Yesterday, in a moment of celebrity grandstanding, Sharon Stone raised $1 million in five minutes with a plea to wealthy businessmen attending a conference on poverty at a resort in Switzerland. (Must be rough having a meeting about world poverty at a resort in Switzerland.) Stone stood up during the middle of the meeting and proclaimed she would donate $10,000 and challenged others in the room to stand up and donate. Quietly and steadily, many of them did.
But today Angelina Jolie had a little press conference and talked about the damage a celebrity could do, speaking of course in general terms, if they hopped into the cause and weren’t in it for the long haul. (Snap!) Jolie, who is 29 and has been working for the cause for the last four years, donates one-third of her earnings to charity.
In the press conference Jolie said she finds her work as an actress dull compared to working on humanitarian causes and hasn’t made a movie since last year’s “Alexander.” While she toured the devastation in Sudan, an “Esquire” poll named Jolie the sexiest woman in the world.
In a celebrity scalping match between Sharon and Angelina, who do you think would end up with the pelt? My money is on Ms. Angelina.
