One of the more clever (if sometimes annoying) parlor games in our celebrity culture has been the emergence of couple names. Almost as soon as a celebrity couple emergences in the publicity mill, a couple name follows suit. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner? Bennifer still lives. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes? Not so enduring as a union, but Tomkat was fun while it lasted. And we can throw in Brangelina (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) and Kimye (Kim Kardashian and Kanye West), not to mention the political granddaddy of them all, Billary (need I break this one out)? It’s even a big pastime in the fictional world, as fans of Fox’s Glee (you know who you are) rooted for Klaine (Kurt and Blaine).
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