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Brangelina Does Battle for War-Torn Kids

by celebuzz on Jun. 26, 2008 01:27 PM / 6 Comments
Brangelina Does Battle for War-Torn Kids
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This is getting out of control.

Noted humanitarians and serial adopters Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are continuing their campaign to make the rest of us look bad, according to People magazine. The couple is donating $1 million to kids who've been disadvantaged by the Iraq war.

The donation to the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, which was cofounded by Jolie last year, will be divided between the Armed Services YMCA Operation Hero Program, which educates and provides emotional support to children of U.S. military personnel, and various groups providing aid to Iraqi women and children.

Of course, this is just the latest in a long string of charitable gestures from the couple.  Great, so they're not only better looking than 99.99 percent of the population, they're actually better people.

Now they just need to start a foundation for insane actors who don't know a good thing when it literally smacks them on the lips.

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“Some rumors are saying that Angelina Jolie already had her twin babies, but "In Touch Weekly" is claiming that one of their photogs snagged a shot of the still-pregnant beauty along with daughters Zahara and Shiloh the other day. The babies are due in August, but are likely to be born around July 15.

Being pregnant and on bedrest hasn't stopped Angelina and her humanitarian efforts. Yesterday a charity auction started for her leather jacket from Wanted.

Today it was announced that she and Brad donated a million dollars to help children on both sides of the Iraq War. Half of the money will go to help education programs for refugee Iraqi children. The other half will help a tutoring initiative for American children who lost a parent or have one serving in the war.

No one will stop Angelina from fixing the world--not even a tag-team of babies holed up in her uterus!”
Socialite Life
“The hot leather jacket that Angelina Jolie wears in her new movie Wanted is up for grabs. The sexy wardrobe piece is up for bidding today at CharityFolks.com.

The jacket has a diagonal zipper across the front with tassels on the zipper pulls. It is valued at $1,000 but it is expected to fetch about $3,000. That's cheap!

Proceeds will go to Plan!t Now, an organziation created by Angelina's costar in Wanted, Morgan Freeman. The charity assists families and communities prepare for natural disasters.

Off course the jacket is a size extra small, so hopefully the winner is either tiny or just a collector--but I think that jacket is just too sexy to sit on a mannequin or shelf”
Socialite Life
“James McAvoy took all the sexiness out of on-screen romance today when he told Ann Curry that he couldn't enjoy making out with Angelina Jolie because he was too worried about having bad breath (or molesting her). He said:

* 'It was her first day, it was her first scene. I had been on the set for two weeks — it was like, "Hey, how you doing, nice to meet you, I’m James, oh, we’re going to do a kissing scene now. You’re meant to do the kissing last thing, but you end up doing it first thing, just after you’ve had your breakfast and you’re all funky in the mouth.
*

* 'I rarely manage to be fully in the moment ever when I do a kissing scene or the sex scene. If I were truly in the moment, then I would worry that I was molesting someone.'


James then proceeded to joke about 'professionally' kissing Ann Curry, thereby awakening her inner cougar.

'I would totally throw you to the ground' Ann sort-of-joked.

Uh..yeah. That makes two of us.

Such a hot little Irish flirt! Too bad he's totally taken.”
Pacific Coast News
“Proving that the humanitarian bug can be a very contagious condition, Ocean's 11 stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon appear to have infected one another and are teaming up to spread their well-wishes to those affected by the devastation that took place in Myanmar in May. Do you like how I made it sound like a disease? It's because I'm dead inside.

The three A-listers helped kick off the launch of the Cycolne aid advertising campaign sponsored by the Not On Our Watch organization, purchasing a full-page ad for Wednesday's edition of the Jakarta Post advertising their cause of directing more aid to the victims of the natural disaster.

The ad states, "Burma's neighbors have the power to help victims who remain desperately in need" and claims that the ruling government's refusal to accept foreign aid is crippling those suffering.”
Socialite Life
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  • hwoodgrrl 1 yr 5 mos ago
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    Good god they are saints!

  • noah 1 yr 5 mos ago
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    Hmm, I'm cool with this... so long as at least half the cash goes to this Iraqi kid:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =Dafx1tPsL4M

  • usetheforce 1 yr 5 mos ago
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    When 900 years they reach, look as good, they will not.

  • thepeephole 1 yr 5 mos ago
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    Are those babies out yet!?

  • dancingqueen 1 yr 5 mos ago
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    it's amazing how they have 6 kids, a mansion in france, and can still afford to donate millions of dollars.

  • realitycheck 1 yr 4 mos ago
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    It’s cool how people tend to forget they are also richer than 99.99% of the population, so they can appear much better than many unknown folks who don’t mind doing good without issuing a press release.

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