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Jolie, Pitt donate $100,000 to Pearl foundation
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-10-11 09:17
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, working
together on a film about slain U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, donated
$100,000 on Tuesday to a foundation established in his memory, Pitt's
spokeswoman said.
The gift to the Daniel Pearl Foundation was presented on what would have
been the 43rd birthday of the late Wall Street Journal reporter, who was
abducted in Pakistan and killed in 2002 while researching a story in the
aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Jolie and Pitt arrived in India last week to begin production on the
Pearl biographical drama "A Mighty Heart," based on a memoir of the same
name by the correspondent's widow, Mariane Pearl, who Jolie plays in the
movie.
Pitt is a producer on the project through his Plan B film company, and
British filmmaker
Michael Winterbottom, whose credits include "Welcome to Sarajevo" and
"The Road to Guantanamo," is directing.
Actor Dan Futterman, whose screenplay for the film "Capote" earned an
Oscar nomination, portrays Pearl in the movie.
"On this day our thoughts go out to Danny's family," Pitt and Jolie said
in a statement issued to People magazine through their representative,
Trevor Neilson. Pitt's personal publicist, Cindy Guagenti, confirmed the
donation.
The Daniel Pearl Foundation, which promotes cross-cultural understanding
through journalism and music, was observing Pearl's birthday with a
series of music festivals around the world, the Pitt-Jolie statement said.
Jolie, who won an Oscar for her supporting role as a psychiatric patient
in "Girl, Interrupted," gave birth this past summer in Africa to her
first biological child, daughter Shiloh Nouvel, with off-screen paramour
Pitt.
The two co-starred as married assassins assigned to kill each other in
the action comedy "Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
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