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From The Associated Press

Angelina Jolie, who won an Oscar for 1999’s “Girl, Interrupted,” says she wants to be remembered for her humanitarian work.

“I have no animosity toward Hollywood or the demands of the red carpet, all that silliness,” Jolie, 32, tells Esquire magazine in its upcoming July issue. “That’s my job, and I’m happy to have it. But when I die, do I want to be remembered as an actress? No.”

“I recently had an op-ed (column) published in a newspaper,” she continues. “And at the end, it didn’t say I was an actress. It said that I was a UN goodwill ambassador — that’s all. And I was really proud.”

Composer Don Black, whose credits include many of the themes for the James Bond movies and his Academy Award-winning “Born Free,” about a lion, was asked to write the title song for the 1972 horror movie “Ben,” about a lonely boy whose only friend is a rodent named Ben.

“Ben” became one of pop music’s most enduring and oddest classics. The song is one of the reasons why Black is being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday.

Other inductees include Jackson Browne, Irving Burgie, Michael Masser, Bobby Weinstein, the late Teddy Randazzo.