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Charity, is the latest fashionable craze in Hollywood. Every now and again it’s great to see all those heavenly bodies we love so much reaching down from their lofty heights to raise someone else up just a little bit. After all, their dazzling smile might win over the hearts of millions but it’s their charitable works that keeps them in our minds as well.

Take, for example Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, aka Brangelina. This Hollywood power couple has been known throughout their history as very generous and mindful of children the world over. Fox News tells us that they even started their own charitable organization, the Jolie Pitt Foundation, and stocked it with over $8 million dollars of their own hard earned cash in 2006. The charity’s first year’s donations totaled a simply amazing $2,367,935 spread out over six causes and with only a small overhead of $27,000 for expenses. And that’s just the tip of the Brangelina philanthropist iceberg; Pitt has since started the Make It Right Foundation that is dedicated to rebuilding New Orleans ninth ward, and Pitt has also contributed to the Not On Our Watch fund designed to help Darfur. Definitely adds just that extra bit of spice to get me out on June 27th when Angelina’s new movie Wanted hits theaters and again on the 12th of September when Brad’s Burn After Reading is set to premiere. Now they have that extra armchair philanthropist appeal - see anything Brangelina’s been in and you know a portion of the proceeds is going to worthy causes.

Well who else is just giving it away? Courteney Cox, her husband David Arquette and Jennifer Anniston. These three friends are challenging members of the Hollywood community to raise $1 million in just two weeks to benefit the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation. BBC News tells us that the disease is a rare genetic condition that affects the skin of children, causing large ulcerous sores to form on the skin that don’t heal. Us Magazine says so far they’ve gotten Eva Longoria Parker, Kate Beckinsale, Orlando Bloom, Rashida Jones, and James Marsden on board for donations. It’s great knowing that this Sunday night when I’m staying up to watch Dirt, I’m not just feeding my need for seedy gossip I’m also helping kids with skin disease.