Olivia Wilde, Maria Bello Build Movie Theater For Haitians

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After the devastating earthquake rocked Haiti earlier this year, food and medical aid poured into the island country, but in the months that followed a pair of Hollywood actresses and their friends had another idea. They wanted to build a movie theater.

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12:53 AM on 12/21/2010

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[LMPE]

12:49 AM on 12/20/2010

Will this theater show anything other than Arnold Schwarzenegger movies?

[WTFbush]

06:25 PM on 12/19/2010

Maria Bello----> Clearly the most under rated actress in film.

She is such an attractive woman and her heart is in helping people. She is a very cool

[R U Sirius]

11:04 AM on 12/19/2010

...but most of the people of Port au Prince still don't have safe drinking water! These puffs spent their money to do WHAT?

[Symphysodon]

08:24 PM on 12/18/2010

Nothing passes the time between bouts of cholera like a good movie.

[jusathot]

07:23 PM on 12/18/2010

I love good white people.

[R U Sirius]

11:04 AM on 12/19/2010

HA! Ain't they just the best? Working on their cred for a TeaPubliNazi political career when they grow up, no doubt....

[jusathot]

01:01 PM on 12/19/2010

Oh ye of little faith.

[RobD407]

12:13 PM on 12/21/2010

Are you stoned? Put down the bong, you've clearly had enough. Since when does disaster relief (even if it seems stupid) justify a comment like yours?
Besides, if you look up the group they're involved with (from the full Reuters story) "Bello, 43, and Wilde, 26, both advisory board members of Artists for Peace and Justice..." the name alone should suggest that it's not any kind of conservative leaning organization, let alone some kind of "TeaPubliNa­zi" whatever out of your imagination.
From their Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artists-for-Peace-and-Justice/279861008884

"Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ), established in early 2009, is a fundraising effort founded by Paul Haggis and friends that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty and enfranchisement in communities around the world."

I have to admit, it sounds pretty stupid to me, there's no houses or clean water, people are living under tarps, people are dying, parents watching their kids dying, and the answer is "Let's build a movie theater!"? WTF? They better be showing some really funny stuff to make people forget there's no clean drinking water.

"...we saw increasing violence, rape and all the alcohol and drug use going on."
About this point, Bill Clinton should be suggesting "Midnight Basketball" again.