As the last ones in the world to care about the status of the relationship between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, we feel it is incumbent upon ourselves, as people with far too time on our hands, to pay our respects to the greatest couple the world has ever seen – until another article comes along and refutes the original breaking news scoop of the century.

The News of the World, clearly too busy to waste print on Haiti and the economic crisis, reported on Sunday that Pitt and Jolie have seen a top divorce lawyer. “HOLLYWOOD golden pair Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have seen DIVORCE lawyers and signed a ?205 million split deal, we can reveal. The world’s most famous couple legally agreed how to divide their fortune and who gets custody of their six kids,” the story begins.

People, meanwhile, moved their reporters out of Iraq and Afghanistan to send this important bit of news: “While reports are swirling that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are headed for a split, multiple sources close to the family tell PEOPLE that the rumors are false.”

We’re going to side with People on this one. There is still too much left in the Brangelina brand for it to disintegrate so soon.

Here are some of the stories we would have missed recently if we did not go directly to the sites owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

The imminent Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie break-up. According to a story in Sunday’s New York Post, Brangelina are going to split (yet again). A new book claims that Pitt’s marijuana addiction and Jolie’s psychological instability will lead them to part ways sooner than later. The couple are arguing day and not, says Ian Halperin in “Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.”

If you were unable to buy a copy of The Sun or go directly to the paper’s Web site, you would have missed these shots of George Clooney’s new girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis.

More serious minded readers would have not had the opportunity to read this piece on deficits by Karl Rove, a man who has some experience with deficits.

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God Grew Tired of Us is out today. The film was produced by Brad Pitt and was narrated
by Nicole Kidman. Matt Annerino, our man in Los Angeles, was on hand at the premiere
earlier in the week and gives us this account.

Americans all too often get tunnel vision, only seeing the path that
is right in front of them and not taking a break from the rat race to look around.
We know what is going on in the news, but rarely does the daily news truly convey the human element of these events that are so far removed from our safe, modern world.

Christopher Quinn’s “God Grew Tired of Us” is a compelling documentary
which shows us first hand the impact of the long-standing war in Sudan. Narrated
by Nicole Kidman, it chronicles the journey of three Sudanese refugees as they
transition from a Kenyan refugee camp to America.

For John Bul Dau, Daniel Abol Pach and Panther Blor, America was not the
beginning of their journey. Fleeing war and mass genocide, they were
among 25,000 “Lost Boys” of Sudan who trekked barefoot for over 1,000 miles,
finally settling in a UN refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya.

The film starts by providing a glimpse of life in the Kakuma refugee camp.
Instead of bitterness and in-fighting, the boys form makeshift families to
help each other. The human spirit is alive and well, and they never lose
their values and good heartedness, even though they have endured countless
hardships and violence.

This theme carries throughout the movie, as we see the young men struggle
to get used to American life, which is occasionally humorous. There is
a scene where their American representative explains to them that they cannot throw
garbage out the window and shows them how to use a shower and a toilet.

The film can also be quite poignant. At one point in the film one of them
is truly perplexed at the fact that while a woman was
crying in the supermarket he was the only one to come to
her aid, and why it is not custom to say hello to a stranger on the street.

John, Daniel and Panther all must make changes to become accustomed
to America, but they always stay true to their culture.
They never lose sight of their time spent in the refugee camp,
and each one individually strives to help those in need in Africa as
well as connect with the families with which they have been estranged.

While the conflict in Darfur is currently a media issue,
“God Grew Tired of Us”
comes along at a perfect time to show the human
fallout of the war in Sudan. In addition, our society has become such
that we lose sight of basic virtues and cast them aside to fulfill selfish
and society-driven goals, and we need to witness truly good-hearted and
innocent individuals. This film is an eye-opening experience, and is a must-see
for anyone looking to better understand the world around them.