Damon family welcomes a little girl.

Matt Damon’s wife Luciana gave birth to a baby girl yesterday, his spokeswoman said. The baby’s name is Gia Zavala Damon, spokeswoman Jennifer Allen told The Associated Press, adding: “Everyone is great and she is a healthy, beautiful baby girl.”

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FROM HOLLYWOOD TO DARFUR

FROM HOLLYWOOD TO DARFUR

The charity of Clooney, Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and producer Jerry Weintraub does not stop on the movie screen. They also came to the world’s largest film festival to raise money and awareness for refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan.

“We’re not politicians. We’re not able to make decisions. We’re not able to do anything except bring attention to something, and that’s the thing we can do,” Clooney said.

“Kids are dying from diarrhoea … that just shouldn’t be in this day and age, and it’s that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough,” Pitt added.

The United Nations says some 200,000 people have died and more than 2 million have fled their homes since the conflict in Darfur flared in 2003 when rebels took up arms against the government. Four “Ocean’s Thirteen” cast members — Clooney, Pitt, Cheadle and Damon — and Weintraub launched the Not On Our Watch Foundation to raise money and draw attention to the refugees. Earlier this week, they raised $10 million at a Cannes party, and in June they head to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Chicago for similar charity events

Clooney took issue with anyone doubting his motives.

“At what point does anyone think anyone of us needs more publicity?” Clooney said. “I’m not going to defend what I think is doing the right thing … we are doing it because we all think we would be criminal if we didn’t take it a step further.”
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’Thirteen’ the charm for Clooney and pals

’Thirteen’ the charm for Clooney and pals
By Stephen Schaefer
Boston Herald Entertainment Reporter

Friday, May 25, 2007 - Updated: 03:14 AM EST

CANNES, France - The dashing, debonair cast of “Ocean’s Thirteen” came to the Riviera for the world premiere of their starry heist sequel but were coy about whether “Thirteen” is the final chapter in the series. The glam guys, headed by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle, seemed divided about diving in for a fourth “Ocean’s.” When asked whether there might be an “Ocean’s 58” or an “Ocean’s 69,” Clooney replied: “That would be a whole different ‘Ocean’s.’ ” Director Steve Soderbergh shook his head and added, “Never again.”

But Damon, who this summer bids farewell not just to Linus, the “Ocean’s” burglar, but amnesiac Jason Bourne as well, kept his options open, saying he was “more sad” that he might not get to do another flick with the “Ocean’s” posse. “The Bourne thing I’m definitely done with,” he added. “We’ve ridden that horse as much as we can. Outside of feeling like a prostitute for putting out two No. 3s in one year . . .” “Better than three No. 2s,” Clooney instantly noted to laughter. Damon agreed. But does his vow to not be Bourne again mean that Jason dies? “I’m not going to say. I could just not do them anymore,” Damon said, adding that “the character lives on in the books,” so another actor could be born as Bourne.

Although the cast spent most of the press conference joking around, the actors did inject a note of seriousness into the proceedings. Two nights before their premiere, Clooney and friends raised $9.2 million for Darfur relief efforts with a charity fund-raiser on a yacht at nearby Cap D’Antibes. “We knew we were coming here and it’s a great international platform and chance to raise money and raise awareness, specifically about Darfur,” Clooney said. “Don, Brad, Matt and I have all been in that region in the last year and it’s a been a concern of (ours) for the last few years. We find there is a lot more attention in the United States than internationally on this issue.” Added Damon: “We felt we’d be remiss if we didnt try to direct some of those resources to this life-and-death struggle.”

As for “Ocean’s,” the stars showed they still had a few tricks up their sleeves. In the third installment of the series, the two smoothies, Clooney and Pitt, go soft and teary-eyed watching an Oprah Winfrey show. The scene and its tough-guy sentimentality brought applause from the Cannes press.

THE THINGS THEY SAY: George on Matt

THE THINGS THEY SAY:
25 May 2007
World Entertainment News Network

May 24, 2007 (WENN via COMTEX) — “I work in cinema because I am a fan of films of all different kinds. We work on entertainment and smaller films we feel passionate about - except MATT (DAMON), he doesn’t care.” GEORGE CLOONEY jokes about his OCEAN’S THIRTEEN co-star’s habit of picking blockbuster parts