"Entertainment Tonight" Won't Disown Wrong Angelina Twins Birth Story

NEW YORK — The birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's twins is turning into the type of mystery that might make a good movie one day. The executive producer for "Entertainment Tonight" said Monday that she wanted to "see how this story plays out" before retracting a report that the twins had been born, despite a denial from Pitt's manager and a claim that someone might be posing as Jolie's personal assistant to fool reporters. The TV show reported Friday that twin girls had been born, identifying its source as a person in the delivery room, and quoted another Web site giving the babies' alleged names. Rival news organizations quickly shot the story down. The Associated Press, which had picked up the "Entertainment Tonight" report after talking to executives at the show about their source, later quoted Pitt's manager saying the "ET" story was not true. In the world of celebrity journalism, it may be the biggest story of the year. "This is an absolutely huge, huge story for ... (link)