He reached it easily; nobody recognized him.
Damon said he enjoyed being in a place where few people have seen his movies.
”It’s nice, it’s really easy to move through a crowd like this,’’ Damon said, grinning wryly as he watched Jean talk to the crowd.
About 20 people from Jean’s Yele Haiti charity formed a barrier around the back of the food truck, which leaned perilously to one side. The distribution took place right there. Damon tossed the bags to Jean, who placed them on the heads of women as they approached one by one.
“What I’m doing, I’m doing from the heart because I love Haiti,’” Jean said.
Jean, who moved from Haiti to Brooklyn as a child and leapt to fame with The Fugees, has often brought his famous friends to draw attention to the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt visited with his charity in 2006.
Back in celebrity land, cameras flashed and films rolled as a crowd of paparazzi tried to get the perfect shot of Britney Spears’ little sister as she left the Los Angeles International Airport.
Just one snag: The woman wasn’t Jamie Lynn Spears.
In what appears to be a case of the old switcharoo, airport police on Wednesday duped paparazzi at the crowded terminal by leading an unidentified woman — wearing sunglasses and looking away from cameras — down an escalator and through a hallway while the real Jamie Lynn and her baby girl safely left the airport from another area.
Police denied any trickery and said they were not escorting the woman.
Sergeant Holcomb of the Los Angeles airport police said it’s against department policy to provide security for celebrities, but officers were willing to do it after the Spears family asked for an escort for Jamie Lynn and baby.
“If there’s extenuating circumstances, we can do what we need to do,’’ Holcomb said. “If there was no baby -- hey, you’re on your own. You’re an adult.’’ He said police were concerned with the possibility of shoving in the crowd of 100 photographers and about 50 Delta Air Lines employees waiting for the group.
“I think someone got the best of the paparazzi this time,’’ Holcomb said.
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