George Clooney. Picture: AP Source: AP
BETTER looking than Bono, better groomed than Bob Geldof, George Clooney, the world's sexiest peace activist, charmed a convention centre full of adoring and predominantly female peace proponents in Sydney yesterday.
The star of The Peacemaker, Syriana, Ocean's 11 and The Ides of March was by far the most popular speaker on a leadership conference bill which also included entrepreneur Martha Stewart, music business magnate Russell Simmons and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus in Sydney.
The Oscar winner, who flew into Australia on Sunday and will leave today, lunched with a select group who paid $1100 for the privilege of dining and being photographed with Clooney.
The 50-year-old actor then fielded questions for an hour from former 60 Minutes reporter Ellen Fanning.
For the past five years, Clooney, though his association with peace activist group Not On Our Watch, has been turning satellite cameras on the world's war criminals.
"What I am trying to do is continue to keep a satellite, that we've been using to monitor war criminals, on the border between the south and the north of Sudan," he said.
Clooney's fees, rumoured to be $600,000 in Sydney, were donated to the project.
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