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December 29, 2001 - IMDB reports Brad Pitt is urging President George W. Bush to adopt new environmental breakthroughs in reaction to September 11. Brad said, "We keep going back into the history of these extremists, these fundamentalists, and understanding the Islamic culture, and understanding foreign policy. We're embracing religion, which is a beautiful thing to see, but the thing no one is talking about is oil. Why don't we set ourselves free? We have the technology for electric cars, and we have other power sources. Yes, it would be expensive to make the switch over, but we could, and we would have complete autonomy from our need for oil. We would not have to rape Alaska, and we wouldn't have to be dependent on those guys over there. In the long term, if we could free ourselves from the dependency of oil, we'd be alright."

December 28, 2001 - US Weekly lists Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston as the #2 story of the year 2001, second only to, of course, the events of September 11. They show the couple under the caption, "They said it wouldn't last."

December 21, 2001 - Conan O'Brien joked during his Thursday night monologue, "According to the New York Post They're never wrong. Brad pitt routinely walks around his house completely nude, even in front of his housekeeper. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, brad pitt's housekeeper pays him $50 an hour."

December 20, 2001 - The New York Post's Liz Smith reports Brad Pitt is known for going around his home naked, and his staff have gotten so used to his behavior they no longer pay attention to his nude exploits.

December 18, 2001 - Fametracker profiled the cast of Ocean's Eleven including Brad Pitt where they impersonated the actor joking, "Hi, I'm Brad Pitt. Hey, I was actually good in this movie! And no one punched me in the face! I can actually be good in a movie where no one punches me in the face."

December 17, 2001 - This week's US Weekly features news that Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt both wear Dillon Rogers' Spiritualbands. They prefer the ones that say 'Peace' and 'Flower Child'. 

December 16, 2001 - Yahoo! has photos of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, George Clooney, Andy Garcia in Rome to attend a presentation of 'Ocean's Eleven' at Rome's Grand Hotel, Monday, December 10, 2001.

December 14, 2001 - The Globe reports Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck bring along their own personal groomers when they go on location.

December 13, 2001 - - The Tonight Show had Ross The Intern speak with Brad Pitt at the premiere of Ocean's Eleven which the obviously gay intern talked about Brad's bedroom skit with the fat old guy when he plugged Spy Game on the show last month. Brad said he and the old guy were in therapy and laughed off questions about whether his skin was soft saying, "I'm gonna get you Jay."

December 11, 2001 - Star reports Brad Pitt was forced to pick up wife Jennifer Aniston a simple gold wedding band after she was constantly leaving the real thing on the set of Friends. Aniston had explained she had to take it off while filming.

December 9, 2001 - Yahoo! has photos of Brad Pitt and the rest of the Ocean's Eleven cast at Incrilik military base at Adana in southern Turkey Friday, December 7.

December 9, 2001 - Star has details on Brad Pitt talking of former girlfriend Jill Schoelen, who Brad was dumped by after he spent most of his savings to visit her on film location in Hungary. Brad said, "It was one of my worst moments. I was with her all day, watching her filming. Then that night she suddenly tells me, after all this crying, that she's in love with the director she's workign with, a guy called Dwight H. Little." She's since split from Little and has married Anthony Marinelli living in Encino, California.

December 8, 2001 - Splash has photos of Brad Pitt at the premiere of Ocean's Eleven in Westwood at the Mann's Village Theatre.

December 7, 2001 - The New York Post reports George Clooney has put Brad Pitt and Matt Damon in his directorial debut, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." The two will appear as bachelors on "The Dating Game" in a scene that insiders describe as "hilarious."

December 6, 2001 - WireImage.com has 39 photos of Brad Pitt from the premiere of Ocean's Eleven in Westwood Wednesday night. Check them out here.

December 4, 2001 - Liz Smith of the New York Post reports Brad Pitt was seen rollerblading alone along the beach in Venice, California, where he stopped to buy ten pair of white socks at a sidewalk stall for $10 and he ordered a pizza to go.

December 4, 2001 - George Clooney tells the January issue of Premiere magazine, "I'm only a couple of years older than [Brad Pitt] by the way, but Brad looks 25 and I look 45."

December 4, 2001 - Katrillion reported on Brad Pitt's character, Dusty Ryan, in Ocean's Eleven which Pitt described as "He likes to eat a lot." Asked why he likes to play weird characters, Pitt said, "I guess it's just more fun to go the other way."

December 2, 2001 - US Weekly reports Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Bef Affleck were spotted hanging out together at Guy's Bar in Los Angeles. Hopefully, Ben was drinking water.

December 2, 2001 - Brad Pitt came off sounding like Dr. Seuss at the premiere of his new movie Spy Game as he told US Weekly, "I'm very happy with my life; I'm very happy with my wife." The mag also reports Pitt jumped the guardrail to greet cheering fans but was pulled back as security couldn't contain the excited crowd.

December 1, 2001 - The Enquirer's Mike Walker reports Brad Pitt used to work in a chicken outfit when he was an out of work actor. So when he saw a guy doing that on the side of the road he pulled over and gave the guy a $100 tip. Howard Stern complained that Pitt mearly did this to have his publicist drop it to the tabs for good PR.

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