Movie star (?) Sandra Bullock has tossed $1 million at the American Red Cross for Asia Tsunami relief.
She also donated $1 million after 9/11.
For perspective and assuming, for no particular reason, that she's worth $50 million, her $1 million gift would be 2% of her net worth. Did any of us contribute 2% of our net worth?
I remember Roseanne Barr phoning all her rich pals after 9/11 trying to get them to pony up $1 million each and getting stone silence.
Anyway, Bullock sounds like a good trooper for this. I'm not keeping track of her life but I think she won a $10 million judgement last summer against a Texas developer who built her the crappiest house ever in Austin.
Should other celebrities follow suit? How much should any of us contribute? Should celebrities be held to a higher standard than you or I?
Tom Cruise was filming a picture in some obscure middle-America town a few weeks ago and saw a poster looking for donations so a local paraplegic child could get a special van or something. He pulled $5,000 out of his pocket and threw it in the can.
The Bullock story.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/37788.htm
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