Alec Baldwin is internationally famous for his rage and entitlement problems, in part due to an emotionally abusive phone message to his 11-year-old daughter. She was a pawn in a custody battle, and sadly for Alec, the recording went viral. Now he's fighting with American Airlines because he raised enough of a fuss --when instructed to stop playing a video game-- that he was escorted off the plane. Check and you'll find headlines about this kerfuffle, lots of them. He has a long list of the ways he's been mistreated on planes (presumably in First Class).
To clear my palate, I went looking for celebs who give a lot of money away. You can say they did it for the publicity or the glory, I don't care. They gave it. I'm interested in good behavior, whatever the motivation. Besides, all motivations are mixed. Also besides, I haven't seen many headlines about these gifts, except maybe for Oprah, and Brad and Angelina. Take a look. It made me feel good. I don't know if any of these folks have read the Second Precept, but they are certainly observing it.
| Ranking | Donor | Amount Donated | Pledged Recipients |
| 1 | Oprah Winfrey | $58,300,000 | Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, Oprah's Angel Network, and other groups |
| 2 | Geoffrey Beene | $44,000,000 (bequest) | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| 3 | Jack and Marie Lord | $40,000,000 (bequest) | Hawaii Community Foundation |
| 4 | Barbra Streisand | $11,750,000 | Barbra Streisand Foundation, numerous civil liberties, environmental, and civil rights organizations "dedicated to democratic values" |
| 5 | Tiger Woods | $9,500,000 | Tiger Woods Learning Center, Earl D. Woods Sr. Scholarship Fund, and other Tiger Woods Foundation programs |
| 6 | Rosie O'Donnell | $5,700,000 | Katrina Relief efforts including Renaissance Village (a temporary shelter for Katrina victims), day care centers, a rehabilitation center in San Antonio, and a Habitat for Humanity sub division in Baton Rouge |
| 7 | Martha Stewart | $5,000,000 | New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital for a center on healthy aging |
| 8 | Carmelo Anthony | $4,282,000 | CAF Youth Center in Baltimore, AAU Basketball, Syracuse University Recreational Center, and other charities |
| 9 | Pat and ShirleyBoone | $3,000,000 | Pepperdine University for the Graduate School of Education and Psychology Center for the Family |
| 10 | LeRoy Neiman | $3,000,000 | The School of the Art Institute of Chicago to support a Master's class in figure drawing |
| 11 | Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt | $2,415,000 | School and Community Center in Swakopmund in Namibia, Daniel Pearl Foundation, Namibian hospitals, Doctors without Borders, Global Action for Children and others |
| 12 | Nicolas Cage | $2,000,000 | Amnesty International for a fund to help child soldiers Dwayne "the Rock" and Dany |
| 13 | Garcia Johnson | $2,000,000 | University of Miami to name new Alumni Center living room |
| 14 | Paul McCartney | $2,000,000 | Adopt-a-Minefield |
| 15 | Arnold Palmer | $2,000,000 | Pledged to the Arnold Palmer Foundation ultimately to benefit the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute |
| 16 | David Geffen | $1,600,000 | David Geffen Foundation |
| 17 | Susan Saint James and Dick Ebersol | $1,300,000 | The Gunnery to help pay for a new dormitory in memory of their son Teddy killed in a plane crash |
| 18 | Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg | $1,250,000 | Boston University to renovate facilities |
| 19 | Andre Agassi | $1,070,000 | Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation |
| 20 | Tiki and Ronde Barber and family | $1,000,000 | University of Virginia to support the McIntire School of Commerce, the Virginia Athletics Foundation, Children’s Hospital, a scholarship fund for African American students, the Young Alumni Council, and to challenge young alumni to participate in the capital campaign |
| 21 | Bob Barker | $1,000,000 | Georgetown University to endow a fund at its law school that will focus on the study of animal rights |
| 22 | Gloria Estefan | $1,000,000 | Miami Paralysis Project |
| 23 | Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw | $1,000,000 | Dr. Phil Foundation |
| 24 | George Steinbrenner and family | $1,000,000 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for Boshamer Stadium for baseball |
| 25 | Tony Stewart | $1,000,000 | Victory Junction Gang Camp |
| 26 | Denzel Washington | $1,000,000 | Save Africa's Children |
| 27 | Mike Sexton | $560,000 | Special Olympics, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, Children Inc., Wounded Warrior Project, Ohio State University, and other charities |
| 28 | Lance Armstrong | $500,000 | Lance Armstrong Foundation |
| 29 | Dolly Parton | $500,000 | Fort Sanders Medical Center |
| 30 | Elizabeth Taylor | $500,000 | New Orleans AIDS Task Force to purchase mobile medical unit for AIDS sufferers in New Orleans |
