Paul Newman donates &#36;5,000 to drama club
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YPSILANTI, Mich.  &#151; Ypsilanti High School drama teacher Michelle Peet checked her mailbox Monday and discovered the color of money.
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An investment fund for philanthropist Rachel Mellon contributed $495,000 to a labor-backed group that is running ads in Iowa in support of Democrat John Edwards' presidential campaign.
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Hollywood star Paul Newman, whose career spanned five decades, says he has retired from stage and screen.
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Actor Paul Newman is giving $10 million  to Kenyon College, the Ohio school from which he graduated, to  establish its single largest scholarship fund.
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The team raising money for President Bush's inaugural festivities plans to raise &#36;40 million to &#36;50 million, with much of the money coming from six-figure donors.
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Hollywood director Steven Spielberg and the rest of his family members have together donated 1.5  million dollars to several organisations.
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US Democratic presidential contender John Kerry raised more than three million dollars for his campaign at a star-studded fundraiser for party faithful in California, aides said.
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A German film fund said on Thursday it will grant subsidies worth 4.8 million euros ($6.5 million) for a controversial new film in which Tom Cruise plays a German hero executed for trying to kill Hitler.
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LOS ANGELES  - Ask composer Thomas Newman to discuss the inspiration behind his Oscar-nominated score for "The Good German," and he avoids the obvious answer.
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Rob Thomas and his band, Matchbox Twenty, have donated &#36;200,000 to raise money for, among other things, restoring music education programs in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, it was announced Tuesday.
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One of the state's biggest broadcasters has given 13 Republican county committees &#36;325,000 worth of free air time to promote candidates on its radio and television stations throughout California.
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Will Ferrell is auctioning a cameo spot in his new movie to raise money for a fraternity brother's cancer foundation.
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Outfielder J.D. Drew and the Los Angeles Dodgers have reached a preliminary agreement on a &#36;55 million, five-year contract.
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Celebrities who take their charity work seriously are to be recognised.
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"Bourne Supremacy" star Matt Damon, "Lost in Translation" actress Scarlett Johansson and other celebrity artists are donating their talents &#151; not just their cash &#151; to an online effort to unseat President Bush.
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The team that raised money to finance President Bush's inaugural festivities collected &#36;35 million to &#36;40 million, officials said Wednesday.
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The cost to investigate, arrest and prosecute Scott Peterson for the murder of his pregnant wife, Laci, has reached nearly &#36;2.5 million so far, and state taxpayers might have to pick up the tab.