In Other 'Wedding' News...The-Dream Proves He Doesn't Always Use the 'Right Side of His Brain'

In the old days, back when movies were so new, they were still tagged with the somewhat awestruck moniker "motion picture," Hollywood's Studio system ruled over its brightest superstars like a fiefdom. From about the 1920's to the 1950s, during what's commonly referred to as the Golden Age in filmmaking, studio heads at places like MGM were known to dabble in matchmaking for the benefit of bigger box office.

So, say, Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis are about to open Some Like It Hot (1959), the geniuses in the marketing department wouldn't be shy about pushing those two together, at least on the red carpet, and letting the public come to its own conclusions. What's more enticing than the possibility that the chemistry happening onscreen between a couple - is also happening offscreen?

When I heard the rumor that The-Dream and his so-called muse, Christina Milian (can she inspire anything but weak record sales?) were engaged, it made me think of the cynical Hollywood studio system practice of pairing for publicity. I don't care how many staged paparazzi pics (see them above, trying their best Jay-Z and Beyonce, awful blonde 'do and all) I see of these two, I just don't buy it. It's impossible to listen to The-Dream's five-star Love vs. Money and not read into it that this is a male songwriter in love with the idea of love.

My guess is that he can project a whole lot onto whoever he finds himself with and then work it back into hits for himself and others (Hear "Umbrella," "Single Ladies," "Right Side of My Brain"). In an interview he gave to VIBE this year, he talked about how he tried to massage a hunger for greatness from his first wife, singer Nivea. Maybe he thinks he'll win with Milian where he failed with Nivea in several respects, but this has a stench about it...