Could it be Brad’s goatee? Speculation abounds on what might be coming between supercouple Brangelina. 
Could Brad’s greying goatee connect to those fraying-marriage rumors? Angelina says publically that fidelity isn’t a must with her and that when she and Brad clash, she rips Brad’s shirts. Maybe if Brad would lose the goatee and cut back on the sauce, Angelina would stop talking about ‘seeing other people.’
Meanwhile, the Daily Beast sees something symbolic in the confirmed break-up of another Liberal-leaning supercouple: Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. 
Perhaps more shocking than the rumors of 60-something Susan and a new 30-something lover are the revelations that Tim Robbins has been making campaign donations to right-wing Republicans like Michele Bachmann. Irreconcilable differences, anyone? (PS TO READERS: THE RUMORS ON TIM HAVE PROVEN UNTRUE; HE’S BEEN FAITHFUL TO THE DEM.S, IF NOT TO SUSAN… THANKS TO AL & TO CHEAP CHANEL FOR SETTING US STRAIGHT ON THAT…)
Casey Johnson & Tila Tequila in happier days
On a darker note, our far-sighted Blog fave. CAITLIN had predicted trouble ahead for heiress Casey Johnson (RIP) in a comment on this blog weeks ago. Following a disturbing new ‘Grief Tweet’ trend (begun by Ashton Krutcher upon the death of Britany Murphy), Reality TV star Tila Tequila ‘tweeted’ a tribute to her deceased love.
Oh, for the days of Bogart and Bacall. Is the era of SuperCouples gone for good? Who will survive and thrive? And who will be the next to veer into Break-up Lane? And can ‘grief’ really be boiled down to 140 characters?
(photos: Brad goatee: mirror.com; B. & A.: topnews.in; Tim & Susan: paxhumana.info; Casey & Tila: blog.Zap2it.com)
PS: THANKS to A. Davis for letting us know that Tim R’s website debunks the right-wing donation rumor– ‘Say it isn’t so, Tim;’ sorry we doubted you!
‘GRIEF TWEET’
I LIKE IT. IT GOES IN MY NEW DICTIONARY.
Greetings Jeff– Thanks much and always a good feeling to find a fellow soul awake at an ungodly hour…
Speaking of ‘ungodly,’ i hate to live in a time when ‘Grief Tweet’ might be in anyone’s dictionary, but if it’s going to be there, I want to be the one to put it there–
cheers and let’s ‘coin this phrase’–
Elizabeth
i like grief tweet too, the word not the practice.
and i agree the goatee is just plain gross.
too bad about susan s. tho, she deserves better than an neo-con
I am with you on all points here, Livvy;
hope Susan S. gets a new soulmate and hope Brad P. gets a shave….
So Brad Pitt’s secret ambition is to play guitar for ZZ Top, who knew?
LOL, Litotes–
yes, now if only he can give the goatee back…
E
hahhahh! good stuff litotes!
Thanks Johnnycakes– I second that emotion!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=54721
Ooh– thanks Litotes for alerting us to a new super-couple in the making:
KATY PERRY is engaged! (see link above)–
good luck, Katy!
Speaking of split couples, have you seen Kate Gosselin’s new look? My, my, she looks just like she could pass for one of Tiger’s hot babes, or another blue eyed reporter with long blond locks on Fox News.
http://www.ivillage.com/kate-gosselin-long-hair-people-magazine/1-a-72632
Wow, she does look more generic but also much better, I think, with the long locks. And speaking of long locks, Linda I love your Avatar– wow.
Everyone, be sure and check out LINDA’S awesome artworks in the StarLit Gallery– always great to hear from you, Linda…
E
I WANT TO MARRY KATY PERRY AND I LIKE KATE G’S OLD HAIR BETTER
Ha, I hear you on Katy Perry– but really, you liked Kate G’s old hair better? Her old hair reminded me of the tragically unflattering hairdo of the wife that was shot by the Long Island Lolita– what was her name?
AMY FISHER,
WANT TO MARRY HER TOO
LOL–
Boy, you are a Commenter in Disgrace tonight,
AntiStar–
Keep em coming…
A list of disgraced celebs is no place for Bogart and Bacall! wds
So true, WDS–
only meant to bring up Bogie & Bacall as examples of a classier past… we do discuss un-disgraced celebs here too–
anyone celebrated is welcome on the blog!
But yes, I agree, B&B are two celeb.s NOT in disgrace–
just wanted to add a touch of class at the end of the post…
Good to hear from you!
My great aunt Jodie was a professional psychic. Sometimes I get vibes, too, about things and people. SO SAD that Casey Johnson’s life ended at such a young age, but I can’t say that I’m surprised. Even sadder: Someone with all the money and open doors in the world pissed everything away to party with the likes of Tila Tequila. Why be of service to others when you can get bottle service at the hottest club? (Sigh.)
Hi Caitlin:
True, it is such a sad story– and yes, it is also an impressive display of your predictive powers. I’m going to be a little scared to hear your next blog prediction; I do think you’ve inherited your Great Aunt Jodie’s gift.
Tila Tequila: what a name and what a story. We will keep a blog-eye on her.
Thanks again Caitlin for all your wise words; you also foresaw trouble round the bend for Paul Anka, so he had better watch his back. XX and always great to hear from you–
Elizabeth
Here are a few celeb predictions for 2010. If any of them come true, I’m opening a psychic shop at the local strip mall (haha):
** Gwynnie Paltrow is going to separate from her husband, ie the blond Coldplay guy.
** Brad and Angie will stay together for one more year. Then things will get uglier than that thing on his face.
** Kathryn Bigelow will be the first woman to win Best Director at the Oscars (for THE HURT LOCKER).
** Jon and Kate will disappear from the tabloids. The hair extensions and phony break-in are the death rattle.
LOL– Love this list!
It has that death-rattly Ring of Truth. OK, you heard it here first, folks; Caitlin the Magnificent has spoken, and she has already proven her powers.
Anyone want to bet against any of these pronouncements?
(The only one I’m not sure about is how long the ticking time-bomb of Brangelina has left– anyone for 6 months?)
If Tim Robbins looks twice at Michele Bachman, Susan should drop him…he’s totally lost it if he contributes to that deranged woman. Michele Backman deserves a high place on th political celebrities in disgrace list–certainly qualifies as irreconcilable differences.
Hi Barb– YES, I agree 100%.
Strangely, no one nominated Michele Bachman for Disgraced Celeb. of 2009;
so I will take this as a first nomination for Disgraced Celebrity of 2010.
Sounds like maybe Susan DID drop Tim–
Great to hear your Voice of Reason, Barb!
Elizabeth
Tim Robbins?? Michele Bachman??
I remember when supercouple Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue disagreed publicly about Ralph Nader. But for gorgeous lib women of a certain age like Marlo and Susan, Ralph is forgiveable (Susan went with her herself, I believe) and Michele Bachman is COMPLETELY ACCEPTABLE GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE!
Brad and Angelina–I have followed it for years. Read it every time–often in the grocery line. Just one more unseemly aspect of the first decade of the new millennium has been the Brad/Jen/Angelina triangle. It has so much: Jen’s lifelong love for Brad and her abysmal taste in other men that almost seems purposeful (John Mayer? John Mayer? Making fun of her publicly and she STILL takes him back????).
I wondered how Jen felt when Vince Vaughn got married recently. I doubt if he was The Right One either, but it made me think of that great scene in When Harry Met Sally when Meg Ryan learned her ex had married someone else–and she had to confront the fact that she might be difficult to live with.
Jen dynamites each of her relationships because she WANTS no man to live up to her idealized vision of her perfect man, Brad. She ought to rip a page from the life of fellow friend Lisa Kudrow–MARRY A CIVILIAN. A guy not so caught up in celebrity living.
See–I have been following this whole thing since Courtney Cox married goofy David Arquette when Friends was still on–and Jen married Brad. Who seemed to be the winner then? But whose marriage has endured (watch–as soon as I say this, David and Courtney will implode).?
It’s like the old Buddhist (??) story about what looks like bad news being good news. Man is given a horse and it looks like good news. Teenaged son breaks his leg taming it, and it looks like bad news. Soldiers come to village looking to take men to fight and the broken leg is now good news. And so on. But I digress. What looked like GOOD NEWS for Jen (Brad) ended up being the worst news of her life. And what looked like BAD NEWS for Courtney (David) ended up being a stable life partner to raise kids with (again, I hope by saying this, I don’t doom them).
Back to Jen. The perfect man is imploding so obviously. I loved Joan Rivers’ joke on the hysterical Graham Norton show on BBC America (a never-miss Saturday night ritual of mine): “One day Brad is going to stop smoking so much pot and say, ‘Where did all these kids come from?’
Of course, the enduring tragedy of all this is that if Brad goes back to the woman who really understood him and loved him for him (rather than his celebrity cache), he will damage those poor children more than they already have been damaged.
I do sincerely believe now that he and Angelina have been raising those children together, he is more than just a celebrity trophy on her wall. But this Jen stuff is going to make her so bitter, that the non-parenting part of their marriage will just be toxic waste.
Brad/Jen and Angelina are clearly the Eddie Fisher/Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor of our generation. But Elizabeth didn’t let this whole thing drag out over so many years as Angelina has. No, Elizabeth was never really in disgrace. She let no grass grow under her feet and moved on.
If it were not for the kids, I would say that Jen and Angi should do themselves a favor and do the same. MOVE ON! LEAVE BRAD TO STEW IN HIS OWN JUICES. But, lets face it, the kid part of this story is where the disgrace comes in. Hope Brad and Angelina can find a way to give them some “normalcy.” Not likely.
Awesome comment, Penny 2! You give me so much to chew over here i am actually going to have to THINK before replying– a Blog First! More soon but great to hear from you on all of the above–
Elizabeth
Hi 2 to Penny 2–
Just had a chance to read this again– Not only is it the first comment that I had to think before replying to, it’s the first that I want to put up twice, since on our newest post, we have a genuine psychic mind predicting the demise of Brad and Angie within one year, and the return of Brad to Jen…
But about Susan S. and Tim R.: you said it, Penny. If the ‘other woman’ is Michele Bachman, it’s time to Walk!
I like your piece, Liz, but I have to defend Tim Robbins. He’s an unreconstructed liberal by all accounts, and his website confirms that. Could it simply be that Susan S. got horny and bored and tore the partnership apart with her fling? They’ve been together longer than most celebrity couples manage.
About Michelle Bachmann: Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota’s “other” Senator, tells this story, according to my reliable source: she, Bachmann, and Al Franken were attending a memorial ceremony. All three were crying. Franken put his arms around Bachmann and offered her his handkerchief. She accepted, gladly. Franken winked at Klobuchar. “I haven’t washed that hankie since my bout of H1N1,” he said.
Hi A.: Oh, I am so glad to hear that rumor disproved! I will have to put up a PS on the Post defending Tim R. and I will have to tell my sister, who was more upset about the rumored Michelle B. donation than about the divorce. Yep, I’d buy the Fling theory here, and so true that those two made it longer than most.
Sorry, Tim and Tim fans! Glad to have the record set straight here. And glad to hear from you–
cheers– ELizabeth
More power to you.i have actually bookmarked it to show some of my friends
I like your piece, Liz, but I have to defend Tim Robbins. He’s an unreconstructed liberal by all accounts, and his website confirms that. Could it simply be that Susan S. got horny and bored and tore the partnership apart with her fling? They’ve been together longer than most celebrity couples manage.
Yes, Cheap Chanel, you are right– we heard from politically astute reader at the time of the Post swearing it ‘wasn’t so’ about Tim and the right wing– So I put a PS on the post but I think I should just go in and update that to scotch that rumor; seems like he did stay faithful to the Dem.s if not to Susan (actually from what I hear lately, it was more about her and younger men, so Tim stands redeemed!) Thanxx & will edit that darn post & come again… Elizabeth
Ha, I hear you on Katy Perry– but really, you liked Kate G’s old hair better? Her old hair reminded me of the tragically unflattering hairdo of the wife that was shot by the Long Island Lolita– what was her name?
Good questions, Cheap Chanel– and I love YOUR name.
What WAS the wife’s name– yes, I can see that hairstyle now–
As for Kate G.;yeah, true, the old style was (in your well-chosen phrase) ‘tragically unflattering’; my prob, with the new style is it looks so fake and there was such a big deal made about her getting ‘extensions’; I was afraid the extensions might fly off while she was dancing….
Buttafuccio; that was the guy’s name– but the wife; who WAS she…? Will look that one up and glad to have you onboard, Cheap Chanel. I like the way your mind works!