Brad showed us how to make a hard hat look sexy with the help of his aviator sunglasses in New Orleans this morning. It doesn't hurt his appeal that he's doing good and working on the Holy Cross project, an eco-friendly organization that has been helping re-build houses since Hurricane Katrina. Brad will be sharing his progress with Ann Curry for an interview that will air on the Today Show tomorrow and Thursday. We bet Angelina and the kids miss Brad while they're back in Chicago, but luckily this way they'll still get to see his smiling face.
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good for Brad! and he is looking good in those pics even with that helmet on.
1I didn't like how he ended his marriage to Jen Aniston, but he clearly has a big heart and I admire his efforts to help others. He also seems to be a devoted father, which is a HUGE checkmark in the plus column!
2How does one get involved in activities such as these?
3Hotness in a hard hat.
4A hard days work always feels good.
5tatti33 -- Look into Habitat For Humanity. They have affiliations all over the country where you can volunteer to help build houses for the needy and the homeless. It was started years ago by President Jimmy Carter -- it's a GREAT organization!
6He looks super hot! And I think it's awesome that he's so hands on in this type of charity work, instead of just writing a check.
7yuuummmm!! Brad's matured so much with Angie! what a lovely cpl!
8I just saw a clip of him on the news. His family isn't in Chicago they're in NOLA with him
9It is about time someone steps up and helps people in crisis in America, besides throwing a bit of money at a cause and calling it good. Go Brad!
10I love a man in uniform. M'mmm I could eat him with a spoon.
11Yum! Brad is the hotness!! Dang, 43 never looked so good!
12Good for Brad! He is donating his time to a very worthy cause
13The whole family is in New Orleans. There was a story that said they left Chicago already.
“My family and I are very happy to be back here in this great city. We love it here very much,” said Pitt, who settled in New Orleans with Angelina Jolie and their children earlier this year while he was filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
He said he, Jolie and their children would tour the Holy Cross site privately.
14I doubt it. Nothing this family does is ever private thanks to the hordes of photographers.
15Good for him! Angelina has been a wonderful influence on him. It's so nice to see people who can afford to, more so than others, stand up and actually do something!
16I've got a couple things around the house that could use fixing, but I guess he doesn't make house calls.
17Hot, hot, hot!
18Brad is looking better and better. He is doing wonderful things for NO.
19I can only say good things about somebody doing good things for New Orleans!!! I spent 4 years down there, and haven't been back down since 2003. I'll hopefully go back in September or October to visit!!
20He'll be a hot GILF. :]
21LOL.
He just gets better with age.
22Mama Mia! I think I should take a five-hour drive and pay Brad a visit. He needs to hang out with a real Louisiana woman. lol
23Brad is doing great things everywhere!
24keep up the good work, brad! now, this is inspiring.
25love the jolie pitts!!
I just went to NOLA and saw their house in the French Quarter! His heart seems to be in the right place with all the projects he is involved in!
26I don't really like him..he stated that Katrina was a "man made disaster"....since when are hurricanes "man made"...if he's talking about the slow regrowth then that's something else, but Katrina it self was NOT "man made"..there is a lot more to factor in than just blaming someone...there are thousands of people who moved to Houston and other areas, that just didn't want to come back...they didn't want to live in an area to where something like this could happen again...there is so much corruption in New Orleans..my brother who owns a roofing and demolition business in South Carolina took his crew to New Orleans not long after Katrina hit and was basically told every job in most Parishes had to be approved by the local government..which were NOT approving companies from "out of town"...so...that is one reason rebuilding is SOOO slow because of the corruption of people in office getting kick backs for only letting "certain" builders build...I'm surprised they even let Brad in....
27Throw me down and take it
28KizerSosa:
Well if he really did say Katrina was a man made disater I'm sure he meant the way those POOR people were left to fend for themselves and the disgrace of them having to chant on tv "WE NEED HELP!!!"....meanwhile Bush is down there giving congrats to the IDIOT who was running FEMA who was only put in the position because he knew the right people. You had poor people who can't afford transportation to get out, left to drown and rot on the the streets like rats. They were called refuges in their own freaking country...that in itself spoke VOLUMES! So if he said man made disaster he is absolutely correct!
BTW of course those people still can't move home first of all they still havn't cleaned up the poorest neighborhoods. If your rent used to be $500.00 a month it's now $1500.00 a month...how the hell can they afford to move back? And best believe the poor who were able to stay are NOT the ones getting contracts to rebuild!
At least Brad is doing what he can how can you not like the man for that??? It's true no good deed goes unpunished!
29Angelina and the kids are with him in NOLA.
30I was living in Houston when droves of them came in..the schools went to hell.there were major fights breaking out EVERYDAY between the Katrina victims and the Houston Locals.most of them LOVED Houston.they didn't want to go back.and most haven't.they had free housing and federal credit cards.I would see them standing in line at Walmart buying things ALL THE TIME.there were many jobs to be had in Houston and many other cities, and a lot of them didn't work.and didn't want to work.sorry if they didn't have enough money to "move back to New Orleans" but they didn't try to help themselves either. (not all but MOST) My brother in law lives in New Orleans and lived there when Katrina hit. He rolled up his sleeves and did what he had to do to continue on. He didn't scream and give up and look for a hand out. There has been many hurricaines to hit the US..Mississippi was hit REALLY FRICKING hard also..they worked to get themselves back on the map. If it's anyones fault it's the STUPID mayor of N.O for telling the people at the LAST MINUTE to evacuate! When you have a major storm coming..you're below sea level...you don't just sit and "see what happens" you get the hell out of there! Ignorance is NOT an excuse! Congrats to Brad if he can make a difference, but people need to put some work in themselves also. Brad is down there in a hard hat, others need to be doing the same.
31ugh im not going to get into the whole katrina debate but i will say "ya baby lookin good, why dont you come ova here and give mama sum suga" sorry construction sites seem to bring out the pervert in me
32hotstuff
one more note, did you forget about the people shooting at the helicopters that were trying to help them get out?
33Most of New Orleans came through the hurricane just fine, but the man-made levees broke, causing the flooding, and weak support in the wetlands, aggravated by shoddy wall construction, allowing surge destruction. Hence the reason people refer to it as a man-made disaster. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is what really destroyed New Orleans.
Even Time magazine refers to it as a man-made disaster in a recent article. The storm didn't hit New Orleans dead on and they got the effect of about a category 2 storm.
34May I say that I prefer him in this hat compared with the newsboy cap he's been wearing non-stop lately? No matter what hat he is wearing he deserves a nod for being involved and doing good works.
35And it's pretty normal for any area struck by a disaster to give preference to local crews for rebuilding. It happens all over.
How do you think local contractors who are out of work would feel standing around unemployed, while a lot of out of state guys are making a good wage rebuilding? No doubt there are flaws in administering the system, but the premise is to try and help the locals.
36It's good for Brad to do something worthful.What a great man!!
37I just love this family!
38I just love this family!
39I think calling it a man made disaster is not helping things. It just gives another reason to blame and blaming the US Army Corps of Engineers from a project started in 1965 will not build walls. It just gives another reason for the people there to have a bad taste in their mouths. I think agree that he could have left that comment out.
40Ginger..
When hurricaine hugo hit Charleston SC in 1989, electrical crews from 23 states came to help, contractors from many other states came and there was a boom in the housing industry there that is still going strong. The same as when hurricaine Andrew hit Florida (1992)causing 30 BILLION in damage..do you think that local contractors could have handled all that work? No..no place has taken longer to rebuild than N.Orleans. It's because of the backward way they choose to handle things there and thats the truth. there was enough work for everyone, but most got turned away. what is the sence in that?
41Seasick
I'm trying to figure out if you were joking or not about the helicopters. If you wern't joking I hope you can enlighten me and direct me to pics of said helicopter with bullet holes. I doubt that there was time to shoot down helicopters in between drowning, losing family members, trying to bust throught your attic and sitting on roof tops for days waiting for help!
What I saw were thousands of people dying literally begging for rescue in the richest country in the world! I'm sure if this mass of people were shooting helicopters out the sky there would be proof, NO?
42A roof over someone's head is a roof over someone's head. It shouldn't matter who profits from it. Im just saying.
43http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168112,00.html
or read to the bottom of
http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Get_Help_Now
44I'll try again..try putting a
http://
in front of the following
katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Get_Help_Now
read to the bottom of this page
45I wish you would use a different avitar btw...I hate disagreeing with someone when I'm starring at one of my favorite actors!!! lol
46**No..no place has taken longer to rebuild than N.Orleans. It's because of the backward way they choose to handle things there and thats the truth. there was enough work for everyone, but most got turned away. what is the sence in that?**
That's not correct. It hasn't even been two years yet. Lots of disasters have taken longer to recover and rebuild from. I live in an area that has lost thousands of homes in natural disasters more than once in the last couple of decades. Some work gets done quickly, but there are projects that take years. I can still point to spots where houses were never rebuilt, 16 years after a blocks were wiped out and the rest of the neighborhood built up around the empty lots.
And here, the preference for local workers is not the reason things didn't get built. Some people just kept their land as an investment but moved elsewhere.
Look at 9/11, albeit not a natural disaster, but 6 years later and they haven't even finished taking down all the destroyed buildings, let alone rebuild.
47Seasick
I did try the link and it said no text available. The word wiki in that link has me nervous about validity already but I'll try the link again later. At least you have good taste!
48Ginger.. are you serious?
I went to visit my brother in law in Febuary (6 months afterwards) and there were still streets that had no electricity..there was a Walgreens pharmacy that was still in rubble and about 500 water logged cars still piled up under bridges, homes with their roofs blown off and tress still lying all in yards and on top of houses and cars..I'm sorry, but I have NEVER known a disaster that hit somewhere in this country and 6 months later it still almost looks the same as the day it hit.
49hotstuff..
we do agree on something
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