Brad Pitt Surely Does Help Make America Great!
June 25, 2006 by Administrator
Brad is on the cover of Newsweek this week as part of an article titled: 15 People Who Make America Great:
If Pitt was simply using his star power to force the celebrity press to cover poverty and disease, that would be enough—heck, it’s far more than most celebrities do. But Pitt has also been studying trade issues, diving into why much of Africa is so impoverished and how it can be turned
around. “Industrialized nations cost Africa three times what we give it in aid,” he says. “We buy their coffee beans, but we don’t let them process the beans, which is where the real money is. So what we’re doing is digging a hole for them that they can’t get out of, and then throwing a little money in the hole. The odds are just stacked against them.”
Fatherhood, he says, helped accelerate his activism. Not long before Shiloh was born, Pitt adopted Jolie’s son, Maddox, whom she originally adopted from Cambodia, and her daughter Zahara, whom she adopted last summer from Ethiopia. “I look at [Zahara] and imagine what her life could have been,” he says. “You want to grab as many of these kids in your arms as you can. They need our help, and we should be doing more.”
Naturally I could have copied the whole article here – it is a good one, albeit short. Brad gives a bit of personal insight into the madness that is “Being Brad and Angelina,” along with Newsweek giving coverage to several of Brad’s projects. Great stuff – thanks Newsweek!
Photo: Michael O’Neill for Newsweek
That’s nice!!
Thank you, newsweek!!
Btw, do you remember Mad once pictured carying newsweek magazine in an airport? How funny that he ‘tried to read’ the magazine which now has his daddy on it’s cover? =p
And so glad to read how happy brad is now with his life, and all of those bullsh*ts that were ever created about he’s being unhappy and blah blah blah are all vanished by his statement about fatherhood.
I love how newsweek describe his smiling voice when he talk about the kids and also the baby crying background.
Sure the papz are so…arrrghhh! i’m so speachless about them! But, he used to be so calm about it.
Sublime that how Brad describe having kids. How great. Love the cover. A very relax unhollywood pic.
Usually I would dismiss Brad Pitt as being juvenile, but the truth is that Brad Pitt does what he does because he is a sensitive man who has high morals on how children should be brought up, whether they are his or someone else’s. I am sorry that I was mistaken about him and Jennifer Aniston should be sorry too.
great guy and a GREAT dad!
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