Hope for Haiti Telethon, iTunes ft. 18 original songs, 140 athletes, actors, musicians.

Clooney is my idol. Why? He doesn’t want/need to be my idol.  He + DiCaprio donate $1 million each. Organized telethon for Haiti.

Earthquake! We seen the earth shake! But the soul of the Haitian people will never break! ~ Wyclef Jean.

It’s a big world out there, and we all have a lot of responsibility to look out for people who can’t always look out for themselves. ~ George Clooney

Telethons are typically voyeuristic celebrity-obsesses self-congratulatory affairs. Not Clooney’s telethon for Haiti, reports the Times.

George Clooney gives a preview of the ‘Hope for Haiti’ benefit telethon he’s helping to organize to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti. (Jan. 21)