George Clooney has opened his wallet, donating $25,000 to writers hurting from the recent strike.

The actor, 46, gave the money to the New York-based Actors Fund, which provides emergency relief for workers in the entertainment industry.

He said he planned to make periodic donations to the fund and asked other stars to do that same.

“My hope is that people who can afford it will take responsibility for this and help out,” he told Variety.

George Clooney is a saint. He recently donated $25,000 to those affected by the Writers Guild strike. He’s also urging others who can afford it to do the same:

The Ocean’s 13 star told Variety: “To people like myself, the strike is a forced vacation.

“But there is the fear that a prolonged strike can destroy people who make a living in this industry.”

He continued to urge fellow stars to donate money saying: “My hope is that people who can afford it will take responsibility for this and help out.”

Negotiations in the strike are expected to resume next week after the Thanksgiving weekend.

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Leatherheads costars George Clooney and Renée Zellweger are on the cover of W’s December issue.

George tells the mag, which hits stands nationwide on November 23, that he didn’t know what prostitutes were until he cruised around in a Porsche with his cousin, actor Miguel Ferrer, when he first moved to California: “I didn’t know what hookers were. We pulled up at the stoplight, and all of these girls came over, and they were like, ‘Hey, do you want to party?’ I looked at Miguel and I said, ‘Chicks love me, man! I’m on fire here!’”

George on backing Barack Obama in the next presidential election: “I spoke to him two days ago for a half hour. I think that he’s in that sort of doldrums, that midelection run, where you’re still trying to define what it is that you want to be.”

George on borrowing shots from directors he admires: “I sent apology letters to Mike Nichols and Sidney Lumet after Confessions because I just directly stole shots. But then I told Joel and Ethan that I’ve stolen shots from them, and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we stole that shot from Capra.’”

George on rewriting the script of Leatherheads to accomodate his age: “You can’t try to hide your age and you can’t try to pretend it isn’t there. You have to use it as a tool.”

George on Renée’s role in the upcoming film Leatherheads: “In movies, so often the guy gets to be the one with all the answers. In this one, she’s the smart one. Which was incredible acting on her part.”

George on directing Renée: “She’s my friend, so I can be really direct. I can say, ‘That’s not a good angle,’ and not try to manipulate her, saying, ‘Well, maybe you’d be looking off over there because the moon is shining.’”

George on encouraging gawker readers to post fake sightings of him: “They had 6,000 locations for me in the first day.”

George on working with master directors like Joel and Ethan Cohen and Steven Soderbergh: “[They] taught me everything I know. If you plan it out and work really hard, then it’s much easier to make films.”

Renée on her fear of letting George down in Leatherheads: “…He doesn’t even know how important his opinion has been to me over the years. I don’t want to disappoint him.”

Renée on George’s direction in Leatherheads: “I just get so proud that my head pops off. George is such a confident director, and he has no idea. And he’s a nice person. It gets boring hearing that, but it’s true. Every once in a while you get the real good guy. You’ve got your Jimmy Stewart. You’ve got your Paul Newman. Now you’ve got your George Clooney.”

Renée on gawker encouraging readers to post stars’ precise whereabouts: “Oh, I log on every day to see where George is. Oh my God, get your things! He’s at Barneys!…The problem with that is with his schedule these days, the sightings were all true. He was in all 6,000 places that morning—before lunch.”

After reading that headline a couple times, I thought I had stepped into a episode of the Twilight Zone!

The two were at the same restaurant last Friday and George and Sarah were enjoying their meals, when Clooney felt like a woman at Fabio’s table was snapping pictures of him and Sarah! George politely asked her to stop taking pictures when Fabio came to her defense saying that she was taking pictures of their party, not George. Fabio also reportedly stated to George “Stop being a diva”. Shoving between the two men ensued after that.

A witness reports:

“The waiters broke it up before it got out of hand. George looked annoyed when Fabio went to his table. George stood up, dropped the F-bomb and then went to push him . . . George was drinking . . . He wasn’t drunk, but he certainly wasn’t stone sober, either.” Fabio’s manager told the magazine, “George is lucky he didn’t end up in the ER.”

Who knew Fabio had it in him? He should have done that to the goose that popped him one a couple years back!

Click below for the un-nice picture!

Donald Trump was on Larry King and decided to give his opinion on Angelina Jolie. He said: “I’m not saying she’s not an attractive woman, but she’s not a great beauty by any stretch of the imagination.”

“Angelina Jolie is sort of amazing because everyone thinks she’s like this great beauty. And I’m not saying she’s an unattractive woman, but she’s not beauty, by any stretch of the imagination. And now she’s like a representative of the United Nations and world peace on hunger and all of this crap.”

“And I remember at the Academy Awards a few years ago she was Frenching her brother. She was giving her brother lip kisses like I never saw before in my life. And she had just said she made love to Billy Bob Thornton in the back of the limousine on the way over. And I wouldn’t want to shake her hand, by the way. You know, you get back into the — I wouldn’t want to have shaken her hand. But she’s being interviewed and she’s all over the guy.”

“About three weeks later, he got caught cheating with about 15 different girls and she was gone. But she had just made love with him coming over to the Academy Awards.”

“And now she’s like this great beauty who is representing world peace and the United Nations. It’s called give me a break. But she’s not — in terms of beauty, she’s not a great beauty. She’s a nice looking woman. She’s OK. But she’s not a great beauty.”

He also commented on Britney saying “I’ve never seen an image change so much for the bad.” “You know, I knew Britney five years ago when she was hot as a pistol. Of course, I guess you can say she’s hot now. Everyone is talking about her. But she performed for me numerous times at different venues that I own. And she was the cleanest, nicest, most — I will never forget, she went on the stage in Atlantic City, and she was with like a prayer group. And everybody got together. They had a Bible in the middle, they put their hands on the Bible. I’m saying, what happened to this person? And the 15-year-old and 17-year-old young girls, she was like their idol. I have never seen an image change so much for the bad side.”

King then asked if he blamed her parents and Trump said: “I think the mother is distraught. I think the mother did a great job until something happened. You know, it’s interesting, Kevin Federline, I was never a big fan of his, and then I heard his all-time hero is Donald Trump. In fact, they sent…” After hearing that Donald now thinks Federline is fantastic! “It is unbelievable. He came in with a suit — this is like two years ago. He came in all dressed up with a suit and tie. He said, my all-time hero is Donald Trump. I think he’s fantastic. He has done a great job with Britney. But the fact is, from the day he met her, it’s not exactly like she turned out so good.”

Trump on George Clooney: “One of the perceptions I had of George Clooney was he was this big, strong guy. And he was very little when I met him.”

“I’m — oh, no, no. Nothing to do with George Clooney. I mean, I thought he was very nice, but I only met him for a short period of time. But the perception is this, you know, different kind of a guy. And when I met him, I was very surprised.”

LONDON (AFP) - Hollywood actress Michelle Pfeiffer’s bet with George Clooney that he will never marry again currently stands at 100,000 dollars (49,000 pounds, 71,000 euros), she said in an interview to be shown Friday.

“I bet him he would get married and he keeps inflating the bet from 100 dollars to 100,000 dollars,” Pfeiffer told the Tonight with Jonathan Ross programme on BBC television.

“I still think he will, he’s a handsome devil.”

Clooney, 46, is one of Hollywood’s leading men and most eligible bachelors who is currently on screen in Britain in the film “Michael Clayton”.

He has said that Pfeiffer, who starred opposite him in the 1996 film “One Fine Day”, and Nicole Kidman each made a 10,000-dollar bet that he would be married and have children by the year 2000.

Clooney married Talia Balsam in 1989. The couple divorced three years later.

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Looks like George & his new lady friend, Sarah Larson, are okay- here they are at the Michael Clayton red carpet premier.

Thank GOD!  Oy, he gets me everytime … *sigh*

See who else came out to support George’s new movie: