Angelina Jolie’s summer plans mean she’s either a ballbuster or “needy”

Many of the tabloids have been theorizing about Brad and Angelina’s summer plans for months - now that we’re entering mid-July, you’d think they’d give up the “Oh my God, what are they going to do for the summer?” stories, but whatever. At first it looked like Brad was going to be filming Moneyball all summer in LA, where Angelina and the kids may or may not join him (some reports had her leaving in a huff for France). Then Moneyball fell through, and it looked like Brad would spend his summer passed out in Maddox’s pillow fort.

But alas! It was just announced yesterday that the studio is scrambling with an Aaron Sorkin rewrite for Moneyball, and Brad could be getting back to work very quickly. Before that news came out, however, both Star and In Touch had some old-school theorizin’ to do about what Star calls Brangelina’s “Last Chance Summer”. What’s funny is that “friends” of the couples are quoted in both articles, but the stories are totally different. First, here’s In Touch’s version:

Angelina Jolie has come up with a bold - if risky - solution [to save her troubled relationship with Brad Pitt]: living apart. After the pair celebrate the first birthday of their twins in France on July 12, Angelina will stay there with their six children - while Brad returns to LA.

“She thinks it will be the only way to keep Brad in her life for the long term,” explains a friend. “She’s hoping that spending some time apart will make them remember what it is they love about each other.”

“One issue that came up was that, before Brad went out to LA, they were spending too much time together.”

“Brad was frank with Angelina,” the friend says. “He told her that her jealousy and clinginess was driving him away, and that he needs his space.”

No longer exhausted from work, Angelina listened, telling Brad that “she doesn’t want to lose him, and the idea of their children not having a father scares her.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition, July 20 2009]

So Angelina is needy and desperate to save her relationship. So she does the unthinkable and lets Brad have his temporary separation, all to make him realize how lucky he is to have her? Something like that. Unfortunately, in Star’s version, Angelina is a ball-buster who demands that Brad spend every minute of their summer together:

“When Brad told Angie the movie was a no-go, she sat him down at the kitchen table and sternly told him, “You must be with me this summer - it’s not an option,” an insider tells Star. “She threatened to leave him if he said no.”

Angie plans to escape with their children to France - and she’s demanding Brad be by her side. But Brad has demands of his own. “He gave Angie an ultimatum,” a second source explains. “He told her he wants to settle down in one place. He can’t stand the constant globe-trotting anymore.”

Angelina “wants to face their problems head on,” a friend of Brad’s tells Star. “If he can’t do this, then it’s just not going to work out.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, July 20 2009]

Oh no! Unfortunately for Star and In Touch, it looks like Angelina is quite happy to spend her summer in LA. Multiple sources have Angelina signing Zahara and Shiloh up for ten weeks of dance classes in Los Angeles. According to the woman running the dance studio, the classes are “princess-themed ballet classes” that incorporate stuff from Cinderella and other Disney-princess movies. (Psst… why isn’t Suri Cruise involved with these classes?)

According to this studio owner, “Zahara and Shiloh were so cute — they were holding hands and sitting side-by-side. Zahara was a little more coordinated, and she was trying to help Shiloh. She was taking on the big-sister role.” The photos of Shilooh, Zahara and Angelina exiting the studio after the girls’ first dance class are really cute - Shiloh dresses like a ninja ballerina! It seems like Angelina is pretty content to take her summer off in Los Angeles and happily be a stay-at-home mom. And a part-time recreational pilot, because she was spotted yesterday flying her Cirrus SR22 at Bob Hope Airport in LA. Get her, she’s trying to get away!