Jolie

Billy Bob Thornton reflects on life in the tabloid spotlight with Angelina Jolie, Jason Isaacs discusses the ‘shocking’ scrutiny of ‘The White Lotus’ cast and more tales from the Envelope Drama Roundtable.

On assignment for People magazine in 2005, Weiss attempts to sneak onto Brad Pitt’s beachfront compound in Santa Barbara, hoping to grab some tasty morsels about the megastar’s new relationship with Jolie.

He has been tasked, alongside a two-paparazzi team, with monitoring Jolie’s son’s fourth birthday party.

It was the prelapsarian age of the dumb phone, when we weren’t all taking photos of everything all the time and paparazzi were commanding six figures for shots of Angelina Jolie’s baby bump.

“For the last six months, you haven’t been able to buy a Snickers at the supermarket without missing the all-caps headlines” about the love triangle between Pitt, Jolie and Jennifer Aniston.