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Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
share dog-walking chores, a sense of humor, a new seaside getaway -- and, after
16 months of marriage, the look of love.
You'd think the 50,000 flowers, four bands, a fireworks display and the
platinum-and-diamond ring it took her husband seven months to design would have
driven home the point. But shortly after marrying Brad Pitt in an estimated $1
million ceremony in Malibu in July 2000, Jennifer Aniston felt the need to seal
their promise with one more detail: new note cards. "I asked what name she
wanted on the top," says Los Angeles letterpress artist Claudia Laub. "
'Jennifer Aniston,' 'Jennifer Aniston Pitt,' 'Jennifer Aniston-Pitt' or
'Jennifer Pitt.'" Talk about no-brainers. Running across the 5-in.-by-7-in.
off-white cards Aniston now sends to friends are the letters JENNIFER PITT,
12-point Egmont font, all caps. "They marked a rite of passage," says Laub.
"Most people start with 100 cards. I think the fact that she ordered 250 says
she's not letting this one go. This person is totally planning to stay married."
In
a town where even the most solid-seeming partnerships -- from Tom and Nicole to
Meg and Dennis -- are just an irreconcilable difference away from divorce court,
Aniston's plan is an ambitious one. Sixteen months after Pitt swore to love,
honor and "split the difference on the thermostat" with her till death do them
part, friends figure Mrs. Pitt could have upped her stationery order tenfold.
"If anyone's going to make it," says their singer pal Melissa Etheridge, "they
are." What makes the Pitts, in the context of showbiz couples, extraordinary?
According to Aniston's friend Kathy Najimy, their ability to be simply ordinary.
"There's no insecurity going on," says Najimy. "They're themselves. They do the
things you and I do: go to restaurants, play games, go to work, go on trips.
They really, truly are in love with each other."
That was clear to everyone on the set of Friends when Pitt, 37, filmed his much
publicized appearance alongside Aniston, 32, in the Thanksgiving episode. While
offscreen the couple spent the holiday at the L.A. wedding of Aniston's manager
Marc Gurvitz, onscreen they gave NBC's hit show -- watched by 13 million
households -- its No. 1 ranking. Perhaps most tickled by the episode were the
mister and missus themselves. Rehearsing the show for four days before taping on
Nov. 2, they had "a blast," says a source. Adds producer Douglas Wick, who
worked with Pitt on the just released Spy Game: "The chemistry between him and
Jennifer is adorable."
And it's the simple gestures that have come to matter most. Witness the way Pitt
kept his arm around Aniston's waist, clutching the back of her black leather
skirt at the L.A. premiere of Spy Game Nov. 19 -- and responding immediately
when, several hours later, his wife tugged at his sleeve in a silent bid to go
home. Little wonder Aniston makes sure to find time on a girls' night out to
check in with her husband on her cell phone. "She's very affectionate with him,"
says Najimy. "He makes her feel grounded and whole and smart." And she makes him
feel like Fred Astaire -- which is no small feat. At a Jane's Addiction concert
at the Hollywood Bowl on a recent Saturday night, Pitt took to the aisles and
wowed onlookers with his, well, unusual moves. Says one: "He dances very
herky-jerky."
Aniston could not have cared less. "It's very cool when you have your best
friend at your side," she says of her life with Pitt, whom she met on a date set
up by their reps in 1998. The feeling is mutual. "If you can find someone who
can stand you for 24 hours a day," Pitt said of his contentment playing husband,
"I highly recommend it." Nor does he pass up a moment to show it: During the
Friends rehearsal and shoot, Pitt got to share the dressing room where Aniston
has their wedding photo propped up -- the same room he filled with roses last
Valentine's Day, spelling out "I Love My Wife" in petals on the wall. And during
filming of Ocean's Eleven this past spring, "he flew home every time he had off,
even for 24 hours, to see her," says producer Jerry Weintraub. When they're
together, "they don't take their eyes off each other. They touch and kiss each
other."
But it's not, like, you know, gross or anything. "They're not like two
14-year-olds learning to kiss," says their friend, Manhattan-based stylist John
Sahag, adding that he is taken by the "mature, intelligent affection" the two
show each other -- whether working, doing art projects together (Pitt was
hands-on in the design and renovation of their Hollywood Hills studio; Aniston
draws and sculpts) or just cracking each other up. "They're both funny," says
one friend. "They're very, very much alike. They have the same appreciation for
aesthetics, a shared love of antiques. They are like the same person, only he's
a guy and she's a girl."
Not
that things between them are always camera-ready. Pitt, for example, has
confided that among matrimony's better privileges is being able to "(pass wind)
and eat ice cream in bed." But it seems life for Hollywood's reigning couple
(she makes $750,000 per Friends episode; he makes $20 million a film) is a fine
blend -- one part premieres and Prada, one part "Honey, can you walk the six
dogs?" On a typical day the two wake up and take care of her Corgi mix Norman
and Pitt's five mixed-breeds. Then comes the one meal they actually know how to
prepare: "I pour a mean bowl of cereal," boasts Pitt. "She makes a mean milk
shake." Later in the day Aniston pops into one of her two vehicles -- a 1999
Land Rover or a 2000 Jaguar sedan -- and drives to the Warner lot, where she
spends at least five hours rehearsing and filming Friends. Occasionally Pitt
drops by just to eat pizza, watch his wife work and hang with the boys. Says a
source on the set: "He'll play video games in David Schwimmer's room or talk
cars with Matt LeBlanc."
The work day done, the couple's dinners together also tend to be low-key
affairs. A favorite restaurant is the casual Hollywood eatery Marix Tex Mex
Cafe. But better yet is the living room couch. As Aniston told Jay Leno in
February, "I don't cook. I thaw. And I microwave. And I order in real well."
Indeed, the perfect evening chez Pitt is order-in pizza for him, Mexican for
her, red wine and an old movie. There will be plenty of space for such cozy
get-togethers in the $14 million, six-bedroom French Provincial-style Beverly
Hills estate they bought in June. But if they plan to spend a night on the $4
million, 11.5-acre beachfront property they bought last year near Santa Barbara,
they might have to skip the movie. There are only three structures on the land,
all, in the words of neighbor Leslie Pinkerton, "broken-down surf shacks." Not
that Pitt plans to hang 10 anytime soon; says Kerry Mormann, a Realtor who
showed the Pitts some land in the area: "He doesn't like sharks."
(December 2001 - PEOPLE)
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