| "We're
Pretty Sure That's Gonna Stain, Colin
And you thought you
were worked up about the price of coffee. Colin Firth is immersed
in the issue. The Bridget Jones's Diary star endured a java shower
for an ad campaign for the British charity Oxfam. "If I'm paying
nearly $3 for a cup of coffee and some Ethiopian farmer gets 2% of that,"
he says, "where does the rest of it go?" Saying he is reluctant to
be "just a windbag" on fair trade, Firth has also invested in a chain of
coffee shops in London that pledges to compensate the crop's farmers fairly.
He has worked the counter and participated in coffee tastings. "You
swirl, you spit, and someone talks poetry about it," he says." --
Time Magazine 1 August , 2005 |