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Sideshow: Trio of titans go about doing good

The globe is a better place today (don't you feel it?) thanks to the charitable efforts of three Boldface Giants.

The globe is a better place today (don't you feel it?) thanks to the charitable efforts of three

Boldface Giants

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Spiritual Mom Madonna, 51, arrived Monday in Malawi, which has provided her with two of her children, for a weeklong charity tour. She planned to visit the Millennium Village, a United Nations initiative. Tuesday, she is scheduled to lay the first brick of her most generous $15-mil school, Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, set to open next year.

Not to be outdone, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt flew into Bosnia on Sunday night, says Aida Prljaca, a rep for António Guterres, United Nations high commissioner for refugees in Sarajevo. Brangelina is mounting a tour intended to shed light on the tragic fate of 117,000 refugees who haven't been able to return to their homes even though the Bosnian war, which displaced them, ended 15 years ago.

Judge rules on Hopper divorce

The nasty divorce battle between

Blue Velvet

weirdo-genius

Dennis Hopper

, 73, and his fifth wife,

Victoria Duffy Hopper

, 42, is one step closer to being resolved. Yesterday, a Los Angeles court ruled that Hopper's estranged wife and their 7-year-old daughter,

Galen Grier Hopper

, can live at his Venice, Calif., compound while the divorce is being finalized. Dennis, terminally ill with prostate cancer, also was ordered to pay $12,000 a month in spousal and child support. The couple, who have been married for almost 14 years, have had a public bickering battle for the last two months.

"It's heartbreaking and I hope it can be amicably resolved," Victoria yesterday said.

A $500 setback for Badu

Brainiac musical artist

Erykah Badu

, 39, has been cited for disorderly conduct and fined $500 by Dallas authorities for stripping down to her skin-tastic essential selfhood during a video shoot in the Texas city for her silly tune, "Window Seat."

The vid, filmed March 13, has the nude Badu collapse to the ground as if shot. It was filmed at Dealey Plaza, site of John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination. She has said the video is about liberating oneself from one's demons.

Tidbits 'n' pieces

Tiger "de Sade" Woods

' life and libido will be deconstructed in the latest entry from E! Entertainment's famed biography series,

E! True Hollywood Story: Tiger Woods

. It'll debut on the cabler on April 14.

Morgan Freeman, 72, who plays legendary South African human-rights activist and leader Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's Invictus, on Saturday was awarded the Oxford American literary magazine's award for Outstanding Contributions to Southern Culture at a ceremony in Little Rock, Ark.

Glamour mag has named Cheryl Cole and Rihanna as the most stylish celebs in the world. But that's not all! Cole, 26, was voted Britain's Most Inspirational Woman of the Decade in a poll conducted by an online cosmetic surgery referral service (www.goodsurgeonguide.co.uk) in Britain. Actress Helen Mirren and American icon Oprah made No. 2 and No. 3 respectively.

Jessica Alba, whose daughter, Honor Marie, with hubby Cash Warren is almost 2, wants another baby, the purrific actress announced Sunday on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which had her rebuild a domicile in Texas for a family of 15.

"If you have the love, and the capacity to love children, you should just adopt. And I plan on doing it," Jessica, 28, said.

Penn's 98,987th run-in with a photog

Would

Sean Penn

ever threaten to inflict bodily harm on any members of that fine profession, celeb photographers? Of course not!

So we're a little shocked to hear a report on TMZ.com that paparazzo Jordan Dawes has filed a lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court claiming Penn broke his camera last October, began "kicking and punching" him, and then issued this horrid threat: "The next time I see you, you will be in a box."

Dawes says he ran into Penn while in Brentwood, Calif., filming footage for a documentary about paparazzi. Penn was charged with criminal battery and vandalism over the incident in February. He had yet to comment.

Leibovitz in financial trouble. Again.

Days after striking a deal with Colony Capital LLC to manage her mounting debts,

Annie Leibovitz

, 60, is in hot water again. Bloomberg News says the celeb photog is being sued by New York-based investment firm Brunswick Capital Partners LP, which claims she failed to pay $315,000 in fees it says she agreed to shell out as part of her Colony deal. Leibovitz had yet to comment.

Celebrities celebrate Easter

Yes, plenty of

Boldfacers

dared show their immaculate visages over Easter weekend.

Gossip site JustJared.com says Brangelina rented the Italian island of San Servolo (the whole place) to throw an Easter egg hunt for their six kids, Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, Zahara, 5, Shiloh, 3, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 1. They're such jet-setters: Monday, they landed in Bosnia on a mission to save the nation. (See item above.)

Brit tab the Daily Mail says Katy Perry got into the spirit Sunday, sporting a tie-dye top and giant pink bunny ears for a party she and fiance Russell Brand hosted. She later tweeted: "If every day could be filled with pastels, bunnies, baby chicks and chocolate filled eggs I would be happy."

The Mail also says blues troublemaker Amy Winehouse, 26, who recently returned from a two-month clean-living sojourn in St. Lucia, spent the day in a serious drinking session with friends at a pub in London's Camden section.

London-born singer-actress Minnie Driver (Big Night) hung out on the beach in Malibu, Calif., with her son, Henry Story Driver, born in September '08. Minnie recently said Henry may have a future in marine biology. "Somebody told me that if you hum next to a hermit crab, it brings it out - and it works," she said. "Henry goes up and hums at any shell he sees now, because he thinks there's going to be a crab in it."

OK! mag says Cheryl Cole (see above!), who has split up with hubby Ashley Cole, reportedly spent the weekend in an L.A. hotel with Dancing With the Stars' Derek Hough. "Cheryl is very fond of Derek," says an anon source.

People says Reese Witherspoon, her new beau, Jim Toth, and her kids (with ex Ryan Phillippe), Deacon Reese Phillippe, 6, and Ava Elizabeth Phillippe, 10, attended church together Sunday in Lalaland. Yesterday, Reese and the li'l ones joined the Obama family at the White House's Easter Egg Roll.

Last (and least), Dancing With the Stars mega-dancer Kate Gosselin took a break from her strict training regimen on Sunday to organize an egg hunt for her eight kids.

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