George Clooney, esquerdinha, perfilado na New Yorker.
I later met Richard Kind, who has been a close friend of Clooney’s for twenty years—[...]. Off-screen, Clooney was the best man at Kind’s wedding. Kind told me, “I’m very protective of him. When I’m staying with him, I will never bring anyone to the house while he’s there. The reason? This is almost pathological: he has to entertain that new person. Even if he doesn’t want to, he will draw that person in with stories, and will entertain him. He could have been working all day, he could have a headache, it doesn’t matter, when he’s at that dinner, he’s got to talk to that person, and make that person... I don’t know whether it’s make that person like him, but he wants to make him feel at home.”
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A day after returning from Africa, in late January, Clooney visited the United Nations headquarters, in New York—an occasion that some senior U.N. officials referred to as Clooney Day. [...] At the first sight of Clooney, a raucous cry went up, although one sensed a collective will to stop short of a full-throated scream that might discredit the organization. Clooney paused in front of each barrier, and shook many hands, saying “Hey!” in a surprised tone; one of his social skills is to treat every introduction as a longed-for reintroduction. (Later, he talked to me about the way human contact can calm a crowd hungry for celebrity. “It’s a trick,” he said. He had seen Tom Cruise—whom he referred to as “Cruise”—do it “really well at times, where he’s able to get right into the group, stop the frenzy—he’s pretty good at looking people in the eye, and getting people to see and hear him as a person.”)
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A day after returning from Africa, in late January, Clooney visited the United Nations headquarters, in New York—an occasion that some senior U.N. officials referred to as Clooney Day. [...] At the first sight of Clooney, a raucous cry went up, although one sensed a collective will to stop short of a full-throated scream that might discredit the organization. Clooney paused in front of each barrier, and shook many hands, saying “Hey!” in a surprised tone; one of his social skills is to treat every introduction as a longed-for reintroduction. (Later, he talked to me about the way human contact can calm a crowd hungry for celebrity. “It’s a trick,” he said. He had seen Tom Cruise—whom he referred to as “Cruise”—do it “really well at times, where he’s able to get right into the group, stop the frenzy—he’s pretty good at looking people in the eye, and getting people to see and hear him as a person.”)