I sorta, kinda decided that I would not make my blog about famous people but life's too short to stick to arbitrary rules! Writing this posting started at the wildest possible tangent you can imagine from the Oscar winner, director, and actor's actor.
It goes like this: following my own dictum that life's too short to live with a hair colour you don't like, I am at the hair salon for long appointment and being handed the July 2010 Vanity Fair with the recommendation that I read about the legendary love affair of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (whole other blog at some other time). I did read that article (did I mention it was a long appointment involving a lot of daubing, rinsing, drying, highlighting, rinsing and drying?) but found myself way more revved up by an article on Mr. Dead Man Walking (and other memorable characters). I cannot suggest strongly enough that you get hold of this article - climb a mountain on sore knees to get to it if you have to.
When the U.S. military pin medals (more than 1) on the chest of the man who in 2002 took out a full page ad in the Washington Post condemning his country's invasion of Iraq, you have to say that in that same chest, beats the heart of a genuine enigma.
The article is based on his commitment to life-saving work in Haiti that has had him living there since the earthquake: getting together a team of dedicated professionals and a few mavericks; persuading the U.S. military to allow medical morphine in from Hugo Chavez's Venezuela; and being formally appointed head of the Petitionville displaced persons' camp in Port-au-Prince. Although filming this August, he is committed to going back until, as he says, "there is more life than death in Haiti".
In his unapologetic way he says he admires his father who was a film director, a decorated WWII veteran who was later blacklisted in the McCarthy era - in short he is saying to all political sides 'nothing to prove'. Love him. Yes!
Find out more about the NGO he has founded for the relief operation http://jphro.org/
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