Why are Angelina Jolie and so many artists in Davos ? Celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Lionel Richie, Richard Gere or Sharon Stone were very active this year at the Annual Meeting. Of course it has been a rare moment for the participants to exchange ideas during multiple sessions and dinner with them, but it is not the most important.
Their talent helped them build personal brands and those artists can use these platforms to go beyond authenticity and become social actors. No government and few consumer brands such as Coca Cola for example have the same global reach as artists of this dimension. What they do and what they say carry a message to all layers of society, to all the countries in the world.
When Angelina Jolie or Sharon Stone stand up to help poverty, to fight AIDS or talk about climate change, what they say is often understood by people who would not get it the same way if the message was coming from their governments or other sources of information.
Angelina Jolie is Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva.
Anyone who is famous, when takes a stand on something, he is ridiculed upon. People just do not realize that, even if they are forging it, it is helping thousands of people, because people will readily listen to a personality they love then those who are ordinary and do not leave any impact.
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Posted by: addy | July 18, 2008 at 05:56
sanj sany says, "action baby.., thats what you movie stars are all about"
I'll remember that the next time I hear about a 20 million dollar paycheck for doing a movie.
Posted by: likwidshoe | February 02, 2005 at 08:23
wish there was more people like you out there with bit of money and effort trying to change things in society of our day and age .... unfortunetly the people that stand behind this idea and you including are not that forunate to have a say in the world( or politics so called)...and believe me there is a lot of people that think alike and would like something done about this..however its like we have being long written off already or banished from these key issues in the world...democracy they say..hehe...i would like to say a word or two to those world leaders concerning us poor ...although words mean nothing ...action baby.., thats what you movie stars are all about
Posted by: sanj sany | January 30, 2005 at 13:52