INSIDE: Hollywood Marriages

by Buzz Austin

{Los Angeles} Hollywood Marriages are recipes for disaster -- and yet most movie stars usually only date other famous people.

The reason this happens is because most non-famous people are too intimidated to approach someone famous and ask them out on a date.

It just doesn't happen in Hollywood - then again how often do you see the famous socializing with the average Joe? Not often.

Famous people always move in the same circles as other famous people, therefore, it is inevitable that these individuals date and marry within that same glorious circle.

Hollywood Marriages consisting of only a husband and wife are nonexistence in the hills of Hollywood. Each celebrity brings a "camp" to the table, so when you have a marriage merger between two celebrities - they each have a manager, agent, publicist, stylist, assistants - and all of these individuals guide, serve and direct their clients, not only in the matters of career, but relationships as well. So a Hollywood union that consists solely between just a man and a women doesn't exist in Hollywood. "As a handler, coordinating a successful Hollywood marriage between two major stars eventually is logistically unfeasible and after a while things inevitably just fall apart," remarked one Hollywood power publicist.

Don't get me wrong, there are some Hollywood Marriages made in heaven. Some celebrity couples fall into that small percentile that have the chemistry to make it work and they compliment each other effortlessly.

Like Bening and Beatty, Zeta Jones and Douglas, Madonna and Guy Ritchie for example.

I absolutely love Brad Pitt, Jennifer Anniston and Angelina Jolie. All three individuals are extremely talented actors and wonderful human beings. I must admit it as been extremely difficult for me to see these three individuals get tortured in the tabloid press the past year. The media has publicly dissected their relationship from the inside out. I knew that Brad and Jennifer's split was going to be, not only difficult for them, but for everyone living within "the" Hollywood circle.

During the Oscar party weekend earlier this year there was a party at the home of CAA head honcho Bryan Lourd. Everyone, who was anyone, was there: Julia Roberts, Penelope Cruz, Jamie Foxx, Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek - you name it - they were there - it was the Oscar season bash-of-all-bashes.

Now keep in mind, Brad and Jennifer had just announced their separation a month earlier. Brad and Jenn arrived at this party separately, and while they were cordial to each other they stayed on opposite sides of the room all evening.

Gwenyth Paltrow was there, obviously putting the past and her broken engagement to Pitt behind her - Gwen was laughing and talking with Brad and showing him pictures of her daughter Apple. All the while Jennifer was across the room talking with actor and future co-star Vince Vaughn (who would have guessed what the future held for these two.) The next glittery party on the agenda for that weekend was the "Night Before" party, a fund-raiser for the Motion Picture & Television Fund held the following evening poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Brad and Jenn were in attendance wearing their game face. This party is always a star-studded affair in which organizers take great pride in keeping the press outside to make the celebrities feel more relaxed.

The Pitts were the topic of conversation that night, everyone was full of gossip and innuendo. Little did the Pitts know that the media was preparing to pounce on the unraveling of this relationship for many months to come.

Now as the media begins its cool-off in reporting on the former Pitts, the media frenzy is in full-swing for Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson. Over the course of the months to come we will continue to see endless editorial content on the pending divorce of everyone's favorite "newlyweds." Both Simpson and Lachey have hired PR bulldogs to manage the fierce struggle to manipulate the media during this difficult time. Nick has hired PR guru Ken Sunshine (publicist to Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio) who has had plenty of experience guiding his celebrity clients through the break-up mine field. While Jessica has hired PR cowboy, Rob Shuter.

Celebrities will continue to fall in love. The media will continue to stalk and prey. And we "the public" will continue to devour the magazines.

My advice to all you celebrities out there: Be smart - work together - but don't fall in love with each other!

Recently when Kimberly Stewart (daughter of rocker Rod Stewart) woke up one morning and suddenly got a brain; she ended her quickie engagement to MTV's Laguna Beach star, Talon Torriero, after only 11 days. In a joint statement the now ex-couple said, "It is better to have a brief engagement than a short marriage."

Amen!!!