In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey Wednesday, Jennifer Aniston continues to open up about her love life - past and present.

When asked about her candid interview with Vogue, and it’s cover line calling Angelina Jolie’s past behavior “really uncool,” Aniston says she was merely responding to the reporter’s question. “I basically just answered it as honestly as I could,” Aniston says on The Oprah Winfrey Show, airing Thursday.

The actress has kinder words for ex-husband Brad Pitt, saying, “He’s done some amazing things in the last couple of years. So I just think he’s doing great.”

“We all want our movie to do well … Can we have a tie?” she quips.

As for her romantic life, she echoes her comments to Vogue. “I’ve been unbelievably lucky in love,” she tells Winfrey. “It just might not look the way it’s supposed to look at this point.”

Aniston also opens up about John Mayer - and addresses those pregnancy rumors - on Thursday’s show.

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Jennifer Aniston has a simple message when it comes to her on-again relationship with John Mayer: “People need to mind their own business,” the actress tells Vogue in its December issue.

Of course, Aniston, 39, understands why so many people are intrigued by their romance. There’s the age difference - Mayer is eight years younger - and the musician’s high-profile past relationships with starlets like Jessica Simpson.

“Did you ever think Claudia Schiffer and David Copperfield made sense?” Aniston says, jokingly comparing her relationship to equally unexpected celebrity couples. “Did Susan Anton and Dudley Moore make sense? Wait! I got more!”

Did she know it was going to work out at the time?

“You know, it isn’t designed,” Aniston says. “Love just shows up and you go, ‘Oh, wow, this is going to be a hayride and a half.’ ”

%26#34;I Feel Seriously Protective%26#34; of Mayer

When talking about Mayer’s famous run-in with reporters outside a gym in Manhattan where he said about their split, “I don’t want to waste somebody’s time if something’s not right,” Aniston isn’t ruffled.

“He had to put that out there that he broke up with me,” she says, about Mayer’s comments. “And especially because it’s me. It’s not just some girl he’s dating. I get it. We’re human. But I feel seriously protective of him and us.”

Adds Aniston: “It’s funny when you hit a place in a relationship and you both realize %26#91;that%26#93; we maybe need to do something else, but you still really, really love each other. It’s painful. There was no malicious intent. I deeply, deeply care about him; we talk, we adore one another. And that’s where it is.”

On Her Relationship with Brad Pitt

Equally candid about her ex-husband, Brad Pitt, Aniston says she has spoken to him since their divorce, and calls their split “amicable.”

“The marriage didn’t work out,” she tells the magazine. “Pretty soon after we separated, we got on the phone and we had a long, long conversation with each other and said a lot of things, and ever since we’ve been unbelievably warm and respectful of each other.”

(Aniston also shares some thoughts about Pitt’s partner, Angelina Jolie, with the magazine.)

Aniston, who says she’s been “unbelievably lucky in love,” is also practical about the subject. “Whoever said everything has to be forever,” she says. “That’s setting your hopes too high. It’s too much pressure. And I think if you put that pressure on yourself … that’s unattainable.”

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In a bizarre incident Monday night at a Los Angeles screening of his new movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt was grabbed, pushed and spun around by a plainclothes security guard who had been hired by the venue to protect him from a pack of aggressive photographers.

“Though they were exceptionally more aggressive than usual,” Pitt describes the paparazzi to PEOPLE, “breaking through a security barrier and into a private holding area, ultimately %26#91;it was%26#93; just another day in the life…”

The unflappable star had arrived half an hour early for the screening at the Bruin Theater in Westwood, where paparazzi rushed into the building.

In September 2007 at the Venice Film Festival, a female fan gave Pitt the rough treatment when she leapt out at him, tried to embrace him and refused to let go.

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Californians voted Tuesday to ban same-sex marriage, setting the stage for a court battle over the legitimacy of roughly 16,000 such marriages - including those of celeb couples Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi and Star Trek’s George Takei and Brad Altman.

With nearly 96 percent of the votes counted, controversial Proposition 8 passed by just over 52 percent (The initiative had drawn widespread opposition from Hollywood celebrities, including Brad Pitt, director Steven Spielberg, and even California’s Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger).

As Takei pondered the disappointing election returns Tuesday night, the 71-year-old actor told PEOPLE he was hopeful that his Sept. 14 marriage to Brad Altman would be “grandfathered in.”

But Altman was less confident. “We tasted marriage now, and it really is delicious!” Altman added. “And the thought that the people of California might take our marriage away from us is really frightening and worrisome and upsetting.”

DeGeneres - who wed de Rossi in August - has been an outspoken critic of Proposition 8. “I can’t return the wedding gifts,” she quipped. “I love my new toaster.”

Attorney Mathew D. Staver - who has argued before the California Supreme Court against same-sex marriage - tells PEOPLE he’s confident that the state’s 18,000-plus gay marriages will be annulled. He notes, “Constitutional amendments are retroactive.”

But Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, tells PEOPLE: “It would be almost unthinkable to retroactively take away somebody’s marriage status - it would be completely unprecedented and it almost defies description.”

Long Struggle

Tuesday’s vote was merely the latest decision in a long-running struggle between California voters, politicians and judges over same-sex marriage.

In March 2000, 61 percent of voters approved a measure similar to Proposition 8, but it did not go so far as to rewrite the state’s constitution, which the new initiative does.

Four years later, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom directed officials there to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples - which a court overturned a month later. The following year, the state legislature passed a bill legalizing such marriages, but Schwarzenegger vetoed it.

On May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court voted 4-3 in favor of such marriages - and is now expected to weigh in on the validity of same-sex marriages that have since been performed in the state.

Minter says he will also argue that Proposition 8 be set aside altogether, on the grounds that state voters don’t have the power to make such a sweeping change to their constitution - especially one that calls for discrimination against a minority group. For more results, check out the official returns site.

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Given her recent high-style nuptials to Portia de Rossi, it’s no surprise that Ellen DeGeneres has come out against Proposition 8, the controversial California ballot initiative seeking to ban gay unions.

Describing the wording of Prop 8 as “tricky,” the comedienne took to her blog to encourage her fans to vote against it.

“There’s a California Proposition on the ballot that’s a little confusing …. It’s called, ‘The California Marriage Protection Act’ - but don’t let the name fool you,” she wrote. “It’s not protecting anyone’s marriage. Not yours. Not mine.”

Of course, DeGeneres has a personal stake in the outcome. “I can’t return the wedding gifts,” she quipped. “I love my new toaster.”

Earlier this month, both Brad Pitt and Steven Spielberg donated $100,000 to fight the proposition.
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Oprah Winfrey has long been Barack Obama’s No. 1 fan, so it’s no surprise she wasted little time in speaking out about the Democrat’s historic victory Tuesday night.

“It feels like hope won,” the TV icon told Britain’s BBC. “It feels like there’s a shift in consciousness. It feels like something really big and bold has happened here, like nothing ever in our lifetimes did we expect this to happen.”

The talk-show host was on hand in Chicago to watch Obama’s victory speech, along with Brad Pitt and Jesse Jackson.

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Courteney Cox and hubby David Arquette hosted a Barack Obama victory party Tuesday night at their Beverly Hills home, E! Online reports. Jennifer Aniston, Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher were reportedly among the guests.

• Actor George Clooney: “I congratulate President-elect Obama on his historic victory, and now it’s time to begin unifying the country so we can take on the extraordinary challenges that this generation faces.”

• Singer Usher: “This will go down in history, in black history, for all of the sacrifices that the great Joseph Lowery and Martin Luther King made, this actually pays off for their sacrifice. … I’m speechless. I don’t even know what to say.”

• Music mogul Diddy: “I felt like my vote was the vote that put him into office. … And that may not be true but that’s how much power it felt like I had.”

• Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz to PEOPLE: “My parents met working for %26#91;Obama’s running mate on one of his early campaigns%26#93;. If it weren’t for Joe Biden, I would not exist as a human being. … I am proud to be a part of history in the making.”

• Former Secretary of State Colin Powell: “We’re very, very proud to have a new American President who also happens to be African-American … As I watched %26#91;the news anchors call the election%26#93; - pretty moving moment. Everybody cried … I am overjoyed.”

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In Brad Pitt’s upcoming World War II movie, he plays a vengeance-seeking Nazi hunter - and he looks the part.

The first portrait of Pitt’s character, Lt. Aldo Raine, in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (yes, the misspelling is intentional), was released Monday. Clad in tough-looking fighter gear, Pitt portrays the leader of the “Basterds,” a group of Jewish-American soldiers who scalp and brutally kill Nazis.

Pitt’s character is described on Tarantino.info as not “your Warner Brothers 1950’s WW2 hero … this is a hillbilly straight from the mountains of Tennessee.”

Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their six children recently moved to a Berlin villa while he works on the controversial film.

Burning question No. 1 at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday: Will exes Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston cross paths?

They arrive on different days, but in the movie biz, anything is possible. Pitt is due in Canada, sans Angelina Jolie, to hype Burn After Reading, his new Coen Brothers comedy with George Clooney. Aniston, meanwhile, will be talking up Management, a romantic comedy in which she’s wooed by Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson.

But those are just two of the 249 feature films set to screen and a few of the stars - cue Dakota Fanning, Ricky Gervais and Charlize Theron - set to shine over the 10-day festival, which has come to serve Hollywood as the annual unofficial launch of the Oscar race.

• After scoring big at last year’s festival with Juno, Superbad’s Michael Cera returns with Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. He plays a music-obsessed youth who finds love when he least expects it during a visit to New York City. The movie opens Oct. 3.

• In Rachel Getting Married, Anne Hathaway stars as a woman who, following a stint in rehab, returns to her idyllic Connecticut hometown for the wedding of her older sister Rachel. Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) directed the comedic family drama, which opens in limited markets Oct. 3.

• Keira Knightley again dons sumptuous period petticoats and gowns for her title role in The Duchess, a biopic about Georgiana Spencer, a scandalous 18th century English aristocrat. Her costars include Ralph Fiennes and Charlotte Rampling. It opens Sept. 19.

• Irishman Colin Farrell works on his New Yawk accent in Pride and Glory, a crime drama in which he and Edward Norton star as brothers who are NYPD cops. Family bonds are tested as they uncover something rotten in the Big Apple. The film, which was scheduled to open earlier this year, is now set for release Oct. 24.

• Wedding Crashers star Rachel McAdams teams up with Tim Robbins and Michael Pe%26#241;a in The Lucky Ones, a drama about three soldiers returning home to the U.S. after serving in Iraq. The film, due to open Sept. 26, has been sitting on the shelf for months after Hollywood became hesitant following the box office failure of several war-themed movies - Rendition, Lions for Lambs, Stop-Loss - in late 2007 and early 2008.

• Rising British heartthrob Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe and 21) portrays a young Irishman in Belfast in the 1980s who finds himself unintentionally caught between the British Army and the IRA in Fifty Dead Men Walking. Ben Kingsley and Rose McGowan costar. The film does not yet have a U.S. release date.

Diane Kruger isn’t up for a trophy at this year’s Venice film festival, but Wednesday she received a prize of a different sort.

“I just found out I’m going to do %26#91;Quentin%26#93; Tarantino’s next film with Brad Pitt,” Kruger told PEOPLE at the Valentino party in Venice Thursday. “I’m very excited. Quentin just called. I play a German movie star but I don’t want to give too much away.”

Kruger was in Venice sans boyfriend Joshua Jackson, who’s “working - he has a job, you know.” But, the actress added, “He comes in on Saturday so I’m excited for that, too.”

Kruger said she was “fashionably busy” at the film festival. Besides the Valentino premiere and party, where she sat next to the designer at the film’s screening, wearing a beige gown he picked out for her, she’s also attending a party Sunday for Jaeger Le Coutre, the Swiss watch company she promotes.

Kruger previously worked with Pitt in Troy.

A stunned Brad Pitt picked up his best actor trophy that he was awarded for last year’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

“I guess you forgot something here years ago,” said the mistress of ceremonies Wednesday at the Venice International Film Festival. Holding up the gold cup to honor Pitt’s performance in the film, she said, “Brad, this is yours.”

Pitt - attending the Venice film festival opening ceremony to premiere Burn After Reading - looked surprised as he walked up onstage.

“Congratulations for your twins,” she also told Pitt as she handed him the trophy.

The mistress of ceremonies then held up a yellow flower. “This is for your friend George,” she told Pitt referring to George Clooney, his Burn After Reading costar.

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