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  • George Clooney, Amal Clooney Dine With Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

    George Clooney and his gorgeous wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney dined recently with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The trio enjoyed food and conversation at the luxury Italian restaurant Harry Cipriani in New York City on Wednesday.

    According to a report from E! News, George Clooney and his wife arrived at the restaurant first and waited for Sotomayor at the bar. The couple chatted with the people around them and the actor drank his own Casamigos Tequila, which is served regularly at the venue.

    Sonia Sotomayor arrived a while later and dined with Mr. and Mrs. Clooney for several hours.

    So what’s the connection here? Did the Mrs. Sotomayor dine with Amal and George Clooney simply because of their fame? No. Amal Clooney. Amal used to work as a student law clerk for Sotomayor when the justice was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At the time, George Clooney’s wife was enrolled in the NYU School of Law.

    George Clooney is in New York working on a film called Money Monster, while Amal Clooney is guest teaching at Columbia Law School. The two are expected to be living in New York throughout most of the summer.

    What an honor it must have been for George Clooney and his wife to have dinner with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. And Mrs. Sotomayor no doubt enjoyed the attention their table must have received having the very attractive couple at her table.

  • Amal Clooney Headed to Columbia Law School

    Amal Clooney, the woman who broke hearts around the world by turning George Clooney into a married man, is headed for New York’s Columbia Law School. She will lecture on human rights law at the school this spring as a senior fellow with the Law School’s Human Rights Institute.

    “It is an honor to be invited as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School alongside such a distinguished faculty and talented student pool,” Amal Clooney said in a statement released by the law school. “I look forward to getting to know the next generation of human rights advocates studying here.”

    Amal Clooney has a very impressive and diverse resume. She served as a senior adviser to Kofi Annan when he was the UN’s envoy on Syria, and she represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his extradition proceedings. She has also handled cases before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as in domestic courts both in the U.S. and the U.K.

    Professor Sarah H. Cleveland is the Louis Henkin professor of human and constitutional rights and faculty co-director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia.

    “We are privileged to have an international human rights practitioner of Amal Clooney’s stature join our faculty,” she said in a recent statement. “Her extensive experience advocating before UN and regional human rights mechanisms complements our existing offerings and will enrich the experience of our students.”

    This opportunity for Amal Clooney–as well as the opportunity for those to study under her at Columbia–comes at a most opportune time. She and George Clooney are making their home in New York for the next few months as George films the upcoming movie Money Monster under the direction of Jodie Foster.

    Can you imagine how many Columbia students (mostly female, too) will flock to the campus while Amal Clooney is there, in hopes of catching a glimpse of her handsome husband?

  • George Clooney Stars, Jodie Foster Directs ‘Money Monster’

    Clooney is set to star in a film called Money Monster that will be directed by Jodie Foster. The film will follow a TV show host named Lee Gates (played by Clooney) who gets taken hostage by a gunman while on the air and is forced to reveal high-stakes secrets to his audience (that increases quickly as the plot ensues) in order to survive.

    Jodie Foster most recently directed an episode of the Netflix political thriller House of Cards. This isn’t the first film she has directed either. In fact she has three movies under her belt, including 2011’s The Beaver starring Mel Gibson and Jennifer Lawrence. She scored an Emmy nod in 2013 for directing an episode of Orange Is the New Black. This will be her first time directing George Clooney, however, and the combination of this actor and that director is intriguing.

    George Clooney is, of course, preparing for his upcoming marriage to Amal Alamuddin. Now that tabloid rumors about her family being against the marriage have decreased significantly, it is hopeful that Hollywood’s long-running bachelor is living in reasonable peace.

    Of course when one is an actor with the appeal of George Clooney, that means finding alluring roles. And this one in Money Monster sounds like it’s right up his alley. It sounds like others feel he’s perfect for the role, too.

    “I couldn’t be more thrilled to start our Money Monster adventure alongside such a talented and passionate team,” Jodie Foster said during a recent interview. “[Chairman] Tom Rothman and TriStar really get the movie and are the best cheerleaders our filmmaking team could hope for.”

    TriStar Productions has gained the rights to Money Monster, and is set to start filming in 2015. George Clooney will be a married man by then.

    “It is impossible to resist saying that we at TriStar hit the talent jackpot today. We are deeply grateful to all the exceptional people involved. There is no one in the business whose talent, dedication and intelligence, I respect more than Jodie Foster,” TriStar Productions Chairman Tom Rothman said. “And, as the bonus coupon on this blue chip investment, we get to enjoy George Clooney in a tour de force acting part. I have no doubt that his collaboration with Jodie will produce an iconic and cool film.”

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  • George Clooney To Star In Money Monster

    George Clooney To Star In Money Monster

    George Clooney is set to star in the thriller Money Monster, directed by Jodie Foster.

    The 53-year-old actor will star as Lee Gates, a television host who gives financial advice on his show titled Money Monster. Gates is later taken hostage by a man who has lost everything, and he must reveal high-stakes secrets on air to keep himself alive. Through the scandal, his television ratings start to soar.

    Foster most recently directed an episode of the Netflix original series, House of Cards. She has also directed several films including 2011’s The Beaver which starred Mel Gibson and Jennifer Lawrence. Foster also received an Emmy nomination for an episode of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black that she directed. However, she has never directed Clooney in a film and she says she is very excited to.

    “I couldn’t be more thrilled to start our Money Monster adventure alongside such a talented and passionate team,” Foster said in a statement. “[Chairman] Tom Rothman and TriStar really get the movie and are the best cheerleaders our filmmaking team could hope for.”

    TriStar Productions has gained the rights to Money Monster, and is set to start filming in 2015. “It is impossible to resist saying that we at TriStar hit the talent jackpot today. We are deeply grateful to all the exceptional people involved. There is no one in the business whose talent, dedication and intelligence, I respect more than Jodie Foster,” TriStar Productions Chairman Tom Rothman said. “And, as the bonus coupon on this blue chip investment, we get to enjoy George Clooney in a tour de force acting part. I have no doubt that his collaboration with Jodie will produce an iconic and cool film.”

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  • Jodie Foster To Direct Hostage Drama

    Jodie Foster To Direct Hostage Drama

    Jodie Foster has several directing credits to her name–including “The Beaver” and “Little Man Tate”–and now she’s looking to add another.

    Foster will helm “Money Monster”, a financial drama centered on a fast-talking television personality with ties to Wall Street named Lee Gates. When a bad financial tip causes a viewer to lose all his money, he takes Gates hostage on-air, creating a tense situation which is broadcasted live.

    The news of Foster’s role behind the camera comes with mixed reviews, as some aren’t sure how she’ll do with such a tense script.