In 2013, George Clooney famously gifted 14 of his closest friends $1 million each in cash, totaling $14 million
, to thank them for their support during his early, struggling acting career. He surprised them at a dinner with suitcases filled with $20 bills and also covered the taxes.
Key Details of the Gesture:
The Motivation: Clooney wanted to repay friends who had allowed him to sleep on their couches, loaned him money, and supported him before he became successful.
The Method: In September 2013, he invited "The Boys" (his group of friends) to his home and presented each with a Tumi suitcase containing $1 million in cash.
Tax Coverage:Rande Gerber, a close friend and husband of Cindy Crawford, noted that Clooney also paid the taxes for that year, ensuring they received the full amount.
Beneficiaries: The recipients included friends from various backgrounds, some of whom were struggling financially at the time.
Context: The generous act occurred before Clooney married Amal, which Gerber jokingly referred to as "good karma".
France has granted citizenship to George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, according to government decrees issued over the weekend. The Hollywood star has praised French culture and said that the country's privacy laws enabled him and his family to pursue a quieter existence.
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People who live in homes-on-wheels should not have to be in constant fear of “the knock.”
By Jessica Bruder
Ms. Bruder is the author of “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century,” the basis of the Oscar-nominated film.
...Van dwellers had told me about “the knock” — usually three sharp raps at the door, often by the police. The risk of getting jolted awake and kicked off my patch of asphalt kept me uneasy and made it hard to sleep.
I was living in a van as a journalist, as research for my book “Nomadland.” Over the course of three years, I followed Americans who had been squeezed out of traditional housing and moved into vans, late-model RVs, even a few sedans. I drove more than 15,000 miles — from coast to coast, from Mexico to the Canadian border. And night after night, I bedded down in a new place, whether a truck stop or the Sonoran Desert. Sometimes I stayed on city streets or in suburban parking lots, which rattled me in ways I’d never expected.
For people whose only home is a vehicle, the knock is a visceral, even existential, threat. How do you avoid it? You hide in plain sight. Make yourself invisible. Internalize the idea that you’re unwelcome. Stay hypervigilant to avoid trouble. Apart from telling you to clear out, the police can harass you with fines and tickets or get your home-on-wheels towed away to an impound lot...
4. 女性領導力的一大特質,是願意 「坐在不適感之中」 (Sit in that discomfort)。當計畫趕不上變化,不急著憤怒或強行修正,而是 #允許 混亂存在,並從中孕育出新的秩序。這種 #負面能力 (Negative Capability),是應對 VUCA 變動時代的關鍵能力。
5. 年輕時在英國語言不通的經歷,讓趙婷學會了依賴 #非語言溝通。她說了一句極美的話: 「語言很美妙,但有時它會分離我們,因為我們不理解它。但一個微笑就是一個微笑,一個觸摸就是一個觸摸。」 (Language is beautiful but sometimes it separates us because we don't understand it. But a smile is a smile, a touch is a touch.) 語言是障礙,觸摸才是真實。
8. 她談到在成長過程中,有時候會希望自己是個男人。以為那樣生活會比較容易,但她說「當我試圖變得像個男人時,並未感到更好。直到我真正開始接受自己的 #女性身份(Womanhood)、我的身體以及我的力量所在時,真正的安全感才開始降臨」(that is when true safety started to come in)。她發現家就在這裡 (Home is here)。
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