Celebrity and international adoption go together like soup and sandwich in the media, and so many people are happy as clam chowder to be served up whatever can be scraped from the bottom of whatever pot happens to be going around at any given moment ... most of it unpleasant pap with a revolting flavor and lingering aftertaste.

I'm not big on jumping on the celeb bandwagon or perpetuating hype, but fair is fair, folks.

This week's news does, indeed, feature Angelina Jolie prominently, but you can bet the headlines aren't screaming. No way. This time, the articles are short, the photos are tiny and the stories are buried.

She was in Washington lobbying for increased US support for orphans and children at risk while opening the headquarters of Global Action for Children, a humanitarian organization she an her partner Brad Pitt have already gifted with $1 million each.

She called for all G-8 countries to bump up funding for orphans and asked specifically for $2.5 million from the US government to pay for programs that would support children suffering from disease and poverty and provide free primary school education in developing countries. (Can you hear the sound of the drop hitting the bottom of that bucket? Tiny little plink, isn't it?)

It appears that SPAN, the fictional organization I invented for her for the first of April's post, may not be all that far from the real McCoy, I'm happy to say.

Global Action for Children is not the only place Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt make contributions toward a better world. Their Jolie-Pitt Foundation is making differences all over the planet. They've supported a medical center in Sudan, funded equipment for a maternity hospital, school and community center in Namibia, and given money to the Daniel Pearl Foundation to, “promote cross-cultural understanding through journalism, music, and innovative communications.”

These are only tip-of-the-iceberg, obvious contributions. She does much, much more for the greater good ... the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Project, for instance.

She doesn't have to do any of this, you know. There are many with the advantages she enjoys who don't give any more to anyone than their tax advisors insist upon, and she certainly doesn't need to worry about impressing anyone.

Some people just get it. Some people simply care.