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| | Will Brangelina 'reconcile' for Mr. Mrs. Smith sequel' | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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While Brad Pitt gears up for what will most likely be an epic promotional tour for Inglourious Basterds, there are rumors swirling about what Brad?s next project will be. Perhaps one of the - no joke - seventeen films he has in various stages of development, according to IMDB? No! Add an eighteenth film into the mix, by God! The National Enquirer is reporting that Brad and Angelina are considering starring in the sequel to Mr. and Mrs. Smith. This time, John and Jane will have a pack of kids. But will one of the kids be Empress Zahara? That hasn?t been established yet. According to the Enquirer, this whole sequel idea is just a way for them to ?reignite the passion?.
Brad and Angie hope to reignite the passion - by going backwards in order to save their troubled relationship! Back to where it ALL started?
STORY: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fell love on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith - and now they hope to save their troubled relationship by making sequel!
“They’re hoping lightning will strike twice and they can re-spark the magnetism that captivated them five years ago,” close family friend told The ENQUIRER.
“It’s no secret that relationship-wise, Brad and Angie are on the ropes. The stress of raising six kids and juggling two red-hot careers is wearing them down.”
“The romantic action film was penned by screenwriter Simon Kinberg. He’s become close friend of the couple, and Brad’s asked him to write the Mr. & Mrs. Smith sequel, said the source.
“This time around the Smiths will have children, and the kids’ antics will be part of the story line,” said the source.
“He’s hoping they’ll fall love all over again… to get their relationship back on track and refocus on loving each other.”
[From National Enquirer]
I?m not quite sure who the ?he? is in that last quote, ?He’s hoping they’ll fall love all over again?? Are they talking about Simon Kinberg or Brad? Oh, well. I guess it doesn?t matter. Honestly, even though I don?t think Brad and Angie want to work together as actor-actress again, I wouldn?t mind a MAMS sequel. I hope this isn?t a SPOILER, but they totally left it open at the end of the first film. It wouldn?t be the worst sequel concept ever thought up by Hollywood.
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| | Brad Pitt in Wired: 'Don't take a picture of your wife's butt' | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brad Pitt is looking pretty good on the cover of August?s Wired Magazine. He?s interviewed to promote the August release of Inglourious Basterds, which seems weird. Basterds is a period film, and I never really think of Brad Pitt as any kind of gadget/computer/technology guy, so it?s an unconventional way to promote a film.
I like his current hair color and the goatee, especially the grey that?s coming in. He looks his age - 45 - and he?s still handsome, but no longer ?pretty?. Both People and Entertainment Tonight have advanced excerpts of the Wired interview, so let?s see what Brad?s got to say:
Brad Pitt even looks hot in a headset.
The star of Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Nazi-scalping action flick Inglourious Basterds graces the August cover of Wired magazine, and PEOPLE.com has a first look.
Pitt, 45, sports a wireless cell phone headset and gives advice ? in his Inglourious character ? on a variety of subjects, including conduct at work, etiquette and those sometimes awkward cyber dilemmas. “Who cares if your Warcraft wife is really a dude,” Pitt is quoted as saying on the cover. “If it’s good, don’t check under the hood.”
According to Wired, Pitt was intrigued by the magazine’s May Mystery issue, which featured Star Trek director/writer J.J. Abrams, and he wanted to break away from the traditional celebrity magazine story. For the photo shoot last month, Pitt came alone to the Smashbox Studios in West Hollywood and was photographed by portraitist Dan Winters.
The August issue of Wired hits newsstands July 21. Inglourious Basterds is due in theaters Aug. 21.
[From People]
?Awkward cyber dilemmas? is my new favorite euphemism. I think it means ?fanboys masturbating to Megan Fox while playing Dungeons and Dragons?. I?m loving the idea of Brad Pitt giving a geeks-only interview, talking only about ?awkward cyber dilemmas? and technological-
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| | Aaron Sorkin becomes a pinch hitter for Moneyball | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Seriously OMG WTF |
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(photo from WireImage)
Last month Sony rain delayed production of Brad Pitt's next movie days before the game was suppose to start because they didn't like the changes Steven Soderbergh made to the script since his first pitch. Sony has not given up on the Moneyball and has brought in Aaron Sorkin to pinch hit, I mean rewrite the script according to The Hollywood Reporter. Soderbergh is out, but as of now Brad Pitt is still in the line up. Hey if he goes on the DL, then Aaron can bring in another Brad that he has played several games with…Bradley Whitford.
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| | Brad Pitt: Still Hoping for 'Moneyball' | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Everyone was in shock last month when Sony Pictures decided to end the $50 million movie starring Brad Pitt, “Moneyball”.
It was pulled just days before the scheduled shooting, but now the movie may be back on.
Writer and creator Aaron Sorkin will be doing a quick re-write of the script, as Sony believed it was too arty and documentary.
Sony also is hoping to add Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin to the team to try and polish up the movie. The script was originally by Ocean’s series director Steven Soderbergh and screen writer Steven Zaillian.
The movie was based on Michael Lewis’s nonfiction book of the Oakland Athletics and their general manager Billy Beane, who put together a star Major League team, even with no money in the bank.
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| | Brad Pitt's 'Moneyball' isn't getting made because it's too artsy-fartsy | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brad Pitt was supposed to be working this summer. Months ago he signed on to star in Moneyball, directed by Steven Soderbergh, but then five days before the production officially started Sony Pictures pulled more than $50 million in financing and told Soderbergh and Pitt that they were free to take the project to other studios to see if they wanted to finance the disaster. No studio did. So now Brad is totally unemployed this summer, and the tabloids are in mourning. This was the summer Brad was supposed to be having a secret affair in Los Angeles with Jennifer Aniston! Alas, Brad probably spends his long, hot summer days in his underwear, drinking beer and helping Maddox build pillow forts.
When Sony first pulled the financing, the rationale behind the move was a bit cryptic. Was it because of something Brad did? Do studio executives hate Brad Pitt? Or was it something darker? Now Sony?s head Amy Pascal has spoken to the Los Angeles Times to explain why she pulled the plug. Basically, Pascal claims that Soderbergh wanted to make a friggin? $60 million documentary, and that Soderbergh is too artsy-fartsy for his own good. It sounds like Pascal is still all about working with Brad, though. Blind item: Which Sony executive is a Brangaloonie?
It’s never an easy decision when a studio head has to pull the plug on a big movie, as Amy Pascal did last week when she shut down “Moneyball,” a $58-million Steven Soderbergh film that was set to star Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the maverick general manager of the Oakland A’s who almost singlehandedly reinvented the way baseball scouts and develops young talent.
The movie, based on the bestselling book by Michael Lewis, wasn’t just in pre-production. It was literally five days away from filming when Soderbergh turned in a new version of the script that Pascal and her Sony team found unacceptable. The decision was so abrupt that the film’s producer, Michael DeLuca, got the call about it while on his honeymoon in Paris. As a courtesy to the talent, Pascal gave them an opportunity to try and set the film up elsewhere, but no other studio has shown any interest. So the movie remains at Sony, but will it ever get made? Will Pitt stick with the project? And what exactly went wrong?
“I’ve wanted to work with Steven forever, because he’s simply a great filmmaker,” Pascal says. ?But the draft he turned in wasn’t at all what we’d signed up for. He wanted to make a dramatic reenactment of events with real people playing themselves. I’d still work with Steven in a minute, but in terms of this project, he wanted to do the film in a different way than we did.”
“Steven wanted to tell the story through these interviews with the real people, as they commented on Beane. But there are lots of ways to tell a true story. We were just more comfortable with what we thought was a wonderful draft from Steve Zaillian.”
For now, the project remains in limbo, with Sony having sunk nearly $10 million into the film already. The studio still needs to find out whether Pitt, who is intensely loyal to Soderbergh, will stay with the project. As Pascal put it: “We really hope we can still make this with Brad Pitt.”
Sony would also have to find a new director who is not only a good fit for the material but would pass muster with Pitt, who has director approval on his films. To find a director with enough stature or buzz to attract Pitt won’t be easy.
The most likely options would be for the studio to go in more of a comic direction — possibilities being Jay Roach or Jason Reitman — or toward a more dramatic choice, like Gary Ross or even George Clooney, who is putting the finishing touches on a two-year production deal with the studio. (My own pick would be someone with a sharp, subversive edge, like Pete Berg.)
Pascal insists there’s no bad blood between her and Soderbergh, saying the two plan to meet in the coming days to discuss other possible projects. In the meanwhile, she remains an ardent believer in the film. “We love this movie, we always have and we still want to make it. It’s a completely innovative way to tell a baseball story. It’s about wanting to believe in magic, which is what baseball is all about.”
I’d still say that makes “Moneyball” a longshot. Or to put it in baseball terms, this is a project that will need to stage a big late-inning rally to put a win up on the scoreboard.
[From The Los Angeles Times]
So it?s not Brad?s fault - and Brad might even leave the project if Soderbergh is being forced out. I did learn something new today - that Brad has ?director approval? on his films. That?s so hardcore, it really is. Very few actors have that - usually the director signs on, and then starts casting a film. But not Brad Pitt - he attaches himself to a project and then gets to bring in the director of his choice. So where has all of that power gotten Brad? Unemployed and passed out in a pillow fort.
Here?s Pitt at a press conference for Inglourious Basterds on 5/21/09, credit: ANG/Fame Pictures
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| | Angelina Brad endorse ban on Zimbabwean blood diamonds | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In 2006, the Marange diamond fields were discovered in Zimbabwe. When Zimbabweans heard that there was a new mine, many rushed out to see if they could find diamonds close to surface of the mine walls. Unfortunately for them, 2006 was also one of the worst years in Zimbabwe?s fragile political system. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe?s president and brutal despot, was years into his reign of political, financial, military and humanitarian reign of terror. Mugabe cracked down on the illegal miners, and ordered the military to guard the mine, which is rumored to have more than $200 million worth of diamonds, just waiting to be mined. Military control over the mine has been bloody - Human Rights Watch claim that more than 200 people have been killed in or around the mine. HRW also compiled a report called ?Diamonds in the Rough? which describes (through witness interviews) the human rights abuses occurring by the military to those who work in or around the mine.
Most likely in the hopes of bringing more attention, more headline, and more financial support to this issue in particular and human rights abuses in general, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are issuing a statement through their foundation and through HRW. According to HRW?s executive director, ?Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have issued a call for a ban on any sale or purchase of Marange diamonds … until … the mining is not based on the violent abuse of residents in that region.? Here?s more:
Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search for the precious gems and beating villagers who get in the way.
The New York-based organization said its call for a ban on diamonds from the region had received an endorsement from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. A statement from the couple’s foundation was expected later Friday.
“Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have issued a call for a ban on any sale or purchase of Marange diamonds … until … the mining is not based on the violent abuse of residents in that region,” said Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch’s executive director.
Zimbabwe’s deputy mining minister, Murisi Zwizwai, has denied the allegations and said the presence of the military is to secure the area.
More than 100 witnesses, miners, police officers, soldiers and children were interviewed for the report entitled “Diamonds in the Rough,” which details allegations of human rights abuses by Zimbabwean armed forces in an attempt to control access to the precious gems.
The human rights group said searchers had gathered evidence of mass graves and accounts of an incident last year when military helicopters fired at miners, while armed soldiers on the ground chased villagers from the area.
“There are hundreds of victims of human rights abuses that are unwilling to come forward for fear of the military,” Zimbabwe researcher Dewa Mavhinga said.
The report also alleges that some of the income from the diamond fields is going to officials of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party, long accused of trampling on human rights and democracy in the southern African country.
The international human rights watchdog is calling on Zimbabwe’s coalition government, formed in February, to stop the abuses and prosecute those responsible. It is also calling on the international body that governs the global diamond industry to press Zimbabwe, a participant, to end the illegal trade in Marange diamonds.
The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, established in 2002, aims to stem the flow of “blood diamonds” being used to fund fighting across Africa. Participants are forced to certify the origins of the diamonds being traded. This assures consumers that by purchasing diamonds they are not financing war and human rights abuses.
Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said the group is calling for the definition of blood diamonds to be broadened to include gems mined through “repression and violent abuses” by governments.
[From The Associated Press]
Obviously, these abuses are wrong and they should be stopped. But I tend to think speaking out about only the human rights abuses in this one mine is tragically narrow-minded. Zimbabwe is totally and completely f-cked, and it?s going to take a lot more than a blood diamond ban to improve the quality of Zimbabweans? lives. However, I do understand that HRW is trying to move the human rights-goalpost forward by choosing this issue, and they?re right. The definition of ?blood diamonds? should be broadened.
As for why in the world Angelina and Brad are going to issue a statement - well, every major media outlet is covering this story as ?Angelina and Brad want blood diamond ban?. How many of them would have carried this story if it was just HRW calling for a ban?
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are shown at the German premiere of Benjamin Button on 1/19/09. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Did Brad Pitt convince his Republican brother not to run for Congress? | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brad Pitt?s younger brother Doug is often the spokesperson for the Pitt family, so it?s a given that Doug knows a lot about being diplomatic, dealing with the press, and knowing when to keep his mouth shut. Coincidentally, those are great qualities for a politician. When the Missouri state Republican Party was thinking and talking about who should run in Missouri?s seventh congressional district. That seat is currently being held by Rep. Roy Blunt, who is the front-runner for the Republican nomination for the 2010 Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Kit Bond. So the state party is looking for someone young, good-looking, family-oriented, with great name-recognition for the congressional seat. Guess who they wanted? None other than Doug Pitt! Doug is a successful local Springfield businessman and philanthropist, and he apparently is quite the local Republican, unlike his brother Brad, who is quite the liberal Democrat. It?s sort of like a John Steinbeck novel.
Anyway, when Doug?s name came up, Brad apparently convinced his little brother not to run. This is according to the National Enquirer - they claim Brad has ?big plans? for the work he and Doug will be doing together, and they wouldn?t be able to do their work if Doug ran for Congress. Just in the last six months, Doug and Brad (and Angelina Jolie, through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation) have given away more than $2.5 million to Missouri-based charities and causes. There was the $1 million donation to a children?s charity just before Christmas last year; then the $600,000 to Drury University for environmental technology (in the name of their father); and just a couple of weeks ago there was the $1 million donation to a pediatric cancer ward in honor of Jane Pitt. It seems Brad has successfully convinced Doug that there are better ways to help people rather than running for Congress:
Brad Pitt killed his brother Doug?s political career before it even got started.
Instead of a job in Washington, Brad wants Doug to work by his side. Doug, 42, a respected businessman and philanthropist in the family?s hometown of Springfield, Mo. He recently saw his name emerge as a leading choice to run for Congress in Missouri?s conservative 7th district.
But with firm prodding from Brad, Doug put the kibosh on entering his name on the 2010 ballot, a source told the Enquirer.
?Brad has big plans for him and Doug,? the source says. ?They?ve already worked on a few charitable projects together, and Brad wants to see them become even more involved as a team.?
?Brad felt if Doug was serving in Congress, anything they tried to do would smack of political cronyism.?
While Brad, 45, is a well-known liberal, Doug would have run as a Republican, says a friend. Doug jokingly needled his brother: ?Is this your way of trying to keep another Republican out of Congress??
Doug was intrigued with the idea of a political career, said the friend. ?And with the respect that he has, and that famous last name, he would have been a shoo-in.?
?But Brad helped him see that there are other things he can do to help make the world a better place.?
The Pitts have worked together on community projects, but Brad wants Doug by his side not just for humanitarian reasons. He values his business experience and wants him to help with his film production enterprise.
?There?s no one on earth Brad trusts more than his brother,? said the source. ?It Doug had headed to Washington as a politician, brad would have lost a trusted business partner.?
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, July 6 2009]
Honestly, I sort of believe this, and I sort of don?t. I?m not even sure Doug Pitt is really a Republican, but it?s conceivable. What I also find conceivable is that Doug might have had political ambitions. What I don?t buy is that Brad wouldn?t fully support whatever Doug wanted to do - and I don?t think Brad would refuse to support his brother just because of a ?cronyism? charge. It doesn?t make much sense to me - but then again, I don?t live in a Steinbeck novel.
Photos are from Brad Pitt’s visit to the capital on 3/5/09. Credit: WENN>com
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| | Brad Pitt's film 'Moneyball' deemed too horrible to finance | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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All of that anxiety about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie allegedly being split up for the summer was all for nothing. A few weeks ago it seemed that Brad was going to be spending the summer working on Moneyball with director Steven Soderbergh, filming in Arizona and California. Many tabloid reports had Angelina and kids wanting to spend the summer in France - even though People Magazine?s cover story on the ?rumors? had Angelina and the kids going with Brad wherever he was. It was just announced over the weekend that Brad might not even be filming Moneyball this summer though - the financing from Columbia Pictures just fell through. Apparently, the studio chief Amy Pascal thought the script was pretty horrible, and she was all ?I don?t care if Brad wants to make it, this blows. Screw you guys, I?m taking my money with me.”
Looks like the children of the Jolie-Pitt household are getting one big Father’s Day treat–some extra time with their dad now that his latest movie is in free-fall.
Brad Pitt was slated to begin production on Moneyball in Phoenix, Az. on Monday, with director Steven Soderbergh at the wheel.
Studio Columbia Picture and its honcho Amy Pascal, however, have ditched the project last minute due to major script problems, reports Variety.
The baseball themed flick, a usual Soderbergh hybrid of fictional vignettes and real-life interviews, now has a limited period to find a new home to finance its shooting and distribution.
Agents for star Pitt and director Soderbergh are said to be targeting Paramount and Warner Bros.
[From Radar]
I tend to think that the script really must have been terrible for the studio to pull the money from a film with Soderbergh and Pitt attached. The film was supposed to be about the true story of Billy Beane, manager of the Oakland A?s, and his magical draft system. What?s a little sketchy is that Soderbergh was the one to write the screenplay - so basically a studio chief just told an Oscar-winning director that he blows as a writer.
But could there be another reason for the financing falling through? A source told OK! Magazine that one of the factors might have been Brad?s lack of Fight Club-esque muscles. OK!?s source is a real bitch about it too, saying ?Maybe [Brad] should stop riding his motorcycle and take a spinning class.? Oh, burn!
[Insiders] explain to OK! that this delay in production, which is reportedly due to last-minute conflicts over the script, may end up working in Brad’s favor ? psychologically and physically.
“The location shoot for the film would have kept Brad away from his family, who are all with Angelina Jolie while she films Salt on the east coast,” says the insider. “But with Moneyball on hold, he won’t be jetting back and forth or have to worry about being a long-distance dad. Brad is free to do what he wants until this situation with the film is resolved.”
Some sources tell OK! that Brad already took advantage of the schedule change by flying east to join Angie and the kids for Father’s Day weekend.
One thing Brad might want to do with his free time, says the insider, is hit the gym.
“Brad’s character in Moneyball, Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane, is in the kind of shape Brad used to be in, but anyone who’s looked at photos of him recently can see this is not the ripped hottie from Fight Club,” explains the insider. “Maybe he should stop riding his motorcycle and take a spinning class.”
[From OK!]
As I said before, People claimed that Angelina and the kids were going with Brad, so OK! probably has that part of the story wrong. I think the tabloids were geared up for the multiple covers proclaiming the death of the relationship, and now they?re a little disappointed that Brad is probably going to spend the summer puttering around the French chateau in his underwear, drinking beer and playing with the kids. Scandalous!
Brad Pitt is shown at Cannes on 5/20/09. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie donate $1 million to aid Pakistani refugees | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have given $1 million through their Jolie Pitt Foundation to aid refugees in Pakistan. Saturday is World Refugee Day and it seems that the Jolie-Pitts are doing their best to bring awareness to the plight of displaced people around the world. Angelina recently released a short PSA for the UNHCR, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, for which she has worked for eight years. It was a very moving 30 second spot in which Jolie told us to remember refugees while scenes of war and people in peril were shown in the background.
Angelina Jolie is scheduled to talk to Secretary of State Clinton in the capital today, but Clinton just fractured her elbow late yesterday and I would bet that the meeting will be canceled or rescheduled. She is also slated to be interviewed by Anderson Cooper in a segment to air on CNN tonight, Thursday.
Brangelina really are the gift that keeps on giving.
In accordance with United Nations Refugee Agency, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation has earmarked $1 million to aid refugees in Pakistan, where continued violence in neighboring Afghanistan and the resurgence of the Taliban have driven millions of people in the region from their homes.
Angelina Jolie has visited Pakistan several times as a UN High Commissioner for Refugees Goodwill Ambassador, but was unable to ply her trade as an actress there in 2006. Because of security concerns the
A Mighty Heart crew had to move the production from Karachi to Pune, India.
Just last weekend, a $1 million donation was made by the “Brad Pitt family” to establish an endowment fund for the newly named (in honor of Pitt’s activist mom) Jane Pitt Pediatric Cancer Center at St. John’s hospital in Springfield, Mo.
Meanwhile, Jolie is heading to Washington, D.C., on Thursday, aka World Refugee Day, to talk up the cause with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
[From E! Online]
People will argue over this act of philanthropy as they always do whenever Brad and Angelina’s names are mentioned, but it’s hard to deny that they’re doing good in the world and are bringing our attention to some very serious issues. I look forward to seeing Angelina’s interview with Anderson Cooper tonight, but like her brief PSA I’m afraid it will make me cry. It’s powerful to consider the very tough and desperate circumstances that so many millions in the world face daily, and to me that’s what this is about, not this famous couple.
Here’s a link to a charity Angelina has mentioned in the past, SOS Children’s Villages. You can also help refugees by making a donation to the UNHCR through their website.
Brad and Angelina are shown at the BAFTA Awards on 2/8/09. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie donate $1 million to Missouri hospital | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As the years go buy on the Jolie-Pitt relationship, one thing?s for certain - Angelina has been a good influence on Brad?s charitable giving, especially for local issues affecting his home state of Missouri. At the end of 2008, Brad (through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation) donated $200,000 to the Missouri charity Force For Good, which gives money, school supplies, food and clothing to underprivileged kids in the Springfield area. Then, a few months ago, Brad and his brother Doug worked out a $600,000 donation to Drury University to make the on-campus event center meet the U.S. Green Building Council?s Leadership in Environmental Energy and Design (LEED) gold standards. The center will also be named after Brad?s dad, William A. Pitt.
So perhaps Doug and Brad were worried their mom would feel left out. Jane Pitt needed something named after her too, right? So Brad, Angelina and the rest of the Pitt family have worked out a $1 million donation to St. John?s Hospital in Springfield. The money will go towards an endowment fund for pediatric oncology specialists, and the cancer unit will be renamed The Jane Pitt Pediatric Cancer Center.
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and his family donated $1 million to a Missouri hospital over the weekend.
Brad’s bro, Doug, announced the generous contribution to St. John’s Hospital in his hometown of Springfield Saturday. The money will establish an endowment fund to pay children’s cancer specialists, the Springfield News-Leader reports.
The hospital’s cancer treatment unit will be renamed the Jane Pitt Pediatric Cancer Center, in honor of Brad’s mom, who is passionate about children’s issues.
Once completed this summer, St. John’s Hospital will become one of six affiliates of the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital (one of Jennifer Aniston’s favorite charities).
The endowment fund will also go toward building a new pediatric unit, a 10-bedroom hospital-based Ronald McDonald house and doubling the size of the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units.
St. John’s is matching the $1 million donation to help fund the expansion.
[From US Weekly]
That sounds like a plus all the way around - a nice way for the Pitt boys to honor their mother, a nice-sized donation that will help a lot of kids, and a big win for the hospital. Though this report doesn?t say, I would suspect that the money is being donated through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, not as a private donation from Angelina and Brad.
Brad and Angelina are shown on 5/20/09 in Cannes. Credit: WENN.com
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