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November 30, 2001 - The Enquirer reports Brad Pitt was motorcycling recently when he slowed for a ball rolling into the street, then a child ran after it. Trying to avoid a tragedy, Pitt swerved and ran into a curb, launching him off the bike but luckily into bushes along the side of the street. Brad was unhurt and drove off.

November 30, 2001 - E! Online's Ted Casablanca reports Jennifer Aniston was spotted getting her hair cut at Tova's Body telling a friend that she and hubby Brad Pitt checked out the Britney Spears HBO special and added that Brad thought Britney Spears wasn't lip-synching. This prompted Casablanca to ask, "Those movie-stahs are so benevolent, are they not?" 

November 30, 2001 - MSNBC's Jeannette Walls reports Brad Pitt is attempting to back off his criticism to Details magazine about former president Bill Clinton. Brad told AP, "The last thing I want to do was participate in any kind of Clinton bashing." As for the people at Details, they revealed he said even WORSE things than the ones printed with a source saying, "I find it totally shocking that Brad would now accuse Details of misrepresenting that he said, when in fact, he actually said worse things."

November 30, 2001 - Foxnews.com's Roger Friedman is one of the first to review the new all-star flick Ocean's Eleven with Brad Pitt. Friedman had mixed reviews with the negative aspects directed mostly at the writer. Read more.

November 30, 2001 - People Magazine profile Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston after 16 months of marriage and talk to Aniston's friend Kathy Najimy who said of the couple, "There's no insecurity going on. 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."

November 28, 2001 - Robert Redford talked about his hate for fame and Hollywood which is nearly opposite of Brad Pitt's fealings. Redford said of his Spy Game co-star, "Brad has pressures now that didn't exist then. The pressures of stardom, the loss of privacy - all the things I went through. I empathise. Some people wanted fame all their lives and fall all over themselves gobbling it up. Brad is struggling to maintain a balanced place. We talked a lot about having to deal with these issues. You're forced into a kind of cynicism and paranoia. Brad has his own integrity. He's finding his way, while still living in the Hollywood community."

November 28, 2001 - Star reports Brad Pitt shelved out double what a customer at a furniture store had just paid for a table after wife Jennifer Aniston was heartbroken to find the table sold when she simply wanted to have Brad look at it first. Luckily, Brad got the buyer's number and the guy took a quick $9,000 profit.

November 27, 2001 - Brad Pitt tells the Chicago Sun Times that he was a little misquoted when he told Vanity Fair he was bored with himself. Pitt reveals, "That quote got a bit out of hand. It came from a lighthearted conversation. My point was that as of lately, yes, I'm bored watching myself. I need a new direction. What I've been doing now is looking for something new."

November 25, 2001 - Brad Pitt spoke with Britain's tabloid Mirror where he talked about the importance of love saying, "Love is everything... On your deathbed you don't talk about cars you drove, what you did; only loves or regrets for the loves that you let go."

November 22, 2001 - Brad Pitt did a Shameless Self Promotion skit on the Tonight Show Wednesday night that is perhaps unheard of for a big star.. Pretty funny too.

November 22, 2001 - Conan O'Brien joked during his Wednesday night monologue, "The other day, Brad Pitt told a London newspaper that he's only been dumped by one woman, it still bothers him. Pitt said he was shocked and hurt when things didn't work out with him and Melissa Etheridge."

November 22, 2001 - The Seattle Times gave a 3 star review for Spy Game. Moira Macdonald said, "[Pitt's] fine throughout the film, but his scenes with Redford have an extra spark."

November 22, 2001 - Steven Rea of the Philadelphia Inquirer reviewed Spy Game giving it 2 1/2 out of 4 stars but didn't sound too impressed saying, "Fans of swooping helicopter shots, alleys filled with backlit geysers of steam, and jump-cut editing that makes MTV look like Ingmar Bergman will relish the intercontinental intrigue and huggermugger that is 'Spy Game.' Me, I just want a moment of peace."

November 22, 2001 - Ocean's Eleven stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle will be going to Turkey to visit U.S. and coalition troops.

November 21, 2001 - The New York Daily News reports Brad Pitt is sharing more personal details ahead of the Spy Game release today as he admits he was heartbroken after getting dumped in 1989 by his fiancee, actress Jill Schoelen, who left him for another man. "It was one of my worst moments. It may have affected the way I've conducted some relationships since."

November 21, 2001 - The Star reports the real reason behind Brad Pitt's seeking of therapy wasn't his relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow but because of the icy relationship with Jennifer Aniston and her mother which he was in the middle of. An insider revealed, "He found he had become the shock absorber for all of Jennifer's neuroses about her family and the wedding, and it became too much for him. He felt confused and depressed." The insider added, "Brad's just a deepy sensitive guy - and the pressure and stress of the wedding and Jennifer's family problems really got him down."

November 21, 2001 - William Arnold of the Seattle Post Intelligencer is giving Spy Game a B- rating saying of the film, "While it never glamorizes the spy game and goes out of its way to depict the CIA's assassinations and other sordid involvements over the years as being near-criminal acts, it does a shrewd job of vindicating its characters, and their necessity in an increasingly cruel world." Read more.

November 21, 2001 - Jeff Strickler of the Star Tribune gives Spy Game 3 out of 4 stars saying of the film's stars, "With their pretty-boy smiles, Redford and Pitt don't fit the mold of the hardboiled super spy. But that's what makes their characters good agents."

November 21, 2001 - WireImage.com has photos of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston at the premiere of Spy Game in Westwood, California on Monday. Check out the huge 359 picture gallery here.

November 20, 2001 - The Chicago Sun Times reports during filming of Ocean's Eleven, Brad Pitt never gambled in the city of Las Vegas. Pitt says, "You lose the first $40 and that's enough."

November 20, 2001 - If you missed the Barbara Walters interview with Brad Pitt and the rest of the Ocean's Eleven cast last Friday, there's a portion of the video on the ABC website.

November 19, 2001 - The New York Post's Cindy Adams reports Harrison Ford turned down the role Robert Redford signed on for in Spy Game because "A) He already made one film with Pitt and isn't wild about him. B) He's major enough to be a movie's single male star."

November 19, 2001 - Yahoo! has 2 vid caps of Brad Pitt's appearance on Friends that is scheduled to be broadcast on Thanksgiving, November 22.

November 17, 2001 - US Weekly reports Brad Pitt was spotted wearing a black beanie and getting out of his black Range Rover to pick up coffee at a Beverly Hills Starbucks.

November 16, 2001 - The London Independent talked to a skincare specialist who is claiming to have treated Brad Pitt for his acne scars. Doctor Danne Montague-King revealed, "Brad is a beautiful young man, he truly is, but he has acne scars and a few other facial scars as well. As he gets older, and the skin loses its elasticity, these will get worse. So we did one of our top-of-the-line treatments that resurfaces the skin immediately and he came out very well." PItt's spokesperson denies the claim.

November 15, 2001 - The New York Post reports Brad Pitt is offering his thoughts on what should happen with the former World Trade Center's space to Barbara Walters, "It's important to America to get our symbol back. And maybe in that empty space . . . we could build a sculpture of a bit of the [original] building."

November 13, 2001 - Brad Pitt talks to Barbara Walters about married life on the ABC special Friday admitting, "Really, what I've been most surprised about, I find it very soothing. The everyday of it, I really value it, having this base and this connection that you can then go out in the world and do whatever you want, but you know you got this thing." Pitt also admits being married has made him much more grounded.

November 12, 2001 - Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia and Don Cheadle will appear on "The Barbara Walters Special" at 10 p.m. Friday on ABC. They'll be promoting "Ocean's 11."

November 11, 2001 - US Weekly reports Brad Pitt was spotted having brunch with a woman at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills as the two discussed business.

November 10, 2001 - Brad Pitt was on Entertainment Tonight Friday talking about Spy Game where he talked about filming an action scene revealing, "There's one moment where we come -- it's the Vietnam section, where the helicopter's landing, moving in, you don't know exactly where it's gonna set down, and you're running towards it, and you're yelling at it trying to got on, and my heart was pumping a little bit. Yeah, it's good guy sfuff."

November 10, 2001 - TV Guide talked to Jennifer Aniston as she and Brad Pitt were approached at a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles recently and 3 smiling waiters. She said, "They go, 'Congratulations! And they have this big ol' piece of chocolate cake decorated beautifully. I said, 'What is this for?' They said, 'You're pregnant!' I said, 'I'm not pregnant!' I literally had a sake and a cigarette in my hands,"

November 8, 2001 - Jay Leno joked during his monologue Wednesday, "Jennifer Aniston said in an interview recently she held off for nine months -- nine months before she had sex with Brad Pitt. Do you believe that? Well, he's a good-looking guy, isn't he? I mean, that's willpower. See, I don't think I could go nine months without having sex with Brad Pitt, you know? I mean, he's that good-looking. He's a good-looking guy. And speaking of Brad Pitt -- oh, he said in the current issue of Vanity Fair that he knows he only has about -- this is silly, but -- he says he only has about seven years left in the prime of his career, then he's gonna have to maybe think about doing something else. Well, do the math -- $20 million a movie, two movies a year, seven years. That comes out to $280 million. He's not 40 yet. He's gonna have to make that last." 

November 7, 2001 - Brad Pitt details his 1 1/2 year bout with therapy following the breakup with Gwyneth Paltrow in the new issue of Vanity Fair. Brad says, "I came from a place [Missouri] where you had to be crazy to go to a crazy doctor. We don't talk about our feelings that way."

November 6, 2001 - IMDB reports George Clooney played the role of pratical joker on Ocean's Eleven co-star Brad Pitt by booby trapping doors with buckets of water. Pitt says it took him two hours every day to make his hotel room after Clooney and co-star Matt Damon's stunts.

November 4, 2001 - E! Online has more details on Brad Pitt's guest appearance on Friends, which is set to air November 22.

November 3, 2001 - US Weekly reports Brad Pitt joined Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton at the special screening of the Thornton starring The Man Who Wasn't There on October 23 at the Director's Guild of America Theatre Complex in Los Angeles. Jennifer Aniston couldn't make it as she was rehearsing on the set of Friends.

November 3, 2001 - IMDB reports Brad Pitt has filmed his guest spot on Friends already but the role won't be romantic. Pitt will be cast as Ross' geeky high school friend and wear a fat suit for a flashback sequence.

November 1, 2001 - Liz Smith reveals Brad Pitt will be on Access Hollywood tonight to reveal he will eventually appear on 'Friends' saying, "I got to, don't I?" adding, "I haven't given it that much thought. I'll leave it to the experts."

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