After the tabloids predicted the eminent demise of Brad and Angelina during those last slow weeks at the end of summer when not much else is happening, they have to explain why these two are still happily together despite all the manufactured strife. So Brad and Angelina have had a big makeup in their relationship, with details as usual based on known facts about the couple and little if any insider information.

Brad and Angelina were said to be breaking up because Brad told Maddox to say “excuse me” when he interrupted a guide at the Field Museum, which made Angelina roll her eyes. Now they’re said to be in a second honeymoon phase of their relationship because they went on a date together and gave some quotes to the press about wanting another kid. I bet that not much has changed and that all this is pure speculation:

The setting for the Hollywood power couple’s touching reconciliation was the Bar at the Chicago Penninsula hotel on August 15.

“They were in the back VIP area, talking quietly and stroking each other’s arms,” an eyewitness tells Star. “Angelina was drinking Captain Morgan’s rum and code and Brad was drinking Corona beer. Brad lifted Angelina’s hand and gave it a kiss. When the waitress said ‘last call’ and asked Angie if she wanted another drink, she didn’t even hear her. She was so caught up in Brad – and he was utterly captivated by her.”

“At 2 a.m., when the lights came on, they walked about of the bar hand in hand and headed up to their suite.”

And that marked a new beginning for the pair, after three troubled and stressful years during which they became parents to four children, juggled demanding careers and struggled to cope with Angie’s plunging weight. Things had gotten so bad that during their recent stay in Chicago, where Angie was working on the movie Wanted, they appeared ready to throw in the towel.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, September 17, 2007]

Note that Star doesn’t say they were about to end it, just “they appeared ready.”

The article goes on to say that they were fighting over Angelina’s relationship with her brother, James Haven, and about disciplining the kids. That stupid incident where Angelina supposedly rolled her eyes at Brad after he told Maddox to say “excuse me” was dragged up again as if it shows they were ready to break up.

Star says Angelina is ready to get pregnant and is trying to eat more, and is even taking prenatal vitamins “she bought at Whole Foods.”

They also say that they’re trying to work on their family, using the examples of all their high-profile outings in NY recently.

To me it just seems like the tabloids have to save face now that all this positive PR is headed Brangelina’s way after their happy recent photos. It could be true that they’re less stressed out now that Angelina isn’t working in Chicago, but that doesn’t mean they were on the verge of a breakup or that it’s this glorious time for their relationship now.

Brad recently got Angelina’s birthday tattooed on his stomach in Khmer, so he’s playing for keeps even if they’re not planning on getting officially married. Angelina has said that the children keep them together, and it doesn’t seem like they’ll be breaking up anytime soon. It’s not like I want them to stay together, because it would be mighty good gossip if they really did break up and the tabloids have been banking on that. Still, you have to think of their young kids so I guess I wish them every happiness, blah blah.

Brad and Angelina are shown at the Toronto film festival this weekend to promote Brad’s film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Angelina looked just a little bit healthier and her hair looked lovely in soft curls. Images thanks to PRPhotos.