George Clooney tried to get revenge on Golden Globes hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for targeting him in one of their award show jokes by sending them a prank letter from Matt Damon. During their banter on the show, the comediennes called Damon “a garbageman” and got huge laughs by describing the movie Gravity as “the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age.” To get even, Clooney—a famed prankster—forged a letter to Fey and Poehler by a supposedly offended Damon. By way of apology, Fey and Poehler then sent two large fruit baskets to Damon (who was not in on the prank), with a letter attached saying, “If your note is part of some George Clooney prank, as I very strongly suspect it is, you A-list amateurs are going to have to step it the f--- up. We are not some easily confused starlets here.”
Hollywood star Clint Eastwood became a real-life action hero when he saved the life of a golf tournament director who was choking on a piece of cheese. The Dirty Harry star was at a golf event in Monterey, Calif., last week when he noticed that Steve John couldn’t breathe. “I looked in his eyes and saw that look of panic people have when they see their life passing before their eyes,” said Eastwood. Performing the Heimlich maneuver for the first time, the 83-year-old bear-hugged the 202-pound man, lifted him off the ground three times, and dislodged the cheese. “I gave him three good jolts, and that got it out,” Eastwood said.
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