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Match point: Decades of "it" couples
From Fred and Ginger to Brad and Angelina, each decade has its darling duo.
By Soraya Roberts
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FOX MULDER AND DANA SCULLY, 1990S
The truth may have been left up in the air, but the sexual tension between this small-screen duo was palpable. In the early''90s, FBI agents Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (played by Gillian Anderson) introduced TV to a relationship it had rarely seen: a platonic bond between two smart and sexy characters. On The X Files, "skeptic" Scully joined forces with "believer" Mulder to run the government's paranormal branch. Their ambiguous relationship appealed to a generation hooked on "did they or didn't they?" conspiracy theories. Finding the truth "out there" became as much about government cover-ups as it was about seeing whether the brooding and sardonic Mulder would ever let his guard down and use Agent Scully's first name. (He never did!)
RUPERT EVERETT AND MADONNA, PRE-9/11
In the 21st century, Sex and the City showed us that it was fine for women to flip men as often as they changed their Manolo Blahniks. But who would Madonna be if she didn't up the ante? In the wake of sexually empowered women, the Queen of Pop rejected sex entirely. Madonna found woman's new best friend in gay British actor Rupert Everett. "We're both minorities, and we both love to shop," Madonna said of their affair. But the truth was more complex: Everett was one of the few men who understood Madge's blond ambition without holding it against her. "They are the same thing, really: homosexuals and 'she men,'" said Everett. The union renewed the A-list's love of British boys, with Gwyneth Paltrow and Gwen Stefani each taking an English hubby.
BRAD AND ANGELINA POST-9/11
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are doing their darndest to break box-office records while saving the world. The most beautiful couple in Hollywood partakes in premieres and after-parties one day and fights for human rights in war-torn Darfur the next. And the Brangelina brand is eco-friendly too: last November, they bought Ethiopia island in Dubai's man-made recreation of the world. The magnanimous duo plans to make the island such a paragon of eco-living bliss that it will encourage mere mortals to go green. Celebrity bloggers call the couple's biological daughter "the chosen one," and damn it if Shiloh won't blossom in a world that her parents have made as perfect as themselves.
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