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WASHINGTON — Now, that’s a $15 million handshake!
In this picture from TV’s “Entertainment Tonight,” host George Clooney is all smiles as he welcomes President Obama to his Studio City, Calif., home at a celebrity-packed soiree this week that raised a record-breaking $15 million.
Among others, Barbara Streisand, Salma Hayek and Jack Black attended the event, ponying up $40,000 each for the party under a tent set up on Clooney’s backyard basketball court.
But after a night of rubbing elbows with the stars, Obama woke up yesterday and traded elbows with Batman and Spider-Man on a public basketball court in LA.
Obama invited Clooney, star of a “Batman” flick, and Tobey Maguire, who starred in “Spider-Man,” to play a game of hoops, along with actor Don Cheadle and a few staffers.
“Of course George and I won,” Obama said in response to a reporter’s shouted question after the game. “But we’re all winners because nobody got hurt.”
Cheadle tweeted his own endorsement of the president: “Hail to the Chief’s jumper.”
Mitt Romney topped President Obama in a new poll conducted in part before Obama this week came out in support of gay marriage.