01:19 AM EDT 10/15/2009
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Matt Damon Has Clean Water on the Brain
Originally posted 09/23/2009 08:30AM
He may play an enigma in his latest movie The Informant!, but Matt Damon knows how to keep his personal message clear – and put his money where his mouth is.
The star, 38, announced Tuesday at the launch of the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative that Damon's non-profit group, Water.org, would help provide clean water and sanitation facilities to 50,000 people in Haiti, reports Tonic.com.
To make that happen, "Water.org will deliver at least $2 million to fund this commitment," Damon is quoted as saying.
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Matt Damon Loves George Clooney's Girlfriend
Originally posted 09/16/2009 09:00AM
George Clooney's newest squeeze has passed an important test: gaining the approval of her beau's friends.
"She is a really, really wonderful woman," Clooney's close pal Matt Damon, 38, told PEOPLE at Tuesday's Manhattan premiere of his film The Informant!
Damon says he and wife Luciana vacationed this summer with the Oceans Eleven star and his new girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis, 30. And apparently Canalis, an Italian TV presenter, is having a good effect on Clooney, 48.
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Michael Douglas To Play Liberace
Originally posted 09/15/2009 09:00AM
Michael Douglas is taking a sharp turn from his usual roles to tackle the lead in a film biography of the campy musical performer Liberace, and Matt Damon is playing his longtime lover, director Steven Soderbergh confirmed.
"We've already done some costume and wardrobe tests on Michael, and they're very, very, very good." Soderbergh told a French newspaper at the Deauville Film Festival. "I swear to you, Michael amazed me. He crushed it."
Born Wladziu Valentino, the flamboyant, piano-playing Liberace, nicknamed "Mr. Showmanship" and "Glitter Man," was a staple of early 1950s television, and was an institution in Las Vegas until his death from AIDS in 1987. At his height, he made more money than Elvis and The Beatles.
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Matt Damon Has 'Testosterone Deficient' Home
Originally posted 09/12/2009 09:15AM
As the only male in a household of four females, Matt Damon's life is filled with love and fairy princesses.
"I call it the 'testosterone deficit.' But I'm happy with that," Damon told PEOPLE at Friday's premiere of The Informant! at the Toronto International Film Festival of his home life. "I love my girls and it's lot of pink, a lot of princesses and a lot of fun."
With his bachelor days behind him, Damon, 38, and his wife, Luciana, are in domestic bliss, celebrating special milestones in the lives of their daughters: Gia, 13 months, Isabella, 3, and Alexia, 11.
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Matt Damon Says Gaining 30 Lbs. Was Easy – and Fun
Originally posted 09/07/2009 02:45PM
Looking tanned and trim, Matt Damon declared his latest film challenge as "probably the funnest time I've had working."
He also enjoyed making the movie The Informant!
What PEOPLE's former Sexiest Man Alive was describing was adding 30 lbs. – not to mention the cheesy moustache, hairpiece and glasses – to become nearly unrecognizable for his role as Mark Whitacre, an agricultural company's vice president-turned-FBI informant.
"It was very, very easy to gain the weight," Damon told reporters at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. "It was very, very fun, probably the funnest time I had working because I didn't have to go to the gym after work and I just ate everything I could see."
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Clooney and Damon are Headed to Venice
Originally posted 07/30/2009 09:00AM
George, Matt and Buzz Lightyear – and even more stars – will be sailing into Venice this fall.
Organizers of the film festival in the Italian city of canals announced a roster of films and film stars aimed at drawing maximum buzz, with possible appearances including Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Jared Leto and Diane Kruger.
Billed as the world's oldest movie confab, the 66th Venice Film Festival kicks off Sept. 2 and will feature world premieres of two much-anticipated pictures: The Men Who Stare At Goats, starring George Clooney, and The Informant!, with Matt Damon.
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Matt Damon Fundraises on Entourage
Originally posted 07/13/2009 09:50AM
PEOPLE's 2007 Sexiest Man Alive Matt Damon is no stranger to good exposure – or good deeds. "Matt came on the phone with me and wanted to do something that focused on his charity, OneXOne, which helps kids all over the world," Doug Ellin, executive producer of Entourage, tells TV Guide. "It wasn't hard to get him."
As for Damon's Entourage appearance, that's a secret that's not supposed to be spilled until the HBO's series' Oct. 4 sixth-season finale. Still, the cat may be out of the bag, thanks to loose lips on the show's cast members.
SPOILER ALERT: In the scene, set in an airport, "Matt gets Vince [Adrian Grenier] to make a massive donation. He's like, 'Bro – whip out your checkbook!' " reveals Emmanuelle Chriqui, who plays Sloan.
Adds Grenier: "The joke is that Matt is very passionate about his charity – almost in a stalkerish kind of way. Vince becomes [intimidated] by his intensity. He ends up bullying Vince into giving much more than he should."
– Stephen M. Silverman
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Matt Damon Wants Hugh Jackman to Repeat as Sexiest Man Alive
Originally posted 07/03/2009 05:00PM
The political season is over, but Matt Damon is still on the campaign trail, pushing for PEOPLE's reigning Sexiest Man Alive Hugh Jackman to take the honor again this year.
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Ben Affleck: Friendship with Matt Damon Endures
Originally posted 03/31/2009 06:05AM
They were close childhood friends, collaborated on the script for 1997's Good Will Hunting and then won Oscars for it. And even after Hollywood success and "ballooning" families, Ben Affleck says his friendship with Damon" has not only gotten stronger, with shared vacations, but they're planning another movie together.
"It's cool," Affleck, 36, told PEOPLE of his and Damon's enduring bond, which includes mixing and mingling with their wives and kids. Affleck has two daughters with wife Jennifer Garner, while Damon, also 36, has two daughters with wife Luciana Barroso.
"We went on vacation last summer," says Affleck, who plays a congressman opposite Russell Crowe in the new thriller State of Play. "It's nice. It always has been. He's got his family ballooning, and we're doing okay – it's nice."
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Matt Picks Up Dinner for His Wife
Originally posted 02/03/2009 06:00AM
• Wearing a navy Obama T-shirt and skull cap, Matt Damon picked up crab meat ravioli and chicken Parmigiana at Miami Beach's Cafe Prima Pasta for a quiet dinner at home with wife Luciana. "Even though Matt said he was feeling under the weather, he stopped for a photo with fans," says a source. "What a great guy."
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