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Brad Pitt talking about how in love he is with Angelina Jolie just never gets old. Every new quote is another opportunity to find some kind of hidden meaning or reason to roll your eyes or twisted jab at the Naked Yoga One.

And now in a special Boxing Day L.A. Times profile, you have the chance to interpret some new love quotes from Brad. See, his new movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button got him thinking about true love, which led to this thought nugget:

"It's a tragedy in the sense that any love involves loss, and that's the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I'm with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary."

More specifically, he says hooking it up with Angie just felt natural because he was totally over just being hot and perfect all the time…

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Everyone's a critic—including, it seems, PayPal-enabled web crawlers, who this year voted en masse with their dollar on who's who (congratulations, Michael Phelps) and who's over (sorry, Speidi) in pop culture.

Coming out tops in this year's celebrity maternity race, at least according to the highly scientific 2008 sales figures released today by eBay, was Gwen Stefani, whose desirability, bolstered either through Brangelina fatigue or her own new-mother charm, wiped the floor with Angelina Jolie, outselling her related merchandise by a margin of nearly 2-1.

Which means Stefani, among other credentials, now has the distinction of being the mom you'd most like to buck.

But it isn't all good news: Lindsay Lohan's fans, for instance, proved they were not nearly as buy-curious as the actress herself…

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Hollywood's latest power couple could also be one of its oddest.

Oprah Winfrey and Angelina Jolie (Oprangelina?) have come out tops in a pair of the Hollywood Reporter's annual Y-chromosome-deficient countdowns: the Power 100 list of Hollywood's most influential women and the roundup of the top-banking actresses, respectively.

The kingmaker's (or, more accurately, president-maker's) nonshocking placement at No. 1 is based on "her dizzying array of Oprah-branded media and her immense cultural influence…[she] might just be the most influential woman in America."

The only thing she doesn't have, it seems, is box-office pull, with Brad Pitt's other half outranking fellow top-tier leading ladies Julia Roberts and Reese Witherspoon by commanding $15 million per picture. Her 2008 films, boosted in large part by Kung Fu Panda, grossed nearly $1 billion.

Those spreads on the French Riviera aren't going to pay for themselves.

Jolie landed at No. 24 on the Power List, where she and Winfrey were joined by budding moguls Tyra Banks (No. 36), Tina Fey (No. 51), Rachael Ray (No. 65) and Miley Cyrus (No. 100).

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Brad Pitt must not have gotten the memo that this week is Britney's and no one else's. He can have next week if he really wants it, but this week is supposed to be all about Circus, revealing birthday dresses and people we haven't heard from in forever. (Ahem, K-Fed, and look Alli Sims! We're still waiting for Sam Lutfi to pop up somewhere...)

Instead, Brad's going around giving out charming quotes to everyone and stealing Britney's momentum. Here's just a sampling of all the fun Brangelina facts we've already learned three days into this week...

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There’s another reason to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, besides the fact that it stars Brad Pitt, is directed by David Fincher and looks awesome. Drumroll please...Shiloh makes a little cameo! Brad refuses to call it that, though.

At last night's New Orleans premiere of the film, he explained to E! News that Shi is only in one scene because the real actor baby was crying too much and they needed a baby who could behave. Shiloh obliged and showed that actor baby what's up.

However, Shiloh better not be hoping to go all Jaden Smith, because papa Pitt sternly plans to tell his kids, "[You can pursue acting only] after you’re 18, you can do whatever you want to do.”

If we're not going to be seeing any Jolie-Pitts at the cineplex for another decade, at least we still have Suri Cruise. We have a hunch she'll be making her big-screen debut soon enough...

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• Some people wait for pressure to get married from their parents. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are waiting until their kids make them buckle.

• John Mayer is working on giving the Food Network's Ace of Cakes a run for his money.

• Madonna and Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez may be looking to join the ranks of Blair and Chuck on the Upper East Side.

• Lindsay Lohan has been peaced out of Facebook, and she is not happy about it.

• Poor Scout LaRue Willis! Sure, she got to attend the internationally posh Crillon ball, but she had to endure all four parental units—Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Bruce Willis and his GF Emma Heming—watching as she danced with boys!

• Dear Kim Kardashian: Thanks for the promise of a devamped image, from cutting bangs to wearing clothes. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

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Is the New York Times on Team Aniston? It would seem so, judging from this article that examines Angelina Jolie's crafty ways with the media.

The story explores how Angie manipulates crucial media moments in order to portray herself more favorably—all without the help of a publicist. This may seem pretty obvious to even the most casual tabloid reader, but we'll give the Times room to make their case.

For example, remember when she was a crazy blood-vial-necklace enthusiast who had sex with husband Billy Bob Thornton in the limo on the way to a red carpet event and then told reporters all about it? Well, after she decided she was done with that and the couple divorced, Us asked for an interview. She declined, but reportedly did offer a time and place where she would be hanging out with Maddox in public, so the mag could snap a few pictures of her looking like a single, young mom who was struggling to enjoy some private time with her son.

Or how about that time she fell in love with Brad Pitt while he was married to Jen?

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In the wake of Jennifer Aniston's candid Vogue interview, the man in the middle (aka Brad Pitt) has apparently decided to join the never-ending Jen vs. Angie catfight by reportedly calling Aniston and asking her to quit spilling the beans. 

How to respond? By talking to Oprah, of course!

Jen sat down with the talk-show queen Wednesday (the interview airs today), and when the Vogue story came up, she very diplomatically said, "[The interviewer] asked me a question and I basically just answered it as honestly as I could." 

And when the convo turned to her ex, she more than graciously responded with, "He's done some amazing things in the last couple of years. So I just think he's doing great."

Is Aniston genuinely being a good ex, or is she mouthing off because she knows it's driving Brangelina crazy?

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We really do hope that one day in the near future, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston will be able to coexist on this planet without the need to passive-aggressively taunt each other with every celebrity profile. (Perhaps under an Obama administration?)

In the meantime, they’re not even trying, so why should we?

In interviews, Angie mentions falling in love with Brad Pitt during Mr. & Mrs. Smith; Jen calls her “uncool.” Angie goes on and on about babies, kids, more babies and knives for babies; meanwhile, Jen has a really cute dog and this tree. Angie gushes about Brad being “an amazing father: totally devoted,” but that’s all good because Jen and John Mayer totally “adore one another."

And now their Vogue covers are taking this feud to a whole new level.

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