Good news waits for George Clooney

Actor George Clooney will receive a special Emmy Award for his compassionate efforts on 29^th August. This forty nine year old star from Hollywood will receive the due honor so as to host the “Hope for Haiti Now”television special, together with his efforts to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina as well as raising awareness of the crisis in Darfur. According to John Shaffner, chairman and CEO of the Television Academy, “George was an obvious choice for this honor,” The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award was introduced in the year 2002 and Clooney will be the fourth person to receive this award. The other people who have received the same award include Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby and Danny Thomas, who received it posthumously in 2004.  Clooney has also made a mark for himself in terms of a screenwriter, producer, and Oscar-winning director. Similarly, he has joined other humanitarian campaigns, like when he backed then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in calling for the release of Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Linda, Hope’s daughter pointed out that similar to her own father, George is a person who looks beyond himself for using his celebrity status for good or rather for making a difference in the world as well as for inspiring others to follow the same.

We congratulate George Clooney on his success