Ben Affleck just doesn’t think Angelina Jolie has the star power necessary to be a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations.

Affleck showed his trademark humor when he joked about Jolie’s participation at the press conference for his short movie, Gimme Shelter, in NYC on Wednesday.

“UNHCR has to find a goodwill ambassador who will get the attention of the press because the woman they’ve got is not high profile enough,” Affleck said.

Jolie, who has been the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees goodwill ambassador since early 2001, has worked with field staff and met with refugees in more than 20 countries.

Like Jolie, Affleck has tried to use his star power to enlighten the public on important global causes.

“One of the things about being an actor is that I’ve had the opportunity to be exposed to really smart people,” he said. “People have been really generous. I expose myself to those people and say, ‘Help me learn about this,’ and I’ve given myself a great post-graduate experience in this arena.”

His film, a four-minute humanitarian campaign for victims of the fighting in Eastern Congo, is set to the Rolling Stone song of the same name.

Today in a very special bite-size edition of the People column, Angelina Jolie backs off from her previous, anti-home-wrecking position and admits she fell for Brad Pitt on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith when he was still married to that Jennifer Aniston woman:

“Not a lot of people get to see a movie where their parents fell in love,” Jolie tells the New York Times, saying she wants her kids to see the flick.

The downside of living your life before the camera, however, is that it’s not so easily edited for immature audiences.

“(Son Maddox will) look up my name and see some kind of sexy pictures or read a story about himself that isn’t true,” Jolie says.

“There’s a lot we’re going to have to explain to them about how public their family is.”

No mercy for a con man

U.S. prosecutors have told a judge that actress Anne Hathaway’s former boyfriend deserves no leniency for cheating investors in a church scam.

Prosecutors submitted papers in a Manhattan court Monday saying Italian businessman Raffaello Follieri deserves more than the four years in prison he promised to serve when he pleaded guilty, the Associated Press reports.

Follieri is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for cheating investors of millions of dollars.