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Andrew Shawaf, PacificCoastNews.com

We've been keeping our eye on Matt Damon, and not just because he's the Sexiest Man Alive. For quite some time, Damon had seemed to be plumping up like Ball Park Frank.

While some had speculated he was wearing a fat suit, Damon now admits to People his flab is 100 percent all-natural man meat.

Yep, there's now more Matt Damon to f--k love. The one-time action hero packed on between 20 and 30 pounds for his role in the upcoming thriller The Informant, which we’re guessing is about a whistler blower at a pretzel, beer and doughnut factory.

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Everyone was all in for a good cause.

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle were among the Hollywood types who gathered Wednesday at the Rio Pavilion in Las Vegas for a no-limit Texas Hold' em tournament benefiting victims of the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Also forking over the $5,000 entrance fee were Adam Sandler, George Lopez, Ray Romano and Jason Alexander, who optimistically said, "When there's no actual money for me, I'm very good."

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They're some of the sexiest men on the planet, for certain. They're also some of the do-goodingest.

George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon are directing their collective goodwill toward Myanmar, asking the country's political powers that be to allow foreign-aid workers into the cyclone-ravaged region and urging neighboring nations to send any help they can.

Not On Our Watch, the activist group of which the trio are founding fathers (along with Ocean's abettor Don Cheadle), has already donated $500,000 to the relief effort. The organization has now launched a campaign asking others to do the same, beginning with a full-page advertisement in the English-language Jakarta Post newspaper.

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Now that he's done with Sarah Silverman, Matt Damon's ready to shack up with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman.

The Bourne Ultimatum star will be suiting up for the Eastwood-helmed Human Factor, per Variety, a drama based on the true story of a South African rugby team that became an unlikely source of national pride when President Nelson Mandela lobbied for the country to host the 1995 World Rugby Cup.

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In the wake of the horrifying cyclone that hit Myanmar, which is estimated to have killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people and displaced as many as 1.5 million more, celebrities have responded in different ways.

Ben Stiller, Téa Leoni, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have recorded PSAs for UNICEF, while Not on Our Watch, the nonprofit cofounded by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon and others, has already pledged half a million dollars to Save the Children.

Even Sylvester Stallone used a Japanese press conference for the DVD release of the latest Rambo installment, which features the character battling it out in Myanmar, to speak out. "I think what's going to come out of this devastating cyclone—and the fact that our film has made it much more apparent of the violence that these people live under—I think there's going to be great social change in that country, because they can't hide anymore," said the actor, who also showed off his bow-hunting technique.

For more information about how to help, go to UNICEF, the Red Cross, Save the Children, Oxfam or other aid agencies.

After all his "I'm not worthy" squawking when People gave Matt Damon the Sexiest Man Alive title, we suddenly get the self-deprecation.

Pleated pants, penny loafers and a visit to Supercuts—all for his role in The Informant, shooting in Illinois—and suddenly Hottie McDamon is just another aging suburban dad as he claimed. What a downer.