I’m in Austria this weekend, enjoying a land with beautiful mountains, trains that run on time, and has good beer and excellent outdoor activities. There really is not the time to comment on the abomination of a confirmation process that occurred today and during this week. Suffice it to say, Mitch McConnell can burn in hell with Susan Collins and Joe Manchin standing behind him.
But I did come across this great post by George Clooney about who needs to learn about real America. And the so-called “globalist elites” the mean spirited people supporting Kavanaugh seem to believe.
Take it away Mr. Clooney:
Here is George Clooney response after Trump accused him of being a “Hollywood elite.”
“Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.
So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.
People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?
He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!
When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find a consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.
He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!”
– George Clooney
With respect to the star thing – there is an excellent reason he does not have a star – he doesn’t want one.
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According to The Associated Press (via Huffpo), the Walk of Fame application process requires a signed pledge from the honoree that he or she will attend the much-publicized handprint ceremony. “No pledge? No ceremony,” writes the AP’s Glenn Whipp. “Which is why Eastwood, Julia Roberts and George Clooney aren’t among the 2,450 honorees lining Hollywood’s sidewalks.”
It’s a long, long list, filled with big stars (Tom Cruise), big stars in our mom’s mind (Michael Bolton) and fictional characters (Mickey Mouse.) The roster also includes every Beatle except for Paul McCartney, another A-list holdout.
I did not know that. Learn something new every day. Of course, my favorite Clooney quote is from Up in the Air, ” I don’t do anything if I am not getting miles for it.”