, but he has since learned the secret may be children.

“It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever taken on. It’s the most difficult, the most rewarding and the most fun,” he said. “But I think this is the, the greatest thing I’ve, I could possibly achieve and hats off to all the parents out there.”

He said that a good deal of parenting comes from instinct, but all of it is rewarding.

“They say the funniest things I’ve ever heard. They’re the funniest people I’ve ever met. … One of the things I’m most happy about for my kids is that they, they have a mother I think, because she is, she’s amazing,” he said.

[From ABCNews.com]

I like how Brad and Angelina are opening up so much and you can tell that the press is starting to like them again. I think the gossip is influenced a lot by how they’re acting toward each other in public. They seem a lot happier lately and I think that might have to do with a little surprise that will be more evident in the near future.

Thanks to Splash News for these pictures of Angelina with the kids yesterday and today. You can see how much she’s mobbed in NY. Splash News is currently blurring the faces of children in pictures that we’re downloading. I have requested unblurred versions, but have not received them yet. I will replaced the blurred photos when I get them.