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He sure did: There he was Easter weekend at a luxe late-'50s home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., proudly pushing a stroller and romping in a sunny suburban paradise with five little boys. (Boys, even though he had said he wanted all girls.) One of them was Pitt's spitting image and sat on the star's lap in an old-fashioned paneled station wagon.
"Brad was having a blast," says one witness. "Just playing with them like crazy. One kid kept beating him with a toy and Brad thought that was funny as hell."
But Aniston, 36, was no part of this paradise. On March 25, the same day Pitt was playing dad in the desert, she filed for divorce from the 41-year-old actor in Superior Court in L.A. County, emphatically ending any talk that the couple, who announced their separation Jan. 7, might reconcile. She then headed for the Malibu home of her close friend Courteney Cox.
And Pitt the papa? Pure fantasy – or maybe a weird joke, given the "wife" at his side: Angelina Jolie. Gearing up the promotional machinery for Mr. and Mrs. Smith, their upcoming romantic thriller about a married pair of professional assassins, he and costar Jolie, 29, were doing a two-day photo shoot March 25 and 26 for the June issue of W. With Pitt's friend and favorite photographer, Steven Klein, handling the camera, he and Jolie play-acted a happily married couple in a retro, picture-perfect style suggesting an American family of the Kennedy era. False smiles all around. The kids? Hired models.
