Here’s the thing about Jennifer Aniston: the media wholly created this concept of an ongoing feud between her, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. For the last six years they have consequently been forced to monitor Aniston completely out of proportion to her actual work output as an actress, to determine what tone they’re meant to take with their coverage of Pitt & Jolie, who are everywhere, and actually have the A-list careers to justify some coverage. But because the Pitt-Jolie relationship began in one of the most obvious acts of adultery in recent showbiz history, the entertainment media seem to feel like they’re complicit in their assholery if they pump up Pitt & Jolie (even when he’s building houses in NOLA and they’re both getting Oscar nominations) without making sure that everything’s okay in JenniferLand too.
So, as long as Brad & Angelina continue to have big careers and do the ton of charitable work they do (and continue to collect/birth children, which they probably aren’t done with), we’re going to continue to see disproportionate coverage of Aniston. And so long as Aniston isn’t actually doing meaningful work (and she hasn’t had a decent movie role since Bruce Almighty) that coverage will be all about Aniston’s personal life. Is she happy? Is she pregnant? Is she adopting? Is her old dog about to die? Tune in to tonight’s Insider/Entertainment Tonight/Extra/E! News Daily/Joy Behar Show/Piers Morgan to find out!!!
Yes, Robert Kardashian was one of OJ’s lawyers. He was also a quite prominent attorney, generally, in LA, before his representation of Simpson, and up until his death.
Add to that, the Kardashian sisters’ stepfather is once-famed Olympian Bruce Jenner. Their stepsiblings (via Jenner) are also the stepchildren of famed music producer David Foster. The kids in this big blended family have been, for their entire lives, young Hollywood royalty, simply for being the children of wealth and privilege. They have grown up amongst celebrity and with the ability to do things most of us would only dream of, at ridiculously young ages. (Imagine being 22 years old, driving a top of the line Porsche, going to the most expensive sushi restaurant in town with 6 friends and dropping $3,000 on food and wine in one evening and not feeling a bit of financial strain from it.)
The same goes for Paris Hilton, who is wealthy beyond measure as a part of the Hilton clan, and her (ex?) best friend Nicole Richie, who’s Lionel Richie’s daughter but has no noteworthy talents of her own. (To her credit, she seems to have retreated from the party life to the mommy life these days.) The primary profession of all of these people is socialite. They became famous for being seen, at the right times, in the right places, with all the right people.
Someone has to, right?