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Not so fast on full custody, experts say of Jolie's demand
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the global hubbub over the Brangelina divorce, Angelina Jolie Pitt's demand for sole physical custody of her six children with Brad Pitt has attracted its share of the attention. Yet experts say Jolie Pitt won't have the final say, and that Pitt and the couple's eldest son, Maddox, may even have a voice in custody arrangements.
Stacy Phillips, a veteran divorce attorney, called Jolie Pitt's request for sole physical custody a "wish list," one that could change as the divorce progresses. Phillips, like many, saw the request as a message to Pitt, although what the actress is trying to convey won't be known for some time, if ever.
Pitt has yet to file his legal response to Jolie Pitt's divorce petition, but each actor released statements Tuesday indicating their children were the priority. The pair has six children, ranging in ages from 8-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne to 15-year-old Maddox.
"It's not uncommon that a person would seek sole physical custody in their initial filing," said divorce lawyer Lori Howe. "That doesn't mean it is what they will end up seeking if they resolve the case through settlement or in a courtroom . ... She very well could change her mind as well. And there's nothing to stop her from doing that, despite having checked those boxes on her petition."
Bee says she likes Fallon, but couldn't take Trump interview
NEW YORK (AP) — Comic Samantha Bee insists she's a Jimmy Fallon fan. But she said Wednesday that her caustic attack this week on Fallon's now-infamous hair mussing appearance with Donald Trump came because she'd had it with the "continued normalization of deplorable."
The fallout from Trump's "Tonight" show appearance last Thursday is the most serious faced by the genial Fallon since he replaced Jay Leno in 2014 and instantly became the nation's most popular late-night host.
He received widespread criticism for being too chummy with the Republican candidate — Democrat Hillary Clinton jokingly presented Fallon with a bag of softballs — and Bee cited that appearance and Trump's week hosting "Saturday Night Live" last fall in a segment on her TBS show on Monday. She accused NBC of tacitly condoning a demagogue.
"It was not really a Jimmy thing," Bee said on Wednesday. "It was more of an NBC thing. Coming on the heels of the Matt Lauer interview (of Trump, at a national security forum), we were just done ... with these gossamer-light interviews of this person and the continued normalization of deplorable."
NBC hasn't responded to the fallout.
In the TBS segment, Bee said that at a time some opponents compare Trump to Adolf Hitler, "maybe don't invite him into your house to play with your adorable children."
She then showed clips of Fallon asking Trump whether he had ever played the board game "Sorry" and messing up the candidate's elaborate hairstyle.
"Aw. Trump can be a total sweetheart with someone who has no reason to be terrified of him," Bee said on TBS.
Fallon's interview may have been a case of exquisitely bad timing, coming just as polls reflected a tightening presidential race and Clinton's supporters were becoming nervous. And it contrasted with some of Fallon's late-night brethren, particularly Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert, who brutalized Trump this week for his statement on the birther controversy he nurtured.