CHAPTER 7 Charity Case

Edward Norton was a movie star looking for some money.

Robert Wolfe and his brother Jeffrey had an idea how to get it. Shauna Robertson, a movie producer, put them all together. Like many before and after him, Norton was running the 2009 New York City Marathon for charity. Unlike those who joined a group like Team in Training or Fred’s Team, Norton had identified his own specific cause; a little-known environmental group in Africa called The Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.

Norton has long been known for being at least slightly off the beaten Hollywood path, in terms of what he does for his work, and outside of it. His film choices are at times aggressively counterintuitive and seem meant to invite controversy— ...

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