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I would like to wish all the American PittWatch readers a very Happy Thanksgiving! Although I don’t know exactly what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are doing for Thanksgiving, I know they have a lot of things to be thankful for over the past year.
They can be thankful for the love they found with each other, for their six beautiful kids, for movies that have gotten excellent reviews and Oscar buzz, and for causes they’ve supported. Brad should be very proud of and thankful for all the good things he’s done in New Orleans through Make It Right, while Angelina can continue to be thankful for the opportunity to bring attention to the plight of refugees in third world countries around the world.
Whatever they’re doing, I know they’re spending Thanksgiving the way it should be – with their family.
Have a great holiday!
(I can’t tell you how much I wish I was celebrating Thanksgiving today, even if we did have ours up here in Canada last month!)
Image used with permission: Newscom
The 2nd annual program will air Thanksgiving night at 9 pm. I stumbled onto the first program last year. New Orleans resident Harry Connick went on and on complimenting Brad’s work with Project Make It Right.
[I READ ANOTHER ARTICLE WHICH REVEALED THE OVERALL WINNER, I’LL POST IT IF YOU WANT – or I can post if tomorrow.]
CNN will select its hero of year
November 26, 2008
NEW YORK — A woman who moved to Louisiana to help Hurricane Katrina survivors, a marathon runner who gets homeless people on their feet, a man who helped clean up after a deadly Oklahoma tornado and several community organizers will be honored by CNN in its second annual heroes special at 8 p.m. Thursday.
The awards show, unusual for a cable news network, will give an extra $100,000 to one of 10 people selected by viewers through a vote on the CNN Web site. Each of the finalists receives $25,000.
The special is an attempt to honor people who may not make the news but are doing things to help others, said Jim Walton, CNN Worldwide president. There were more than 10,000 nominations for potential heroes.
A panel that included Desmond Tutu, Queen Rania, Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Richard Branson, Magic Johnson and George Lopez selected the 10 finalists. They are:
→Tad Agoglia, founder of First Response Team of America, which goes into disaster sites to clean up in the immediate aftermath. Agoglia and his team traveled to Picher, OK, following the deadly May 10 tornado.
→Maria Ruiz of El Paso, Texas, who crosses the border to provide help to poor children in Juarez, Mexico.
→Liz McCartney, who moved from Washington to St. Bernard Parish east of New Orleans to help Hurricane Katrina victims rebuild.
→Anne Mahlum, a marathon runner from Philadelphia who started the “Back on My Feet” program that gets homeless people running.
→David Puckett, a Savannah, Ga., man who gives prosthetics and medical equipment to Mexico’s poor.
→Maria Da Silva, a Los Angeles nanny who founded and finances the Jacaranda School for AIDS orphans in her native Malawi.
→Viola Vaughn, a Detroit native who retired to Senegal and created a program to educate girls.
→Yohannes Gebregeorgis, who returned from the United States to his native Ethiopia to start a program offering library books to children.
→Phymean Noun, a Cambodian genocide survivor who lives in Toronto and has opened schools and provided health services to children in her native country.
→Carolyn LeCroy, a former prison inmate from Norfolk, Va., who started The Messages Project, which films messages from prison inmates to their families.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
I wished everyone a Happy Thanksgiving a couple of days ago, and it’s always worth repeating. Among my many blessings, I count Sherry, Pittwatch, and Pittwatchers around the world as one-three of them. Mahalo, Muchas Gracias at saka Merci Beaucoup (sp?).
I am a PittWatch reader but am not american and i was in many different places i was in canada for more than 1 year and now am in the states
happy thanksgiving to you all