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Here is an article written by Bono about George for the upcoming Time 2009 100 Most Influential.

George Clooney
By Bono
George Clooney is a dangerous man. He needs to be watched… to be monitored… He’s a new kind of American radical… a post-’60s, post-obvious, post-postmodern radical, not the left-leaning Hollywood bleeding-heart do-gooder that many think. Oh, no…

Clooney, 48, is a pragmatic idealist, and a patriot in a very different sense than the way that word is normally used. He believes that his country is a contagious idea that should be embraced by the world — but not by force, and not out of fear.

So what’s the radical bit? Well, it starts with his strategic sensibility, and his almost peculiar ability to sublimate his ego to win a point — something completely out of character and perhaps against the law for a performer. (I should know…) The pieties of the actor-slash-activist are absent in Clooney. Humor is his not-so-secret weapon. He’s very, very funny. Especially when he’s off-script.

It has been said that after meeting with the great British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, you left feeling he was the smartest person in the world, but after meeting with his rival Benjamin Disraeli, you left thinking you were the smartest person. That latter touch is the essence of George Clooney.

His commitment to ending the atrocities in Sudan is not a role, not a performance. It is real — and it is serious work. Some people think celebrities should stick to the script, stay feted and fetal in their air-conditioned trailers. Some people think it’s an appalling juxtaposition to see the rich and famous in a photo call with the vanquished and the vulnerable.

It is. George knows that. But he also knows that the cameras trained on you and the column inches dedicated to you could be covering something a little more important than, well, you. Like the slaughter of innocents in Darfur. Like the refugee camps full of starving Sudanese.

And he knows the details, the nuances of his and your sides of the argument. Hey, if you’re going to pay attention to George Clooney, he’s going to insist you pay attention to this stuff. Now there’s a radical idea.

Clooney’s smile is as brilliant as ever, but if you look closer, his jaw is clenched. What he brings to the discussion on Darfur is not just star power. It’s the power of conviction, and a growing impatience, and an undiminished sense that what’s still — still! — happening in Darfur is an affront to what we say we believe. Our response, as yet, is unworthy of us.

So take his picture, shake his hand, but whatever you do, don’t make this man mad — he just gets more organized.

Bono is the lead singer of U2 and a co-founder of ONE

He also interviewed George and that will air on Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN) Friday May 1st.

TIME 100 andAnderson Cooper 360°Special ‘The World’s Most Influential People’

CNN’sAnderson Cooper 360will air a one-hour special in conjunction with the release of the TIME 100 special issue, highlighting TIME’s selection of the most influential people in the world. The CNN program will include interviews of the TIME 100 honorees conducted by other inspiring leaders. These pairings are drawn from the TIME 100 issue, which invites people who are influential in their own right – in arts, science, politics, business – to pen the profiles. Anchored by Anderson Cooper, the special will air on May 1, at 11pm ET on CNN.

U2 singer and activist, Bono will sit down with TIME 100 honoree George Clooney to talk about fame and politics. This marks Clooney’s fourth time on the list. The special will also feature a conversation between moguls Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens, both TIME 100 honorees. Finance expert and author, Suze Orman, who is featured for the second time on the list, will be interviewed by business journalist Suzy Welch. Select TIME 100 honorees will also be mentioned during the one-hour special, which will be simulcast on CNN International. The special will re-air Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, at 8pm and 11pm ET on CNN.

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My days are never boring as a producer at AC 360’ but my latest assignment definitely goes down in the annals of producer history: shoot Bono interviewing George Clooney. Clooney is being honored by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people and Time asked Bono to write the profile. As Time’s partner, we shot the interview and other famous pairings for an upcoming Time 100/Anderson Cooper 360’ Special aptly titled “The World’s Most Influential People.”

While Bono and Clooney are acutely aware of their own fame, it seems to be inversely proportional to the fanfare surrounding both of them. Clooney showed up to the interview solo: no security, no entourage, just a guy in combat boots and a leather jacket. I met him on the street in New York outside of our interview location and joked with him as I lead him to a green room that Bono was looking forward to getting him in the hot seat. I didn’t know it at the time but that was truer than I could have ever imagined.

Bono trailed him by a few minutes in a separate car and while I tried to keep things professional on the outside, on the inside I felt like the 10 year old kid who wore out his tape of U2’s “The Joshua Tree.”
The two stars are good friends and when I showed Bono to the same green room, he began to belt out the Beatles “Hey Jude” on a piano but changed the lyrics to butter up Clooney for the interview: “Hey George, don’t make it bad …”

I left them to catch up and ran out to be sure our crew was ready. As far as productions go, for this one we went all out and were shooting the interview at Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Ten minutes later, Bono and Clooney walked into the theater, introduced themselves to the entire crew and Bono had the closest he came to a diva moment during the entire afternoon. “Could I get a clipboard so we can make this interview official?!” he said with a smile and a wink.

With clipboard in hand, he sat down, I called for quiet on the set and Bono began.

“You recently slept with someone that I have a crush on … tell me about that?” was one of his first questions to George Clooney and it set the tone of their nearly 40 minute interview: although they’re good friends, Bono would leave no stone unturned.

The special airs next Friday at 11 pm ET. Check out the video above for a sneak peak.

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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Center City Film & Video () has won a prestigious 2008 Mid Atlantic Emmy for a documentary shown on ABC-TV during the opening ceremony of the National Constitution Center’s 2007 Liberty Medal Awards honoring Bono and DATA.

Narrated by George Clooney, the video focused on the rock star’s work with the advocacy group DATA and their achievements toward ending poverty and AIDS in Africa. CCFV was commissioned by the National Constitution Center to create the piece, which described Bono and the group’s work in raising public awareness and securing billions of dollars in relief pledges and debt cancellation for poor countries. Other Liberty Medal recipients have included Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, Nelson Mandela, Hamid Karzai and Mikhail Gorbachev.

CCFV is Philadelphia’s largest and longest operating production facility, currently celebrating its 30th year. Its production team for the Bono video was headed by Executive Vice President Brian Isley, who directed, producer Glen Zeigler, writer Abby Sahula and editor Greg Vermette.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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