Not that things between them are always camera-ready. Pitt, for example, has confided that among matrimony's better privileges is being able to "(pass wind) and eat ice cream in bed." But it seems life for Hollywood's reigning couple (she makes $750,000 per Friends episode; he makes $20 million a film) is a fine blend -- one part premieres and Prada, one part "Honey, can you walk the six dogs?"

On a typical day the two wake up and take care ofher Corgi mix Norman and Pitt's five mixed-breeds. Then comes the one meal they actually know how to prepare: "I pour a mean bowl of cereal," boasts Pitt. "She makes a mean milk shake." Later in the day Aniston pops into one of her two vehicles -- a 1999 Land Rover or a 2000 Jaguar sedan -- and drives to the Warner lot, where she spends at least five hours rehearsing and filming Friends. Occasionally Pitt drops by just to eat pizza, watch his wife work and hang with the boys. Says a source on the set: "He'll play video games in David Schwimmer's room or talk cars with Matt LeBlanc."

The work day done, the couple's dinners together also tend to be low-key affairs. A favorite restaurant is the casual Hollywood eatery Marix Tex Mex Cafe. But better yet is the living room couch. As Aniston told Jay Leno in February, "I don't cook. I thaw. And I microwave. And I order in real well." Indeed, the perfect evening chez Pitt is order-in pizza for him, Mexican for her, red wine and an old movie. There will be plenty of space for such cozy get-togethers in the $14 million, six-bedroom French Provincial-style Beverly Hills estate they bought in June. But if they plan to spend a night on the $4 million, 11.5-acre beachfront property they bought last year near Santa Barbara, they might have to skip the movie. There are only three structures on the land, all, in the words of neighbor Leslie Pinkerton, "broken-down surf shacks." Not that Pitt plans to hang 10 anytime soon; says Kerry Mormann, a Realtor who showed the Pitts some land in the area: "He doesn't like sharks."

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