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Over two decades as a restaurateur, Joe Carroll has incorporated odds and ends from salvage yards into his Brooklyn eateries. In beloved steakhouse St. Anselm, for example, he used decorative molding from the 1940s on the ceiling. But Carroll, a 47-year-old New Jersey native...

There are good friends, there are great friends, and, apparently, there is George Clooney. Rande Gerber, a businessman and longtime friend of the actor, told MSNBC’s “Headliners” that Clooney once gave 14 friends $1 million each and paid their taxes for a year....