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• Loaned George Clooney $100 to pay for headshots when Clooney was still a struggling actor.
• Transitioned from being a character actor to behind-the-camera work in the early 2000s, receiving his first coproducer credit on the 2003 film Intolerable Cruelty.
• In 2005, he and his wife used their airline miles to purchase 16 plane tickets to evacuate survivors of Hurricane Katrina; they also opened their home to a family who had lost everything in the storm for five months while they put their lives back together.
• Cofounded the production company Smokehouse Pictures in 2006 with his longtime friend George Clooney.