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Oscar winner George Clooney is in Washington today to headline the Save Darfur rally just days after returning from a real-life secret mission. Clooney and his television-anchor dad smuggled cameras into the Darfur refugee camps to report on what's been called the 21st century's first genocide.
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George Clooney enrolled at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky. He studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse and later with Milton Katselas. On December 15, 1989, he tied the knot with actress Talia Balsam (born on January 1, 1960), but they divorced in September 1993. A Dallas Mavericks fan, Clooney has a black pot bellied pig named Max (a gift from then-girlfriend Kelly Preston) and two bulldogs called Lou and Bud.
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Born in Lexington, Kentucky, as son of Nick Clooney, a TV newscaster of many years, who hosted a talk show at Cincinnati and often invited George into the studios already at the age of 5. Avoiding competition with his father, he quit his job as broadcast journalist after a short time.
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