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Award-winning director and screenwriter Paul Haggis – straight off a flight from Haiti – hosted the Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) Haiti relief brunch this morning (Sun 24th Jan). At his home, Haggis and friends raised four million dollars for Haiti through APJ, the charity he founded in 2009. The brunch had two purposes: first, to get emergency relief to the children of Haiti and second, to raise money for long-term relief so that Haiti will not once again be forgotten as soon is it is out of the news. One hundred friends and supporters of APJ pledged to support the disaster-stricken nation over the next five to ten years, committing funds to building and funding schools, in a country where most children don’t have access to basic education. Guests included APJ advisory board members, Josh Brolin, Maria Bello, Olivia Wilde, Charlize Theron, Jimmy-Jean Louis and Madeleine Stowe. Moby, Sheryl Crow, Macy Gray and Jackson Browne each gave live performances. Over the past year, APJ has been working with doctor and community organizer Father Rick Frechette who has been making real change in the lives of the people of the slums of Port-Au-Prince for over 22 years, long before this most recent disaster struck. Frechette and his team are working night and day in their beautiful paediatric hospital, St. Damiens, perhaps the only hospital that escaped major damage. They are providing medical supplies, tents, beds, food and water to earthquake survivors. Haggis and his wife personally pay all the expenses and overhead of APJ, so that every penny raised will go directly to the relief efforts and long-term reconstruction of the people of the slums of Haiti.
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ou know that feeling you had watching the downsizing sequences in Up in the Air — the dread mixed with empathy mixed with outrage mixed with the chilling sensation that anyone could be next, including you? That’s the feeling that extends through every minute of The Company Men, a shrewd, juicy, timely, and terrifically engrossing big-cast Sundance drama that marks the feature directorial debut of John Wells (best known as the executive producer and head writer of ER). Unlike Up in the Air, however, this movie doesn’t offer a glimpse into the plight of tossed-aside middle managers. It is, rather, about the high-rolling executives who’ve pigged out on the capitalist gravy train — the men swimming in stock options and country-club memberships and $500 lunches.
Why, you may ask, should we give a damn if they lose their jobs? Have no fear: That skeptical class resentment is built right into the movie. The Company Men draws on our innate compassion for anyone in trouble, yet at the same time the movie is cannily and intimately aware that the smugly gilded corporate aristocrats it’s about are the very sorts of self-invested, short-term-profit players who helped to get this country in such trouble in the first place. As they watch their jobs disappear, we watch their suddenly traumatized lives with an arresting mixture of sympathy and Schadenfreude. The message of the movie might be: Greedy, scum-sucking executive parasites are people too.
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A mostly positive day of films at Sundance concluded at the Eccles theater Friday night with the directorial debut of John Wells’ “The Company Men.” Wells, the creator of such critically acclaimed TV shows as “ER” and “The West Wing,” also wrote the original screenplay which focuses on the systematic dismantling of a giant construction corporation in the Boston, Mass. area. While a tad long, the strength of the film lies in the performances of leading men Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper and will surely lead to a swift acquisition from any number of major players.
All three men suffer from corporate downsizing during the film, but Affleck’s character, who is living the high life as a VP of Marketing (he drives a porsche, enjoys his golf club, etc.), is the first to be let go and deal with the ups and downs of trying to find a new job in the current economy. What’s refreshing about his storyline is that his wife, played by “Rachel’s Getting Married’s” Rosemarie DeWitt, is the only one in the family who realizes how difficult his search will be and that their rich lifestyle will have to drastically change. It’s hard to have sympathy at first for Affleck’s ego-driven character, but Wells puts him through a realistic enough ringer that a good chunk through the movie you’re hoping he can turn it around (at least for his family’s sake). It also helps that Affleck avoids the “woe is me” card as much as possible in his portrayal. The frustration is there, but this is no Daniel Day-Lewis as Guido in “Nine” whining going on.
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This is the second post in Maria Bello’s continuing series from Haiti. Read Part I of the series now.
Posted: January 22, 2010 03:44 PM
St. Damien’s is the calm in the midst of a storm. Arriving here yesterday with Sean and Diana’s team of incredible doctors, we were surprised at the lack of chaos and the efficiency of many volunteers and aid groups working together. The teams of doctors who have been embedded here for the last week were more than relieved to see a new set of faces so they could finally get some sleep. Many of the teams here were immediately deployed by Partners in Health the day the earthquake hit.
Partners in Health, founded by the brilliant Paul Farmer, has been working on the ground in Haiti for 20 years. They bring modern medical support to poor communities in the countryside and manage free community health clinics all over the country.
Lack of medication is still a huge problem here. In the childrens’ ward yesterday a six year old girl with a newly amputated arm was being treated for pain with nothing more than Tylenol. Dr. Delatre Lolo, a Haitian doctor now living in the States is a team member of JP Haiti relief organization. He told me this morning after working through the night, “we are seeing mostly amputations and it is very sad because most of them could have been avoided with quicker response and medication.”
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The acrid smell of death is not the first thing that hits you landing in Port-au-Prince. It is the screams and wails of mourning that are overwhelming. The cries of mothers, fathers, neighbors and friends who have lost so much and so many in the last week. The Haitian people whom I have come to know over the last year are a strong, compassionate, resilient bunch who mourn with the same passion they live by.
Paul Haggis and I landed this morning with a team from the JP Haiti Relief Organization, a private foundation created by Sean Penn and Diana Jenkins to help in the rescue efforts. They have gathered 10 doctors, nurses and surgeons, a water specialist, logistics people and two cargo planes filled with medical supplies, food, tools, thousands of water filters and generators to help existing institutions and set up a clinic that will service those in need. They are generously supplying our group, Artists for Peace and Justice, with medicine we desperately need to get into the hands of our friends at St. Damien’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince. For the last 48 hours, operations have been performed without anesthesia, children are dying from dehydration and simple wounds have become so infected that many require amputation.
We have been called here by our dear friend, Father Rick Frechette. A doctor and priest in Haiti for the last 22 years, Rick defines the power of one man’s call to action. He and his Haitian colleagues have built and run the only free pediatric hospital in Haiti, the only hospital for disabled children, two orphanages, 20 street schools, free medical clinics in the poorest slums of the city, Cite de Soleil and most recently, New York City, a job training center that includes a bakery and shoe factory. He supplies the only free drinking water to the people of Cite de Soleil and feeds thousands of people a day in and around Port-au-Prince.
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Maria was on the cover of the Holiday 2009 issue of Boston Common magazine. I don’t know whether this is still on newsstands now though … However, if anyone has a copy of this and can scan it for me then please let me know!
It’s the same photoshoot that was seen in last years Philadelphia Style magazine, and I’ll add these extra photos with the next Gallery update.
The Private Lives of Maria B
The unscripted world of a tough-as-nails actress who’s learning to take it easy.
During a recent session, Maria Bello’s therapist asked her to describe her home. “I used words like colorful and eclectic,” Bello says. “She told me that one of Carl Jung’s theories was that the way a person designs her home is a reflection of who she is.” Which makes her description pretty much spot-on. The 42-year-old Golden Globe nominated actress says she never had fantasies about living in a big mansion. Her home is a cozy, little blue, red and yellow cottage in Venice, California, which she shares with her eight-year-old son, Jackson, and her fiancé, Bryn Mooser. It’s filled with funky art and curios from all over the world, including a glass globe with an oyster inside. But you may never see her house the same way twice. “I live into my space,” says Bello. “I like to switch it up.”
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The Creative Coalition will be holding a Spotlight Awards Dinner on January 25th in Utah, honoring Elijah Wood, Adrian Grenier, Maria Bello, Treat Williams and Melissa Leo.
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In the aftermath of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said President Obama was using the tragedy to “boost his creditability with the black community” and said that we already “donate” to the impoverished nation with U.S taxpayer dollars.
But instead of getting mad, actress Maria Bello, who said she has been working for years to help Haiti, is sending out her “compassion” to Limbaugh.
“I feel really sad for that man, that he would really take the tragedy of these people and distill it into something so ugly,” Bello told us at the DIC and InStyle 9th Annual Awards Season Diamond Fashion Show Preview in Beverly Hills on Thursday.
Evangelist broadcaster and former Presidential candidate Pat Robertson also sparked outrage on Wednesday when he suggested that Haiti was “cursed” and that the Haitians made a “deal with the devil” in freeing themselves from the French.
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