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More from Camille Paglia: White Middle-Class Women Identify with Aniston's Humiliation
Wednesday December 13, 2006


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A year and a half after Brad Pitt left Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie, Brangelina is finally opening up about their relationship.

Pitt, 42, and Jolie, 31, hit the red carpet together for the first time on December 11 at The Good Shepherd premiere, Jolie gives an in-depth interview in the new Vogue about how she and Pitt fell in love. And at a press event on Friday, she gushed to reporters, “I love working abroad, and I love being with my kids and I love being with Brad.”

Why are we still so fascinated by what happened between Jolie, Pitt and Aniston? In part II of Us Weekly's interview with noted academic Camille Paglia, the feminist author analyzes the love triangle and explains to Us why everyone is still interested.

On history repeating itself:
"I think the whole thing between Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie is a replay of the iconomical face-off of my adolescence between Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor. You have the good girl who wants to stand by her man and then loses her man (in that case Eddie Fisher) to the brunette vixen, the peripatetic world traveler with her sorceress allure and her borderline molten sexuality."

On playing the good girl:
"Jennifer Aniston has been reticent through it all. She hasn't had a fit or said anything rude in public to demean her rival. She is basically playing the good girl. She has kind of a quirky, neurotic urban humor about her -- a kind of whimsy."

On how it’s affecting Jen:
"You always feel like she is telegraphing deep inner pain that she's not always able to express -- or doesn't want to express -- because she is a prisoner of her decorous persona. There is the pressure and she is almost emotionally constipated in a way, and that has affected her performances on film."

On why we care:
"I think a lot of white, middle-class American young women identify with Jennifer Aniston's public humiliation, her romantic martyrdom. She has been abandoned by the highly attractive, boyish young man (who now is not so young) who is checkless, looks angelic but is in fact a traitor."

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