Angelina and Brad and their brood arrived in Japan today looking as beautiful as ever.  Do you think they will eventually disown Maddox for his rebellious ways as evidenced by him wearing, um, color?

“The publicity machine is out of control. It’s everything we didn’t sign up for.  There’s this whole other entity that you get sucked into. You have to go and sell your wares. It’s something I never made my peace with. Somehow you’re not supporting your film if you don’t get on a show and talk about your personal life. It has nothing to do with why I do this.”

Brad Pitt, causing me immense relief by not discussing Jennifer Aniston in any way, shape or form in a Newsweek interview.

I’ll add that when you look like Brad Pitt, yes, you have to sell your wares over and over and over again.  Naked; it’s a rule.

They forget to zip their fly!

Here’s The Unfortunate Case of Brad Pitt’s Fly at the the Benjamin Button premiere in Paris.

Here’s a first look at the home Brangelina will be renting on Long Island while she films Edwin A. Salt.

It’s a 48-acre waterfront estate named Sassafras in the Lloyd Neck harbor region of Long Island’s North Shore. The couple will be renting the property through mid-summer while Jolie shoots. The main house is 22,000 square feet, and the Tudor-inspired property has two helipads, a private dock, and an 11-bedroom staff house. The mansion has been on the market for an asking price of $60M.

An 11-bedroom staff house!

What could they possibly need all that space for?

What could anyone possibly need all that space for?

I could start a small university out of that building! Hell, we may as well just move the United Nations there!

Image via Bauer-Griffin

I’m bothered by the fact that this look is eerily similar to her Critics Choice dress. It’s a similar cut and a similar color. What’s up with that?

And if Brad Pitt doesn’t have pink eye, he really shouldn’t be wearing those glasses on the red carpet.

Still: they’re the most beautiful people ever.

Could anyone possibly look more gorgeous and in love than Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the Critics Choice Awards on Thursday??

I think not.

I have to say though, Angelina is skinny skinny skinny and I feel like her malnourishment is making her age faster. She’s only 33 years old!! Can you believe that? I feel like she looks much older. Maybe she’s just wise beyond her years … or maybe her body’s having trouble regenerating skin cells because she’s starving.

There’s a kickass piece on Brad Pitt in this month’s W magazine, and really the whole thing’s worth a read, but he does discuss the firestorm that erupted when Jennifer Aniston stated that “what Angelina did was really uncool.”

Over the course of the next 90 minutes, Pitt proves to be unfailingly gracious, good-humored and game for all questions, including those about his life with Angelina Jolie and their brood of six, whom he refers to as “this cuckoo’s nest that we got going on over there.” He even responds to the latest installment of the Brad-Jen-Angelina saga. In November Jennifer Aniston told a journalist that an earlier comment from Jolie—that she and Pitt fell in love on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and so the film “might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe”—was “uncool,” because Aniston and Pitt were still married during filming. “Listen, man, Jen is a sweetheart,” Pitt says, as if to settle this thing once and for all. “I think she got dragged into that one, and then there’s a second round to all of that Angie versus Jen. It’s so created.” Of his current relationship with Aniston, he says, “We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don’t see how there cannot be [that]. That’s life, man. That’s life.”

A few sentences into the next topic, though, Pitt circles back to defend Jolie’s honor. “What people don’t understand is that we filmed [Mr. & Mrs. Smith] for a year,” he explains. “We were still filming after Jen and I split up. Even then it doesn’t mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn’t. I’m very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful. [The film] will mean something to our kids. It will, that’s all.”

And as for the photo shoot that accompanies this article?

Pitt requested that artist Chuck Close, known for his superdetailed daguerreotype portraits that reveal every skin flaw, shoot the pictures accompanying this story. Pitt has always been a master of using press images to convey messages about his life, as when he and photographer Steven Klein created a provocative shoot in this magazine that depicted him and Jolie as a Fifties-era married couple with kids—before they had publicly acknowledged their love affair. Close suggests that the actor, who showed “no vanity” during the sitting, is once again playing with public perception.

“You can’t be the fair-haired young boy forever,” says Close. “At some point he’ll have to become some sort of character actor. Maybe a photograph of him with his crow’s-feet and furrowed brow is good for him. It humanizes him. It makes him less of a cinema god and more of a person.”