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...more interested in innovators like Monty Jones, the Sierra Leone scientist who has developed a strain of rice that can save African agriculture. Or heroes like the great chess master Garry Kasparov, who is leading a lonely fight for greater democracy in Russia. Or Academy Award--winning actor George Clooney, who has leveraged his celebrity to bring attention to the tragedy in Darfur...
...cast would be busy playing pranks on each other, but the “Blades of Glory” cast maintained a relatively professional air, Poehler says.“We had a total blast working on it, but I didn’t get to do anything Clooney-style cool, like filling each other’s trailers with dog poop,” she says with a tone of regret. MEAN GIRLIn a movie about competitive figure skating, it’s hard not to draw parallels to the real life stories of Tonya Harding or Nancy Kerrigan...
...about a couple of celebrities adopting kids from there? Fascination with the continent's woes dates back to Bob Geldof's famine-relief concerts in the mid-'80s. Bono picked up the baton in the '90s, and now every African nation seems to have its own celebrity benefactor. George Clooney has made the situation in Darfur one of his key talking points. Madonna is building an orphan center in Malawi. Brad Pitt helped produce and Nicole Kidman narrates God Grew Tired of Us, a documentary currently in cinemas about the Lost Boys of Sudan. It follows the lives of youngsters...
...Even in their particulars of age and political preference, the data are peculiar. Liberals and moderates go for Washington (not Clooney?), while conservatives prefer Wayne and, whoa, Hanks (not Mel?). Agewise, Wayne is #1 with the baby boomers; but Roberts wins the hearts of the AARP set, which you might have thought the Duke would...
...Smith and Depp are the only two who are under 50 and had a hit movie last year. Depp fronted only the third movie in history to earn more than a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and he dropped from #2 to a seventh-place tie. Clooney can star in and direct politico-art movies, like Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck, and be an outspoken liberal just ahead of the Iraq-fatigue curve, yet he stays more or less in the same slot over three years...