George Clooney screams from the rooftop about his love for Amal. One can see how badly the thunderbolt has hit him. There is a lot to admire in Clooney. His looks and acting skills aside, his work on Darfur, his liberal democratic pronouncements (pretensions), his business acumen and the general air of a complete man he carries make him such a huge draw. There is hope that he will run for Presidency someday, or at least for the office of the governor of Kentucky. He certainly comes across as very presidential in this chat with David Letterman.
Now David is a starry-eyed fanboy of George, who has such
strong antecedents and curriculum vitae that its unnatural to not feel a little
mesmerized in his presence. But then the anchorman goes on to make too much of
Amal’s and George’s and his parents’ humanitarian work, esp. with refuges and in
particular with a Yezidi guy who the family has rescued from Iraq. Amal is
certainly a star. I don't bet on Clooney making it big in American politics, but I
do have a feeling that we might see his British Lebanese wife bagging a Nobel
or public office in UK one day.
Poor Georgie is hopelessly smitten, so much so that he
admitted that he would gladly trade his life for hers because its more meaningful in real
terms. George also talks about the baseball ambitions of his childhood days, his
Irish Catholic guilt which might have goaded him towards humanitarian work, how
he started a tequila company and made millions out of it, and how Spielberg once
told him he could be a movie star if he didn’t shake his head all the time.
This is not Letterman at his best, but Clooney’s story doesn’t
disappoint. It would have been perfect if Amal had been there as well.
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