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The US-based SCI FI Channel announced last week that George Clooney is producing a six-hour miniseries based on Neal Stephenson's best-selling 1995 novel The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. We have not read the book, but BoingBoing describes it like this: "The Diamond Age tells the story of a group of neo-Victorians who've embraced strait-laced ethics and craftsmanship as a response to the infinite possibilities of nanotechnology."

That's right, the reigning "Sexiest Man Alive" (according to one US magazine) was in Beijing over the weekend trying to persuade unnamed Chinese officials to help put a stop to the ongoing violence in Sudan's Darfur region (China is a major trade partner of Sudan — oil — and has been opposed to forcing UN peacekeepers on the African nation). Clooney is traveling with a posse, let's call them Clooney's Four: Actor Don Cheadle, Kenyan Olympian Tegla Loroupe, American speed skater and Olympic gold medal winner Joey Cheek and David Pressman, a human rights lawyer and former aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Some called this a "secret mission," the low-profile no doubt an effort to stave off the relentless swarms of paparazzi and groupies that tend to follow human rights lawyers like Pressman around.

In case you needed reminding, M:I:3 may not be screened in China, where 20 percent of its scenes were shot, because: