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How Can We Distinguish Clooney From Other Famous People

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What distinguishes Clooney from other famous people is that he reliably acts as you wish other famous people would act and does what you wish other famous people would do: which is the right thing.
Now I would call Clooney a throwback. He is a throwback to what they suppose was a different time that created a different kind of celebrity. I would even call him the closest thing we have to Clark Gable, a mantle he has accepted to the extent that he replicated Gable's rhythms and timing for O Brother, Where Art Thou? But there are a lot of throwbacks in this world. George Clooney is the only throwback who lives in Clark Gable’s house.
He also seems grateful to his family now—grateful, in particular, to his father, for being the guy who tells

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