i'm wondering abt STR (short term romances), not STDs...heh.

can anyone figure out why all these hollywood actors get together and
break up faster than you can say brangelina?

is it merely a ploy by their publicists?
i see a lot of CA folks here, so maybe you can shed some light...

umm Well great question to put up!
I can only think of two major reasons right at the moment.

Inflated Egos!!
You see when two SuperDuper Stars come together, and tie the nuptial
knot, at the back of their minds, unconciously they start a
"professional fight" too. If a partner hits off with a movie well, and
makes great deal of fame outta it, the other one feels deprived maybe.
He/she feels left out....

Falling in and out of Luv too Frequently...
The intensity and the passion Hollywood stars have to put in a romantic
scene, is too much to "just pretend". So when an actor/actress gazes
lovingly towards his/her co-star, the probability is that they might
start havin' feeling fer them in the true sense! And then ofcourse, this
adversely effects the marital relationship always..

Great question! don't you think its purely just for publicity! Take
Paris Hilton she goes through more men then tinkerbell does in chew
toys! I'd like to see more long-term relationships like a goldie hawn/
kurt russel type of thing.

i have the feeling that most of these stars are 'in like' with each
other rather than 'in love'

maybe on the movie set, their characters have an on-screen relationship,
which doesnt translate well off-screen?
especially when you have five assistants and tons of minders around.

it kinda reminds me of 'entourage'.
anyone else watch it?
it's quite an eye-opening series...

i particularly like the cameos by jessica alba, gary busey, bob sagat...

I think you might be on the right lines with what you say andrew with
'in like' but I would go one further and say that 'in lust' has a bit to
do with it to. As you say these great big media inflated charecters get
to gether with so many preconceived, media boosted ideas about each
other, which Im sure is added to by the film makers wishing to get
everything swinging along smoothly. That the real people behind the
on-stage actors takes second place only to imerge after all the tinsell
town hoo-ha has died down. Then they realise htings arnt quite what, or
who they seemed!
But there are one or two couples who manage to keep it all together,
like Sean Connery and his wife of several decades, and Johnny Depp and
Vanessa Paradis who are going great guns too. But maybe somthing has to
be said for the fact that they keep there marriages as far away from the
lime-lite as possible. Sean in the out-reaches of Scotland and J.D.+
V.P. in a quaint little village in France.

victella,
good points.
yeah, i definitely agree with the 'in lust' angle.

and sometimes you see of these really sweet actresses do in and out of
relationships and just wonder 'what the hell are they thinking?'

it just destroys their off-screen image for me, and when i see them in a
movie, their real-life antics just leave a bad taste in my mouth.

that's a surefire way to destroy your fanbase...

Its all about publicity!! Most actors today are incorporated and sell
themselves to peddle all kinds of junk. they need the PR bad or they
wont sell the goods. Most of it is all junk written about them just to
create buzz and make money off of the public.

i agree with her

A lot of Hollywood doesn't take marriages seriously. I really think the
powers that be make it to easy for them to divorce. I think they should
make them work at it or go through counseling to make sure they are
making the right decision. This should not only be done when they are
on the brink of divorce, it should also be done before the wedding.

I think it's about money too.

i wonder if maybe they are just looking for some sort of normalcy in
their life. it could also be that when it is two costars, they spend so
much of their time together that they do become intimate(not necessarily
sexually)which most of the time naturally leads to sex.

Andrew, I think the world is full of STR's (and std's) lol but I think
because they are "In the spotlight it is more noticable and maybe
interesting to us that are not.

that is a good point and probably has a factor but how many people do
you know who get married and divorced within the span of a year or less
and some of them do it repeatedly

It's all about "show me the money"...LOL