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OLBIA, Sardinia — Actor George Clooney was taken to the hospital in Sardinia and released after his motor scooter and a car crashed on a state road on the Italian island Tuesday, hospital officials said.
“He is recovering at his home and will be fine,” Clooney spokesman Stan Rosenfield told The Associated Press in an email.
The John Paul II hospital in Olbia confirmed Clooney was treated there and released after Tuesday's accident, in which Clooney's scooter and a blue Mercedes sedan collided along a curve in the road.
Daily newspaper La Nuova Sardegna said the 57-year-old Clooney was heading to a film set when the Mercedes hit his motorbike at a curve in the road near the entrance to the Costa Corallina residential compound, in the province of Olbia.
An oil stain and police paint remained on the road Tuesday; photographs taken by someone passing the scene showed the car's front right bumper damaged and Clooney's bike on its side.
Clooney reportedly was in Sardinia filming a television miniseries adapted from Joseph Heller's World War II novel “Catch-22.”
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NEW YORK — Fresh off a breakout year in 2017, comedian Hasan Minhaj is ready to turn his wit to diagnosing the larger issues facing America.
The correspondent with “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central is kicking off a 15-city North American tour starting in August and this fall will host his own weekly comedy show for Netflix.
Minhaj wants to fuse his personal narrative as a first-generation Indian-American with the current political and social backdrop to examine deep issues confronting the nation.
The new tour is titled “Hasan Minhaj: Before the Storm” and starts Aug. 11 in Los Angeles. He will reach cities like Atlanta, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Boston, Milwaukee, Dallas, Minneapolis and Chicago.
He says he hopes fans will be “pleasantly surprised” by his new material.
By Associated Press
