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Pierce Brosnan steps up environmental campaign against BHP

info@partnerwithastar.com — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:13:59 +0300

Hollywood celebrities, including Pierce Brosnan and Martin Sheen, have stepped up their campaign to sink BHP Billiton's controversial $US5 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project - The Sydney Morning Herald. The actors led a protest involving 200 angry placard carrying locals at California's landmark Malibu Pier against the Australian resources giant's plan.

"This project has to be stopped and stopped now," Sheen, a longtime resident of Malibu who played the US President in the TV series The West Wing, said after the rally.

"We have to stand up and protect the environment."
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Brosnan puts romantic side on show with charity sale of his art

info@partnerwithastar.com — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:42:30 +0300

HE IS best known for his big-screen productions, but Pierce Brosnans secret passion is painting. Now the former James Bond actor is selling his artwork to raise money for his favourite charities.

Most of Brosnans works were designed as presents for his wife, Keely Shaye Smith, on Valentines Day or at Christmas. But the Meath-born actor is selling a limited edition of prints to fans through his official website.

The romantically titled Bisou Moi (Kiss Me) was given to his wife as a present on Valentines Day two years ago and shows a naked woman standing next to a plant. Brosnan is offering 999 signed prints at 750 each. The original was painted at Pinewood studios during the making of his last Bond movie.

The actor, who began his career as a commercial artist, has painted landscapes of his favourite places in the world as well as colourful portraits of his family. Copies of Fiji, which was painted for his wife for Christmas 1995, is being sold for a little more than 1,500. The father of five has drawn portraits of Charlotte, his daughter, and of Christopher and Sean, his sons.

His young son Dylan is listed as a co-artist in a painting called The Gift. After he left school, Brosnan pursued a career in art and got a job as an illustrator for Harrods department store. A colleague suggested that he join a theatre club, and he eventually abandoned his artwork to pursue a career in acting.

He took up painting again about 15 years ago following the death of his first wife Cassie, a former Bond girl.

One night, at four or five in the morning, with a head full of madness, I just started painting with my fingers, basically, and then I started painting properly, he has said. It was therapeutic. I went to put down on canvas all this angst and darkness; but instead of darkness, out came all this colour. It was joyous.

Citing his influences as Picasso and Matisse, he now spends much of his free time between film shoots in front of his easel.

One painting, completed in 1992 and titled The Little Fella, depicts his son Sean with boxing gloves. Brosnans passion for marine life is reflected in his artwork, with fish appearing in many of his canvases.

A portion of the profits from the sale of the prints will be given to the Brosnan Trust, which distributes money to environmental, childrens and womens health charities.

One of Brosnans causes is lobbying against legislation designed to weaken standards for labelling canned tuna as dolphin safe.
From 1997 to 2000, the actor and his wife Keely campaigned against a proposed salt factory on Mexicos Baja California peninsula to protect the last pristine breeding ground for the Pacific grey whale.

Breast cancer research

info@partnerwithastar.com — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:33:39 +0300

On Oct. 6, Pierce Brosnan will take on a tougher opponent than any he ever faced playing British superspy James Bond or in his other television and movie roles.

Brosnan has been named ambassador for Lee National Denim Day, a breast cancer research fund raiser organized each year by Lee Jeans, a unit of Greensboro-based VF Corp. (NYSE: VFC).

The annual event is the biggest single-day fund raiser for breast cancer research.

In public service ads, Brosnan will urge men and women to wear denim Oct. 6 and make a $5 donation for breast cancer research.

The annual event raised $8.6 million last year, and has raised more than $60 million in the last 10 years.

Pierce Brosnan and IFAW Launch New Vessel to Save the Whales
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PEACE AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

info@partnerwithastar.com — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:16:32 +0300

PIERCE ON THE RECORD

Q: Why is nuclear disarmament an important issue for you and Keely?

Pierce: In the real life battles to save the world, as opposed to those fought by James Bond, the good guys often lose. We have the power to destroy life on earth, but no one has the right. Therefore, these instruments of mass destruction must be destroyed.

Q: When did you first become interested in nuclear disarmament?

Pierce: I remember being a boy of 9 years of age in Ireland and the terrible fear and feeling that I was going to lose my family. I remember that terrible fear, and I see what has happened in Pakistan and India, what is happening now in Iraq and in North Korea, and I see the choices being made by the United States. I feel that our leaders are doing the wrong thing.

Q: What are some of the things you have done to promote nuclear disarmament?

Pierce: I've been working on this issue for many years now. In the mid 1990s, after France resumed testing nuclear weapons, I participated in news conferences in Washington DC to help Greenpeace draw attention to the issue. I think we were successful in encouraging nearly 60 members of Congress to boycott a speech by then French President Jacque Chirac.
Since then, I've developed relationships with leaders in the field, including former U.S. nuclear commander-turned-abolitionist General Lee Butler, to whom I presented the Averell W. Harriman award in 1998 on behalf of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security.
I've had meetings with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to discuss how I might help spread the UN's message of peace.
In October of 2000, I signed a statement called the "Appeal for Responsible Security" that was run as an ad in The New York Times just before the U.S. presidential elections that year. The statement, which was signed by retired generals like Andrew Goodpaster, business leaders like Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems, my friends Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford, and dozens of other people like that. That Appeal was co-sponsored by the Global Security Institute.
And most recently, I presented the Alan Cranston Peace Award to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi on behalf of the Global Security Institute, which I guess is the organization I've done the most work with in this area.

Q: It must be energizing to be a spokesman. Is there more work you do behind the scenes with any of the organizations you work with?

Pierce: There certainly is more to it than simply drawing attention to an issue in the public sector. For policy to change, you need leaders who understand the issue, and you need activists who are able to educate and pressure leaders to take the right steps at the right time.
The Global Security Institute helps me play a more sharply focused role. In 2002, they delivered a letter on my behalf to the Prime Minister of Ireland. Ireland at the time had just had its elections. At the same time, it was Ireland's turn to take a rotating leadership role for an international coalition of countries that is working together for nuclear disarmament. The countries call themselves the New Agenda Coalition. I wanted to impress upon the new Prime Minister how important Ireland's leadership could be in keeping the issue of nuclear disarmament front and center on the international agenda. I think we were successful in that.

Q: What is the one message you would give to a citizen who wanted to get involved in this issue?

Pierce: I would say there are four things an individual can do to make a difference. These things are basically the definition of citizenship.
First, get informed. Find good sources of information, and question what you read and hear in the news.
Second, take a stand. Let others know your views on issues that matter to you.
Third, get involved. Write letters, visit elected officials in their offices, and volunteer.
Finally, give your support. If you have the means, support people and organizations that make a difference. Every little bit helps those non-profit organizations that are struggling to put their expertise to the best use possible on behalf of all of us.

Oprah Calls on Famous Friends To Help Hurricane Victims

info@partnerwithastar.com — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:08:23 +0300

Oprah Winfrey has enlisted famous friends including Oscar winners Julia Roberts and Jamie Foxx to help her bring hope to those devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The TV talkshow queen cut short her summer break last weekend to host shows from America's storm-ravaged Gulf region, where people are desperately trying to piece their lives back together.

And she took a few famous faces with her - Foxx helped serve up food to 5,000 hurricane victims in a shelter in Dallas, Texas, while Matthew McConaughey and Faith Hill brought joy to survivors in Zachary, Louisiana, and Gulfport, Mississippi respectively in a show that aired in America yesterday. Meanwhile, Winfrey's pals John Travolta, Lisa Marie Presley and Chris Rock joined Roberts for segments taped for today's show. Travolta piloted his private plane to shelters in the southeast, delivering much needed vaccines and helping to replenish medical supplies. A tearful Winfrey hosted yesterday's show from the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, where thousands of hurricane survivors are seeking temporary refuge and medical help