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Actor Sean Penn attends the Cinema for Peace event benefiting the J/P Haitian Relief Organization, in Los Angeles, January 14, 2012. Penn received the Cinema for Peace Honorary Award for his aid work with the relief organization. (Phil McCarten/Reuters)
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