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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: AN AFFAIR TO FORGET

By | June 2005

Here is Brad Pitt, talented actor and seemingly nice guy. Here is Angelina Jolie, the high school skank who gave out STDs whenever she traded sex for homework … or booze. The two of them together is as skin-crawling icky as Tom Cruise and the fourteen-year-old Katie Holmes…

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