Ferrell auctions movie role for charity
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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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LOS ANGELES  - Will Ferrell's recently   launched production company is expanding into television with   "P.E.," a comedy for HBO.
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A date with Esquire's "The Sexiest Woman Alive" and "7th Heaven" star Jessica Biel raised $30,000 to help a teenager who lost her leg in a prom night limousine accident.
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Donald Trump, Ben Affleck, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jon Cryer and other celebrities have helped raise more than $2.8 million in a radio-telethon for the Jimmy Fund, the children's cancer-fighting charity favored by the Boston Red Sox.
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(InfoWorld) - A Brooklyn, New York-based charity is using its position as first in line for the iPhone at the SoHo Apple Store to drum up more support for its plans to auction the gadget on eBay and use the money for charitable purposes. In addition to its iPhone plan, Keep a Child Alive, which supplies anti-retroviral medication and treatment for children with AIDS in Africa, has gotten corporate sponsors to donate other items for eBay auctions. What got the ball rolling was a decision by Johnny Vulkan, member of the group's public relations team, to begin standing in line for the iPhone at 7 a.m. local time on Tuesday, said Sarah Stabile from Anomaly, the public relations company that does pro bono work for Keep a Child Alive. Vulkan also works for Anomaly. Since then the campaign has taken a life of its own, she said. During an interview outside the store Thursday, Stabile got an e-mail informing her that ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live television show has offered the charity four tickets to the show and access for four to its green room to auction off on eBay. "Every five minutes more and more people" are pledging support, she said, standing in the brutal summer heat. Other corporate sponsors of Keep a Child Alive's iPhone campaign are Virgin Atlantic Airways, which is giving the nonprofit airline tickets to auction off; Aliph, which has donated Jawbone Bluetooth headsets that work with the iPhone; and the Rachael Ray daytime television show, which also has donated tickets. Six Flags Theme Parks amusement parks and Netflix also are donating items to be auctioned on eBay for Keep a Child Alive. eBay also has said it will match the iPhone's auction price and donate the amount to the charity, Stabile said. Apple, however, has not yet pledged any kind of charitable support for the group's campaign, though she believes the company will eventually donate something for the cause. When contacted by Keep a Child Alive, "they said, 'We love what you're doing,' but not much more," Stabile said. She added that because of all the media attention the iPhone is getting, it's not surprising Apple would choose to stay out of the campaign for now. "They'll probably do something quietly later," she said. Mia Riddle, a Keep a Child Alive staff member, is one of 80 volunteers who is keeping the group's place in line. Sitting on a chair on the hot sidewalk Thursday, she said the staff of the Apple Store has been more than hospitable to the people braving the heat to stand in line, "bringing us water and letting us use the bathroom." Riddle said the nonprofit uses Apple computers at its office, but an interest in the company's technology is not the reason for the iPhone campaign. "It's more about using the media frenzy around the iPhone to communicate things that are a little more important," she said. Keep a Child Alive's eBay auction is expected to begin at 6 p.m. EDT Friday and end at the same time on Tuesday, July 3. Donations to the nonprofit and more information about it can be made on its Web site.
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Hollywood's having a fire sale at the box office this weekend.
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Popular actor Vivek Oberoi offers money - and a helping hand - in tsunami-stricken southern India.
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Stars including Bono, Travis and Jamelia are supporting the year-long Make Poverty History campaign.
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An album featuring music from stars including Badly Drawn Boy goes on sale to raise money for refugees in Sudan.
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A 10-year-old boy will get a chance to play an extra in Will Ferrell's new movie after his father bought the role in a cancer-charity auction for more than $47,000.
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A US celebrity TV special will benefit the tsunami relief effort in South Asia, as actors make donations.
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Madonna, Chris Rock and dozens of other celebrities raised $5.5 million at a star-studded benefit at the United Nations to help poor and sick children around the world.
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The famously large underpants worn by film character Bridget Jones are to be auctioned off to raise cash for some of London's most famous green spaces, Britain's Royal Parks Foundation announced Friday.
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John Travolta donated $15,000 to central Florida tornado victims at the premiere of his new film, "Wild Hogs."
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The comedy &quot;Meet the Fockers&quot; introduced itself to the record books as the best Christmas day money earner in box office history, grossing an estimated $19.1 million Saturday.
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Possessions of late soul legend James Brown are to be auctioned to help settle outstanding taxes.
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"World Trade Center," Oliver Stone's movie about the rescue of two police officers from the towers on Sept. 11, will donate 10 percent of its opening weekend box office receipts to a ground zero memorial and three other Sept. 11-related charities.