George Clooney is cutting it close.
On Saturday he’s the co-host of a big Hollywood fundraiser for Joe Biden. Julia Roberts is also featured, and there will be plenty of stars and heavy hitters.
But last night, George was in New York. According to Keith McNally’s Instagram report, Clooney made an appearance at Balthazar last night where he joined Francis Ford Coppola and daughter Sofia Coppola for dinner along with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
What were they discussing? We don’t know, but one topic could have been Coppola still unable to find a distributor for his “Megalopolis” a month after it was shown in Cannes. (We’re rooting for this movie!)
I guess a private plane will whoosh Clooney back to LA in time for the fundraiser. Tomorrow night all eyes will be on the Oscar winning actor because his wife, Amal, who is British and Lebanese, has come out strongly against Israel. As a member of the International Criminal Court, it was Amal who helped issued a warrant of arrest for Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu. She wrote the papers herself. This is completely in opposition to the US stand on Israel.
WIll Amal be at the fundraiser? I think she will be. If she’s not, her absence will raise more questions, particularly for tabloid writers who are looking to stir up trouble. But Mrs. Clooney is not only a diplomat, she’s a fashionista. She won’t miss a chance to appear in some incredible frock.
