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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may prefer to keep the inner workings of
their relationship on the QT, but the actress' lately blabby brother seems more
than happy to unplug his PR-savvy piehole, this time to proclaim the comely,
kiddie-gathering couple the greatest pairing since chocolate and peanut butter.
"Brad has changed my sister a lot," James "I Didn't French Angie at the Oscars" Haven enthuses to
Grazia magazine (via Us Weekly, which just last week was kvetching about Jolie's
so-called "twisted double life"). "They have an extraordinary
bond, but not on the usual level. Brad is so strong for her; when she feels
vulnerable, he has the most incredible strength. She says she couldn't have
adopted more children after Maddox without him."
But it's not just the glamorous earth mother, 31, who has been transformed,
says her Chatty Cathy of a big brother. The megastar, 43, who just two years ago
was tyke-less and not quite divorced from Jennifer Aniston, is now "totally committed" to
life as a dad.
"He has changed so much," gushes Haven. "He's completely involved -- he loves
the children and is terrific with them."
So family-oriented are the world's most famous flames that "there is no limit
to the children she and Brad are adopting," he reveals. "It could be scores.
I've never heard an end number in their conversations."
But will the Jolie-Pitts, who last month added 3-year-old Vietnamese orphan
Pax Thien to their tot-filled melting pot, soon provide Maddox, 5, Zahara, 2,
and Shiloh, 11 months, with another playmate?
Britain's tabloid-tastic News of the World claims Angelina has her eye on a
1-year-old girl from the African country of Chad, ostensibly to "balance" the
brood (Zahara was born in Ethiopia).
But a local official assures Us that the Jolie-Pitts have not filled out an
adoption application.
Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean they (and the four nannies the mag
says they keep on staff) won't need oodles of poopie diapers in the coming
months.
"Brad has told people he and Angelina want to have two more kids in 2007,"
says a "source close to the actor." "Their plans include another biological
child."
Chimes in another insider, "They want seven or eight children."
As for tabloid talk that Jolie wears the pants -- albeit incredibly stylish
and sexy pants -- in the relationship, her brother acknowledges she prefers to
be in charge, but insists that's a good thing: "All great leaders are
controlling."
Still, he denies there's a power struggle.
"I have never seen any sign of tension between them," marvels Haven. "They
make all their decisions together. It's rubbish that she tries to control him.
They have a balanced relationship; they each do their stuff. I've never seen
moments where one is nagging or controlling the other."
He then offers his take on why they're perfectly matched, a theory that runs
somewhat counter to the prepossessing pair's preferred poker-face pose in
paparazzi pics.
"The great thing about Brad and Angelina is that they really get each other's
sense of humor and make each other laugh a lot," he says. "They talk about
politics a great deal and are very creative together with the projects they are
working on."
He then makes a bold prediction -- one a more superstitious type might worry
could jinx the romance.
"If it keeps going the way it's going," he says, "they'll be together for
life."
That's news to Star, however, which is convinced happily-ever-after just
isn't in the cards for Brangelina.
"Is It Over?" screams this week's not-at-all sensationalistic cover.
"Angelina Walks Out on Brad! ... & Dumps the Kids!"
The New York Post believes Star, like Us, is peeved that People keeps scoring
the exclusive pictures of the family, hence the headline about Jolie supposedly
zipping off for a quick, work-related trip to Chicago, and letting Maddox,
Zahara and Pax socialize at a daycare on the Warner Bros. lot.
"I wish people would leave them alone," Pitt's rep tells the paper. "They're
trying to do something good."
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