I used to think that Brad Pitt was a lot like a low-cal lemon chiffon pie - all fluff and very little substance.

Good looking? Sure. Capable actor? Definitely. Humanitarian? Um, not so much.

I’ve since changed my mind after learning he’s responsible for spearheading the Make It Right campaign in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward where he’s actively helping to rebuild homes devastated by Hurricane Katrina. He’s so committed to getting these homes rebuilt that he’s put up five million dollars of his own money for the reconstruction.

Five million dollars.

That’s a lot of Missouri beef stew shelled out by a guy the tabloids enjoy portraying as a rather shallow Hollywood hunk who traded

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in his four-year, ho-hum marriage to Jennifer Aniston for sexy, sultry movie siren Angelina Jolie when they made Mr and Mrs Smith” together in 2005. He adopted her adopted children and she gave birth to their own biological love child in 2006.

Here’s a guy who is not only considered to be one of the hottest actors in Hollywood making a bundle with every movie he stars in, but he actually stepped up to the plate to do something that matters.

Who knows, maybe his efforts helping to rebuilt New Orleans will inspire other big names out there to pony up and do what they can to make this world a better place for everybody.