"The Gray Cardigan Of Care"
Via Kate Coe, loved this Marina Hyde piece in The Guardian about celebrity "angels of death" -- celebrity do-gooders who end up mucking things up for those they're supposed to be doing good for.

The "gray cardigan of care" was worn by Vanessa Redgrave (pictured), who was trying to help some squatters keep land that didn't belong to them. Great bit about Sharon Stone:

I am given to understand that part of the Dalai Lama's shtick is not losing his rag, but in the interests of catharsis, I hope the exiled Tibetan leader permitted himself a Christian Bale-level meltdown when Sharon explained on the red carpet that the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which had killed nearly 70,000 people and left millions homeless, was due to the Chinese government "not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine". The Basic Instinct legend - and noted seismologist - inquired rhetorically, "Is that karma, when you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?"

...Then there was the time Sharon effectively hijacked a plenary session at the World Economic Forum at Davos - at which she was bafflingly a guest - in which proper experts were discussing the possibility of insecticide-treated mosquito nets being used to combat malaria in Tanzania. All of a sudden, Sharon stood up in the audience, arm raised in a manner Time magazine compared to "an evangelical preacher", and demanded people join her in pledging money to the cause. "Just stand up! Stand up, and people will take your name!" she cried presumptuously, and some long, awkward time later, $1m had been raised. Or had it? Suspicions that donations had been made just to shut her up were confirmed when less than $250,000 of them ever materialised, forcing the UN to divert funds from other projects to make up the shortfall.