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Hope For Haiti Now Benefit – Backstage [PHOTOS]

January 23rd, 2010 at 11:13 am

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Madonna and Sting pose backstage at last night’s two-hour Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief that George Clooney put together along with Wyclef Jean to raise money for this devastating tragedy.

The show opened with Alicia Keys singing Prelude to a Kiss and saw some very remarkable performances by Madonna, Sting, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Shakira, Bono, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Coldplay and more. I’ve included some pictures of some of the performances but if you missed any of them my friend at Busy Bee Blogger has all the videos. You really should watch the performances if you missed any of them.

Taking donations by phone (pictured):

Jack Nicholson
Stephen Spielberg
Ellen DeGeneres
Fran Drescher
Jennifer Aniston
Gerard Butler
Jeremy Piven
Taylor Swift
Selena Gomez
Colin Ferrell
Chris Rock
Charlize Theron
Russell Brand

And lots more. I’ve also included some pictures of celebrities arriving at the event as well as backstage.

If you didn’t donate and wish to, the wonderful people at ONTD have put together a very comprehensive list of the many different organizations you can donate to with website addresses and telephone numbers along with how much money ONTD has raised and how that can help the people of Haiti.

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U2’s Bono & The Edge ‘Get Loud’ in Dublin

January 8th, 2010 at 5:19 am

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U2’s Bono and The Edge are in Dublin, Ireland at the premiere of ‘It Might Get Loud’ which is about electric guitar virtuosos The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes) and takes a look at how each of them write and play.

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Celebs Out & About

November 30th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

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Orlando Bloom is surrounded by photographers at LAX as he arrives back from London. How bizarre that must be to be standing there with all those people snapping your picture!

Jennifer Aniston is also arriving at LAX from London. Let the rumours begin.

David Beckham arrives at LAX to catch a flight. The rumours are getting juicier, no? I didn’t recognize him. He looks not very happy!

Britney Spears arrives at LAX from her Australian leg of her tour

U2’s Bono leaves Cipriani’s restaurant in London

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner pick up Violet. He’s looking very G.I. Joe like!

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Brad Pitt Honoured

September 25th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

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The stars came out big for Day 3 (yesterday) of Clinton’s Global Initiative where Ben Stiller was Master of Ceremonies and Quincy Jones (among others) was honoured. Lisa Ling, Usher and Demi Moore presented recipients with awards and Alicia Keys entertained.

Brad Pitt was also honoured by the U.S. Green Building Council because he had created the “largest and greenest single-family community in the world” with his Make It Right foundation. Brad Pitt said:

“Make It Right has exceeded my expectations. Our criteria from the beginning were at odds, to say the least. We demanded that these homes be sustainable, that they have aesthetic qualities … that they be storm resilient and take safety in mind of the families who live there and that they would be affordable.

“If we had not been so blissfully naive to the potential, we would not be experiencing what we are seeing today and that is the unquantifiable joy of families returning home to the 9th Ward and returning home to something that was better than before. What the team has done here is not so exceptional. All we did was put the right people together and answer the problems as they came along and that is why we’re here today.”

Also on hand yesterday were Barbra Streisand, Jessica Alba, Bono, Ricky Martin, Mira Sorvino, and Julia Ormond.

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Matt Damon & Bono’s Philanthropic Initiatives

September 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 am

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Both Matt Damon and Bono are in New York participating in different political causes.

Matt attended the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative where he announced the new Water.org’s commitment of $2 million to provide 50,000 people in Haiti with safe water and sanitation over the next three years.

U2’s Bono attended the 2009 Appeal of Conscience Foundation Annual Awards where he is pictured with Dr. Henry Kissinger as well as Queen Rania of Jordan. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was honoured with the Appeal of Conscience World Statesman Award.

This foundation was founded by Rabbi Arthur Schneier in 1965, has worked on behalf of religious freedom and human rights throughout the world.

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U2 Rocked Toronto

September 18th, 2009 at 10:45 pm

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So I went to see U2 last night at the Rogers’ Centre in Toronto and was part of a crowd of approximately 63,000!

The concert was incredible. Snow Patrol opened for them and they were great, and loud!

Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton came out on stage at approximately 8:45 p.m. and didn’t leave until about 11:15. We were on our feet from the moment they hit the stage, it was such a party. I’ve included a playlist from their Chicago stop and I think (although I’m quite brain dead today) it’s pretty much the order of what was played in Toronto.

1 Breathe
2 No Line on the Horizon
3 Get On Your Boots
4 Magnificent
5 Beautiful Day/Blackbird (Beatles snippet)
6 Elevation
7 I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For/Stand By Me (Ben E. King snippet)
8 Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
9 Unknown Caller
10 The Unforgettable Fire
11 City Of Blinding Lights
12 Vertigo
13 I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
14 Sunday Bloody Sunday/Oliver’s Army (Elvis Costello snippet)
15 Pride (In The Name Of Love)
16 MLK
17 Walk On/You’ll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
18 Where The Streets Have No Name

Encore
19 One
20 Bad/40 (snippet)

Second encore
21 Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
22 With Or Without You
23 Moment of Surrender

I wasn’t too close to the stage, and was not using a great camera, so the pictures aren’t of them in person but of them on the screen above the stage. The stage, as you will see was out of this world.

The Rogers’ Centre has a retractable roof (that was left open for the concert) where when you look up, you see our world famous CN Tower (I’ve included a picture of it). It was a beautiful night and U2 did not disappoint.

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