'da boys

"It would not be a George Clooney story without The Boys -- the fabled pack of lifelong Friends of George (there are eight total; nine, including George) who, as legend has it, hang around his enormous eight-bedroom Hollywood home -- CASA DE CLOONEY, the sign out front says -- doing guy things." Quote from US Vogue article, issue June 2000

What they do

"Each year, the boys launch themselves on a raucous golf trip -- a kind of sacred Heineken-fueled walkabout. None of them are good golfers, which is the point. This is a time for the boys to be together and forget their professional lives, a time to hangout, 'We always end in Vegas," says Clooney, "But we never start in Vegas, because you literally have to wash out your liver afterwards.” For the past 12 years, they've gathered every Sunday at George's for a barbecue. "Sunday mornings, we get up really early," he says, excited, "and we go riding. We go out to Malibu. At noon, we play basketball. Then we'll do a Jacuzzi and a steam, and we'll have two masseuses come by."

The wives and girlfriends of the boys will get massages during the game. Last Christmas, he bought five new motorcycles - Indians - for the boys, lined them up in the driveway, and said, "Here you go." The boys were blown away. "It wouldn't have been fun to buy just one Indian," George explains, "with just me riding a real cool motorcycle." He shows me something he once got in return, a Rolex. He turns it over, and on the back is inscribed, "To George, from the Boys." He's still clearly touched. It's sweet. No bullshit, no pretense: I am what I am."
source: Men's Journal, July 2000

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