Brad Pitt for Mayor Movement Gains Momentum

Supporters of Brad Pitt entering politics have added a T-shirt shop in New Orleans to their ranks. The owner of Storyville, Josh Harvey, says the first "Brad Pitt for Mayor" T-shirt has been designed and is on sale at his store. Harvey said a local movement to put Pitt into the mayor's job, one that was made highly controversial in the wake of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, is sounding "less and less crazy". Pitt took a personal interest in flood victims and the Big Easy, making The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in the city. The T-shirt featuring him was designed by a Tulane University professor who invited the store to use the motif. "Brad Pitt is someone who's really done a lot for the City of New Orleans and the more people are talking about it, it sounds less and less crazy, especially with Governor [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and Al Franken about to be sworn in as the US senator from Minnesota," Harvey said. The store owner said a portion of the proceeds from the Pitt sales goes toward the actor's Make It Right Foundation, which sells its own line of T-shirts, baseball caps and other items to fund new homes.