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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.

President Obama’s seemingly-sudden decision to endorse same-sex marriage may have been far more orchestrated than previously believed. CNN reported today that President Obama was supposedly planning to announce his support for gay marriage next week on ABC’s The View before comments by Joe Biden caused him to accelerate his timetable. But there is another theory in the works. Biden’s comments on Sunday were clearly orchestrated; the notion that they were unplanned neglects the tape of the interview, which shows David Gregory consulting his notes as he asked a completely out-of-the-blue question on same-sex marriage. The very next day, Secretary of...