While at DC’s Holocaust Memorial Museum to support Angelina Jolie‘s directorial debut, actor Brad Pitt shared that, unlike his partner, he isn’t “disappointed” with how things have gone under Barack Obama. At the premiere of In The Land of Blood and Honey, Jolie told Daily Caller senior video reporter Nicholas Ballasy that she is “disappointed” [...]

With the news of New York’s new law permitting same-sex couples to marry, the statistics on who is getting married in states that had previously done the same are now coming to the fore, and it turns out men are simply marrying less, no matter what their orientation. On this morning’s Red Eye, Greg Gutfeld and company took a guess at what the statistics meant and purveyed some advice on how to avoid getting gay-married.

Stefan Kanfer’s new biography about Humphrey Bogart, Tough Without a Gun, has led film fans and critics to reflect on the life and legacy of the Hollywood legend. “Bogie” passed away in 1957, but he’s left behind an indelible mark on Tinseltown; some say no star will ever achieve the level of success that Bogart did. What was it about the actor that made him such a force?

Bill O’Reilly is not exactly the biggest ally A-list do-gooders like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie can count on to support their work abroad. But while usually skeptical, O’Reilly found himself defending their cause in the Darfur region of Sudan as his guest, former CIA intelligence officer Michael Scheuer, accused them of helping Osama Bin Laden‘s cause.

This morning, Tom Junod over at Esquire‘s political blog offered his take on why Republican voters have been more energized than Democratic ones: sex appeal. In an article titled “How D.C. Became Hollywood for Semi-Attractive People,” he argues that conservative women like Christine O’Donnell, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter and Michele Bachmann are both “crazy” and the new “standard of beauty,” while lib ladies are “either old or unattractive.” As he puts it, “the Democrats became the CNN to the Republican Fox, clueless in their competence, bewildered by their own best intentions.”

Today marks the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Meet the Press did a special broadcast this morning from New Orleans, hosted by Brian Williams to mark the occasion including a fascinating tour of Brad Pitt‘s Make It Right housing project in the Lower Ninth Ward, and hard panel discussion about NOLA five years later. Also, whatever happened to that national discussion we were supposed to have about poverty and race?

Hollywood may have met its match here. The Wrap is reporting that Hollywood — or to be specific, The Writers Guild of America, West — is attempting to strong-arm IMDB into removing birthdates from its entries. Did you just laugh out loud? The idea that one is able to erase personal information for the Internet, let alone one of its most used sites, does seem laughable but nevertheless they are apparently giving it a shot.

We’ve lived in a constant state of worry and fear, but now the day has finally arrived: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are splitting. (Maybe.) News of the World is reporting that the Biggest Celebrity Couple of All-Time© has signed the paperwork to share custody of their six children (they were never married) and split their gigantic pile of money. And it begs an important media question: At what level of fame does a celebrity couple’s breakup become legitimately newsworthy? Ever?

Regardless of the outcomes of the two playoff games this weekend, the Super Bowl will have plenty of compelling story lines. Mediaite presents a four part series where we tell you who’s left in the NFL playoffs, why they matter, and what the media will not stop talking about if they earn a trip to the big game. Part two focuses on the New Orleans Saints.

Eli Roth has had quite a decade. From young director struggling to get his first feature in the can to hotshot horrormeister pushing to the edges of the genre to the bat-brandishing Bear Jew in Quentin Tarantino‘s epic Nazi revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds, Roth has come a long way in a town that at times can be about as gentle as that dungeon in Hostel.

As we head into awards season — and what has already been a triumphant outing for the much-nominated Basterds — Mediaite asked Eli to reflect on the last decade and the sweat, tears and, yes, blood it took to get here. Luckily for us, he was as forthcoming with his story as the Bear Jew is with his bat — and shared all the gory details. Here they are.

Eli Roth remembers the last decade, and his trip from struggling film school grad through horror’s new hotshot through to Inglorious Basterds and the infamous Bear Jew. Here are all the gory details.

Star Magazine running a misleading cover? Say it ain’t so! The jury is out on whether Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie truly had “the fight to end all fights,” but Star definitely ran a misleading cover story on their fight or alleged fight. Gossip Cop has the deets:

Get this: Angelina Jolie thinks Barack Obama is a “socialist in disguise.” This is according to an anonymous source, who provided many spicy quotes to Us Weekly. She also “hates him.” Does this doom Obama’s chances in 2012? Will this tear Angelina and Brad [Pitt] apart? And how does she compare to Megan Fox, anyway?

With this weekend’s release of the latest entry in “The Twilight Saga:” New Moon, it’s safe to say a new publicity blitz is upon us. In this edition of Cover Wars, we remember the classics from the Twilight franchise, knowing full well that many more are now in print. We call it The Greatest Twilight Cover So Far.

Did your New York Post look stranger than usual this morning? Rumors have been swirling for a while now that the Yes Men, those fun folks who brought us last year’s fake New York Times, were cooking up something new. Turns out it was a fake New York Post, which was handed out this morning to commuters city-wide. We have a slide show of the contents.

Who: Quentin Tarantino interviewed by Lynn Hirschberg What: TimesTalks, “A Conversation with Quentin Tarantino” Where: The Times Center When: August 14, 2009 Thumbs: Up

Vanity Fair has released its 2009 Best-Dressed List. Does anybody care? It wasn’t that long ago that these sorts of lists, from publications like Vanity Fair, were powerful measures of a star’s clout, or their clout-to-be as the case may have been. Not so much anymore. We’re so saturated by Hollywood images these days it’s a bit like reading last year’s magazine.

Every week we take a look at the newsstand and try to pick the winners and losers. We call this feature “Cover Wars” and this week we’re looking at the world of men’s magazines — or should we say ‘magazines that men might like to read’. We’re always looking for something a little smarter to read, especially if photos of Brad Pitt eating donuts over his keyboard are involved.