BRAD&JOLIE

Make it right

Brad Pitt poses for a photograph in Kellogg Park, a technologically advanced playground in the Lower 9th Ward that uses solar energy to run its electronic wireless game system in New Orleans. The playground sits among homes being built through Pitt's Make It Right Foundation.

Helping Darfur

In May 2007, Jolie and Pitt enjoyed an intimate dinner in Prague, where Jolie filmed a role in "Wanted," a comic book adaptation. While there, the couple announced that they were donating $1 million from their Jolie-Pitt Foundation to groups assisting more than four million people affected by the crisis in Darfur.

Traveling to Panama

Pitt talked with an unidentified man outside of a handicraft market in Panama City on Dec. 29, 2006. Besides touring the capital, Pitt and Jolie visited a former U.S. military base and the construction site of Panama's new Biodiversity Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, at the entrance of the canal in the Amador district.

Visiting Vietnam

Pitt and Jolie spent Thanksgiving 2006 cruising on a motorbike, while touring Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Prior to arriving in Vietnam, the couple made a surprise visit to Cambodia where they visited a former Khmer Rouge death camp, now a genocide museum.

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