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You can’t blame a media outfit for trying: E! Entertainment Television donated $250,000 to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation last year.

Theirs was one of just four donations to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s joint charitable fund. The others were Angie ($1,194,911) and Brad ($956.961) themselves, and “Ocean’s Eleven” (Twelve and Thirteen, too!) producer Jerry Weintraub ($5,000).

Not even People magazine, often accused of getting exclusives from the couple by tantalizing them with remuneration, is listed in the now available federal tax filing from 2007.

Who knows what E! thought it was buying? Maybe some extra face time on the red carpet? They certainly weren’t going to get it with headlines like this one from their online gossip back on February 20, 2009: “Angelina — From Sex Kitten to Emaciated Mama.”

It’s not clear whether E! curried any favor with the couple because of their donation. Other than using the Pitts to film a “Wild On…” episode on the beaches of Cambodia, or making an E! True Hollywood Story about the Darfur genocide, the payback results are unknown.

The E! donation certainly added to the stunning amount Jolie & Pitt gave away through this foundation in 2007: $3.4 million.

Where did the money go? The couple put the money to causes they’ve been vocal about. The largest single recipient was Pitt’s Make it Right Foundation in New Orleans, which got $1,364,320 million. They also split $1 million evenly among three different UN based organizations working in Darfur, Pitt’s other pet cause. Another $400,000 went to Cambodia’s children’s causes, a country from which they adopted a child, plus $150,000 to a project in his name: the Maddox Chivan Children’s Center.

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Angelina Jolie is hard at work on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC filming her new movie “Salt” with co-star Liev Schreiber.

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All femme fatales need a good disguise – or two – especially if her pursuers know too much about her.

And with Angelina Jolie filming the spy thriller Salt this week, two looks have already surfaced.

One is a soft-looking, all-business blonde, and the other an alluring raven-haired, possibly weapon-toting vixen. Which is the real Evelyn A. Salt, a rogue CIA operative trying to clear her name? That’s the big mystery.

“She’s a character you never know,” says Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who also produced Transformers and the upcoming G.I. Joe. “People who think they know the real her may or may not. Those who think they can tell whether she’s in a disguise also may or may not … She tells you her agenda, but are you supposed to believe it?”

Di Bonaventura adds: [Her pursuers] have a ton of information to act on, but that’s where they begin to question what is real and what isn’t.”

Salt costars Liev Schreiber as Winter, her ally and supervisor in the CIA’s Russia office, and shoots in Washington, D.C., and New York City. It opens in 2010.

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Here’s one more! Angelina as a blonde!

It was family night at the theater in New York City for the Jolie-Pitts.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt took their children to see a Wednesday evening showing of The Little Mermaid on Broadway (Suri Cruise is also a fan of the play).

Pitt carried daughter Shiloh, 2, and held the hand of son Pax, 5, who sipped on a drink as he exited the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

Jolie held daughter Zahara, 3, while Maddox, 7, walked in front of them.

Missing: Their newborn twins, Knox and Vivienne.

Jolie — who just returned from Hollywood for the Oscars with Pitt — is in the Big Apple as she prepares to shoot the espionage thriller, Salt.

After she wraps up filming, Jolie has said she plans to take a break from acting to focus on being a mother.

“I like being home a lot,” the mother of six has said. “First and foremost, I have a lot of children, and I need to make sure they’re growing right and they’ve got us there for them.”

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Angelina Jolie has dissed Ryan Seacrest again.

She famously ignored him at the Golden Globes in January, and when she saw him at Sunday’s Academy Awards, she walked in an arc around his E! News station to avoid speaking with him.

Apparently, Brad Pitt wasn’t in the mood to chat with Seacrest, either.

The American Idol judge was heard screaming for Pitt to come over. The actor initially tried to tell Seacrest one minute, but then gave in with a shrug and went over to say hi.

Pitt stayed at an arm’s length and quickly answered Seacrest’s question about how he felt to be nominated.

“It’s nice,” he said. “It’s a nice honor for both of us. More than that, it’s just nice being with people we respect and being in the same category with [Sean] Penn and [Mickey] Rourke. It’s just a big night.”

He then zipped by and did other press, while Jolie didn’t bother stopping for Seacrest at all.

Seacrest didn’t seem too heartbroken.

“I don’t remember what she was wearing, to be honest, because her back was turned [to me],” he told Usmagazine.com when asked about his encounter with Jolie. “But I spoke to Brad for a moment, and he was very excited to be there.”

Seacrest clashed with Jolie before: At the 2006 Golden Globes, he asked her what she fed her children that day and she icily replied ” Cereal — we made cereal.”

He later called her “cold” for being so unresponsive.

Turns out, Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, was on her death bed at the time.

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