Don't you think it's a bit late in the day to be THIS stupid? Please crawl back under a rock! BTW, Brad and Angelina ARE LIBERALS!!!!!!!

I don't either, kellygrrrl. Are they just jealous? One poster even derides them because they carry their small children! These people are seriously ill. I would hate to be so cynical.

Did you just mail a couple of checks off or did you travel the globe calling attention to the plight of the less fortunate? Did you send a check to help those in New Orleans made homeless by the levee failures or did you move your family to New Orleans and use your celebrity status to raise money for housing for the homeless here along with donating your time, energy and your own money to help the people of the 9th ward? Did you adopt 3 orphans from impoverished countries in spite of the fact that you are perfectly capable of having your own kids?

Kudos to you for giving "a few hundred bucks to charity" but the Jolie-Pitts have given more than their money - they've given their time and energy and names to good causes. And, the "publicity" they get will inspire others to give to those same needy causes and draw attention to those causes. At some point, when a star does good things, isn't the "publicity" they get DESERVING?

reedmaker, do you honestly believe they were looking for publicity about this? Only Oprah does that!The two are honest humanitarians and give to others on a daily basis without expecting a big headline to give themselves an ego boost.

Your income must be really, really low reedmaker. If Angelina and Brad earned 80 million dollars in 2006 I would be really shocked. AJ did two films --one at a substantially reduced salary and Brad did one that he wasn't paid anything much for but his expenses (it was filmed entirely in LA and Las Vegas) as he had back end participation. So as far as I can tell the J-P's had a huge sum going out (birth in Africa, renting whole compound (resort & restaurant), security, private planes, $600k in donations, home expansion & etc.) versus very little in salary. They both did some ad work. So if they earned $20 million that year and had investment income of $20 million they gave 20% of their combined income to their foundation. That is only one donation. They may also donate as individuals to other charities and through their trusts and production companies. Your few hundred is great but it hopefully wasn't 20% of your annual income.

Another example would be if Rush Limbaugh gave 20% of his income he would have given about 15 million dollars last year -- ya' think?

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How much of your income did YOU donate to charity in 2006?

Angelina Jolie could give your kid one of her kidneys and you'd say she just did it for the publicity.

At least your last line revealed your real motives.

Get your facts right. She got paid a million dollars for A Mighty Heart and that was the only movie she did in 2006. She single handedly funds the Maddox Jolie Pitt foundation in Cambodia on behalf of her son, a foundation that takes care of about 6000 villagers, building schools and hospital as part of the millennium project. She donates huge sums to UNHCR that are not made public and the funds for unaccompanied minors. Brad just gave $5m to his MIR foundation and used his connection to bring together some of the best architects in the world to help rebuild New Orleans. What more do you want from them. They are not your government, they are citizens just us.

How about railing on the do nothing celebrities to do a little bit for humanity instead of bashing the ones who are already doing something.

It helps to be informed when you share your opinions (or make assertions), especially about other people and their reputation. In your "calculations," are you working from their income statements? Do you understad the business structure they've set up? Are you considering the percentages of income that go to agents & attorneys, as well as other business expenses? It's documented in the press that they don't each make $15m for every movie and most entertainers set up separate business entities and aren't paid directly.

The types of cynical and negative comments that are lobbed at people doing good work are absurd; and they say so much more about the people making them than those being criticized. We should be praising and encouraging good deeds, not ripping them apart and finding fault with them (particular where there isn't evidence of any).

And to those saying that this is a publicity stunt... This information about their philanthrophy is derived from the foundation's federal filings, which are publicly available (even on the Web) -- not from their publicist.

We'll get farther by exercising reason and cultivating good karma...

HOGWASH! nicoleanonymous is lying again. I very much doubt that Brad and Angelina had an annual income of $150 million -especially in 2006. Brad may come close to $50 million in income a year -- but Angelina's NET WORTH has never been set at more than $120 million. That woud generate interest income of a substantial sum ($3-6 million) but there is no way to substantiate that and it seems highly unlikely given AJ's expenses and her stated plan to give a third, spend a third and save a third. Also AJ said she gave a third of her salary IIRC -- not her income. If Oprah did that she would have given about $70 million in 2007 -- I don't think so.

Angelina did 2 films in 2006 ($10 million) and earned about $3 million from St. John. She has 15% taken off the top, at least, for her manager and her ad agent. So of the remaining 11.9 million a third is roughly $4 million. Also, this is just their joint foundation. Brad and Angelina may donate in other ways -- we all ready know the time they have given for various humanitarian works -- they most likely give as individuals and through trusts they have established and their individual production companies. This "investigation" was done of the J-P Foundation tax year 2006 -- not 2007. In 2007 Brad said that $5 million he pledged for www.makeitrightnola.org came from J-P Foundation.

Angelina (and now Brad) has typically not talked about he individual donations unless she wanted to draw attention to a situation. You have no idea what she gives and where.

Troll alert.