Celebrities to hold benefit for tsunami victims

[flygal]

http://www.salon.com/ent/col/fix/2005/01/05/wed/index.html

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More tsunami help from Hollywood: So who, exactly, will appear on the various tsunami relief TV specials heading your way? George Clooney, Christina Aguilera, Sheryl Crow and Tim McGraw have signed on for a benefit special to be aired on all NBC-owned stations on Jan. 15. And another NBC-produced, UNICEF-backed benefit airing live tonight at 7 p.m. will feature Susan Sarandon, Julianne Moore and Sarah Jessica Parker in New York and Dustin Hoffman, Alyssa Milano, Clay Aiken, Tea Leoni and Debra Messing in Los Angeles. Also donating to the cause are Jay Leno, who's auctioning off a motorcycle on his show and forking over the proceeds to the Red Cross; U2, Coldplay and Franz Ferdinand, who are planning a Live Aid-like benefit concert; Willie Nelson; and Steven Spielberg, who's donating $1.5 million to be split between Save the Children, Care and Oxfam. (N.Y. Post, TheBostonChannel.com, BBC News)


I know this is nice of them and all, but I still remember the 9-11 show and having Julia Roberts yell at me to dig deep and send money really pissed me off. My husband and I have donated $150 so far, and Spielberg donated 1.5 million. It helps me sleep at night knowing I did something - but how can our $150 help compared to these celebrities who can drop millions and make twice just doing a commercial for wheaties?

[Droopy]

1. It all helps, flygal

Don't feel like you're donation isn't needed or is minimalized just because other people can donate more. I can't afford to donate at all right now, even though I really wish I could.

[nine23]

2. I wouldn't worry about it. $150 was YOUR gift....

Spielberg's back catalogue of DVD's probably just earned him 1.5 million as I wrote this. It's all relative. Sleep well.

[Zinfandel]

5. Many have more than the mentioned and do nothing.

Tax write off's...I'm sure, don't crucify anyone for truly giving.

Bush "gave" ten thousand, but we aren't allowed to ask to whom or where...

I truly doubt it happened...Why? Get real, he doesn't give a shit about brown-skin people...this is a figure Rove came up with! So Fox can run and exploit it.

His true colors showed when he said nothing for four days and then announced, America (tax payers) will donate 15 million dollars...WOW!

Of course he had to change that tune.

[aquart]

3. So much is needed that ALL of it helps.

Didn't they say that one water purification tablet was six cents?

And your money is in the bag. Many promised donations, particularly those from governments like ours, will never get there.

Today they have to be fed and healed, but tomorrow? This tragedy isn't going away anytime soon.

And it's true, whether the west is loved or hated for the next 100 years depends on our response and how millions of children have had their lives changed.

[Piperay]

4. Seems that these are all Democratic celebrities

the same ones that turn out for everything, guess the repuke 'celebrities' can't be bothered as usual. x(

[neweurope]

6. You did what you could so that was very much indeed, flygal :)

It doesn't matter if others can do more, it doesn't matter if others do as much as they can, it doesn't matter if they do it for tax reduction.

Every little bit helps and most of us probably are on the "little" side.