Here is George Clooney’s 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 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
actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist
No tuition, ever again: This medical school in the Bronx just received a $1B donation from a former professor, allowing it to offer free education in perpetuity https://t.co/2BwbaZGeRX
Did you know the author of 'The Three Musketeers', 'The Count of Monte Cristo' & 'The Iron Mask' was a black writer called Alexander Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas, prolific writer of the 19th century, enjoyed immense success for his numerous historical chronicles, such as ‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘Queen Margot’ to name a few. Son of an army general born in Saint-Domingue, (present-day Haiti), Dumas was opposed to the racist slurs of his contemporaries. In 2002, for the bicentenary of his birth, Alexandre Dumas was enshrined alongside fellow great authors of his time like Victor Hugo and Émile Zola at the mausoleum of the Panthéon of Paris.
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SUNDAY PARADE!!!
Celebrate in downtown Oakland with the state champion Oakland Tech girls and Oakland High boys basketball teams. The parade will circle the lake and conclude with a rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza from noon-3 p.m.
On Saturday morning, dozens gathered to capture the moment the sunrise lines up with California Street, shining between San Francisco’s buildings and over the Bay Bridge, a biannual phenomenon known as California Henge.
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Surveillance video appears to show a customer digging into his pocket and dropping lint into his own drink while seated in the shop on March 13.
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Reverend James Reeb of Boston marched in Selma, was beaten by five white men — segregated hospital in Selma refused to treat him — Reeb died today 1965. Honor his memory.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was totally avoidable.
In 2018, Wall Street pushed a deregulation bill that allowed banks like SVB to take reckless risks. It passed, even as I and many others warned of the risks.
I am writing legislation to reverse that law, S. 2155.
Donald Trump slashed rail regulations and a toxic train derailed. Donald Trump slashed banking regulations and a major bank failed. if only we could find some common thread linking these events