Filed under: honors — Michael d'Estries @ 10:58 am
November 11th 2009
Ashley Judd was honored last night as part of USA TODAY’s fourth annual Hollywood Hero Awards for her work as a Global Ambassador for YouthAIDS. The 41-year-old actress was modest in her acceptance of the award, telling USA TODAY’s Ann Oldenburg, “I’m just the front woman. I was just lucky that this wonderful organization was [...]
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Tagged: ashley judd, debra messing, magic johnson, many moore, molly sims, morgan freeman, omar miller
Filed under: green and famous — Luke Warner @ 9:28 pm
August 23rd 2009
Morgan Freeman and Glenn Close were honored this weekend at the SeaChange Summer Party hosted by Oceana, the largest international organization focused 100% on ocean conservation. Oceana’s various boards include actors Pierce Brosnan, Kelsey Grammer, Sam Waterston as well as co-founder Ted Danson.
Danson co-hosted the event which was held at the Villa di Sogni, a [...]
Filed under: campaigns, donations — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 12:27 pm
August 12th 2009
With all those celebs getting hooked on various substances, it’s nice to see some of them are getting hooked on books!
What Book Got You Hooked is an initiative of First Book — a charity whose mission is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books.
From now until [...]
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Tagged: david duchovny, john krasinski, morgan freeman, selena gomez
Filed under: books, film-tv, green and famous, movies, television — Luke Warner @ 8:16 am
July 30th 2009
Matt Damon’s long anticipated film called The People Speak, based on Howard Zinn’s bestselling book, A People’s History of the United States, and made in collaboration with the author, will be aired later this year. After nearly 10 years in the making and various misses with other companies like HBO, Damon is finally set to [...]
Filed under: film-tv, movies, web — Michael d'Estries @ 3:51 pm
April 21st 2009
Just in time for Earth Day, Hulu is making available for free the green flick Greasy Rider. The documentary is a cross-country road trip powered by vegetable oil in a 1981 Mercedes-Benz. It follows the two filmmakers, Joey Carey and JJ Beck, as they meet with fellow Greasecar drivers, friends, and critics. Some of the [...]
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Filed under: campaigns — Michael d'Estries @ 11:36 am
March 4th 2009
As part of his work for Not On Our Watch, the group he helped co-found with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Don Cheadle, Matt Damon took time on Tuesday to visit refugee centers in Zimbabwe. The actor has been just over the border in South Africa filming the new movie The Human Factor directed by [...]
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Tagged: brad pitt, clint eastwood, don cheadle, george clooney, matt damon, morgan freeman
Filed under: buildings and construction, cars-houses, film-tv, television — Michael d'Estries @ 10:10 am
August 19th 2008
Last year, both Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman lent their narration to the popular second season of the PBS series e2 design (pronounced e-squared design). The show “explores attainable solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges, and tells compelling stories featuring new advances in sustainable living.”
Now, it’s just Pitt narrating the third season of e2 [...]
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Filed under: web — lindsey @ 1:58 pm
August 4th 2008
Morgan Freeman, Oscar-winning actor and founder of Plan!tNow, is in serious condition after a car accident last night just outside of Charleston, Mississippi. Reports said that it appeared as though Freeman’s vehicle had been airborne when it left the highway and landed in a ditch.
“They had to use the jaws of life to extract him [...]
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Filed under: campaigns, green and famous — Michael d'Estries @ 1:21 pm
July 2nd 2008
Morgan Freeman, who stars in the upcoming movie The Dark Knight — and just about every other movie you’ve ever seen, is teaming up with Sierra Club for some public service announcements on climate change and storm preparedness.
Freeman is the founder of Plan!tNow, a non-profit storm preparedness organization that provides people and communities in high [...]
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Filed under: cars-houses, travel — Michael d'Estries @ 10:46 am
January 8th 2008
“Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.” — Morgan Freeman in a recent interview with Grist Magazine.
Uh Oh.
Morgan Freeman has revealed that he loves to commute to work in Hollywood — in an airplane. The 70-year-old actor says “it’s a great way to get to [...]
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