$15M Twins Debut Monday

Domain names, photo shoots on the agenda for hot-ticket twins

(NEWSER) - At just 2 days old, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline are the world's most sought-after celebrity pair—and parents Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in managing mode. Just Jared reports the Brangelina lawyers bought out all domains with the bambinos' names—and experts tell USA Today that a photo shoot will occur in the next few weeks to deter rogue paparazzi. More»

(NEWSER) - Work has Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie separated, but just temporarily, the New York Post reports. Pitt has been in New York for movie work and in Chicago for Barack Obama’s election-night festivities and a sitdown with Oprah Winfrey. Jolie, meanwhile, was promoting the DVD release of Kung Fu Panda in Hollywood, where she told People the pair’s 4-month-old twins are “starting to get very smiley.” More»

People , OK ! magazines go to eight digits to seal first snaps of babies

(NEWSER) - They’re not even born (or are they?), but the twins on the way for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are already worth $15 million—and counting. A bidding war has broken out between OK! and People magazines for the first exclusive photos of children, the Daily Mail reports. An OK! source told TMZ it would be “foolish” not to vie for them. More»

Enquirer's making stories up now, retorts blogger

(NEWSER) - Taking a break from the tawdry affairs of Democrats , the National Enquirer turns its, er, unique brand of investigative journalism to Down Syndrome and the important unanswerable question of whether two pint-size Jolie-Pitts, Knox and Vivienne, have it. The cover-worthy story, it seems, is that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are "tormented by speculation" in the blogosphere that the twins have physical traits—rounded face, flattened profiles and upward slanted eyes—typical of people with Down Syndrome, and therefore must have Down Syndrome. More»

Changeling made her "emotional" about kids

(NEWSER) - Playing the mother of a missing child kicked Angelina Jolie's well-documented maternal instincts into even higher gear, reports the LA Times. "I got pregnant right in the middle of it and I think partially because of it,” the actress said of Changeling, her latest motherhood-centered flick. Jolie, now the mom of six, called her kids “the center of my life.” More»