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GIMME SHELTER: If you’ve got the right cause, nabbing celebrity help can be easy. Actor Jon Voight, winner of the Best Actor award for the movie “Coming Home,” filmed a fund-raising video in Huntington Beach on Thursday for builders of a youth shelter. Voight was “guest celebrity” for Orange County’s Home Aid last November. . . . When a youth shelter volunteer asked him to help, he agreed. Voight “has a heart for anything that has to do with children,” says one official.
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