Angelina Jolie

Does Celebrity Interest or Endorsement Help or Hurt a Cause?

By deidreanndavis - Posted on February 21st, 2008

If George Clooney, Mia Farrow, Angelina Jolie and bands I like can't change the world, is there really anyone who can?

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In Hollywood, sympathy is a bad trend to follow: the downside of rock star economics

By plastik.noise - Posted on October 3rd, 2007

Tagged: adoption • africa • aid • Angelina Jolie • hollywood • Madonna • Paris Hilton • rights • Better future

This is an editorial I wrote for the school newspaper. Excuse the length. >>Paris Hilton announced in late September that she was planning a visit to Africa to do missionary work. Obviously, there are multiple things wrong with that sentence.

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