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PRESS CLIPPINGS

• The actress Angelina Jolie has donated more than $4-million since 2001 to Pakistani earthquake victims and other charitable causes, reports Forbes magazine (July 3).

  The article about Ms. Jolie, part of the magazine’s coverage of 100 ascendant celebrities, says that her charitable work helps offset potential criticisms about her image as a “homewrecker and sex symbol who’s had an out-of-wedlock baby” with the actor Brad Pitt.

• The Public Theater, in New York, has made its way back from the brink of financial ruin brought on by a few poorly received plays and a slump in ticket sales after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, writes New York magazine (June 26) in a profile of Oskar Eustis, its artistic director.

  Mr. Eustis, who has been on the job for about a year, has experience courting donors as well as directing plays; at Trinity Rep, in Providence, he helped erase a $3-million accumulated deficit, says the magazine.

  Mara Manus, the group’s executive director, arrived in 2002 and got the group on solid financial footing. Gifts made by individuals have risen by 80 percent and events for donors have more than doubled, good news because the theater depends on contributions for 65 percent of its revenue.

  The article is available online at http://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/17315.