Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Angelina's moving video on World Refugee Day




Humanitarian actress Angelina Jolie has once again put her superstar status to good use, and shot a 30-second video to help support World Refugee Day 2010, taking place on June 20.



A UN ambassador, Angelina has long been a supporter of the cause and has travelled to numerous war zones, including Darfur and Syria, as well as speaking to Congress in 2009 on the issue.

In the moving 30-second clip, the mum-of-six, who celebrated her 35th birthday on June 4, urges the public to remember those around the world who have been left without a home.

"Having a home, a place we belong, a place we feel safe, is something most if us take for granted," she says.

"Yet those we flee from conflict and persecution no longer have that place. And it will be years before they can ever return. In fact many may never go home again."

"On this day, World Refugee Day, please remember the millions of people around the world forced from their home. Because the only hope of return is to not be forgotten."

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Angelina signed on to play Cleopatra - confirmed!





EXCLUSIVE: Confirmed: Angelina Jolie Signed on to Play Cleopatra!


The Queen of Hollywood is indeed going to play the Queen of the Nile!

Angelina Jolie has signed on to play Cleopatra in a film adaptation of an upcoming new historical biography, a rep for the book's publisher Little, Brown confirms to UsMagazine.com.

On Thursday, it was reported that film producer Scott Rudin had acquired the rights to author Stacy Schiff's Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra: A Life with the 35-year old Jolie in mind for the title role.

Michael Pietsch, publisher of Little, Brown (which will release Schiff's book this November) tells Us:

"Angelina Jolie radiates grace and power, exactly the qualities that Stacy Schiff finds in her biography of the most intriguing ruler who ever lived."

No word on who might play Cleopatra's legendary love Mark Antony. (When Elizabeth Taylor played the ruler in a 1963 epic, her real-life paramour Richard Burton played the Roman politician.)

Jolie's rep could not be reached for comment.

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