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INTELLIGENCE WORK ISN'T TRAINING SEMINARS AND GOLD STARS FOR ATTENDANCE: If there's a yin to Bronson Pinchot's yang about who's an asshole in Hollywood, it's probably this item related via New York magazine:

[George Clooney's] guests have to put up with his notorious penchant for elaborate pranks, however, and the latest to be on the receiving end was his friend and Oceans 11, 12 and 13 costar Matt Damon, who visited the Clooney villa this summer with his wife and family.

At the time Damon was trying to lose the 30lbs he gained for his starring role in his new film The Informant! and was working out in the gym twice a day and eating nothing but small salads.

So Clooney employed a woman to surreptitiously take in the waistband of all Damon’s trousers every day by an eighth of an inch. “He couldn’t understand how he seemed to be gaining weight while he was trying so hard to lose it," recalled Clooney with a laugh.