What do Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt do when faced with a furious tabloid backlash filled with headlines hollering, "Brad Asks: Why Don't You Love Shiloh?" (Life & Style) and "Saint or Sinner: Her Twisted Double Life" (Us Weekly)? Apparently, they chow down on ice cream cake.

Paparazzi snapped the humanitarian honeys picking up the tasty treat from a Los Angeles Baskin-Robbins on Saturday (and somewhere, the company's marketing department does a happy dance), with Brad carrying daughter Zahara, 2, inside the store as Angelina waited in the car.

But does this everyday scene of domestic bliss mask the A-list actor's growing frustration over the negative nattering surrounding his earth mother amour?

So claims Britain's Mail on Sunday, which supposedly scored a scoop when a reporter bumped into a beer-sipping Brad at the bar of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel.

"You know what it's like to be on the cover of every magazine, having your personal life dissected with all the lies, all the rubbish?" Pitt is quoted as asking in the article. "It's hell. Certainly, pick on me -- but why pick on Angelina? That's so low. She's such an amazing woman -- like Supergirl, in every way."

He then allegedly apologizes for his outburst, sighing, "I'm sorry if I seem to be taking my frustration out on you."

According to the interviewer, when he asked Brad about the state of his relationship with Angelina, he smiled and chided, "Oh sure, like I'm going to talk to you about that."

But did he talk to the paper at all?

Pitt's rep tells MSN.com that he "never spoke to the Mail," which, by the way, has also hopped on the backlash bandwagon.

"Is it the end of Brad and Angelina?" blasts the paper. "She wants it all -- babies, fame, and to save the world. But what she definitely doesn't want is marriage. So -- could it be true? Is Angelina getting ready to dump Brad?"

While the 31 flavor-filled tableau of family contentment would seem to belie such gloom-and-doom predictions for the world's most famous blended brood, that hasn't stopped the rising anti-Jolie sentiment, which has lately mainly centered on gripes that the Oscar winner is putting her career ahead of Maddox, 5, Pax, 3, Zahara and Shiloh, 11 months.

But her manager adamantly denies the charge, insisting to the Mail, "Angelina worked a total of only 35 days last year and is currently scheduled to work 40 days this year." So there.

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