I never got the hype over BP & JA other then that they were a "pretty" couple.

His previous ex-fiancee, Gwyneth Paltrow, was so down to earth compared to JA.
Once on Oprah, she asked BP if he had more advantages growing up because of his looks. He said, he noticed this when he was young & told his mom how unfair it was. She told him that with all those advantages & opportunities he will have over others, comes responsibility to do the right thing.
He didn't seen to do much while he was with JA being pretty. But since being with AJ & hanging with his political activist friend, George Clooney (during the filming of Ocean's Eleven & Twelve,) Brad's certainly grown up & doing what his mom taught him.
The CNN news crawl announced tonight that BP & AJ
each will give $1 million to humanitarian charities.

Not sure if it's related to Hurricane Katrina, I couldn't figure the crawl properly to figure out if the stories were related. But Brad was just down in New Orleans a few weeks ago, trying to promote more help & rebuilding there.
Let's see:
The Jolie-Pitt's when hounded by the media, deliberately brought them right down to ravaged parts of Africa that really needed publicity and public awareness hile awaiting the birth of Shiloh.
After Shiloh was born they donated the $5 Mil to various baby charities who would have died without the money.
About a couple of weeks after that, AJ personally called Anderson Cooper to arrange her first interview after the birth- on the condition he also educated the world about the slaughters, rapes & murders going on in parts of war-torn Africa - something AC already knows much about & is very sensitive to.
The Jolie-Pitts come back to the U.S.& Brad's helping down in LA.
What has Tom Cruise done besides promote Scientology & his own movies? Oh, yes, he did "rescue" that man or couple in Los Angeles in the car accident. But as it didn't seem to be a two car crash, otherwise both parties would have needed help. I wonder how much of an "accident" it really was.
We all eagerly awaited the pics of Suri. Seems like Tom gave the pics to Vanity Fair. When asked by Larry King, Jane the editor said, with a greedy grin, it will probably be their best selling issue. Period. I waited for her to say the PROFITS would be going somewhere special.

Nada.
Gee, Tommy, if you fired your sister as your publicity agent & need another one and a new image, you could try doing any ONE thing the Jolie-Pitts have done in the last year.
But then again, they seem to be working more from conscience & integrity than using a publicist for spin & self-promotion. In fact the many times that they've been publicized, they actually
used that media hunger to promote awareness to OTHER PEOPLE'S causes.