Wendy Cohen
September 10, 2008 | 1:54 pm EST
Matt Damon just keeps taking part!
Matt Damon and Wyclef Jean were in Cabaret, Haiti on Saturday giving out food and oil to victims of Hurricane Ike. Caberet, Wyclef’s hometown, has been devastated this summer after being hit by multiple storms. Before helping the folks in Haiti, Damon and Jean were in Toronto at the OneXOne gala, which benefited children’s funds.
takepart and visit the American Red Cross to help Hurricane Ike victims.
Speaking of Matt Damon, here is an amazing video of Matt Damon condemning Sarah Palin. My favorite line:
“I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago”
I’ve loved Matt Damon ever since I got to interview him my sophomore year of college. It was my first actor interview (for my college paper) and I was a bit nervous. The interview ended up being a larger round table interview with a bunch of critics and writers, which somehow made me more nervous as I was not known by any of them. We all sad down and the publicist started going around introducing everyone to Matt Damon. Everything is went well until she got to me, she easily gets out my first name but started to falter when she tried to say my last name.
I think that she simply didn’t know it, but I thought I’d let her off the hook, so I said, “no worries, everyone gets it wrong, it’s Telaroli.” To which Matt Damon said - “Telaroli?”. And I said in return, “Yep, Telaroli.”
Matt Damon. (Credit WENN)
The woman then finished introducing everyone and one of the cheeky writers turned to Matt Damon when she was done and said “you know there’s going to be a quiz now.” To which Matt Damon simply said, “well all I’d be able to remember is Telaroli.”
How could you not love the guy after that?
And now, beyond all the good films he’s made in the past 7 years, I have another reason to love Matt Damon, his work with AIDS in Africa.
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George Clooney and Brad Pitt are in Venice at the Venice Film festival to premiere their new film, The Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading. But they are also there to help out Not On Our Watch - a group that has raised more than $7 million to help victims both in Darfur and in Burma (from the cyclone).
Now On Our Watch was launched by Pitt and Clooney and some of their Ocean’s Thirteen friends (including Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Jerry Weintraub and David Pressman) to fight human right’s abuses and to bring attention to them. Pitt and Clooney will walk the red carpet together in Venice to support their cause and their film.
takepart to get involved with Not On Our Watch and be sure to check out the trailer for Burn After Reading (which as a former gym employee I am quite excited about) below:
H2O Africa supports sustainable, integrated water programs, and was co-founded by actor Matt Damon, who just wrapped his latest movie with Participant Media, called The Informant.
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We all know that Matt Damon likes his car chase scenes fast and furious. (Bourne Ultimatum scene | Damon talking about those stunts) So it was no surprise that Damon was one of the first in line to buy a Tesla Roadster — the soon-to-be-released electric car that also happens to be one of the fastest-accelerating street-legal vehicles on the planet.
“Next year I’m getting a Tesla Roadster,” he told press last year, “Which I’m very, very excited about. It’s an electric car, gets about 250 miles to the charge and is fast as hell!”
Damon got to test drive one on Sunday. A blogger from Autofiends.com happened to be on hand when Damon pulled up to a Coffee Bean in Studio City (North Los Angeles), CA in a light blue Tesla prototype. Cool part: Damon was stoked to chat about his new joy ride. (click for story and more pix)
Clean My Ride is one man’s quest, documented on YouTube, to get cleaner fuels available to us at the gas station. The episodes are quirky, features celebrities such as Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Jason Biggs, and extremely clever. Also, quite funny. Here’s episode one (warning: some dirty words and whatnot).
Matt Damon, Thandie Newton and other celebrities all got together recently to break some toys and then have people take pictures of it.
They weren’t participating in some kind of new therapy but were in fact hoping to illustrate the destruction of children in Darfur. April 13th was “Global Day for Darfur.” It also marks the 5 year anniversary of the genocide. This means that for some children, all they have ever known is a life filled with war.
Damon, 37, destroyed a dollhouse with a baseball bat in his shots. “After the genocide in Rwanda we all shook our heads and said never again,” said the actor. “Today, as killings mount in Darfur we need to make never again a priority and demand protection for the most vulnerable.” [People]
Not On Our Watch, a charity co-founded by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle has donated $500,000 to the United Nations World Food Program.
The World Food Program (WFP) uses helicopters to send support people and food to northern Sudan and, more specifically, into the Darfur region that has been seen a huge influx of refugees in recent years as war ravaged the area.
“Without immediate additional funding, humanitarian aid in the region will be crippled,” Clooney said in a statement, noting that it is a critical time in Darfur. [Reuters]
Clooney has become a leading celebrity advocate for action against the genocide in the Sudan after filming a documentary about the crisis last year.
Join the cause 
visit notonourwatchproject.org
In honor of Super Tuesday and the Top 10 Celebrities Advocating a Cause videos I posted yesterday watch below:
(did I mention how much I love Benicio Del Toro)
(This video is from the last election, but is still as relevant as it was 4 years ago)
So vote today and if you didn’t register this time around to make sure you’re ready next time.
