Four For Friday - Kindness

#1 - This just about permanent B+ list mostly television actress has a hit network hit in her past. A middling almost network run and the last gasp of a cable show that didn't start there. A lot of people talk a good game or will go volunteer somewhere once a year on a holiday. Our actress is always volunteering. She doesn't stick to just one place, but can be found at homeless missions or domestic violence shelters. I have heard of her helping out at schools and Boys & Girls clubs. When she has free time, she volunteers.

#2 - This permanent A list mostly movie actor can be an a-hole. He has a very limited acting range but has made some very successful movies and of course has that long running huge franchise they keep trying to churn out new installments to. He used to be married to an A lister. I don't think this actor has ever for one second talked about any charities. Maybe in a red carpet comment of which I am not aware, but I can't think of any. Each year though, our actor writes several million dollars a year in checks and the vast majority go to funds helping first responders and their families when they have gone through a tragedy.

#3 - This A- list mostly television actress had some really good luck with that long running network ensemble show. It has been kind of rocky since then, and the A- list thing is just because so many people know who she is rather than where she is. Anyway, perhaps fitting with her nature, if you are a school with a music program, she is your champion. I have seen her raise six figures in a night for programs involving singing and music. She doesn't do galas really, but she will make phone calls and send texts and e-mails and basically tell people she knows to Venmo her some money or write a check. She has probably raised $1M in the past two years and a lot of that was in small donations.

#4 - This foreign born permanent A list mostly movie actor also has a love of singing and dancing. With no franchise any longer due to his no longer wanting to play the character, our actor has even more time to devote to his fundraising. Our actor loves to help small theatres with their annual budgets. He generally writes $50,000 checks which is often enough to sustain a theatre for a year or two just on its own. He tries to write 20 of these checks a year and also contributes to a find he set up which he hopes by the time he dies many many years from now will fund hundreds of theatres a year without drawing down on the prinicipal.