Still, when the room is filled with so many elephants, it's inevitable that she'll bump into one at some point. Through a long and otherwise unguarded conversation, Aniston never once lets any one of several loaded proper nouns — Brad, Angelina, Vince Vaughn, John Mayer — pass through her lips. At one point, while recounting a story about an ex-boyfriend who gave her a disobedient dog for Valentine's Day (''Note to self: Don't give dogs as gifts unsolicited,'' she says), she accidentally lets the name Tate — as in Donovan — slip out, then immediately catches herself: ''I'm sorry — I mean, my ex-boyfriend.'' After all this vigilance, when it is pointed out that Marley & Me is opening the same day as Pitt's new movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Aniston winces, as if she's been cornered. She lets out a long, theatrical groan. ''Oh, you had to go there! I thought we were out of the woods.'' She sighs. ''I want [Button] to do great. I've seen about an hour of it. It's amazing. Amazing.''
She gets up from the couch and braces herself to head back into the fray. She knows the photographers are waiting for her. She'll soon start huddling with her bodyguard to prepare an exit strategy. But first, a Zen koan. ''Someone said to me, if a tabloid happened in the woods and no one was there to read it, did it happen?'' she says. She lets that question hang in the air, unanswered and unanswerable.
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