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December 30, 2000 - CosmoGirl's February 2001 issue names Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton as a Sickening Couple of 2000.

December 29, 2000 - I got most of the transcript of Billy Bob's appearance on The Tonight Show Wednesday posted on the message boards.

December 29, 2000 - Angelina Jolie is featured in a pair of autographed photos being auctioned on ebay. The first photo features Angelina with David Duchovny (item #1401019795), which is unbid at $19.99 and ends December 29th. The other is a sexy black and white photo (item #532292283), which is unbid at $19.99 and ends January 5th.

December 28, 2000 - Billy Bob was deemed an honorable mention in The second annual Salon.com Readers' Choice Awards in the category, "The celebrity you deem most likely to suffer an Anne Heche-like meltdown." They said of Thornton, "Angelina Jolie will realize her mistake and go back to makin' whoopie with her brother, casting poor ol' Billy Bob into a personal tailspin. He'll end up somewhere in Orange County, Calif., wandering the streets and muttering to himself, 'Where's all the orange? Billy Bob needs orange for his tummy.'" "I think he'll turn up at a Vegas all-you-can-eat buffet rubbing sweet potatoes over himself and stuffing carrots in his well-worn loose-fit jeans (size 2)." Angelina won in the category, "The celebrity you most suspect of being an armpit burrower," saying of Jolie, "What Angelina Jolie and her brother get up to is their own business, at least until they decide to hold a press conference."

December 22, 2000 - E! Online's Ted Casablanca lists Angelina & Billy Bob at #5 on his George W. Shrub Awards saying, "It's not surprising these oddballs legally came together--they're addicted to the united life, as their various exes can attest. It's shocking, however, that they're still together after all these months!"

December 18, 2000 - Angelina Jolie was named the #12 Entertainer of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, with top honors going to Russell Crowe. They say of Jolie, "there's little doubt that Jolie has become Hollywood's go-to girl for parts where hard-bitten ways disguise a fragile heart."

December 18, 2000 - Angelina Jolie's black dress and 'goth look' displayed at the Oscars was pointed out as a "Dress to Distress" item in this week's Entertainment Weekly.

December 17, 2000 - Jon Voight was quoted Friday saying he worried over Angelina's stunts during the filming of Tomb Raider. Voight admitted, "She's done things I couldn't, or wouldn't do, and I wish she wouldn't."

December 17, 2000 - Angelina Jolie is featured in an autographed picture auction on ebay. The photo, item #523876531, is bid at $18.99 and ends December 20th.

December 15, 2000 - The Scottish Daily Record is quoting Billy Bob as saying about his and Angelina's renewed wedding vows, "This time I'm going to be the bride. She got me these pink panties with a big bow on them."

December 15, 2000 - Jeannette Walls reports Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob are considering having their wedding vows renewed in Los Angeles later this month. Their rep confirmed, "He has said that he might get remarried again around Christmas, but he also says they might not."

December 14, 2000 - Mitchell Fink of the New York Daily News reports spies tell him Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie were all over each other at last weekend's New York press junket for "All the Pretty Horses." Thornton told Fink at the Sotheby's post-premiere party, "We're going to meet each other again next week, and in January, we're finally going to be able to start furnishing our house in L.A. I can't wait."

December 13, 2000 - Angelina Jolie is #2 in Playboy's list of The Sex Stars of 2000.

December 13, 2000 - Not an Angie story but since there's alot of interest, more details on Billy Bob and orange food from the New York Daily News, who asked Billy about the food rumor, he responded "I do eat orange food, but that's not the whole story. I also eat brown, blue, black and purple foods." Also from Fox's Roger Friedman, who quotes him describing his daily diet, saying "Every morning I have oatmeal, bananas, and papaya. For lunch it's protein, chicken or fish. Dinner is a salad with almonds or pecans, with oil and vinegar. I'm not saying that I'm all anti-carbohydrates, but I try to avoid them as much as possible. No bread, no pasta, none of that. The reason people think I eat orange food is the papaya, which I have a lot of."

December 10, 2000 - Angelina Jolie is quoted in Entertainment Weekly talking about her role on Tomb Raider as Lara Croft saying, She's closer to my personality than any character I've ever played." Jolie added, "She's always doing something insane. She even sleeps with knives-like me."

December 10, 2000 - Angelina Jolie is commenting to the press about her nervousness of portraying Lara Croft in Tomb Raider and how the game's fans will react.

December 10, 2000 - Paramount Pictures has released a picture of Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in the movie Tomb Raider, which is set to hit theaters in June of 2001.

December 9, 2000 - Billy Bob and Angelina have made People Magazine's Intriguing Couples 2000 list.

December 5, 2000 - More details on the steamy scenes that won't make the final cut in Original Sin, as E! Online's Ted Casablanca revealed in last week's online chat, "I hear that adorable curmudgeon Anderson Jones is coming out with the following: The director so loved Angelina and Antonio together that he shot a 20-minute soft-core porn scene of them that you will never see--not even on the DVD."

December 3, 2000 - Angelina Jolie is pictured here at a news conference in Seam Reap, Cambodia on November 29 to discuss Tomb Raider at it's filming at Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat temples.

December 2, 2000 - Angelina Jolie commenting on the traveling she's been able to do while filming Tomb Raider, "The world is a lot bigger than I thought it was ... The world I live in most of the time is very, very small. Hollywood is very ugly. They're all worrying about the wrong things, about being beautiful."

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