I had a momentary brain lapse on Friday night when, after a long week, I committed to the folly of He’s Just Not that Into You. I thought I signed up for a mindless evening of innocuous entertainment when I would have been better off bloodying my head up against a wall for free.

Instead, I paid $14.50 for someone to do it to me, and helped misogyny wave a $27.5 million banner atop this weekend’s box office.

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News of Legally Blonde The Musical and the MTV contest winner is taking over the internet this morning - blah!

Here are 5 awesome brunettes you should watch instead of reading about (or going to see) Legally Blonde The Musical:

1) Elizabeth Taylor - She may have gotten a little kooky with age, but back in the day she could steal every scene:

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This PSA for the organization Charity Water first aired during American Idol Gives Back on April 9. Charity Water helps build wells in Africa and provides clean, safe drinking water. Their PSA features Jennifer Connelly going to Central Park to get dirty water for her family as millions of mothers in Africa do every day.

and donate. Just $20 can give one person clean and safe drinking water for 20 years. Find out more at http://www.charitywater.org

For anyone who didn’t catch American Idol Gives Back last night, here is a PSA from Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly, Hotel Rwanda director Terry George and award-winning cinematographer Ellen Kuras donated their time to film this for charity: water.

Donate $20 to charity: water and give 1 person safe drinking water for 20 YEARS

Our second installation of the TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is here give you the very best of Katie, Nicole, Giulia, Gina and Kerry! More blogs means more to love this Valentine’s Day week, and more social action means a healthier and happier world for everyone. Check out our most popular posts of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites.

Katie:

5 Ways to Take Action and Get Action On Valentine’s Day

Top 10 Guilt-Free Valentine’s Day Jewelry Gifts: Show Your Valentine You Have a Heart

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Nicole:

Kiva: Microlending to Change Lives

Top 10 New Releases to Inspire Social Change

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Giulia:

Alicia Keys Uses Grammys to Help Keep a Child Alive

V-Day Celebrates Its 10 Year Anniversary!

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Gina:

Top 10 Movie Characters That Make A Difference

Art As Politics In “The Silence Before Bach”

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Kerry:

Tap Project Gets Donations Flowing For Safe Global Water

Levon Helms’ “Dirt Farmer” Wins Grammy Gold

Movies can do a lot of things, they can entertain us, they can educate us, they can take us somewhere new and now and then they can inspire us - they can tell stories about people who did what was right, who stood up and made a difference.

In that spirit, I give you a list of my Top 10 Movie Characters that Made a Difference. For this list I only used films made in the English language - I’ll work on a foreign film list soon. Some of the folks listed are based on real people, some are made up, some are successful in their ventures, some are not - either way, their efforts, their desire to set things right, is a difference in and of itself. Sometimes two characters in a movie worked together, so I listed both (but counted them as one) - this just goes to show how powerful working together can be.

So read on and let me know if I’ve missed one of your favorite inspirational characters - lucky for us movie-goers there are a lot out there.

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1. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird - I first saw this as a child, as many people do, and it changed the way I looked at the world, as I’m sure it does for many people. The story of a daughter recollecting her father’s defense of a black man who has been wrongly accused of rape is a true testament to doing what’s right. A clear example of standing up against injustice and prejudice, Atticus Finch is every little girl’s hero (and should be!)

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