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Kate Winslet is a celebrated actress, but she is also a philanthropic person. She is the founder of and spokeswoman for The Golden Hat Foundation, a non-profit that raises funds to better the lives of children living with autism.

And this holiday season, Winslet has teamed up with Lancôme to create a special makeup collection that will help benefit The Golden Hat Foundation.

Winslet is already a spokeswoman for Lancôme and has appeared in advertisements and speaking events on behalf of the brand in the past. But now, Winslet has put her stamp on three products that are right on trend of the holidays.

The Golden Hat Collection consists of an illuminating face powder that is embossed with the foundation’s signature golden fedora, a bright red L’Absolu Rouge Lipcolor with SPF 12 and a mini version of Le Vernis nail color in a stunning shade of red to match the lipstick.

The limited-edition products range from $15 to $42 and are currently available on Lancome.com. This is the perfect collection to pick up if you want to look great for a good cause.

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KATE Winslet’s star power is providing a golden opportunity to make a difference in the lives of those with autism.

How can you talk about your child without bursting into tears?” asks Kate Winslet. Those beautiful eyes I know so well from the big screen search mine, trembling with sadness.

“Because I’d never stop,” I mumble in reply.

Suddenly Winslet isn’t the big movie star; she’s one mother talking to another about a very real sadness we all risk when we have a baby - what if the child isn’t OK?

One of the most wonderful moments as a parent is watching your baby sleep in their crib as you imagine all the amazing things they’re going to do, all the experiences they’re going to have. Will they grow up to be a doctor? An athlete? An architect? When one of my twin boys was diagnosed with autism in 2003, at 18 months old, all those dreams vanished into thin air.

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And a Very Happy Birthday to our Beautiful Kate!

Kate will be on the cover of the UK November 2011 issue of Harper’s Bazaar!

Audible.com has scored some major Hollywood stars to voice a new series of audio books, according to Reuters. The company has enlisted the help of some well-known voices to record such novels as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Being There from novelist Jerzey Kosinski, and To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Titanic actress, Kate Winslet was the first performer to record a book. Winslet tackled the voice over for Therese Raquin from writer Emile Zola. Explaining her work, Winslet shared “you use a different part of your brain and it keeps your creative juices flowing. It is challenging and it’s a heck of a lot of fun as well. As a listener, being able to tune out and be taken into another world, and atmosphere, and environment that is being created entirely for you by somebody else’s voice is really a wonderful, magical thing.”

Other actors also part of Audible.com’s book project includes One Day actress Anne Hathaway, Susan Sarandon, Naomi Watts, Aussie performer Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, seasoned star Dustin Hoffman, Annette Bening, and Meg Ryan. Audible plans to release their new book collection read by the stars sometime later next year.

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Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin have committed to star as a lost, lonesome mother and an escaped convicted murderer who takes refuge with her and her young son in Jason Reitman’s adaptation of Labor Day, EW has learned.

The drama, which is part love story, part coming-of-age tale, and part thriller, has been adapted from the 2009 novel by Joyce Maynard by Reitman. The movie will shoot in 2012 in New England.

The same year Maynard’s novel was released, the Thank You For Smoking and Juno director earned Oscar nominations for directing, producing and adapting the screenplay for Best Picture contender Up in the Air. The year before, Winslet earned a Best Actress Oscar for The Reader (after five previous nominations) while Brolin was a Best Supporting Actor contender for Milk.

This is the first time the trio is working together. Set in the early ’80s over the late summer holiday weekend, Labor Day opens with divorced, depressed single mom Adele clothes shopping with her 13-year-old son, Henry. They encounter a large, fearsome man — who also happens to be bleeding badly. He asks for a ride, and against all judgment, they give him one.

Are they hostages, accomplices… or just deluded? As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story and their options become more and more limited.

Reitman will produce the movie with partner Helen Estabrook of Right of Way films, along with Russ Smith and Lianne Halfon of Mr. Mudd productions. Steven Rales and Mark Roybal are executive producing through Indian Paintbrush.

Both actors are repped through CAA.

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