Angelina Jolie’s summer plans mean she’s either a ballbuster or “needy”

Many of the tabloids have been theorizing about Brad and Angelina’s summer plans for months – now that we’re entering mid-July, you’d think they’d give up the “Oh my God, what are they going to do for the summer?” stories, but whatever.

At first it looked like Brad was going to be filming Moneyball all summer in LA, where Angelina and the kids may or may not join him (some reports had her leaving in a huff for France). Then Moneyball fell through, and it looked like Brad would spend his summer passed out in Maddox’s pillow fort.

But alas! It was just announced yesterday that the studio is scrambling with an Aaron Sorkin rewrite for Moneyball, and Brad could be getting back to work very quickly. Before that news came out, however, both Star and In Touch had some old-school theorizin’ to do about what Star calls Brangelina’s “Last Chance Summer”. What’s funny is that “friends” of the couples are quoted in both articles, but the stories are totally different. First, here’s In Touch’s version:

Angelina Jolie has come up with a bold – if risky – solution [to save her troubled relationship with Brad Pitt: living apart. After the pair celebrate the first birthday of their twins in France on July 12, Angelina will stay there with their six children – while Brad returns to LA.

“She thinks it will be the only way to keep Brad in her life for the long term,” explains a friend. “She’s hoping that spending some time apart will make them remember what it is they love about each other.”

“One issue that came up was that, before Brad went out to LA, they were spending too much time together.”

“Brad was frank with Angelina,” the friend says. “He told her that her jealousy and clinginess was driving him away, and that he needs his space.”

No longer exhausted from work, Angelina listened, telling Brad that “she doesn’t want to lose him, and the idea of their children not having a father scares her.”