Thursday, December 25, 2008
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Angelina Jolie wants to 'fade away' from acting
ANGELINA JOLIE has vowed to quit Hollywood to bring up her young family
The actress, 33, has six children with BRAD PITT – four-month-old twins VIVIENNE MARCHELINE and KNOX LEON, daughter SHILOH and adopted siblings MADDOX, ZAHARA and PAX.
Speaking to the BBC on a publicity tour for new film Changeling, Angie was asked if losing her looks may cut her career short.
She replied: “I don’t think about it much because I don’t plan to keep acting very long.
Speaking to the BBC on a publicity tour for new film Changeling, Angie was asked if losing her looks may cut her career short.
She replied: “I don’t think about it much because I don’t plan to keep acting very long.
“I’m ready to do a few things now and fade away and get ready to be a grandma one day.
“So I’m not so worried that I want to keep this pace up and try to be something and be a celebrity and be a successful actress forever.
“I think it’s nice, I’ve had a time to tell stories and be able to be successful enough to tell the ones I want to tell, and to earn some money at the same time is great.
“But everything comes in seasons and, you know, I hopefully won’t be needing to do that later in my life in any way.”
However Angelina has said she will still do one-off projects if they capture her interest.
She added: “I don’t think I’ll ever say I’m never ever going to work because maybe there’s that interesting project where I feel creative – but certainly I think now I haven’t worked for a year.
“I’ll work for a few months in February. I won’t work again probably for another year.
“So maybe it’ll be once a year and maybe it’ll be once every three years and just naturally - I like being home a lot these days.”
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Jolie-Pitts Donate $2 Million to Create Ethiopian Health Center
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may have newborn twins and four other children to care for, but that doesn't stop them from looking after hundreds of thousands of children in Ethiopia, too.
The Jolie-Pitt Foundation made a $2 million donation to the Global Health Committee on Saturday to create a center for AIDS- and tuberculosis-affected children in Ethiopia. The center will be named after the couple's daughter Zahara, 3, who was adopted from the African nation in 2005.
"It is our hope when Zahara is older, she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission," Pitt said in a statement announcing the donation.
Ethiopia has the seventh highest rate of tuberculosis in the world and an estimated 1.7 million people who are infected with HIV. The new clinic will be modeled after the Maddox Chivan Children's Center in Cambodia, named after the eldest Jolie-Pitt child and established in 2006.
"Our goal is to transfer the success we have had in Cambodia to Ethiopia, where people are needlessly dying of tuberculosis, a curable disease, and HIV/AIDS, a treatable disease," said Jolie in the statement.
Anne Goldfeld, cofounder of the Global Health Committee, said, "The Jolie-Pitt gift will allow us to deliver care and ease the great suffering caused by TB and AIDS with what we know works right now, while we continue scientific discovery to improve prevention and treatment of these diseases in the future."
The Jolie-Pitt Foundation made a $2 million donation to the Global Health Committee on Saturday to create a center for AIDS- and tuberculosis-affected children in Ethiopia. The center will be named after the couple's daughter Zahara, 3, who was adopted from the African nation in 2005.
"It is our hope when Zahara is older, she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission," Pitt said in a statement announcing the donation.
Ethiopia has the seventh highest rate of tuberculosis in the world and an estimated 1.7 million people who are infected with HIV. The new clinic will be modeled after the Maddox Chivan Children's Center in Cambodia, named after the eldest Jolie-Pitt child and established in 2006.
"Our goal is to transfer the success we have had in Cambodia to Ethiopia, where people are needlessly dying of tuberculosis, a curable disease, and HIV/AIDS, a treatable disease," said Jolie in the statement.
Anne Goldfeld, cofounder of the Global Health Committee, said, "The Jolie-Pitt gift will allow us to deliver care and ease the great suffering caused by TB and AIDS with what we know works right now, while we continue scientific discovery to improve prevention and treatment of these diseases in the future."
