Costume gala draws fitting crowd
NEW YORK — L.A. might have the Oscars, but Manhattan’s social event of the season is the annual Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute gala, which draws bold-faced, glammed-up names from both coasts and across the pond. This year’s theme? Superheroes, a fitting one given the massive box-office hit that was Iron [...]

Olympic boycott over Darfur would be ‘excessive’: George Clooney
MADRID (AFP) — Boycotting the Beijing Olympic Games to try to pressure China into taking action to stop the violence in Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur would be “excessive”, said US actor George Clooney in an interview published Saturday in Spain.
“It seems excessive to boycott the Games [...]

Clooney in Downing Street visit
Hollywood actor and director George Clooney has visited Downing Street to discuss the Darfur crisis with Prime Minister Gordon Brown.  The star, who is a UN “messenger of peace”, said a “wonderful suggestion” for buying peacekeeping helicopters had been made at the meeting. Mr Brown said the situation in Darfur, part [...]

Rosario Dawson Hosts Darfur Concert Event
Rosario Dawson will host a benefit concert in conjunction with Zync Music and Twenty Women For Darfur on Sunday, September 17, 2006 at The Avalon Hollywood at 8 p.m.
Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) August 29, 2006 — Rosario Dawson will host a charitable concert event in conjunction with Zync Music and Twenty [...]

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie enjoyed their very first night out since the birth of their daughter, Shiloh, making a rare appearance at the opening of “Ocean’s 13″ buddy Scott Caan’s photography exhibit. Castmates George Clooney and Matt Damon were also along for the star-studded night, including Scott’s dad, James, Rod Stewart’s daughter, Kimberly, and pal [...]

Posted on Mon, Aug. 14, 2006 Tony Bennett being honored at November fundraiser in HollywoodAssociated Press
LOS ANGELES - George Clooney, Paul Newman, Billy Crystal, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Willis will be on hand to celebrate Tony Bennett’s 80th birthday with a charity fundraiser at the Kodak Theatre.
Newman’s Hole in the Wall Camps for kids will [...]