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Brad Pitt joined Angelina Jolie at a London summit on sexual violence Thursday, lending the couple's star power to the campaign to end rape in war zones.
The four-day London conference is organized by British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Jolie, a United Nations special envoy.
They hope representatives of the more than 100 countries present will back a new protocol laying out how sexual violence in conflict zones should be investigated and prosecuted. They say they want to end the “culture of impunity” for wartime sex crimes.
Pitt watched from the audience as Jolie and Hague spoke to delegates at the east London conference venue.
Billed as the biggest-ever summit on the subject, the gathering has drawn diplomats, officials, charity representatives and survivors of wartime rape.
Jolie said the meeting was being held “for all the forgotten, hidden survivors who have been made to feel ashamed or been abandoned.”
“And for the children of rape — we want the whole world to hear their stories and understand that this injustice cannot be tolerated, and that sorrow and compassion are not enough,” she said.
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Jake Gyllenhaal will make his Broadway debut later this year with a work by a playwright he's come to admire.
The Manhattan Theatre Club said Thursday the “Brokeback Mountain” star will appear in Nick Payne’s “Constellations,” which has been a hit in London. Previews begin Dec. 16 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and will be directed by Michael Longhurst.
Gyllenhaal, who appeared in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s “This Is Our Youth” in London in 2002, made his New York stage appearance in 2012 in Payne’s “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet,” which also was directed by Longhurst.
“Constellations” presents several permutations of a single relationship. In some scenarios, the couple lives happily together; in others, they don’t even make it to a first kiss.
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