12/6/2021 blog

From an The Irish Times interview with George Clooney, whom I consider one of the more irritating people in real life even though a pretty good movie actor.

“Unruffled as the silver hair on his head, Clooney leans forward, as if he is about to confide in me. “Well, yeah. I was offered $35 million for one day’s work for an airline commercial, but I talked to Amal” – Clooney, the human-rights lawyer he married in 2014 – “about it and we decided it’s not worth it. It was [associated with] a country that, although it’s an ally, is questionable at times, and so I thought, ‘Well, if it takes a minute’s sleep away from me, it’s not worth it.’”

No one deserves more than $1 million for advertising, and he was wrong to even mentioned he was offered so much money.

On another matter, just a word. It is the word “cool” as a metaphor. I have an online friend who uses it a lot as slang. It has a literal sense because you need to keep your body temperature moderate to be healthy. But of course it also means staying calm. I swore about a decade ago to stop use it as a metaphor because I was getting too old but have changed my mind.