Brad & Angelina

Jolie, who is Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, visited refugee camps in Damascus on Monday and Tuesday this week, with the entourageless Santa Angelina also making a quick stop in Iraq to visit US troops. How does she do it all?

Angelina also took time to play with a group of children at a makeshift refugee camp, before heading back to New York today. She did not take any of them with her.

The lucky tot chose to sit on her dad's lap to observe the NYC peasants, and tiring of that, rode shotgun.

Her mother is returning from a visit to war refugees and the troops in Iraq.

As reported by People, Jolie arrived in Iraq on Tuesday after visiting Syria on Monday. TMZ contacted the United Nations, who told us that Jolie was traveling sans entourage on her humanitarian mission.

The photo, from OK! Magazine, was sent in by the mother of a US Marine from Denver. It was taken today in Iraq.

TMZ cameras were outside of Mars 2112 restaurant in New York City yesterday as Brad, with son Maddox clinging tightly to his back, made a speedy sprint into the building.

Pitt should be a little more careful next time -- he nearly ran straight into a little redheaded kid standing by the doors!

Busy with all their adoptions, charity work and film projects, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had no time to sit in traffic on the Long Island Expressway -- and helicoptered their way from Manhattan to the Hamptons on Saturday. Who needs the Jitney, when you've got a pilot?!

When not flying the Long Island skies, Brad took time to play in a park with the three oldest members of his growing brood -- Maddox, Pax and Zahara. Apologies to Cuba Gooding Jr., but that's a "Daddy Day Camp" people would actually pay to see!

Brangelina has adopted three orphans and taken on innumerable causes, but that doesn't mean that they don't have their divalicious Hollywood moments.

Yesterday, the golden couple hosted a high power Hurricane Katrina benefit in the Hamptons, and rather than taking the highway from NYC, they arrived by helicopter, reports the Daily News.

The benefit, for Pitt's "Make it Right" project, supported rebuilding New Orleans' hard hit Ninth Ward with environmentally-friendly homes, and was attended by Hamptons queen Christie Brinkley, along with Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Buffet.

A day after he told photographers in NYC to back off while snapping pics of him with his children -- suggesting they use a telephoto lens -- Pitt was swarmed while out with son Maddox. The paps (and many random passersby) took a few steps back when Pitt requested it, giving Brad and Mad their space as they ordered some hot dogs from a street vendor.

As they hopped into their waiting SUV next to the cart, a smiling Pitt told a few of the cameramen, "Much better with the kids, you guys are better!"

A cool and respectful Pitt approached paps in New York yesterday as he entered an office building for a script reading, saying, "Man, you guys work hard!" He added that he'd be around the city with his children, and asked a favor of the photogs, saying, "Anything you guys can do long-lens would be much appreciated. You're workin' hard, you guys." Get this guy an embassy appointment!

Brad makes it look easy to be an international superstar with manners.

Brad Garrett, Gary Dourdan, Woody Harrelson-- take note.

The actor/envirovangelist chatted animatedly with Curry about progress he and Global Green have made in the last year, but was clearly emotional when talking about a 60-year-old man he met -- whose life had been turned upside down by Katrina. "I did everything right. I got a job," Pitt said he was told. "I bought a home. I raised my kids in that home. We're all split apart and we've been wiped out. What do I do?"

And then Brad and Angelina showed up.

The super duo brought the full brood along for a boat ride on Lake Michigan to take in the festivities. But the water was so choppy, the boat headed back to the dock after just 45 minutes. Brangelina can't control the weather?

Expensive car? Check. Machine gun? Check. Angelina Jolie? Check. Skirted and supine Angelina on an expensive car holding a machine gun? Check, please!

Mama Pitt was seen kickin' back and taking aims on the Chicago set of her new movie "Wanted," yesterday. The sultry screenstar and mother of four looked carismatically comfortable in her role as a the voluptuous Viper sniper.

She be bangin!

The Spawn of Brangelina is listed among the credits, below the likes of Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton and Elle Fanning. Shiloh is credited below Dakota's little sis? Somebody call her agent!

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and their Benetton brood -- never, in recent memory, seen in toto -- were in various states of grimace as they traipsed out of a Chicago museum. With Maddox, Shiloh, Zahara, and (the little right ear of) Pax in tow, the family got their art fill -- and the kids, we hear, all got dinosaurs as souvenirs.

Obsessive child adopter Angelina Jolie says that "I've never hidden my bisexuality, but since I've been with Brad, there's no longer a place for that or S&M in my life."

But Jolie's former lady lover, model/actress/mechanic Jenny Shimizu doesn't buy it. Shimizu and Jolie met in 1996, while working on the craptastic teen film "Foxfire." The Sapphic pair were involved on and off for several years.

"She loves danger and dabbling in the dark side," Shimizu recently told UK tabloid News of the World. "Angelina is an unbelievable lesbian lover. That's where she gets her kicks -- not playing happy family with one man," she added.

Brad Pitt is done with duty... jury duty that is. Diaper duty ... that's another story.

The case Brad was in line to serve on is over -- the defendant pleaded "no contest" to DUI charges and potential jurors were excused for the day.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled lives. Brad has left the building.