Brangelina matters

On the rise and fall of America's premiere celebrity couple

Brangelina no more.
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have called it quits. Cue the trumpets, man the horns. That rustle you hear is the world arranging itself carefully into camps: no, not #TeamJolie or #TeamJen, but teams #ThoseWhoCare and #ThoseWhoDon't.

But here's the thing: Anyone who cares enough to say they don't care is really just showing how hard it is to resist the lure of American frivolity.

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Lili Loofbourow

Lili Loofbourow is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She's also a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and an editor for Beyond Criticism, a Bloomsbury Academic series dedicated to formally experimental criticism. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues including The Guardian, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.