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Boston Globe, Thu, 16 Jun 2005 0:01 AM PDT
Fenway gets hotter http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/06/16/fenway_gets_hotter?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News
Bill Janovitz with Buffalo Tom, Kay Hanley , the Gentlemen, and Juliana Hatfield are among the acts that'll be gigging at Fenway Park as part of ''Hot Stove, Cool Music: The Fenway Sessions," a fund-raiser for Theo and Paul Epstein 's A Foundation to Be Named Later. (An extension of the Red Sox Foundation, the new entity will raise dough ...

St. Petersburg Times, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:14 PM PDT
Celebrity love handles http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/16/Floridian/Celebrity_love_handles.shtml
With the latest celebrity incarnation, "Brangelina" - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - the melding of names for power couples is officially de rigueur. Reviews of Mr. and Mrs. Smith have identified the film's stars, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, as "Brangelina."

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A leg up on the competition
The life of a male supermodel is not what you'd call tough. Tomorrow, Marcus Schenkenberg's in Boston to judge women's legs for Gillette, then off to Greece to do a bathing-suit shoot. Next week, the coverboy's back in Miami to survey more shanks, and then to Morocco to make a movie. So what qualifies Schenkenberg to be a judge in Gillette's national ''Legs of a Goddess" contest? ''I've seen a lot of legs both onstage and offstage." (Did we mention the former ''Surreal Life" cast member dated Pamela Anderson?) What's a good leg look like? ''Something well-shaped and with nice tone," he said. ''A vibrant personality helps, too." Prospective goddesses should show up at the Pru at noon.

Celebrity love handles
With the latest celebrity incarnation, "Brangelina" - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - the melding of names for power couples is officially de rigueur.
By JAY CRIDLIN, Times Staff Writer
Published June 16, 2005

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Reviews of Mr. and Mrs. Smith have identified the film's stars, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, as "Brangelina." Recently, the New York gossip column Gawker.com carried an item headlined, "The Brangelina has landed!" Jimmy Kimmel mentioned "Brangelina" on his late-night talk show.

Beg your pardon, but . . . "Brangelina"?

Never has the Frankensteinian melding of two separate words been more in vogue, whether it's of two names, one name (KenJen, a.k.a. Jeopardy!'s Ken Jennings) or two animals (liger, the exalted lion-tiger hybrid from Napoleon Dynamite).

The practice almost seems standard for omnipresent power couples. There's "TomKat" (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes), "Romber" (ex-Survivors Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich), "RenKen" (Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney) and "BenJen" (Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner; obviously, the world has retired the hall of fame handle "Bennifer").

"It makes some degree of linguistic sense," said Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University. "Ben Affleck was one entity. Jennifer Lopez was another entity. "Bennifer' was something else entirely. . . . The two of them created a monster that was different than either one of them."

Celebrity couple gossip has been around for decades, but Thompson said he can find no record of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton being known as, say, "Richabeth."

Two years ago, not long after his breakup with Lopez, Affleck devoted a Saturday Night Live monologue to the Bennifer tag. "How hard is it to say two names, instead of one?" he said. "You're not saving that much time!" He then whipped out a Bennifer T-shirt, followed by a line of shirts he hoped might fit future loves: Benyonce, Boprah and Mary-Kate and Ashfleck. "I'm pricing them to move," he said. "For $20, I'll sign 'em "Bennifer.' "

CELEBRITIES WHO SHOULD HOOK UP

Pamela Anderson and Bam Margera: PamBam

Chris Rock and Star Jones: RockStar

Shaquille O'Neal and Nicollette Sheridan: Shaquolette

Topher Grace and Lucy Liu: Tofu

Anna Paquin and Marilyn Manson: Paq-Man

Eminem and Emma Thompson: EminEmma

Ving Rhames and Toni Collette: VingTone

Nas and Carmen Electra: NasCar

Robert Redford and Dana Delany: R2D2

Burt Reynolds and Kelly Ripa: Burpa

Richard Linklater and Parker Posey: Link 'n' Park