'Ocean's Eleven' Stars to Visit Troops in Turkey

Nov. 21 -- Overseas troops will get a Hollywood surprise from Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, and the other stars of the casino caper Ocean's Eleven.

"We wanted them to know how we are behind them … how we care," said producer Jerry Weintraub, who arranged the visit with the help of former President George Bush.

All the movie's top stars, which also include Andy Garcia, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle, as well as director Steven Soderbergh, will head to an undisclosed location in Turkey on Dec. 5, just hours after the Los Angeles premiere.

‘We’re Going to Give Them a Hug From Everybody’

"We're going there and eat with them and sleep there with them and bring them a Christmas present," Weintraub said. "We're going to give them a hug from everybody in America because there out on the front lines fighting this war for us, … and we want them to know how we're behind them and how we care."

The stars of the movie had appeared on sat down with Barbara Walters last week for a wide-ranging interview, talking about how much fun it was to remake the 1960 "Rat Pack" classic that originally featured the likes of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.

The stars also talked about how the events of Sept. 11 changed their lives. Here are some of the highlights.

Matt Damon: "I was in New York when it [the terror attacks] happened … It certainly affects everything, affects my thinking more than my actions probably … Everybody that I knew survived it. They got out. And so you have this tremendous feeling of joy followed by this tremendous feeling of guilt … My inner circle made it, you know. But there's thousands and thousands and thousands of families and friends and inner circles that have just been broken up by this."

Andy Garcia: "Well, my father and my mother sacrificed everything for us to have the ability to be free. And that's a thing that people die for. And when you have it and you grow up in it, you can take that for granted.… But I don't take that for granted because I know what we've been through in order to enjoy that freedom, and what the people that we left behind, the kind of freedoms they don't enjoy."