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Article: Brad Pitt, Forcing Us To Volunteer
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- The Washington Post
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- July 19, 2006
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Brad Pitt! What does he want from us? Save Africa, save New
Orleans, save the planet -- but we're not like you, Brad, not as
able, so show us. (Show us, but keep in mind our budget.)
Soon he and Angelina Jolie won't even live on Earth, they'll just
dangle above it, in a nursery-equipped Gulfstream IV, sort of the way
Brandon Routh's Superman prefers to just float, in the stratosphere,
listening acutely, compassionately, for trouble down there, and when
he hears it, zoom, down he goes. We were always told that this is
what the citizens of the future would do: They would have no fixed
address. They would go where needed, constantly, selflessly.
It was supposed to be orphans and Darfur and ...