Taking Names: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie engaged after seven years

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• Brad Pitt
• Angelina Jolie
• Cynthia Pett-Dante

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After seven years as a couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are finally engaged.

Mr. Pitts manager, Cynthia Pett-Dante, confirmed the news to the Associated Press in an email Friday.

There isnt a wedding date yet. The engagement is a promise for the future, Ms. Pett-Dante said.

Mr. Pitt, 48, and Miss Jolie, 36, have six children together, including three who are adopted.

Their kids are very happy, Ms. Pett-Dante said.

Mr. Pitt and Miss Jolie have been partners since they began a relationship while working on the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Miss Jolie was briefly married to Billy Bob Thornton, but they divorced in 2003. She also was married to British actor Jonny Lee Miller before they divorced in 1999.

Mr. Pitt was previously married to Jennifer Aniston, but they divorced in 2005 after five! years o f marriage.

Miss Jolie won an Oscar for her role in 1999s Girl, Interrupted. Mr. Pitt recently was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in last years Moneyball.

Green Day set to release three albums in five months

Rockers Green Day are to release a trilogy of albums over a five-month period starting later this year, the band announced Thursday.

The records, to be called Uno, Dos and Tre, will go on sale in September, November and next January, according to Agence France-Presse, and will be follow-ups to their Grammy-winning 2009 hit album 21st Century Breakdown.

The unusual one-after-the-other release schedule - which comes as bands scramble with new models for releasing their music in the Internet age - is simply due to the fact that they are making lots of good music, they said.

We are at the most prolific and creative time in our lives. This is the best music weve ever written, and the songs just keep coming, the band said on its website.

Instead of making one album, we are making a three-album trilogy. Every song has the power and energy that represents Green Day on all emotional levels. We just cant help ourselves. We are going epic! the band said.

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