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Angelina Jolie is a Celebrity Do-Gooder

Angelina Jolie is a Celebrity Do-Gooder

Angelina Jolie recently topped Reuters’ celebrity do-gooder poll for both her work as a U.N. goodwill ambassador and raising awareness of suffering in Africa.

On the bottom of the list? Fellow adoptive mother Madonna! The Queen of Pop was voted the least respected celebrity altruist of 2007 because of claims she used her fame and wealth to circumvent Malawian adoption rules.

“People aren’t stupid,” said Peter Walker, director of the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University. “They can really sense when it’s just an endorsement and when somebody really means it. Someone like Angelina Jolie comes across as having more integrity than some celebrities and a greater sense that she doesn’t just do this for the publicity.”

One voter in the poll hurled quite the insult: “Madonna seems to do philanthropy the way she’s done Indian culture, sex and just about everything — like a disposable fad.”

Ouch!

Brad Pitt, Mia Farrow and Don Cheadle also won praise for their advocacy on behalf of Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region.

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Lynn @ 12/28/2007 at 2:20 pm

Why did you name calling me?were there any bad word in my comment?really why you even bother yourself to call me loon*ie while you are not even sure I’m brangelina’s fan or not?it was just weird.did I ever attack JA in my post.nooooooooo you were trying to say JA is into Charity and I put quote out of her own mouth about Charity’s works.so why you insult me because of nothing?really If JA is not the person whom you love so much,why even bother yourself to attack AJ when you yourself told you don’t know any of them?you must be calmed down and focus on the main message of my post.

Lynn @ 12/28/2007 at 2:28 pm

The only hatefilled person here appears to be you. Why are you here in this thread? You proved that you are nothing but a LIAR with your own words. So once again why are you here?

“Question” #166 - go back and re-read what Lynn said. She didn’t say she doesn’t know anything ABOUT her. She doesn’t KNOW HER. Meaning, she has never and will probably never meet her. And if she does, it would be for no longer than anyone else on this silly blog would; seconds at most. Not nearly enough time to actually KNOW a person. Any more than reading celebrity blogs, tabloids or watching edited interviews put together by PR reps on television allows us to KNOW these people.

I have to agree, you people really are petty and hateful most of the time. Glad to see AJ inspires such positive attributes in you. Being fiercely loyal and protective of a complete strange you will never meet is just weird.

i just love Angie and Brad they do all they can, to help less unfortunate people .they are good and kind hearted .people are starting to know about all the lies that have been written about the jolie pitt family.Angie and Brad deserve all the praise they are getting.we do not idolize Angie and Brad we care for them because they are good people.we do pray to GOD to help jolie pitts and to keep them from all harm.i do not understand why people come on this thread who hate the jolie pitts.and why hate them ,they are beautiful people.the people here, the jp fans are all good people but we do take up for jp family.and i know you people know this when you come on this thread.

Ha! @ 12/28/2007 at 2:46 pm

actually If you want to think in this way,you are free.but before defeding Lynn for not being hateful toward BAMPZS please go back and read last threads I don’t know which one but I’m sure I read one hateful comment from her in BAMPZS’s thread.so she is not new here and we all know she is fan of whom.and I don’t think after all those hates I read on FF about BAMPZS.I can even compare them to people here in JJ.

I don’t think you can even compare them to BAMPZS’s fans.

vickifromtexas @ 12/28/2007 at 2:54 pm

i agree with the person who posted that angelina giving and doing inspires others and what a great thing! she is a very inspirational person and she walks the walk. i think she is awesome.

Not defending, clarifying what she said because it was obvious the response wasn’t appropriate. AND because I can see what she was saying.

There are hateful comments all over this blog made not just by Lynn. The majority of what I’ve read have been written by the so-called BAMPZS fans.

Ha! @ 12/28/2007 at 2:46 pm

One can be known also through their deeds. Angelina has been in the field and the trenches, paying her own costs, without Hollywood generated PR publicity (because she does not have a publicist unlike most celebs) for many years now. UNHCR does publish photos after her visits because that is how they bring attention to the dire and desperate plight of refugees that they are trying to assist around the world. No photos are published while Angelina is actually present in very dangerous parts of the world. Angelina does not go dressed to the nines, she blends in with the people she is surrounded with, no makeup or hairdresser folks with her, she goes to help not hinder, children’s issues are especially important to her.

So for any to come here and attempt to cast her in a negative light in a snarky manner is just plain ire raising. Angelina’s humanitarism is well documented, she does it from her heart, that is what humanitarism is all about. She is for real, and that is what irritates you armchair critics, because you don’t like the truth, you prefer the lies the tabs have spoonfed their believers. You are welcome to your ingrained ignorance, but you are not welcome to come here with it.

Thanks Peter Walker, you finally said what I have been wanting to say.
Madonna is so fake. We the people are NOT STUPID to see through Madonna.

Congratulation Angie. This poll is the true poll that sees the truth. Angie is the real deal, and so is Brad. Love this couple.

Thanks Jared for this thread.

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Angelina is fake and time will say the the truth! Madonna didn’t give any interview about her charity work in Malawi but she has given milions of dollars and she has given money for charity since the beginning of her carrer. People belive in everything silly tabloids write. So if the daily mail wrotes: Madonna steales a baby, people belive it!
Madonna is silly, because she could give tons on interviews to explain “how saint she’is” like FAKE ANGE

Ha! @ 12/28/2007 at 2:58 pm

you know I can care less what she told because I didn’t bother myself to answer to her,but telling JP’s fans are the most hateful people in cyber space is just something bitter.because I’m sure you and that Lynn poster are very well aware of JP’s haters all over internet such as popsugar,Perez hilton,dlisted,FF,hollyscoop and etc.people there don’t even have an issue with wishing death for jps or wishing bad event for brad or angie or their kids or even name calling jp’s kids and attacking them.and then we have one JA’s fan here who tells us we are hatefull.sorry but it doesn’t make any sense.

Just read through the read..

Oh please. Lynn goes around calling people ‘loonies’ in the first line of her post no less and she thinks that ‘AJ fans’ are hateful. Why she felt the need to resort to name-calling and insulting posters to prove her point is beyond me and entirely un-called for.
Then says things like ‘AJ fans’ are the most hateful she has met when she came on here and insulted people first. Laughable.

And Ha!
You are not much better than Lynn. ‘You people’..my goodness generalize much? Learn to differentiate as not all posters on here have said hateful things.

Hahaha… :lol:

AJ fans the most hateful?
Seriously?
Anyone who has read through comments @ dlisted, perezh, tmz, us, etc… would not even try to compare.
It’s a big, BIG world out there and unfortunately, that also means there’s a lot of space for miserable people to hate.

unabashed @ 12/28/2007 at 11:17 am Just compare their faces. Madonna looks hard and brittle. Angelina is just luminous.

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Also, you will see Angelina in the mud with refugees, eyes wide open, luminous with an healthy child or attentive to the suffering, the personal stories while Madonna and the likes who like to fake it will go in a nice village, doing ONLY some dancing for the show.

As a mixed race afropean with relatives still living in Africa, I find it pretty repulsive and petty from her part as well of a lack of real understanding about the real issues in Africa where 80 % of the dead are less than 18 years because of malaria, child deasease and lack of food.

Madonna like only to go there to keep on making the show as a promotion of her ‘entertainer’ omage, not as Madonna, the woman. She is just living with the very reductive image of the always dancing, naive and smiling African. You won’t see her taking a dirty near dying child in her arms or listenning to a woman suffering.

Another celebrity who is often forgotten is Jessica Lange. She went to Eastern Congo a few years ago and depicted with tears in her eyes the widespread rape on children and women…victims of 3 years old (the age of Zee) were among the most tragic victims with all their intern wounds. She said that she never could imagine what extrteme despicable means until she saw a wounded theee years old raped traumatized and wounded.

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you are only a poor ignorant! madonna went 3 times in malawi, the first time nobody knew she went, the second time she went for almost 2 weeks and she took David and last april she went back with Lourdes and David and she didn’t spend her time dancing and smiling but she visited all her projects: a millenium village, a children care centre, clinics, nursery and many many more. But I say again time will say the truth

Sorry I don’t recall saying anything about AJ herself just her fans. I would never and have never said anything about the children. I don’t hate Jolie or Pitt…..So please quit putting words in my mouth. I believe what my point was that everyone who gives no matter in what way should get credit.

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Summer sequels, SIFF and a writers’ strike: Why 2007 is a year to remember in movies

The success of “Beowulf”: It could well be that future generations will look back on Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of the Old English classic the way we now do on “The Jazz Singer” — as a movie that changed the whole technical direction of Hollywood. It’s not the first hit movie to digitize live actors and stream them into a digital world, but it’s the first to significantly alter the body structure of live actors to suit the demands of the filmmaker (for instance, transforming its diminutive star, Ray Winstone, into a brawny muscleman). It points to a future in which human actors are increasingly irrelevant, and even the most realistic “live-action” movies are mostly computer-animated. “Beowulf” also worked so well in its 3-D engagements that it seemed to finally pull this 55-year-old process out of the realm of gimmickry and into the regular vocabulary of action filmmaking.

The movie-star vanity project:
Sparked by an article by David Denby in The New Yorker, the movie press was full of talk about the death of the star system in ‘07. The thesis is that celebrity no longer has any connection whatsoever to box office in the new movie millennium: The tabloids were full of Tom Cruise all year long but his name couldn’t bring an audience to “Lions for Lambs.” It may be true that stars no longer matter in the way they once did, but the star system worked for moviegoers in at least one way in ‘07: Most of the year’s best movies were made simply because a powerful producer-star wanted them made. Without those big names in the credits (working for scale) no studio would have touched Angelina Jolie’s “A Mighty Heart,” George Clooney’s “Michael Clayton,” Brad Pitt’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg’s “We Own the Night” or Sean Penn’s “Into the Wild.”

electra @ 12/28/2007 at 3:04 pm

Why knock Angelina or Madonna? They are both out in the world doing good for others. No one should dictate what others should do, people should do good because that is the right thing to do. If one has plenty of bread and their neighbor has none, should not the one with bread share? Is this not what makes one a human? The form of the assistance is not what matters, the act of assistance is what is important. Both Angelina and Madonna give both their money and time. NEITHER IS A FAKE, BOTH ARE QUITE REAL AND SINCERE.

Those like you who spend your life being critical of the efforts of others to lend a helping hand, no matter what it is, are just subhumans. But your hand will be out quickly enough when you are in need, that’s a given. The humans among us always end up assisting the subhumans like you. That’s the only way you subhumans survive. Clearly you are biting the hand that feeds you.

Why AJ and JA fans have to be arguing all the time? Angie and Jen are not doing so, so why do we keep the insults going? I’m a AJ fan but i like Jen too, I’ve had very good moments watching Friends, I don’t necessarily have to dislike her! And Jen’s fans, you have to assume that Brad and Angie fell in love, and that it! Sure, they didn’t want to hurt Jen, but they couldn’t help it. This is life, and it happens all the time.

Lynn @ 12/28/2007 at 3:14 pm

Well Lynn you could have made your point without insulting people on this thread so whatever has been thrown your way was a result of your actions and your actions alone.

Hahaha…

AJ fans the most hateful?
Seriously?
Anyone who has read through comments @ dlisted, perezh, tmz, us, etc… would not even try to compare.
It’s a big, BIG world out there and unfortunately, that also means there’s a lot of space for miserable people to hate.

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in fact AJ fans don’t hate madonna at all, she’s only ugly and Angelina is shining, madonna is fake and Angelina is a saint.

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electra @ 12/28/2007 at 3:04 pm

Why knock Angelina or Madonna? They are both out in the world doing good for others. No one should dictate what others should do, people should do good because that is the right thing to do. If one has plenty of bread and their neighbor has none, should not the one with bread share? Is this not what makes one a human? The form of the assistance is not what matters, the act of assistance is what is important. Both Angelina and Madonna give both their money and time. NEITHER IS A FAKE, BOTH ARE QUITE REAL AND SINCERE.

Those like you who spend your life being critical of the efforts of others to lend a helping hand, no matter what it is, are just subhumans. But your hand will be out quickly enough when you are in need, that’s a given. The humans among us always end up assisting the subhumans like you. That’s the only way you subhumans survive. Clearly you are biting the hand that feeds you.

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i don’t care about Angelina! But here a lot of people (AJ fans) said a lot of bad things about Madonna. I’m a Madonna fan since I was 11 years old and now I’m 32 so I know her story and her carrer very well. Now Angelina is at the peak of her fame and she can’t do wrong like madonna in the 80’s. Plus only 606 persons made this pool.
SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH.

I do remember reading an article where Sean Penn was talking about an Angelina and Brad before Shiloh’s birth.I didn’t know they know each other.Can someone tell how Angelina became friend with Sean and Robin.was it through Brad or they have known each other before Brad.Can someone help me in this one and where can I find an article about it.thanks in advance.

the real tita @ 12/28/2007 at 3:28 pm

#164: MF, di ko mabuksan ang inbox ko ngayon. I will keep trying.

bdj @ 12/28/2007 at 3:22 pm

Thanks for all the articles you are posting.thanks.

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