These pictures aren’t that great, but it’s Brad and Angelina, so I don’t need much of an excuse to publish them. They are said to be going to visit Angelina’s ailing mother at the Ermitage hotel in Beverly Hills. No word as to why they’re travelling separately, but if Angelina is driving a Range Rover by herself you can bet that the environment is not one of her pet causes.

Pictures taken by X17 and found at AngelinaWeb.

Wow, I really want to go out and buy some overpriced department store lipgloss after seeing this commercial, or maybe I want to have sex with a gorgeous woman and am sublimating. Whatever. I’m straight and married, so I must just want the makeup.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie made a public appearance together at an LA art gallery exhibit opening on 8/23. They admired the black and white photographs but didn’t seem to be thrilled with the paparrazi. It’s a shame the US won’t provide the militia required to support their privacy needs. George Clooney was at the exhibit too.

Maybe the gossip rags will take a week off from speculating that they’re fighting, breaking up, or sleeping apart now that they showed up to something as a couple. No wonder Angelina has such a smug look on her face. I wouldn’t put it past her to leave the hottest piece of male ass on the planet, though. She never seems quite satisfied with stability.

Meanwhile Brad is said to be building a huge house in Missouri to be closer to his folks, who now are said to hate Angelina. Fat chance she’ll spend any time there, but Brad does love building houses:

You know, my mother in law takes over everything when she visits. She cooks every meal, rearranges the house, and cleans everything. The woman doesn’t sit down. She even trims and repots my plants. You think I would be grateful, but she’s a guest and should ask me if she can organize my entire kitchen and leave knicknacks around the house. When I try to talk to her about it all normal-like, she thinks I’m tactless, too.

The point is that I wanted to bitch about her, and to say that maybe Angelina isn’t doing anything wrong. She may just be being herself and Brad’s family is pissed that she’s not sucking up to them like Aniston, and isn’t jumping to take their meddling advice about how to raise her kids. It’s normal not to get along with your in-laws.

Brad and Angelina are shown outside the gallery [via] and at an airport in Burbank, CA. [via] Angelina looks great without makeup and even better in a low cut dress.

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Why does Brad Pitt smoke? Is he addicted and/or does he think it looks cool? He could eat his boogers and it would look cool, but smoking is just a nasty habit. It’s not like he’s succumbing to peer pressure on set since he’s hanging with Clooney outside their trailers and Clooney’s got a mouthful of gum.

I live in Switzerland, where everything is clean and healthy except for the damn cigarettes. It’s not taboo to smoke here like it is in America. There’s often no non-smoking section in restaurants, and smoking in public is not frowned upon. Unfortunately that’s changed my opinion of smoking a bit, although I still hate to be around the smoke. Celebrities don’t set a good example by smoking, but they’re just hanging out and don’t intend to be photographed so who am I to judge?

The latest non-news on the Jolie-Pitt relationship claims that Angelina wants to get married at this point, and not in some freaky non-binding ceremony, but for real, while Brad is holding off. They’re also supposedly fighting a lot, with people saying that Angelina’s crazy need to escape is getting on Brad’s nerves.

Now Life and Style is reporting that Brad’s reaching out to his ex Jennifer Aniston, which enrages Angelina:

That sounds like bullshit. People really want to know the dirt on the world’s most famous beautiful couple, and it’s quite easily manufactured for our consumption. Then again, I didn’t believe they were going to Africa until they actually did it, either.

Here are pictures of Brad on the “Oceans 13″ set, courtesy of Just Jared.

Angelina supposedly got fed up with Brad’s demands that she stay at home and take care of their kids and left their Malibu estate in a huff to stay at a hotel with the kids for a few days. Star Magazine is set to report that she checked into the Hotel Bel Air in Beverly Hills on July 29:

Here are the websites for the Hotel Bel Air and the Hotel Roosevelt so you can see where the famous hotties stayed. I only have one kid, not three, but I’d use any excuse to get away to a spa resort for a few days if I could. Who can blame Angelina?

She must be stressed out being a new mom and I bet she won’t be adopting right away as she seemed to imply in recent interviews.

I was a bit curious about the timeline in this report because didn’t she just step out with Brad and Maddox for lunch? It turns out that was on July 25th, making this timeline possible. Considering the demand for photos of the Jolie-Pitts, it’s surprising that no one has any pictures of her stay at the resort, but that’s probably why she picked the place - and part of the reason why she needed to get away.

There does seem to be a power struggle in Brad and Angelina’s relationship. With Angelina having the upper hand for so long, she must be annoyed that Brad is working and striking out on his own. She’s probably just overwhelmed with motherhood, though. People think this won’t last, but I bet they’ll weather more than a few storms together.

Here are some of the latest St. John ads featuring Angelina. [via]
Star Magazine cover from PopBytes.

Their newborn is just over two months old, so this isn’t that shocking, but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are repotedly sleeping apart because Angelina wants to be near Shiloh while Brad needs his beauty sleep:

This sounds like the time they were staying in that slum in Paris and Brad had to sleep on the couch because Angelina was pregnant and taking up the whole bed.

Star Magazine is reporting that Angelina is not happy with her stretch marks and post-partum body and that’s the real reason she’s keeping Brad out of the bedroom. She supposedly doesn’t want to have sex, which is worrying Brad, but she just had a baby and that sounds pretty normal.

Dana at Dana’s Dirt says that Angelina better put out soon or Brad will lose interest:

Here’s Angelina driving around, looking fierce. Shiloh is said to be in the back seat, but that’s not big news since it’s not like Suri, whose supposed baby seat or stroller has never been photographed.

Pictures from Just Jared.

Now that the first wax baby has been unveiled at Madame Tussaud’s museum, it’s obvious why they didn’t do it sooner. The thing looks like one of those creepy reborn dolls that people paint to look like newborns. My husband’s aunt has one of those things at her house, and we took a picture of it because it fascinated us. We also put my then seven month-old son in the doll’s bed after he fell asleep. (Before you think I dressed him in too-small clothes, those were his backup pants after he had an accident.)

Waxed Angelina looks like a female impersonator, but she isn’t as bad as the wax version of Keira Knightly.

Now that Shiloh is immortalized as an infant, maybe Madame Tussauds can help Tom and Katie dispel those pesky rumors that Suri doesn’t exist. She’s over three months old and has never been photographed, but maybe Katie can bring her in for a personal wax session. A waxed baby Suri would do wonders to make her seem real.

Pictures from Celebguru and GossipRocks.

A wax figure of newborn Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt will be unveiled at Madame Tussaud’s museum today. The famous baby will be placed in an African-themed manger display. Just like her philanthropist parents, little Shiloh is earning even more money for charity:

When the pictures come out, we’ll publish them here. In the meantime, here are the first pictures of little Shiloh that you’ve already seen. The little wax baby must be based on these. Awww.

Thanks to Celebguru for the story!

Life & Style suggests that now that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are back in LA, Angelina is so busy with the kids and Brad is so busy with new projects that the two barely have time for each other. It sounds like speculation based on the fact that a few pictures of Brad around town have come out while Angelina hasn’t been seen in a while:

Meanwhile Brad’s grandmother is quoted as saying that he’s so sensitive to the pain and suffering he caused Jennifer Aniston by breaking up with her that he’s going to wait to marry Angelina:

This isn’t a great source, but it could be a real quote. From what I’ve read, Brad’s family really liked Aniston and maybe he just said that to his grandmother to make her feel better about the fact that he’s not marrying Angelina and left Aniston high and dry. Earlier reports had Brad clamoring to get married while Angelina was playing characteristically coy.

It could be true that Brad and Angelina are quite busy now, but that doesn’t mean they don’t get to spend quality time together at home. Most dads and moms manage to maintain loving, communicative relationships while working outside of the home. They just don’t have photographers following them everywhere like the Jolie-Pitts.

Here are some pictures of Brad talking on the phone that you’ve probably already seen. X17 has a video of Pitt talking on the phone and then riding his motorcycle. Somehow it just takes all the mystery out of the photos. My god, even the hottest celebrities can be rather boring.

You’ve undoubtedly heard about the Brangelina baby shower pics that were released to a few blogs and media outlets with the promise of 450 more. It turns out that Angelina’s kissing brother, James Haven, took his camera to BestBuy in LA but forgot to remove the memory card. BestBuy outsourced the job to Precision Camera in Enfield, Connecticut, where two guys thought they hit the jackpot. They might have, if they would have been smart enough to take basic precautions like using a proxy server and an anonymous e-mail address. Instead they used an easily traceable account and the feds raided their place of employment and one of their homes to recover the pictures. They probably would have been caught anyway, but it might have taken a couple of extra days.

They dodged a legal bullet since it was determined they didn’t do anything illegal:

What I want to know is why the secret service got involved in a stupid celebrity photo leak case. How much taypayer money did that cost?

The two guyswho leaked the pictures, Bill Keyes, 36, and Adam Beckwith, 20 something, may not be arrested or charged, but Brangelina’s lawyers are out for blood and they’re going to get them to pay. Hopefully they’ll get some decent pro bono support and will be able to avoid being sued.

Here are the Brangelina baby shower pics.