Chris Cantell Discusses Entertainment: Pay for your dinner and help poor

In the time of wars, violence and conflicts there still
exists the idea of helping others and for this reason many various charities were founded
and every year lot of celebrities give money for helping those who need it the most. This
time very unusual one took place to help poor and sick children around the world. This
type of charity and commercial promotion was organized by United Nations on Wednesday
night and celebrities such as Madonna, Drew Barrymore, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher,
Salma Hayek, Dita Von Teese and Tea Leoni and Lucy Liu who are the UNICEF Ambassadors.
All these celebrities paid from $2.500 to $10 000 to dine such delicacies as
"grappa-cured salmon, wild striped bass, tart of goat cheese, foraged mushrooms,
truffled mashed potatoes and sticky toffee pudding with crème fraiche" and the
whole night happening was moderated by pop queen Madonna who said it was a honor for her
to work with UNICEF. First of all Madonna introduced children from Africa and played the
video which introduced Raising Malawi, organization founded by her in 2006 to help
orphans in African states. After that music show made by Rihanna, Timbaland and Alica
Keys followed.Celebrity and this kind of snobbish night couldn't be whole without very
glistening auction. If you were very wealthy and had redundant $100,000 then you could
buy for example privilege of hanging out at Yankee Stadium with Alex Rodriguez or private
hour playing soccer with David Beckham, just as Tom Cruise did. You could also bid a trip
to Paris where you could go for a walk into vineyards and after that have a lunch with
very precious company consisted of Francois-Henri Pinault and Salma Hayek and this whole
trip will be just for a symbolic price of $120,000. And if you think all this is nothing,
try to bid to tour with Madonna or take a dance class with her and Gwyneth Paltrow for
$600 000!Honestly, I don't think so any of these offers would be attracting for me, but
on the other hand I have to admit it was all done for a good purpose & to help about
half of one million orphans from African countries. During this glamorous night
celebrities raised 3.7 million American dollars which will be split among Raising Malawi
and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. All celebrities well satisfied because they had fun and
also gave a financial help to those sectors where it's needed. So I there is no reason
for criticizing it.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080207/ap_en_tv/madonna_un;_ylt=Asm.pJFhY8QHvmn5.MicaGBX24cA

by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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Edited by: Katarina Bosanska