October 30, 2007

Lindsay Lohan and William Jennings Bryan?

Someone arrived at this blog thanks to a search for: Angelina Jolie George Wallace.

Readers are invited to suggest other, even more improbable, Hollywood-Politics couples in the comments section.

30 Oct 2007 07:19:06 | Celebrity, Washington

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Ray Liotta and Robert Taft

Aaron Burr and Kevin Spacey

Posted by: Michael Brendan Dougherty | October 31, 2007 at 02:42 AM

rd

Jolie played Wallace's wife in an HBO biopic about him six or seven years ago. I suspect that's the source of the pairing.

Posted by: rd | November 01, 2007 at 12:45 AM

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