Jolie flies to Thailand to see refugee camp

SUAN PHUNG, Thailand -- Oscar winner Angelina Jolie flew by helicopter into Western Thailand Sunday to witness living conditions at a refugee camp and make donations for thousands of refugees from neighboring Myanmar.

Jolie, who has been in northern Thailand filming a romantic adventure about relief workers, traveled to the camp in her role as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The actress tossed plastic soccer balls to the throngs of children who greeted her at the Tham Hin refugee camp in Ratchaburi province, about 60 miles west of Bangkok.

Actor Bridges seeks wetland preservation

LOS ANGELES -- Actor Beau Bridges wants to preserve the sandy fringe of a wetland in southern California.

Bridges, who is president of an environmental group called Ventura Coast Keeper, urged the state Coastal Conservancy to buy 265 acres of land near Oxnard that is being sought by a petroleum company.

His plea came less than a week before the Coastal Conservancy is to decide whether to acquire the land that also is being sought by the Occidental Petroleum Corp. for the West Coast's first liquefied natural gas receiving terminal.

Occidental's plant would provide some of the natural gas that runs the machinery producing the state's electricity.

The site would offer proximity to the port, high-voltage lines from an adjacent power plant and an existing network of underground pipes, said Occidental spokeswoman Jan Sieving.

Bridges' group argues the plant would degrade a fragile environment.

Baseball's Canseco gears up for writing biography

TAMPA, Fla. -- Now that his baseball career is over, Jose Canseco is promising a hit as memorable as any of his home runs.

The former American League MVP, who retired last week, is writing a book that he says will talk about his private life, steroids, and politics of the game.

"Basically what it's going to be is the true story of my life -- good and bad, the ups and downs," Canseco said Friday. "I'll name names and discuss basically everything and everybody involved in it. There are a million things I could talk about."

That includes fast cars, Madonna, failed marriages, and his suspicion that he was "exiled" from baseball.

--From wire reports