George Clooney's Bad Luck Year

I have a theory about George Clooney's bad luck. Maybe he knows, maybe he doesn't know about the legend of Lake Como in Italy. I'm not sure where this story comes from, for a long time now I thought it came from O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, frontier pharmacist in Texas, then a bank teller charged with embezzlement, remanded to the Ohio State Penitentiary where some in Austin, Texas think he got his name from the fragments O. Henry, which is what the former prison is today, demolished.) O. Henry then lived and wrote in NYC, where he used to frequent the German bar and restaurant Scheffel Hall on Third Avenue near 17th Street, where electric guitarist Les Paul used to play every week with his trio, at "Fat Tuesdays" before moving to the "Iridium". It once had a moving hologram of jazz horn player "Dizzy" Gillespie in the window (John Birks Gillespie: United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)). Scheffel Hall, first noted in 1966, yet still might not be a NYC Landmark, was once part of the Lower Eastside's "Kleine Deutschland" "Little Germany". Anyway according to this story, Lake Como is where Pontius Pilate drowned (or was?) after returning to Italy after the fated judgment against Jesus Christ, he washed his hands of. Now here's where it gets kind of wacko. As Jesus was dragging his cross up to Golgotha ("place of skulls" also a British fort in Huntington, NY in a cemetery atop a hill in the American Revolution) a Jewish (wasn't everybody?) cobbler came out to Jesus and smacked him in the face as he was about to fall. According to this here telling of it, where it came from I'm not sure, for it, the "Wandering Jew" was to live forever and every year drag Pontius Pilate's body out of Lake Como, put him on a throne of stone there and he would have to again "wash his hands" of the matter of Jesus' guilt or innocence. At least that's how I remember it from somewhere. Maybe it can bring bad back, being an actor, or dragging a cross? Scheffel Hall