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George Clooney’s appearance at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills to film scenes for his movie Ides of March is having a spinoff benefit for the parish.
The film, which is being directed and starring Clooney, was filming a scene in the church that required it be full of people. Members of Christ Church Cranbrook served as extras, filling the seats.
But in order to become a church extra, donations were made to the parish to be used to support Bound Together, a tutoring program for elementary school students housed at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pontiac. Bound Together gathers volunteers from several Episcopal churches in Oakland County to tutor and feed students after school three days a week.
The proceeds from the “pew-filling extra” project raised over $20,000 to support the work of Bound Together. This amount supplements the $30,000 raised at a parish dinner dance and auction held in February. The total of $50,000 will go to underwrite the tutoring program and to help renovate the parish building intended to house community ministries.
More here-
http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20110321/NEWS02/110321001/1064/sports20/George-Clooney-Cranbrook-Filming-fundraising?odyssey=nav%7Chead
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