Julianne Moore: Most Celebrity Do-Gooders Are Attention-Grubbing Famewhores

*uncomfortable coughing*

Wow.

So somebody - somebody famous - finally stepped up and said it.

I mean, c'mon. We've all thought this at some point or another, haven't we?

The story:

Actress Julianne Moore has slammed Angelina Jolie and Madonna for deliberately seeking media attention for their humanitarian efforts.

Moore, 47, claims she has made a conscious effort to keep her own political and social activism out of the limelight, and she cannot understand why stars get so much attention from the press for volunteering their time to help others.

She says: "It's definitely the 'to whom much is given' thing. And we have a tremendous amount of privilege."

"But, at the same time, I don't know why so much emphasis is placed on celebrities who volunteer. Most people do things in their daily lives. It's just normal."

Okay, so. On the one hand: BRAVO JULIANNE. Because, yes, supporting our own communities and communities in need is something that ordinary people do every day to little or no acclaim. It's something that people just do. Because they should. Not because it makes good press or because, you know, noblesse oblige, blah blah blah, but because it's the right thing to do. Like not littering and holding the door open for others and saying please and thank you and not going commando when you're wearing short skirts.

But on the other hand... as much as I might roll my eyes every time some celebrity announces that they're driving a hybrid or that they are going to India to rehabilitate alcoholic elephants, I gotta say: is it really a bad thing for the world if Angelina wants to rescue Darfurians? Whether or not it yields convenient photo ops for her? Doesn't the fact that someone like Angelina makes very public attempts to save the world provide a good example for those who otherwise wouldn't give saving the world any thought? Of course it does.

Then, of course, you have Madonna. Madonna's not helping anybody. I don't care how many orphans she adopts or how many times she insists that she's 'green,' there's something about a middle-aged woman in a leotard affecting dominatrix poses to promote her records causes - nay, a middle-aged woman in a leotard who compares the plight of Malawian orphans to the trials of Tom Cruise - that just, you know, makes the eye-rolling and the random gagging just a little hard to control.

So Julianne can have at her as much as she wants.

(BTW - you can see Julianne's own do-gooding in action at a Celebrity Hand-Me-Down auction that's being hosted at eBay by Johnson & Johnson: she's donated a Stokke high chair that you can bid on. Proceeds go to Baby Cause - an online global fundraising project run through Global Giving.

You can also bid on Tori Spelling's diaper bag, which of is absolutely no interest to me, but hey? Maybe you're a fan, or maybe your heart is just that much more charitable than mine.)

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