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Aniston - Courteney
Cox
A couple of hard-bodied homebodies, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston delight in their not-so-secret love Brad Pitt's people want to make one thing perfectly clear: Their client -- that blond Adonis -- and TV's favorite Friend Jennifer Aniston are so not engaged. "Ridiculous," says one representative. Some family members profess to be in the dark ("I wouldn't have any idea," says Pitt's brother Doug, 32), while a close friend of Aniston's family's says, "Jennifer and Brad are very serious, but the rumors about them getting married anytime soon are not even close." Still, a leading L.A. wedding planner got a call months ago from one of the couple's handlers and was told to be ready for an interview with the pair. (The planner is still waiting by the phone.) Of course, these are the same people who, until recently, denied that Pitt, 35, and Aniston, 30, were even seeing each other. They must not have noticed them cooing over dinners, puckering at parties and clubs and hunkering down in hotels for romantic getaways. Or maybe they weren't listening when Pitt said recently that "nothing is more important than love." Or when Aniston told Rolling Stone that "marriage is wonderful." Lacking any on-the-job experience herself, could that be wishful thinking? Despite Pitt's and Aniston's aversion to premarital publicity -- they go out of their way not to be photographed together -- something distinctly premarital has been building since they began dating late last spring. Their caution is understandable: Both stars are coming off painful (and very public) breakups. Pitt and fiancée Gwyneth Paltrow parted in June 1997 after 2 1/2 years together, and Aniston broke up with actor Tate Donovan last March after they also dated for 2 1/2 years. But the couple of the moment have lately seemed more willing to let the truth trickle out. Things came to a head in February when their romance set off fireworks -- literally. Some nine months into their relationship, as if to proclaim their own personal Interdependence Day, Pitt and the woman he calls "my girl" chartered a private jet with nine or so friends and threw themselves an Acapulco weekend beach party to celebrate both Valentine's Day weekend and (isn't it too perfect?) Aniston's Feb. 11, 30th birthday -- following another birthday blowout on Feb. 6 at L.A.'s trendy Barfly restaurant. As Valentine's Day wound down that Sunday night, fireworks set off for the occasion exploded over the Pacific coast. Pitt and Aniston danced and snuggled until 5 a.m. The setting was the spectacular 49-room Villa Alejandra residence, borrowed from Mexico's prominent Alemán family. Three cooks kept buffet tables groaning with mountains of oysters, shrimp and tropical fruit, washed down with beer, wine, champagne and piña coladas. The secluded property, including three thatched-roof bungalows, is set against a towering cliffside and opens onto a private beach scattered with coconut shells and palm branches. During the day, Pitt and his pals played touch football in the surf, while Aniston, her hair pulled back and wearing cutoff blue jeans and a bikini top, chatted with the other women. Neither Pitt nor Aniston left the property all weekend. Why bother? "Whatever they asked for they could get," says gardener Enrique Martinez. "They were kissing everywhere."
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