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Hollywood Report: Depp, Jolie, Madonna and more…

Hollywood's honesty is well known. So it is completely “shocking” for us to hear about Angelina Jolie’s aid scandal, Madonna’s adoption problems, studio boss a$$holes and some environment hypocrisy.

But that’s not enough for all those do-gooders.


Some rumblings over Stem Cells:

Opponents of embryonic stem cell research have quickly enlisted the aid of James Caviezel, who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, and Patricia Heaton, who co-starred in Everybody Loves Raymond, to counter ads featuring Michael J. Fox, who is supporting Congressional candidates favoring expanded federal funding for such research. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, was also criticized by conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, who suggested that Fox was "either off his medication or acting" before filming the spots. On the other hand, New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley wrote today (Wednesday): "These are times in which most actors seem prepared to do anything, and pay any price, to disguise flaws that could harm their careers. So when a famous one exposes the full, frightening extent of his infirmity in the name of saving lives, it tends to get noticed."

Source: IMDB


And finally a positive report. Johnny Depp gets an award for his charitable work:

Depp said he was "thankful" for the award and saluted the doctors and nurses at the hospital for "their generosity".

He concluded in his speech: "Lastly to the kids, the courage that I have seen in the eyes of these little ones that you don't see anywhere else is astonishing and inspiring."

Source: ITV


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Bono, our all-time favorite celebrity do-gooder, is back:

This U2 / Green Day collaboration is in aid of Music Rising, a charity set up by The Edge to help musicians in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It's a cover version of the 1978 song by Scottish punk band The Skids, written by Richard Jobson and Stuart Adamson. Though it lacks the rough-and-ready urgency of the original, Rick "Red Hot Chili" Rubin's lean and clean production makes sure of maximum impact.

Amnesty International delivers a very unusual video clip. I don’t want to spoil it for you, just take a look:

http://www.onemanfight.com/




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Grave of the Fireflies is one of my all-time favorite movies and one of the most impressive anti-war movies you will ever see. Grave of the Fireflies was made by Isao Takahata, friend and fellow animator of Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Chihiro).

Check out Caecilia's review HERE (http://www.v-generations.com/v/content/view/141/24/)

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Hollywood Report: Shakira, Serj Tankian, Jolie,…

Stars and their love for poor people. Stars and their love for poor people. Here are some news:

Adoptions of African children have become an international joke

Jolie on damage control in India

Shakira is more than just a pretty face

Serj Tankian,?Lead Singer of System of a Down, writes for Amnesty International

Mia Farrow witnesses the suffering for Unicef

Elton John sells himself through an online charity auction

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Perfume. That’s it. After cars, houses, bikes and clothes, we get environment friendly perfume. Here is the official statement:

"It is a limited edition perfume in which "50 ml of crude oil is exquisitely packaged and branded. Both art piece and luxury item, Crude foretells a potential future for one of the 20th century's most influential raw materials.

As our natural resources decline, the future of our society falls into question. How will everyday materials be valued, rethought, branded and consumed? Will a once plentiful resource become a luxury item? At $280 for 50ml, a barrel would be $900,000.

Also included in this range, a 1ml vial on card tester, that is a beautiful replication of a luxury perfume sample, normally given free as product promotion. As with all branded cosmetic launches, there is a “gift with purchase.”

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We have already introduced Joalby, producer of Voyces United for UNHCR, to you. Now you can find a review of his new CD in our music section.

You can read Caecilia's review HERE (http://www.v-generations.com/v/content/view/145/27/)

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Greenpeace has an interesting marketing idea. You can design a Save the Whales campaign. You just have to register, post your idea and rate other ideas.

Help us design a direct action to save the whales (without alienating the whalers, who are just trying to make a living).
We need your help to create an amazing campaign that accomplishes the unexpected – and triggers a positive and productive public debate both in Japan and all over the world. It’s especially important to win the campaign in Japan, where most people are against whaling in Antarctica.
Imagine you are designing the direct action:
What would you do?


Source: Greenpeace (http://whales.greenpeace.org/global)

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- Click here for more information on AmFAR.

- Click here for more information on the One campaign.

- Click here for more information on the RED project.

- Click here for more information on The Global Fund.

- Click here for more information on U.S. AIDS Hotlines.

- Click here for more news on AIDS.

- Click here for more information and education on AIDS.

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Some Hollywood charity news:


Audrey Hepburn’s dress sold for £467,200 (the City of Joy Aid)

Tom Jackson to get humanitarian award at Junos next spring

Rod Stewart kisses man for charity

Turning comedy into cash for Katrina victims


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Here are two documentaries I like to recommend. You can find reviews, trailers, galleries, screening news and more on their websites.

The first documentary is about genocides:

Documentary feature examining why genocides keep occurring -- from the Armenian genocide in 1915, to the Holocaust, Bosnia, Rwanda and now Darfur -- through the eyes and music of the Grammy award-winning rock band “System of a Down,” based in Los Angeles, whose members are all grandchildren of genocide survivors.

Source: www.screamersmovie.com




The second documentary is an international award-winning look behind the 80-billion-dollar global coffee industry:

Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil.
But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields.

Source: www.blackgoldmovie.com

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In the year 2050 polar bears are a part of our history. Gone. Forever. Except, we stop Global Warming or we clone them.


The announcement by the Bush administration comes in response to a lawsuit filed by three conservation groups, who sued the Department of the Interior in an effort to protect the polar bear from the effects of global warming.

"The science is extraordinarily clear: Global warming in the Arctic threatens polar bears," said Kassie Siegel, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Arizona.

Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council are the other groups that were part of the lawsuit.

Source: CNN

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