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The Sudan is a country in North Africa with a population of 40 million people. It has long been a nation ruled by fundamentalist Islamic leaders who believe only those born of Arab descent are pure Muslims. Darfur, a region in the west of Sudan, is home to six million Muslims of African descent. For decades, the African Muslims in Darfur were treated as second-class citizens, systematically kept powerless and in poverty. In 2003, to protest the Arab-dominated government’s abuse and oppression of the people of Darfur, African rebels attacked a military outpost. Two weeks later, the Sudanese government unleashed armed Arab tribal militias. The mission: to not only kill those who planned the uprising, but wipe out their entire race.
The government-sponsored murdering militias are known as the Janjaweed, Arab for “evil on horseback.” For three years, the Janjaweed have burned a path through the entire Darfur region, torching villages, livestock and farms, gang-raping women and children and slaughtering entire families in cold blood. The United Nations calls the genocide in Sudan “today’s greatest humanitarian crisis.” Nearly 400,000 dead, millions homeless and on the brink of starvation, all as the world turns a blind eye. ~ George Clooney
- What George says you can do to help - Click Here.
- George on Oprah - Transcript
- George and Nick Clooney on Anderson Cooper (CNN) - Thanks Tammy!
- George Clooney Interview with Wolf Blitzer (CNN)
- Newspaper articles Many articles from around the world.
- Film Footage of the Clooneys in Africa
- Other Transcripts
- George and Nick Clooney speak at the Rally in D.C.
- Several other video clips of the Clooneys speaking about Sudan are found here.
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The International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee is a global leader in emergency relief and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by conflict and oppression. The IRC is providing help to thousands of uprooted people fleeing ongoing
violence in Darfur, Sudan. The conflict has driven more than 2 million people from their homes and into overcrowded camps, and as many as 400,000 people are now dead or have disappeared from Darfur.
In addition, the IRC works in all four conflict-affected regions of Uganda aiding victims of violence and providing assistance to the most needy. A total of 5 million people are estimated to benefit from the IRC’s programs in Uganda. For more information on the IRC, please visit www.theirc.org.
The Save Darfur Coalition’s mission is to raise public awareness and to mobilize an effective unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of 2 million people in the Darfur region. The Rally to Stop Genocide will take place in Washington, D.C. on April 30, 2006. It will feature leading voices in the effort to stop genocide in Darfur. For more
information on the Rally to Stop Genocide and more, please visit www.savedarfur.org.
The Genocide Intervention Network envisions a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. Its current mission is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. For more information, please visit genocideintervention.net.
800-4-UNICEF
Contributions to UNICEF’s emergency relief efforts can help provide education, health care, nutrition, protection, clean water and sanitation to the children and women affected by the Pakistani earthquake disaster.
For more information, please visit www.unicef.org
More Information
- Background on Darfur: the United Nations
- About the Rally To Stop Genocide
- TheONE Campaign
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Burn After Reading Soundtrack
LAKESHORE RECORDS TO RELEASE SOUNDTRACK FOR COEN BROTHERS DARK SPY COMEDY BURN AFTER READING
Soundtrack Features Original Music by Carter Burwell
(September 2, 2008- Los Angeles, CA) – Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack for the Coen Brothers’ latest film, BURN AFTER READING. Longtime composer for the Coens, Carter Burwell (Gods and Monsters, In Bruges), composed the original music which will be available via iTunes and Amazon Digital on September 2nd and in stores on September 16th. The 4 time Oscar® winning writing/directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen, have put together a virtual cornucopia of Academy Award® winning and nominated actors.
Composer Carter Burwell began composing for film in the mid-1980s for the Coen Brothers first feature film, Blood Simple. This has lead to a twenty year collaboration on such films as Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou? and No Country for Old Men. Burwell’s credits also include Being John Malkovich, Before Night Falls, Velvet Goldmine, The Spanish Prisoner, and Three Kings.
The dark spy-comedy BURN AFTER READING received its world premiere as the opening night film of the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. At the headquarters of the CIA, analyst Osbourne Cox (Academy Award® Winner John Malkovich) arrives for a top-secret meeting – where he learns he is being ousted. He returns to his home to work on his memoirs and to drink, not necessarily in that order. His wife Katie (Academy Award® Tilda Swinton) is dismayed but not surprised; she is already into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer (Academy Award® George Clooney) a married federal marshal and sets about making plans to leave Cox for Harry.
A computer disc containing material for the CIA analyst’s memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Hardbodies Fitness Center Employees Linda and Chad (Academy Award® Frances McDormand and Academy Award® nominated Brad Pitt) leading to a cascading series of darkly hilarious events.
Focus Features presents BURN AFTER READING in theaters on September 12, 2008. BURN AFTER READING original soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be available via iTunes and Amazon digital on September 2nd and in stores on September 16th.
The 9:10 to Crazyland
Related Story: “Five Deleted Scenes from Esquire’s Cover Story on George Clooney” by A.J. Jacobs
George Clooney: The Last Movie Star
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By Joel Stein
George Clooney wasn’t supposed to say yes. A reporter interviews a movie star at a restaurant or a hotel lobby or an office, with his publicist lurking in the corner, ready to cut off any vaguely interesting questions. But to come over to my house for dinner? That’s a trap no sucker has ever shoved a famous foot into. Partly because there are so many unknowns—you’re stuck alone chatting up the family while the reporter cooks, you accidentally let slip a cruel joke about a wedding photo, you somehow use the bathroom wrong—and partly because who the hell wants to spend Saturday night stuck at some dork’s house eating undercooked lamb? Would Gwyneth Paltrow come over? Johnny Depp? But George Clooney said yes, of course, why not, sounds fun. Read more
Somebody Has to Be in Control
The effort behind George Clooney’s effortless charm.
by Ian Parker April 14, 2008
Tackling Directing and George Clooney
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John Krasinski, who appears in “Leatherheads,” above, is directing an adaptation of “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” a collection of stories by David Foster Wallace.
By DAVE ITZKOFF
JUST as fans of the NBC sitcom “The Office” were celebrating the transformation of the fictional colleagues Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly from unrequited lovers to an honest-to-goodness couple, the writers’ strike cruelly stalled their romance and halted production on the show for several months. But for John Krasinski, the actor who plays Jim, the affable everydude of “The Office,” the news wasn’t all bad. He used the hiatus to resume postproduction work on his directorial debut, an adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” a collection of short stories and monologues that he has been trying to make into a film for more than five years.
Ask George Clooney and John Krasinski a Question!
Cinematical is looking for fans to submit questions for George and John Krasinsky for an upcoming Moviefone Unscripted Interview for ‘Leatherheads’.
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