It’s All Gone Katie and Tom
Are Accelerated Relationships Cruising Out of Control?
Is it just me or did Tom Cruise and young starlet Katie Holmes meet, date, make chastity vows and get engaged in the amount of time it takes the rest of us to do our taxes? Though it means admitting that I've leafed through a copy of the debased In Touch magazine, I've noticed that accelerated relationships are a pandemic in LA. It seems remarkable to me how fast things move in Hollywood: Brad Pitt gets a divorce, hooks up with one of the hottest babes in the universe and is all about adopting Ethiopian babies within a matter of weeks. Avril Lavigne, at the tender age of twenty, is getting married to a black-haired Canadian rocker she's been seeing for less than a year. The all-American duo of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner (met and married within months) will be popping out a dimpled-faced baby in ...