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| | Matt Damon visits Ethiopia, walks the walk of advocacy work | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon is advocating for clean water and plumbing throughout the world as part of the charity he co-founded, Water.org. He appeared in a video for CNN (shown above) to show how difficult it is for people in rural northern Ethiopia to collect water for themselves and their families. People, including schoolchildren, walk hours and carry heavy jugs in order to get dirty water from a hand dug well. The risk of water-borne diseases, like dysentery and cholera, from the visibly muddy water is high. Water.org strives to bring awareness to the need for clean, potable water throughout the world as well as build safe community wells and toilets. They built a well in Adenifas, Ethiopia, and you can see the building site and celebration in the first video below. (It’s a longer version of the CNN video and the well-building starts at about 3:00 minutes in.)
Damon is expecting his fourth child with wife Luciana, which will be his third biological child. (He also has a step daughter from Luciana’s first marriage.) He’s credited Luciana with holding their family together around his varied work schedule and said that they’re now preparing for their next little tornado.” The couple was spotted at John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s wedding at George Clooney’s estate in Italy last month and were later seen on a family vacation in Hawaii. Damon is certainly keeping busy this summer.
I’m a sucker for anything Damon does and it works out particularly well when he makes great movies and advocates for such worthy causes.
Update: This post has been up for like an hour and has one comment. I just wanted to note that the only reason I know about this video is because I get Water.org’s newsletter. It’s not like the charity is issuing press releases to the celebrity news outlets, although maybe they should be. Also, I just read this really good article on Pajiba reviewing a new documentary the reveals how bottled water is a rip off that hurts communities and the environment. It’s only moderately related, but it’s worth considering when you realize the lengths that people in remote areas go though to get water.
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| | Matt Damon's trip to Ethiopia to advocate for clean water | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon is advocating for clean water and plumbing throughout the world as part of the charity he co-founded, Water.org. He appeared in a video for CNN (shown above) to show how difficult it is for people in rural northern Ethiopia to collect water for themselves and their families. People, including schoolchildren, walk hours and carry heavy jugs in order to get dirty water from a hand dug well. The risk of water-borne diseases, like dysentery and cholera, from the visibly muddy water is high. Water.org strives to bring awareness to the need for clean, potable water throughout the world as well as build safe community wells and toilets. They built a well in Adenifas, Ethiopia, and you can see the building site and celebration in the first video below. (It’s a longer version of the CNN video and the well-building starts at about 3:00 minutes in.)
Damon is expecting his fourth child with wife Luciana, which will be his third biological child. (He also has a step daughter from Luciana’s first marriage.) He’s credited Luciana with holding their family together around his varied work schedule and said that they’re now preparing for their next little tornado.” The couple was spotted at John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s wedding at George Clooney’s estate in Italy last month and were later seen on a family vacation in Hawaii. Damon is certainly keeping busy this summer.
I’m a sucker for anything Damon does and it works out particularly well when he makes great movies and advocates for such worthy causes.
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| | Matt Damon praises his 'great wife' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon once called marriage “a ridiculous thing to do,” but added that he liked being married to his wife Luciana. Five years of marriage and almost four kids later, Matt and Luciana are still going strong and he’s still singing her praises. Matt told a reporter at the Ante Up for Africa poker tournament over the weekend that Luciana helps manage the family around his work commitments and that “she really keeps it together.” Luciana is currently pregnant with their third child together, which will be her fourth.
If Matt Damon wants to find out anything about his wife’s pregnancy he just needs to ask their kids.
“They track its progress in mommy’s belly,” he said Saturday while attending the Ante Up for Africa charity poker event in Las Vegas.
His wife, Luciana, is set to deliver the couple’s fourth child this fall. They currently have three daughters: Alexia, 11, who is Luciana’s child from a previous marriage, Isabella, 4, and Gia, 22 months.
The kids “are very excited” about another addition to the family, Damon, 39, said.
But being a family man and major motion picture star isn’t easy for the former Sexiest Man Alive. Damon credits “a great wife” for helping him juggle his responsibilities.
“She really keeps it together,” he said at the poker event at the Rio All Suites Hotel, hosted by Oceans 11 pal Don Cheadle. “We just talk it out and work it all out. You say, this is the job and this is the time commitment and this is where it will be. I?m a lot easier to hire if you?re doing movies in New York.”
[From People]
Luciana is a lucky bitch, but I’m sure she earns it by patiently putting up with more crap from Damon than we can imagine. Just because Damon is a dreamboat who manages his image expertly doesn’t mean that he’s an ideal husband. (That’s just what I tell myself to get through the days. I’ve seen the Bourne movies too many times.) Whatever goes on in their marriage, these two seem very much in love and must still be keeping things hot. They were spotted making out at a club just a couple of weeks ago. Oh sigh.
Here are some new photos of Damon at Ante Up For Africa. He lost weight! I never get tired of looking at this guy. Matt and Luciana are shown on 3/27/10. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Matt Damon gets mad for charity | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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1Goal PSA Gone Wrong w/ Jessica Alba, Matt Damon, Shakira, John Legend & Queen Rania from 1Goal
All you need to do to make a funny celebrity video is to include Matt Damon acting mad. The guy does mad the best that I’ve ever seen, (I was going to write “better than any other living actor,” but I know that many of you will disagree with me) and his buddy Jimmy Kimmel knows this and capitalizes on it whenever Matt is game, which is surprisingly often. We’ve seen Matt freak out and swear at Kimmel for supposedly bumping him from his show, fight Jimmy’s sidekick Guillermo, and star in other cute segments like “Handsome Men’s Club,” “F’cking Matt Damon” and “F’cking Ben Affleck” (There’s also a non-Kimmel but staged video of Damon freaking out and swearing at Adrien Grenier for allegedly messing up a scene.) Even when Damon is acting campy in a bit he’s superb and doesn’t overplay it. I just love him so much.
Anyway Damon stars in a new Funny or Die video for 1Goal, an education charity founded by Queen Rania of Jordan in conjunction with the World Cup. He plays agitated and out of control to Jessica Alba’s woefully inadequate straight man. The video cuts away to a cute segment with John Legend complaining that no one brought him a piano and both Shakira and Queen Rania discussing 1Goal.
Damon has gained some weight and is sporting longer hair. His wife is pregnant with their third child together, which would explain Damon’s sympathetic daddy weight gain. Either that or it’s for a role. Damon is slated to play Liberace’s longterm lover in a new biopic starring Michael Douglas. Judging from pictures of the guy he’s playing, Scott Thorson, that could be why he gained weight and let his hair grow out. Damon is also reportedly in talks to play the lead in a new Cameron Crow movie based on the true story of a man who sunk his life savings into a zoo. He has no less than six films in development and several coming up that are in post production. Bourne might be over, but we’ll be getting our Damon fix for years to come.
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| | Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso: Berlin Lovers | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Out for a dinner date night, Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso were spotted heading to dinner in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday (March 2).
The “Invictus” actor and his lovely wife held hands and looked happy together as they made their way inside to Bocca di Bacco restaurant.
With a clean-shaven face, Damon recently admitted how much he hated having to sport a mustache for his role in the upcoming film, “True Grit.”
Per imdb’s website, “True Grit” is about a tough U.S. Marshal who helps a stubborn young woman track down her father’s murderer, and will be out in theatres on Christmas Day this year.
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Stepping out for a promotional appearance, Matt Damon was spotted at the premiere of his new flick “Green Zone” in New York City last night (February 25).
The “Bourne Identity” actor looked dapper as he arrived at Loews Lincoln Square, sporting a dark suit with a blue shirt, polka-dotted tie, and a mustache that he’s growing for an upcoming role.
According to a report, Mr. Damon has signed on to play Senator Robert Kennedy in a new film about the slain politician.
Matt will follow in the footsteps of actors Martin Sheen (The Missiles of October) and Casey Affleck (The Kennedys of Massachusetts), who have both portrayed Kennedy.
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| | Matt Damon: Dirt-lip | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Oh, God. I love Matt Damon, but this is not a good look for him. Why in God?s name did he think he could grow a mustache? Apparently, he?s doing it for a movie, but if I was directing him, I would take one look at that thing and say ?You know what? Let?s go clean-shaven for this bitch?? Matt can?t help that he has a baby-face. He can?t help that he looks like a dirt-lip. But he can shave the f-cker.
I guess he had one for The Informant! too. Which is bad enough - you already know how bad you look with a mustache, why can?t you say no to a director who wants you to grow one out again? Anyway, Matt was there with his beautiful wife Lucy, who does not seem to like The Dirt-Lip either. Her dress is really pretty, though.
I?m actually excited about seeing The Green Zone. It looks really good. Very ?Jason Bourne in Iraq? but still, like a good political thriller. The film also stars Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson and Jason Isaacs, amongst others. All except Kinnear were at the premiere too (photos below). Here?s the trailer for The Green Zone:
Premiere photos from NY premiere of ?The Green Zone? on February 26, 2010. Credit: WENN.
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| | Jason Bourne is Lookin' Good | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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I literally have no idea what the movie Hereafter is about, but apparently it stars Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon. Based on these pictures from the set, I can only assume it’s the heartwarming story of a dessicated corpse, his special needs friend, and their adventures digging for gold.
Matt Damon on the set of Hereafter with Clint Eastwood.
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Tending to his fatherly duties, Matt Damon was spotted making his way around Brentwood, California on Friday afternoon (January 15).
Toting daughter Isabella in his arms, the “Bourne Identity” hunk dropped into the local doctor’s office so that his little angel could get her needed medical checkup.
The sighting comes amidst reports that Damon and Brad Pitt have been added to the voice cast of “Happy Feet 2”.
Though Warner Bros has refused to comment on the casting, insiders tell that the deal has already been signed and recording has gotten underway.
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| | Matt Damon: Mandela is the greatest political leader of our lifetime | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matt Damon is out there pushing his new movie, Invictus, which I think looks awesome. It?s the true story of Nelson Mandela?s attempt (and success) to use the South African Rugby team?s bid to win the Rugby World Cup to further the cause of racial and political peace. The film is getting wonderful reviews, and Matt is being singled out for his performance as South Africa?s rugby captain Francois Pienaar.
Beyond the politics of the film, Matt has always been known as an activist and advocate for leftie causes - and unlike some celebrities, he defends his positions with a lot of intelligence, and without degrading the political discussion into nastiness and name-calling. Actually, he was kind of mean about Sarah Palin when he was interviewed last year, but as it turns out, he wasn’t even as harsh as many Republicans turned out to be, so whatever. Anyway, Matt was discussing the movie and he dropped this bombshell (not really): he thinks Nelson Mandela is ?the greatest political leader in the world in our lifetime.?
No world leader has ever surpassed the accomplishments of former South African President Nelson Mandela. So says actor Matt Damon, who plays rugby team captain Francois Pienaar in Clint Eastwood’s Nelson Mandela film, “Invictus,” which opens nationwide Friday.
?Mandela convinced everybody to not go to war. That involves a lot of personal responsibility,” Damon told Tarts at last week?s Los Angeles premiere. “South Africa had the greatest political leader in the world in our lifetime. Period.?
The film covers the months in 1995 after Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa after decades of white apartheid rule, a time during which the country was close to devolving into civil war.
Damon says that Mandela couldn’t save his country alone, though.
?There was responsibility taken by the citizens as well, that?s a lesson for the rest of the world about how to handle conflict.?
Handling conflict is something Damon, 39, is getting more practice with as his two daughters get older. But Damon couldn’t be happier with his situation.
?It?s so great as any father of girls will tell you,” Damon gushed. “It?s the best.?
[From Fox News]
At first I was like ?wait a minute? but the ?in our lifetime? thing is important. Matt?s not saying Mandela was the greatest leader ever, he?s saying Mandela was and is the greatest of our lifetime. Which might be and probably is true. I?ll have to think about it some more. Gorbachev? Sure, he would be up there. Aung San Suu Kyi? She makes my list. Ronald Reagan? I?m sure he?s on some people?s lists. Oh, I could do this all day!
In other Matt Damon news, he really, really, really wants Tina Fey to write him a part on 30 Rock. There?s even a rumor going around Entertainment Weekly and Buddy TV that it?s going to happen. Matt totally geeked out about 30 Rock and Tina Fey when asked about it, telling EW (via Buddy TV): ?I would do [30 Rock] in a heartbeat if they asked me to come on. I have not been approached about doing it. She should call my people — or even better me. Or I could call her. Let’s make this happen. Tina is a brilliant comedy writer. My wife and I download that show in bulk. That’s actually one of the downsides to working so much this year; I have fallen behind on this season. But we love that show, so if she has a part for me, I’m game.” After Tina got to pretend date Jon Hamm, I?m not sure if I want Liz Lemon to get Matt Damon. But they don?t necessarily have to write him in as a love interest. The sky?s the limit! By the way, how cute was Julianne Moore last night? Her Boston accent was rough at times, but I just love the hell out of her!
By the way, here?s part of Matt?s interview on the Jay Leno show last night. It?s kind of boring, but Matt does tell a funny story about his step-daughter calling him ?Matty Fatty?.
Matt Damon at the UNCEIF event on December 10, 2009, in Los Angeles. Credit: WENN. Additional photos of Matt and Lucy, credit: FAME.
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