A visit to Philadelphia by actor Bradley Cooper is helping the city’s homeless population stay warm this winter.

The National Enquirer reported Tuesday that the Hollywood star recently returned to his hometown to film “The Silver Linings Playbook,” a movie about a former teacher coping with life after mental hospitalization. While there, Cooper noticed the city’s cold and thus went on a shopping spree for its homeless people.

“While filming in Philly, Bradley noticed a lot of homeless people shivering on the streets,” a nameless source told the Enquirer. “He knew the weather was only going to get worse with early snowfall and blistering temperatures predicted, so he sent his assistants to several discount stores to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of clothing. Then Bradley returned to the area and began to hand out clothing himself.”

The Enquirer said the actor’s entourage provided coats, hats, gloves and scarves for homeless people by the movie set. When one homeless individual complimented Cooper’s coat, the actor reportedly took it off and gave it to the man. It was quite the catch – the jacket was originally worn by Cooper’s “Silver Linings Playbook” co-star Robert De Niro.

Such a charitable act could seem surprising given Cooper’s career trajectory. The actor broke into the mainstream with roles as an arrogant finance in “Wedding Crashers” and a hard-partying playboy in “The Hangover.” This year, he reprised his “Hangover” role for a sequel and starred as a drug-addicted wunderkind in “Limitless.” Such seemingly shallow characters run the risk of typecasting Cooper as callous.

That’s not so, said the Enquirer’s source. In reality, he said, Cooper greatly values his Philadelphia upbringing. His father Charles was a Merrill Lynch stockbroker, he continued, and showed Cooper the value of charity by volunteering with him at local homeless shelters.

“Charles shared his wealth with those less fortunate,” the source said. “Charles would be very proud that his A-list son is carrying on his legacy.”

Pastor Jomo Johnson of Philly Open Air Church said Cooper’s kindness helps urban Philadelphia’s underprivileged. Homelessness, poverty and substance abuse, he said, were elements of the city he found all too common.

“The street culture has a charged atmosphere here,” Jomo said. “It’s a challenge ministering to people in these conditions at times as they’re often simply trying to achieve their physical needs. People’s homelessness drives them away from God.”

Johnson added that Philadelphia’s government couldn’t help every single one of its neighborhoods escape such social ills. As such, he said it was necessary that Christians and charitable souls like Cooper chip in.

“It’s the responsibility of Christians to pray, fast and pour out their life into this community,” Johnson said. “When they don’t, the city suffers. It’ll require a lot more self-sacrifice to achieve change.”

Johnson said he couldn’t comment on Cooper’s faith, but he could say that the man’s generosity was a step in the right direction.

“I love Philadelphia,” said Johnson. “My hope and desire is that there will be a revival in this city to unite under the banner of Christ and seek change socially and spiritually.”

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Check out Bradley being named People’s Sexiest Man Alive on Good Morning America!

People Magazine has awarded Bradley Cooper the honor of being 2011’s Sexiest Man Alive. To celebrate the occasion, we’ve come up with a pile of videos of Cooper, which cover appearances on TV shows like Nip/Tuck and Sex and the City, to his more recent work on Limitless and The Hangover.

Once upon a time, many of us knew Cooper as Alias’ Will Tippin, the guy with a never-ending crush on secret-spy Sydney Bristow. Cooper’s made quite a name for himself in film and television, and as a celebrity in general. Below are some videos we dug up to celebrate his work.

We’ll kick this list off with an Alias blooper scene, which also happens to take place during one of Cooper’s best moments on the show:

Here’s Cooper serving up a sack lunch in The Wedding Crashers

Cooper speaking fluent French in an interview…

On Inside the Actors Studio. This video is actually full of great stuff, if you’re a fan of his work, and includes footage of a then-unknown Cooper asking questions to some great film icons

Here’s a brief look at his appearance in Sex and the City. Catch him at the :25 mark, just after Timothy Olyphant…

And here he is off his clothes on Nip/Tuck during what turns out to be a very amusing scene.

Hitting on a chick from a stolen cop car in The Hangover

He can handle comedy and drama, and action isn’t an issue either. Here he is, fighting on a subway platform in Limitless:

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Listen, Ryan Gosling fans. We understand your outrage. We, too, feel it was Baby Goose’s year to take the title of People’s Sexiest Man Alive.

But what’s done is done.

There’s no reason to rail against the actual title-holder, Bradley Cooper. Amidst all the Internet outrage (and very welcome pics of Gosling being his sexy self), we’re forgetting one important fact: Bradley Cooper is damn sexy.

He now resides on a list alongside distinguished Hollywood luminaries like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and no other members of Ocean’s 11. Why not let him have his moment?

Sure, we’d argue that 2012 might’ve been a better year for Coop, considering he has about a million movies coming out then. (Or like four. Either way.) And that this year was Gosling’s shining moment. And that Gosling wears more tank tops.

But, back to the point. Bradley Cooper is, in fact, quite dreamy. You can’t objectively argue otherwise once you read these reasons why:

1. He’s smart — he graduated from Georgetown, after all. He’s also really good at movie trivia.

2. He speaks fluent French. Don’t you remember the TV interview that surfaced a couple of months ago? Perhaps you forgot when you fainted from the sexy overload. It’s okay, we’ll forgive you.

3. He has sparkling blue eyes. We’d argue that they are just as dreamy as Gosling’s. Just peer into those baby blues and try to deny it!

4. You saw “The Hangover Part II,” right? Coop even looks foxy when he’s a sweaty, stubbly, hungover mess. It’s hard to argue with that.

5. He loves puppies too. Come on, Gosling doesn’t have the monopoly on loving dogs!

We’ll never know for sure why Gosling didn’t win. Maybe the official decision-making committee — we’re assuming this is a very important endeavor over at People — is over those “Hey Girl” photos. Maybe they’re still mad about the Gosling/Rachel McAdams breakup. Maybe they just didn’t want someone named Ryan taking the title two years in a row.

But when it comes to the great SexyGate scandal of ’11, let’s not drag the innocent, sexy party through the mud. (Or, maybe do. That sounds hot.) Bradley Cooper is deserving of his title. Let him have it.

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Check out this video People did! They compiled photos of Bradley and made a little video showing off how Bradley has changed throughout the years. I can embed the video, but if you click the photo it will take you to the video. It’s pretty cool! Check it out:

Bradley Cooper is eyeing the male lead in the family comedy The Fight Before Christmas which has just landed The Proposal director Anne Fletcher to direct for Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps and 20th Century Fox.

Due Date writer Adam Sztykiel wrote the script.

No plot details are known, but now that a director has been set, casting will get into gear. No production date has been set.

The Fight Before Christmas comes to theaters in 2012.

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Congratulations to Bradley for earning this amazing accomplishment! I’ll have scans up soon, as well as the photoshoot and the behind the scenes video up soon too! Again, congratulations to Bradley and take care everybody!

Ladies and select gentlemen, the latest lustworthy object of our affections has been crowned, and he is certainly a cure for what ails you.

Particularly if what ails you is a Hangover.

Yes, the piercingly blue-eyed, artfully hair-tousled, French-speaking (ooh la la!) Bradley Cooper has been chosen by the ever-aesthetically-inclined People magazine as their Sexiest Man Alive 2011.

Better luck on those threepeats next year, George, Brad and Johnny. So, what did this fine human specimen have to say about his oh-so-important honor?

“I thought I was being Punk’d,” Ryan Reynolds’ successor told the mag, adding that the “first thing I thought was, ‘My mother is going to be so happy.’”

And while the 36-year-old star is fairly pleased himself with the title, the charming looker is still far more humble than is necessary.

“I think it’s really cool that a guy who doesn’t look like a model can have this [title],” he said. “I think I’m a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.”

Not from any angles we’ve seen.

And now for the most important bit, after a lengthy romance with Renée Zellweger and a briefly rumored fling with Jennifer Lopez, is the reigning sexy man also an eligible one?

“I’m a single 36-year-old male,” he said. “If you’re a single man and you happen to be in this business, you’re deemed a player. But I don’t see myself as a ladies’ man. But I love women. Do you know what I’m saying?”

Oh, message received loud and clear, Bradley. And just know that they love you right back.

Meanwhile, as always, People’s eye for beauty isn’t limited to just one man, as their list of fellow honorees isn’t anything to sneeze at.

Among them: Liam Hemsworth, Tim McGraw, Idris Elba, Justin Theroux, Chris Evans, E!’s own Joel McHale, Josh Charles, Alec Baldwin, Jason Momoa, Dylan McDermott and (you can stop writing those letters of protest now, ladies) Ryan Gosling.

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“It was a very exclusive crowd,” adds the source, confirming that DiCaprio rented out the entire club.

At the party, which raised money for DiCaprio’s various wildlife protection projects and disaster relief for Haiti, guests drank Cristal champagne – including a couple of vintage bottles at $50,000 a pop.

Adds a second source: “It was a crazy party.” Leonardo DiCaprio pulled out all the stops for a lavish 37th birthday party at New York City hotspot Avenue on Friday.

Surrounded by a bevy of Victoria’s Secret models, pals Russell Simmons and Bradley Cooper and his mother Irmelin, the birthday boy “was having a great time and talked to everyone at the party,” says a source.

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The actor also spent the evening surrounded by Brazilian supermodels, including Alessandra Ambrosio, Izabel Goulart and Ana Beatriz Barros.