New Wave of Creating Over Top Fake Situations. New York Times Calls It How It Is.

Staging Celebrity in Buzztown, U.S.A.

By CARYN JAMES
If you didn't know that there was some kind of off-screen chemistry between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, you wouldn't guess it from "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," the tepid action-romance in which they play married assassins out to kill each other. But we do know - from television, print and the Internet - all the speculation about a real-life affair, just as we know that Russell Crowe, in New York last week to promote his boxing movie, "Cinderella Man," was arrested for throwing a phone at a hotel clerk, and that Tom Cruise now behaves like a wind-up doll endlessly shouting to the public that he loves Katie Holmes. (Jumping on couches is optional.)

See whole article here. It is sensational.