Date w/Anne Hathaway raises $12,000 for Trevor Project

[Ben Varkentine]

Anne Hathaway sells a date with her for $12,000 for charity

The Devil Wears Prada star...offered the night out as part of the Cracked Christmas fundraiser to aid the Trevor Project, which provides a crisis helpline for LGBT teens in Los Angeles.

Putting herself on the auction block, she explained: “I’m not usually very forward, but I thought if there was ever a crowd for me to do something like this, this is my crowd so I would like to auction myself off for drinks somewhere fabulous ...Tell me what I’m worth.”

As the price tag rose into five figures, Anne explained: “I’m blushing [but] wow, I feel really good right now.”

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"this is my crowd."

Really, I can't say this too often: Anne Hathaway is reason enough to believe in god. She's pretty, she's talented...and her spirit is in the right place.

[maudmac]

Oh my.

You left out the best part:

I’m not usually very forward, but I thought if there was ever a crowd for me to do something like this, this is my crowd so I would like to auction myself off for drinks somewhere fabulous and basically get you totally s*** faced.

Where was I when this was happening?!? Not that I have twelve thousand dollars... But let it be known that Anne Hathaway can get me shit-faced any time she likes.

And yay for funding for the Trevor Project. Such a good cause.

[Ben Varkentine]

In my blog yesterday I said

It's probably for the best that I didn't know about this in advance


Because if I had, I would've been hitting up my friends and relations to loan me a few hundred dollars each.

http://tinyurl.com/5wgafy

[HC]

$12,000 sounds like a bargain.

Not one I could afford, but still.

[Ben Varkentine]

Just thought I'd mention that Hathaway talked about this on the Leno show last night, including the charity and what it does.

And in other "Anne Hathaway is a gay-friendly goddess" news...

http://varkentine.blogspot.com/2009/01/you-go-girl.html

[urnofosiris]

Ah bless her if only for the shit faced comment. I already really liked her in every single silly fluffy happy Disney movie and the only more serious one I´ve seen (Nicholas Nickleby, a really wonderful film). It is nice to know that a particular actor or actress is as pleasant in reality as they seem to be onscreen.

[Ben Varkentine]

She was great in Rachel Getting Married last year; it's the film for which she's getting all the "award buzz."

[WebWarlock]

Wow. I have always liked her and now even more so.

That is so very cool.

Tim

[urnofosiris]

I am hopelessly out of the loop when it comes to new movies since, oh say, the last 4 years or so. No time to pay attention which has led me to buy some awful duds on DVD when I did so on the spur of the moment. It helps to be a little prepared so I googled Rachel Getting Married and it sounds like a movie I could really enjoy, thanks for the tip Ben. I shall buy it when I can...

[Ben Varkentine]

Good to know I had some influence...