Tuesday, January 16, 2007

how i think what angelina jolie does is admirable but seriously, enough is enough

in case you haven't heard, which will be imminent, considering this will be the lead story on all your networks within a day or two, brad pitt and angelina jolie have decided to move to new orleans.

now, i love new orleans as much as anyone. there's very few cities in the world that could match its character and personality and i wish nothing more than to see it rise back to where it was just three years ago.

but it's gonna take a lot of work.

and i don't know what the world's most beautiful people are going to prove by living there.

honestly, what's the point? i mean, they're not going to move to the destroyed sections. they're not gonna live among the homeless and the drug addicted. does their residence there link it to their other charity cases like ethiopia, cambodia and namibia? will that open our eyes?

our eyes are already open.

are they going to save the city, person by person? are they going to adopt a child from the 9th ward?

i'm coming down hard on them. that's not my intention. hey, more power to them for actually doing something instead of, i don't know, blogging about doing something, i admire them for that. i really do.

but my real question here is this: what point do their actions end being charitable and begin being promotional?

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