Aren’t we all ready to move on from the Brad, Angelina, Jennifer saga? Clearly Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie, and Jennifer Aniston are not. So here we go again.

As we reported two days ago, Jennifer Aniston is quoted in the December issue of Vogue as saying she thought her ex-husband’s current girlfriend and mother to his six kids, Angelina Jolie, was “really uncool” for revealing she and Pitt fell in love while the were filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith. To recap, Mr. and Mrs. Smith was filmed in 2004 while Pitt was still married to Aniston.

Up until now, Aniston has maintained a pretty low profile about the split and has had virtually nothing to say about Jolie, despite the obvious. And the obvious in this case is Brad Pitt cheated on his wife with Angelina Jolie. BAM! BOOM! I said it and I am NOT taking it back. We can all (that means you Brangeloonies) stop pretending it didn’t happen, or that it wasn’t wrong or that Angelina Jolie’s womb isn’t a magical vortex of the holy trinity.

So, for the last three years, Jennifer Aniston has had to overcome a divorce, move on with her life and keep her head high, despite the endless and unrelenting adoration heaped on her ex-husband and his paramour. Has she done a good job? Yeah, I think so. Sure her movies have sucked bigtime, but it’s not like she became a raging drunk or had sex with Sasquatch or anything. She’s done what she always does, dates jerks, looks good in a bikini. And more than anything, she’s kept her mouth shut. WAY more than I would have. Honestly, I would have walked straight up to Angelina, punched her in the throat, kicked her in the ass, and likely, hurled some less than savory utterances. But hey, I like to keep it classy.

Why did Jennifer break her dignified silence?

But wait, there’s more…

Today on our daily segment with BTRToday host Shaun Daily at 3:00pm EST, we will be interviewing founder and president of BYOB, Be Your Own Brand, Sheila Coates. We will be discussing her career, the future of marketing and her experience working with some of the most well-known artists in the music industry.

Click here to listen to the show live.

Here’s more from Sheila’s bio:

Be Your Own Brand (BYOB) is the culmination of Sheila Coates’ two decades of experience as a marketing executive specializing in artist development, branding and imaging. Coates understands the importance of creating and maintaining a consistent visual presentation that is authentic and generates a sense of confidence and character in order to succeed in today’s competitive marketplace. She has the background and expertise to help people to “be their own brand” by combining the power of words and images to develop customized and memorable branding statements.

During her tenure in the music industry, Coates worked with some of the most recognizable names in the business. She inspired, cultivated, and provided guidance to many artists who went on to achieve platinum-selling status. Her client list reads like a “Who’s Who” in popular music —Mary J. Blige, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Toni Braxton, Lenny Kravitz, Barry White, Jill Scott, Babyface, Monica, Faith Evans, Kindred, The Family Soul, Angie Stone, Q-Tip, Lalah Hathaway, Ann Nesby, and NEXT, among many others. She created images for celebrities who were participating in events and programs as varied as the GRAMMY® Awards, American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, BET Awards, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Oprah, The Tonight Show and Late Night With David Letterman. She also helped develop images for more than 100 videos, television programs, and red-carpet events.

Coates held senior executive positions with Sony/BMG, Arista Records, EMI/Capitol, Virgin Records, MCA Records, Perspective Records and Hidden Beach Recordings, where she managed budgets exceeding $50 million and developed successful cross-promotional initiatives such as the soundtrack for the Academy Award-winning film “Training Day.” She also has managed promotions, media relations, artist development and imaging.

According to The Register’s Cade Metz (whom I worked on a story with in the past), Amazon UK pulled a newly released book written by a former member of the Church of Scientology’s most elite sect, the Sea Organization, or Sea Org. Ex-member John Duignan was in the SO for 22 years and his book details his experience in the organization, but now the question is whether anyone will ever get to see the book. Here’s the details from The Register:

Amazon UK has barred the sale of a new Scientology exposé penned by a former member of the church’s “elite paramilitary group.”

The British incarnation of the world’s most popular etailer is no longer offering The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology, a 318-page tome from John Duignan, who spent 22 years inside the top secret organization.

In a recent post to an anti-Scientology discussion forum, an Anonymous Brit says that after pre-ordering the book, he received an email from Amazon announcing it had been “removed from sale for legal reasons”.

Amazon UK has yet to respond to out request for comment. But the book - published on October 7 - is no longer listed on the site. A Google search reveals it was available for sale as recently as October 23.

In the past, Glosslip had exposed other anti-Scientology censorship within the Amazon organization, stemming form negative reviews disappearing about books written by Scientology found, L. Ron Hubbard. After exposing this apparent bias, readers informed us the negative reviews had reappeared, but only temporarily. What the status is of that ongoing problem is unknown.

An independent source revealed to me that Amazon had a meeting last week with executives and Tom Cruise was in attendance. Is it mere coincidence that after that meeting we are seeing this book, which was serialized in the UK’s Sun last week is now being pulled from the Amazon UK? Doubtful. Also, it’s important to mention that Andrew Morton’s book, Tom Cruise: And Unauthorized Biography was not published or available in the UK as Morton’s publisher, St. Martin’s Press was concerned about the strict UK libel laws and chose not to even make the book available in the there or in any of its various Commonwealth entities.

During Tom Cruise’s visit to the Amazon campus, those in attendance were given a private screening of the upcoming Cruise film, Valkyrie, which has been at the center of much controversy relating to Cruise and his involvement with the Church of Scientology.
(the above photo was taken during the Tom Cruise/All Hands Amazon meeting in Seattle last week)

Is this something the world really needs?  Jaden Smith, the impossibly adorable son of is-he-or-isn’t-he-a-Scientologist Will Smith, is set to star in a remake of The Karate Kid:

Columbia Pictures is back in the dojo with a new version of the 1984 hit “The Karate Kid,” which has been refashioned as a star vehicle for Jaden Smith.

The film will be produced by Jerry Weintraub (who launched the original franchise) and Overbrook Entertainment’s James Lassiter, Will Smith and Ken Stovitz. Will Smith, who is the 10-year-old actor’s father, co-starred alongside Jaden in his feature debut, “The Pursuit of Happyness,” which Overbrook and Escape Artists produced for Columbia.

The script is being written by Chris Murphy, and the film will shoot next year in Beijing and other cities. While the new film will be set in that exotic locale, it will borrow elements of the original plot, wherein a bullied youth learns to stand up for himself with the help of an eccentric mentor. [...]

The younger Smith, who next stars in “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” is a martial arts practitioner.

Great.  Just what we need.  More 80’s movie remakes.  The kid is cute and all, I’ll give you that, but srsly.  The Karate Kid was a great movie, why mess with it?  What, is nobody inventive enough to come up with movie ideas of their own?  What’s next, a remake of The Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?  Oh man, they better not even touch Ferris.  I’ll have to go all wax on/wax off on somebody if they even think about touching Ferris.

Where was I?

Srsly, I’ve always thought that Kablahblahblahlalalah was as creepy fail as Scientology, but I never really quite realized just how creepy fail it is.  Case in point:  Madonna (otherwise known as Mistress Of All She Surveys), herself a bit creepy fail, finally let hubby Guy Ritchie see his sons, but it is provided he follows the Twelve Commandments as set forth by Her Holiness:

1. Do not let them watch TV, read newspapers or magazines, or watch DVDs UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
2. They can only eat food that is macrobiotic, vegetarian, and organic.  No processed or refined food UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
3. If they get thirsty, they are to drink Kabbalah water, even if they use it to dilute organic juice, and NO EXCEPTIONS.
4. They are to only wear the clothing Madonna sent with them, but if the terrible event were to arise that they must purchase clothing it should not contain man-made fibers UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
5. If they go out in public, disinfect their hands at EVERY POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY.
6. They are not to have toys which are “spiritually or ethically unsound.”
7. Don’t say the D-word (Divorce).
8. Madonna will talk to the boys as much as three or four times a day at times which are convenient to her and which are set by her.
9. The boys are not allowed to talk to Guy’s friends and especially if they are of the female persuasion.
10. This visit is for Guy to spend time with his kids, and Guy’s parents (the children’s grandparents) are to have limited contact.
11. The boys are NOT to be photographed with their father UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES and it is his fault if they are.
12. Any bedtime stories are to be Madonna’s “English Rose” books and none other.

Do I really need to say any more?   This stuff just writes itself.

I mean, srsly.  First of all, #11 has already been broken.  All you have to do is open one of the UK newspaper websites and there they are.  But what is a “spiritually or ethically unsound” toy?  Is she serious?  I agree that we shouldn’t give our kids do-it-yourself junior Pol Pot playsets, but just how does one define that?  Maybe something like Legos or blocks, but Legos can be used to fashion things like swords and guns, and blocks make really cool weapons, with their sharp corners and all.  I’m assuming this means no teddy bears or stuffed animals to cuddle, since that might be enslaving an animal to do your will (of course, Madonna has riding horses, but that must be different).  And anybody knows that if you spend too much time disinfecting yourself, you just make yourself more susceptible to germs, because you create new supergerms as they become resistant.  I’d go on, but I think you get the idea.

By all accounts, the boys were happy to see Guy, with little Rocco particularly joyous:

Eight-year-old Rocco looked delighted to be back in his father’s company and threw his arms around him after walking through the gates at Gatwick.

Guy also shared a hug with David, three, whom he adopted from Malawi in 2006, later hoisting him on his hip as they made their way through the terminal.

An onlooker says: ‘Rocco shouted, “Dad!” in the loudest voice.’

‘Both he and David were smiling. Guy literally threw his coffee aside to free up his hands and run over. You could tell they were all so excited to see each other.’

And I don’t care what anyone says, putting little Rocco in a NY Yankees shirt was a deliberate slap in the face to Guy:

Guy was reportedly reduced to tears after seeing a photo of Rocco at a New York play centre wearing a navy Yankees T-shirt - the baseball team of Madonna’s rumoured new love interest Alex Rodriguez - just days after the split was made public.

Rocco loves his father dearly and undoubtedly didn’t realize he was being made a pawn, used to send a two-fingers-up message to his father.  But it isn’t hard to manipulate a kid into thinking that this or that is cool, especially if he has been treated to ballgames while in NYC.  I mean, what little kid wouldn’t love a baseball game, in person, in a VIP box?  He probably just thinks it’s a neat souvenir…only his mother realizes the true meaning.

But I do have a question…looking at a photo of the boys and their father in the airport, I have to ask…since when are Addidas trainers and Ugg boots vegetarian and all-natural?  Aren’t the soles of the shoes of man-made materials?  The black shoes certainly look like leather to me, and do I really have to go into what the uppers of Uggs are made of?

Look, I’m a child of divorced parents, and my mom had a list of weird stuff too for when I went to visit my dad, which he subsequently ignored.  I love my dad.  Need I say more?

When it rains it pours. Seems like the halo hanging over Angelina Jolie is a bit askew and could use a good polishing. Just yesterday we ran a story about Pierce Brosnan telling the world he’d prefer to star with a poised, feminine actress who has inner strength, someone like Charlize Theron rather than Angelina Jolie who is attempting to star opposite from Brosnan in the new Thomas Crown Affair flick. Ouch!

On the heels of that zinger, we now have the December issue of Vogue featuring Jennifer Aniston on the cover with a caption that says “What Angelina Did Was Very Uncool.” And it seems that Ms. Doormat, Jennifer Aniston, is finally letting the woman who came between she and ex-hubby Brad Pitt, have it. Us Magazine has the scoopage:

In the December issue of Vogue, Jennifer Aniston opens up about Angelina Jolie — and then some.

When first asked about Jolie, Aniston asked the reporter, Jonathan Van Meter, to turn off the tape recorder for a moment.

She did, however, want to go on the record about one thing: She said she was bothered that Jolie felt the need to recount a detailed timeline of exactly how she fell in love with Brad Pitt on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. (Pitt was still married to Aniston at the time).

“There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening,” Aniston said. “I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss.”

Aniston then shook her head in disbelief.

“That stuff about how she couldn’t wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool,” Aniston said.

Let’s face it, Angelina continues to show a serious cruel streak to her persona by constantly twisting the knife into Aniston through the media. While we don’t know exactly what kind of interaction these three have had with one another in the last three years since Jennifer and Brad divorced, one thing is for sure, Angelina is NO saint. Not only has she proven herself a hypocrite by claiming she’d never have a relationship with a married man because of what her father did to her mother, but she showed herself to be a liar when she contradicted that very assertion with this statement:

Nonetheless, Jolie said, she looks forward to the day when she can put “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” in the DVD player for the children; “not a lot of people get to see a movie where their parents fell in love.”

For the record, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is the film starring Pitt and Jolie which was filmed in 2004 when Jennifer and Brad were still very much married.

I am not taking Brad’s culpability out of the mix in all of this, clearly he’s the cheat, but that’s not the main issue. The real problem is Angelina Jolie’s continued self-absorbed, unrelenting need to constantly talk about this time-line in less than truthful terms all in an effort to exonerate herself at the expense of throwing Jennifer Aniston, an innocent party in this affair, completely under the bus.

Hey Angie, how about this for an idea: SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE. See, problem solved. As for the Brangeloonies who constantly seek out any and every story which even hints at Angie’s foibles to spill their frothing bias towards this home-wrecker, save your breath. We get it, Angelina and her lap dog Brad walk on water and Jennifer was totally asking to be cheated on.

Blame the victim much?

We enjoy the freedoms we have today because of the sacrifices of our Veterans.  Let’s not forget them on today, of all days.  Thank you.

You may or may not agree with the war overseas, but it is creating a new era of soldier coming home in need of our help.  If you would like to do something for those returning who have been injured in battle, one suggestion is a site called Homes For Our Troops, where you can make a small donation to help an injured Veteran have a specially adapted home of his/her own.  I have seen and talked with these people personally.  Another way you can show your appreciation is to donate your time, resources, and money to your local VA hospital or center.  There are many Veterans of all wars and conflicts who need help, donations, or just someone to talk to and care.

Or simply thank a Vet.  My father is a Veteran, and I will be thanking him today.  Agree or disagree on wars and the reasons for fighting them, it is because of those who are willing to serve that we live in freedom today.  It isn’t a left thing, or a right thing, it is the right thing.

We will not forget.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

–Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, 1915

Who is sporting a fresh crop (literally) of curls?  Hint:  Her hair doesn’t normally look nearly this…well, washed.

Answer after the jump!

But wait, there’s more…

What is it with men who are losing their hair?  Either they go insane trying to cover it up with a bad weave, a horrid toupee, or some spray-on hair, or they invent all sorts of strange and weird hairstyles to either cover it up, or they live in complete denial (I’m talking to you, skullet-sporters).  Why can’t they just come to terms with it?  Embrace their lack of follicular activity?  Besides, everybody knows that bald men don’t waste their hormones growing hair.  Hey, I ain’t sayin’, I’m just sayin’.

Personally, I think if a man is losing his hair, the best thing he can do is grab the bull by the horns (metaphorically speaking) and just shave it off.  That’s right, let the wind tiptoe through your scalp, proudly proclaim that you comb your hair with a towel (thus shaving a lot of time off your personal toilette, pun intended), and show off that shaved pate with pride.  Case in point:  Rumored baldie and crazy Scientologist guy John Travolta, who has been caught out for the past several years wearing all manner of really nawsty wigs, weaves, and whatnot on his dome.  But check it out…he cast aside the rug, shaved what was left of it off, and dare I say it?  Dare I mention it?  Well, somebody has to do it, and it may as well be me.  He looks hot!

Now, if we could just get him to cut off that whole Church of Scientology thing, that would be total major not fail.

major hattips and floor sweepings to dlisted

MSNBC news anchor, Joe Scarborough totally dropped the “F” bomb this morning during a live broadcast on his “Morning Joe” show. Hehehe, it’s like that is it?!!? Poor guy, he claims he was retelling a story from an earlier incident with the Washington bureau chief for Time magazine, Jay Carney. Hilarity ensues.

Joe clearly was unaware he let the horse out of the barn and when informed, let us all know who wears the pants in his family.

Had that happened in our house, my spouse and I would be giving each other high fives. Yep, we like to keep in classy around here

FYI: Obviously, the above clip is NSFWish, as Joe drops a bomb.