Earlier this week we learned that actress/humanitarian/superwoman Angelina Jolie was making her way to Haiti in her role as UN Goodwill Ambassador to help lend aid to the affected people of the deadly earthquake that struck there a month ago. When asked by CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour if Angelina Jolie was considering adopting a child from Haiti to add to her family, Ange admitted that she and fauxhubby Brad Pitt are “open” to adopting from Haiti … tho, she went on to clarify that she is not focusing on adopting any children at all at this time:

Even CNN’s hard-nosed global reporter Christiane Amanpour is curious about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s family. In an interview with Jolie while she was still in Haiti, Amanpour asked the star if she plans to adopt a child in Haiti. “I’m always open to children around the world,” Jolie replied. “We’re that kind of family. Brad and I talk about that.” Not so fast, though: “But that’s not what we’re focusing on at this time, by any means,” she continued. “We’re not here for that. We’re here to see how we can help protect the children in country and scale up the needs here.” Late Thursday, X17 photographers snapped Jolie’s arrival back at LAX following her three-day trip to Haiti. She toured an SOS Villages camp for orphans, a Doctors Without Borders hospital near Port-au-Prince, a makeshift camp in the southern city of Jacmel and a Save the Children relief supply center. During her SOS Villages visit, Haitian kids were starstruck, yelling “Angie! Angie!” Jolie and Pitt, 46, donated $1 million to Doctors Without Border to provide medical assistance to earthquake survivors.

Personally, I think it’s high time that Brangelina add another child to their growing brood. The twins are almost 2 years old now … Brangelina is startin’ to slack off on the adopting, don’tcha think? While I agree that now is not the time for Angelina Jolie to be picking out children to adopt from Haiti, I think it would be very nice — at some point down the line — if Brangelina did save the life of an orphan from the region. A heroine’s work is never done.

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While Taylor Lautner was pumpin’ iron at the gym on his birthday yesterday, Zac Efron was proudly showing off his already pumped up physique as he shopped around Robertson Blvd. in West Hollywood, CA at the same time … behold:

Zacy poo is lookin’ good, y’all. The hair is perfect as always and that tight t-shirt is having a hard time concealing all them muscles. Hello, arms. I’m lookin’ forward to the coming warmer temperature here in SoCal … the hotter it gets, the less clothing folks tend to wear. I’m just sayin’ ;)

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Yesterday we learned the joyous news that Twilight star Taylor Lautner finally turned a very legal 18 years old yesterday and today we learn just how Tay Tay chose to celebrate the happy occasion. Ever mindful of his loyal fanbase, Taylor spent part of his actual birthday workin’ on his fitness at the gym. He was pumpin’ iron on his birthday, y’all:

Yeah, it doesn’t sound like a lot of fun but in order for Taylor to inspire the level of adoration that he does (well, that his sculpted abs and pecs do), he needs to work hard at the gym as much as he can. He’s doing this all for you, you know! Let’s send out, one more time, a heaping dose of Birthday Lurve to Taylor Lautner … who works this hard, for YOU!

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‘Tis that time again when the world convenes in friendly competition to compete at the Olympic Games. Two years ago, we focused on Beijing, China for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and today we move our focus to Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics Games:

Falling drizzle engulfed down town Vancouver in a gray, wet blanket Thursday. It’s a fitting backdrop on the eve of a Winter Olympics that has become more about snow and fog than about gold, silver and bronze. Taking refuge from the rain in Lions Pub was Bjarte Moe, a member of the Norwegian national ski team in the 1970s and who until recently had a home and business in Whistler, site of the troubled alpine ski events. He has skied Whistler more than 200 times, and if Saturday’s men’s downhill is postponed by fog, he won’t be surprised. Nor will anyone else who’s familiar with this area. “In February, yes, fog is always a problem,” Moe said. “Come March? No. But the Olympics are not in March.” Even by British Columbia standards, this winter’s weather has been more puzzling than figure-skating scoring, which adds to the frustration level of Olympic planners, trucking in snow for Cypress Mountain and frazzled by delays at Whistler. Vancouver just had its warmest January since records have been kept in 1937. Cypress, 30 minutes from downtown and site of the freestyle-skiing and snowboarding events, still hasn’t received any snow. Its events begin Saturday. And Whistler Mountain, two hours up the Sea to Sky Highway and site of the alpine events, has been fogged in the past two days, reducing practice time. The opening ceremony is tonight, but the jokes have already begun. “When they tell the Canadian snowboarders that they’re going to be competing on home soil, it may not be a figure of speech,” wrote Vancouver Sun columnist Cam Cole. The hand-wringing by Vancouverites and fans around the world might be misplaced. The show will go on. Erickson Air-Crane helicopters brought 5,000 cubic meters of snow onto Cypress for the fifth consecutive day Thursday. Saturday’s mogul skiers will not be bumping off flower beds.

Despite the worry over the weather, I’m convinced that the whole shebang will go off without a hitch. Now, I’m not a sports fan by any measure but I can’t help but be charmed by the Olympic Games every time they come around. Fun fact: it was during the last Winter Olympic Games (in Torino, Italy I believe) that I met David and we fell in lurve. Now, here we are, 4 years later celebrating our 4 year anniversary with the arrival of another Winter Olympic Games. As with every arrival of the Olympic Games, the 2010 Vancouver Games will feature a new batch of Olympic Mascots. You may recall we met Nini, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying and Beibei (who combine to make up the Fuwa) as the mascots for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing … after the jump, meet the mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver …