George Clooney
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not sure why though, maybe it´s that it made him look more like a university proffesor or something.
You know I didn't really focus on his looks for the first time in a film, obviously I look at his performances but the looks is something you cant avoid when it comes to George Clooney, cause I was too concentrated to follow the plot. I loved that film
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We visit Casa Clooney for a chat about the producer-actor-director's latest film, The Good German; his plan to cause a New York media meltdown; and what his Aunt Rosemary (the Britney Spears of her day) taught him about keeping fame on a leash.
by Rich Cohen November 2006
America projects two kinds of power in the world: hard power, which is tanks, jets, and missiles, and soft power, which, at the moment, is George Clooney. He is dashing, and charming; his hair glistens; his dark, soupy, saloon-singer eyes shine. He is thinking and saying just the right thing at just the right moment. He is against the war and for the people and stands up to the bullies. He put David O. Russell in a choke hold during the filming of Three Kings because he did not like the bullying ways of the director. Years ago, while filming a TV pilot, he got in the face of a producer because the producer made a girl cry. O.K. That's just two dots. But connect them and you begin to see the picture.
Clooney was the first winner at the Academy Awards this year, and when he stood up, and he looked fantastic, and glittered like a jewel, he was talking for all of us. Like they say in the movies, "Someday, a hero will rise." Behind him was a whole library of movies starred in, produced, and directed, a shelf surprisingly deep for a man who did not break out until he was in his 30s (he's 45 now), with his starring role in the TV hospital drama ER. Sure, there were some dogs, One Fine Day and Batman & Robin, but ever since he made that key decision—that if he was going down, he was going down swinging—the titles have been (mostly) excellent: O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Three Kings; Out of Sight; The Perfect Storm; Ocean's Eleven; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which Clooney directed; Good Night, and Good Luck—he co-wrote and directed that—and Intolerable Cruelty. He's now filming Ocean's Thirteen—the poster of which he says should read, "Ocean's Thirteen … better than Ocean's Twelve."
His new movie, directed by Steven Soderbergh and co-starring Cate Blanchett, is The Good German. "I will tell you right now—she will win the Oscar," Clooney says. "She's the best actor working today. Not actress, she's an actor. Intimidating, in a way, to work with an actor that good." Shot in black and white, it's an homage to the wartime noirs, in which the American hero gets lost in the muck of old Europe. "Everybody's right and everybody's wrong," he told me. "Everybody's a little dirty along the way." It's a kind of smoothie, with ingredients consisting of equal parts Chinatown, The Third Man, and Casablanca. It's as if Clooney took a machine back through time to make a movie with Billy Wilder.
It can and has been argued that Clooney is the last of the old-time movie stars, a throwback to Jimmy Stewart or Gregory Peck, or the master himself, Cary Grant, the only American actor who radiates a calming sense of adulthood, the only grown-up in the room. It's this persona—the decent man in a cockeyed world gone wrong—that he carries from role to role and that makes you cheer him the way the studio audience used to cheer every time Fonzie came on the set. Maybe he's a doctor, maybe he's a convict, but Clooney is always Clooney the way Gable was always Gable.
It's not just his looks, or fabulous gift for bullsh*t, but his political stands, evident in the movies he makes. He was at the awards for Syriana, a Stephen Gaghan picture in which Clooney played (get this) a conscience-ridden C.I.A. agent lost in a hall of mirrors, and no matter how fast or far you ride, ka-bam! And let's face it, that's America in the world today. He got fat to play the role, and acted up a storm, and cast down his eyes, and let himself be tortured. He was tied to a chair and beaten in this scene, and when, in a fit of Method, he went wild and turned over the chair, he was badly injured. For a time, when blowing his nose, he thought he was blowing snot but was really blowing spinal fluid.
Did Lee Strasberg ever expectorate spinal fluid?
He got the award for that one—best supporting. He was also there for Good Night, and Good Luck—his movies had eight nominations in all—which he co-wrote, directed, and acted in. (Clooney recently dissolved his longtime producing partnership with director Steven Soderbergh, with whom he has made, among others, Solaris, Out of Sight, and Ocean's Eleven. "Two years ago we announced we were only going to run till 2006," he told me. "We just felt things have a beginning, a middle, an end.") Good Night, and Good Luck was shot in black and white (so that old news footage could be blended with new scenes) and was righteous in an Ezekiel-in-the-desert sort of way, a retelling of the prime-time battle between Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy, which was really a thinly disguised fable about Fox News and the Bush administration—a cry in the face of barking dogs.
Clooney was cool and sharp in his acceptance speech, but what he said was less important than what he was doing—he was surfing, riding the crest of outrage that was pouring out of Hollywood. Here was a man who had stood up and was not scared by the power of Washington or the madness of Republicans or the madness of war. O.K., so maybe he was a little too self-satisfied. Think of the studio head in the Coen brothers' Barton Fink talking to the screenwriter: "This is a wrestling picture. The audience wants to see action, adventure, wrestling, and plenty of it. They don't want to see a guy wrestling with his soul—well, all right, a little bit for the critics—but you make it the carrot that wags the dog." And maybe he spoke a little too much about the historical greatness of the movie industry. "We talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular," he said, "and we, you know, we bring up subjects. This academy, this group of people, gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939, when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters." Hattie McDaniel? Didn't she play ***** in Gone with the Wind? Isn't that kind of like giving the woman on the syrup bottle an award for her portrayal of Aunt Jemima? But Clooney is a movie star, and was speaking his mind, and not a jokester like Jon Stewart, and not a funny man like Ben Stiller, but a pop aristocrat—Atticus Finch standing down the mob that wants to lynch that poor Negro. And so a miracle had happened: an adult had appeared in a world of children, a senior in a nation of sophomores. Handsome, gray-haired, thin-hipped, dark-eyed George Clooney, the last American man.
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We visit Casa Clooney for a chat about the producer-actor-director's latest film, The Good German; his plan to cause a New York media meltdown; and what his Aunt Rosemary (the Britney Spears of her day) taught him about keeping fame on a leash.
by Rich Cohen November 2006
America projects two kinds of power in the world: hard power, which is tanks, jets, and missiles, and soft power, which, at the moment, is George Clooney. He is dashing, and charming; his hair glistens; his dark, soupy, saloon-singer eyes shine. He is thinking and saying just the right thing at just the right moment. He is against the war and for the people and stands up to the bullies. He put David O. Russell in a choke hold during the filming of Three Kings because he did not like the bullying ways of the director. Years ago, while filming a TV pilot, he got in the face of a producer because the producer made a girl cry. O.K. That's just two dots. But connect them and you begin to see the picture.
Clooney was the first winner at the Academy Awards this year, and when he stood up, and he looked fantastic, and glittered like a jewel, he was talking for all of us. Like they say in the movies, "Someday, a hero will rise." Behind him was a whole library of movies starred in, produced, and directed, a shelf surprisingly deep for a man who did not break out until he was in his 30s (he's 45 now), with his starring role in the TV hospital drama ER. Sure, there were some dogs, One Fine Day and Batman & Robin, but ever since he made that key decision—that if he was going down, he was going down swinging—the titles have been (mostly) excellent: O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Three Kings; Out of Sight; The Perfect Storm; Ocean's Eleven; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which Clooney directed; Good Night, and Good Luck—he co-wrote and directed that—and Intolerable Cruelty. He's now filming Ocean's Thirteen—the poster of which he says should read, "Ocean's Thirteen … better than Ocean's Twelve."
His new movie, directed by Steven Soderbergh and co-starring Cate Blanchett, is The Good German. "I will tell you right now—she will win the Oscar," Clooney says. "She's the best actor working today. Not actress, she's an actor. Intimidating, in a way, to work with an actor that good." Shot in black and white, it's an homage to the wartime noirs, in which the American hero gets lost in the muck of old Europe. "Everybody's right and everybody's wrong," he told me. "Everybody's a little dirty along the way." It's a kind of smoothie, with ingredients consisting of equal parts Chinatown, The Third Man, and Casablanca. It's as if Clooney took a machine back through time to make a movie with Billy Wilder.
It can and has been argued that Clooney is the last of the old-time movie stars, a throwback to Jimmy Stewart or Gregory Peck, or the master himself, Cary Grant, the only American actor who radiates a calming sense of adulthood, the only grown-up in the room. It's this persona—the decent man in a cockeyed world gone wrong—that he carries from role to role and that makes you cheer him the way the studio audience used to cheer every time Fonzie came on the set. Maybe he's a doctor, maybe he's a convict, but Clooney is always Clooney the way Gable was always Gable.
It's not just his looks, or fabulous gift for bullsh*t, but his political stands, evident in the movies he makes. He was at the awards for Syriana, a Stephen Gaghan picture in which Clooney played (get this) a conscience-ridden C.I.A. agent lost in a hall of mirrors, and no matter how fast or far you ride, ka-bam! And let's face it, that's America in the world today. He got fat to play the role, and acted up a storm, and cast down his eyes, and let himself be tortured. He was tied to a chair and beaten in this scene, and when, in a fit of Method, he went wild and turned over the chair, he was badly injured. For a time, when blowing his nose, he thought he was blowing snot but was really blowing spinal fluid.
Did Lee Strasberg ever expectorate spinal fluid?
He got the award for that one—best supporting. He was also there for Good Night, and Good Luck—his movies had eight nominations in all—which he co-wrote, directed, and acted in. (Clooney recently dissolved his longtime producing partnership with director Steven Soderbergh, with whom he has made, among others, Solaris, Out of Sight, and Ocean's Eleven. "Two years ago we announced we were only going to run till 2006," he told me. "We just felt things have a beginning, a middle, an end.") Good Night, and Good Luck was shot in black and white (so that old news footage could be blended with new scenes) and was righteous in an Ezekiel-in-the-desert sort of way, a retelling of the prime-time battle between Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy, which was really a thinly disguised fable about Fox News and the Bush administration—a cry in the face of barking dogs.
Clooney was cool and sharp in his acceptance speech, but what he said was less important than what he was doing—he was surfing, riding the crest of outrage that was pouring out of Hollywood. Here was a man who had stood up and was not scared by the power of Washington or the madness of Republicans or the madness of war. O.K., so maybe he was a little too self-satisfied. Think of the studio head in the Coen brothers' Barton Fink talking to the screenwriter: "This is a wrestling picture. The audience wants to see action, adventure, wrestling, and plenty of it. They don't want to see a guy wrestling with his soul—well, all right, a little bit for the critics—but you make it the carrot that wags the dog." And maybe he spoke a little too much about the historical greatness of the movie industry. "We talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular," he said, "and we, you know, we bring up subjects. This academy, this group of people, gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939, when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters." Hattie McDaniel? Didn't she play ***** in Gone with the Wind? Isn't that kind of like giving the woman on the syrup bottle an award for her portrayal of Aunt Jemima? But Clooney is a movie star, and was speaking his mind, and not a jokester like Jon Stewart, and not a funny man like Ben Stiller, but a pop aristocrat—Atticus Finch standing down the mob that wants to lynch that poor Negro. And so a miracle had happened: an adult had appeared in a world of children, a senior in a nation of sophomores. Handsome, gray-haired, thin-hipped, dark-eyed George Clooney, the last American man.
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NEWS MAKERS
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY APRIL 15, 2005 06:00AM EST
George Clooney takes a stroll in the sunshine with actor Robert Downey Jr. on the Pasadena set of their Ed Murrow biopic Goodnight, and Good Luck on Wednesday. The film, which Clooney also cowrote and appears in, is his second outing as a director.
GOOD TIMES
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 02, 2005 06:00AM EST
George Clooney and Patricia Clarkson arrive Thursday at the Venice Film Festival, where their movie Good Night, and Good Luck will be screened. Clooney directed and wrote the screenplay for the drama, based on the true story of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow.
FEELING 'LUCKY'
PUBLISHED: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2005 06:00AM EST
At Friday's New York City premiere of Good Night, and Good Luck, Patricia Clarkson makes a minor adjustment to costar George Clooney as castmate Frank Langella looks on. Clooney also directed the film, and Clarkson says, "He had this incredibly light touch, but he is very serious and very specific as a director."
MILITARY MAN
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 06:00AM EST
George Clooney gets in character on the Los Angeles set of his movie The Good German on Wednesday. In the film, directed by Clooney's longtime collaborator Steven Soderbergh, Clooney plays an American in postwar Berlin opposite costars Cate Blanchett and Tobey Maguire.
people.com
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY APRIL 15, 2005 06:00AM EST
George Clooney takes a stroll in the sunshine with actor Robert Downey Jr. on the Pasadena set of their Ed Murrow biopic Goodnight, and Good Luck on Wednesday. The film, which Clooney also cowrote and appears in, is his second outing as a director.
GOOD TIMES
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 02, 2005 06:00AM EST
George Clooney and Patricia Clarkson arrive Thursday at the Venice Film Festival, where their movie Good Night, and Good Luck will be screened. Clooney directed and wrote the screenplay for the drama, based on the true story of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow.
FEELING 'LUCKY'
PUBLISHED: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2005 06:00AM EST
At Friday's New York City premiere of Good Night, and Good Luck, Patricia Clarkson makes a minor adjustment to costar George Clooney as castmate Frank Langella looks on. Clooney also directed the film, and Clarkson says, "He had this incredibly light touch, but he is very serious and very specific as a director."
MILITARY MAN
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 06:00AM EST
George Clooney gets in character on the Los Angeles set of his movie The Good German on Wednesday. In the film, directed by Clooney's longtime collaborator Steven Soderbergh, Clooney plays an American in postwar Berlin opposite costars Cate Blanchett and Tobey Maguire.
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ON THE HILL
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY APRIL 28, 2006 06:00AM EST
George Clooney – who recently returned from a trip to war-torn Darfur with his father Nick – meets up Thursday with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in Washington, D.C. The Oscar winner urged lawmakers to stop the reported genocide in the embattled region of Sudan. "What we cannot do is turn our heads and look away," he told reporters.
ROAD HOG
PUBLISHED: THURSDAY JULY 27, 2006 06:00AM EST
While touring the Dolomites (a section of the Alps) with a few pals on Tuesday, George Clooney makes a rest stop in the Italian village of Badia. The Oscar winner has been summering at his estate in Lake Como in northern Italy.
AND...CUT!
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY AUGUST 22, 2006 06:00AM EST
Brad Pitt makes peace with pal and costar George Clooney as the duo take it easy on the Los Angeles set of Ocean's Thirteen on Monday.
REVVED UP
And easy rider Clooney shows off his vintage wheels while filming Ocean's Thirteen in L.A. on Monday.
ACTING AMBASSADOR
PUBLISHED: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 06:00AM EST
George Clooney sets his sights on Africa as he attends a private dinner to benefit the Save Darfur Coalition Wednesday in New York City. He was joined by two of his biggest fans: his parents, Nick and Nina.
DAPPER DIPLOMAT
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 06:00AM EST
Global citizen George Clooney makes his case to the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to stop the violence in Sudan's Darfur region. "Make no mistake, it is the first genocide of the 21st century," he said. "And if it continues unchecked, it will not be the last." The actor spent five days in the region in April interviewing refugees.
AFRICAN OUTREACH
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 06:00AM EST
George Clooney, a longtime advocate for sending peacekeepers to Darfur, makes another earnest appeal Monday in Burbank, Calif., to help stop genocidal violence in the Sudanese region (with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, and actor Don Cheadle, left, by his side). Despite his political involvement, the Oscar winner says he has no ambitions to run for office.
GENTLEMAN GEORGE
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY OCTOBER 03, 2006 06:00AM EST
George Clooney tries to keep a low profile with a female companion during an evening out in Studio City, Calif., on Friday.
MAN OF THE HOUR
PUBLISHED: MONDAY OCTOBER 16, 2006 06:00AM EST
Julia Roberts gets a close-up with George Clooney at the 21st Annual American Cinematheque Award Gala in Beverly Hills on Friday, where the actress honored her friend and Ocean's Eleven costar. "It really doesn't get much better than this," an elated Clooney told PEOPLE backstage.
A WINK & A SMILE
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 2006 06:00AM EST
Fresh from his Italian motorcycle expedition, George Clooney gets back to work on the Las Vegas set of Ocean's Thirteen on Wednesday.
MUTUAL ADMIRATION
PUBLISHED: THURSDAY NOVEMBER 02, 2006 06:00AM EST
It's props all around! George Clooney accepts the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award from the veteran newsman himself in New York on Wednesday. The actor and humanitarian told Cronkite, "You are what I wish to be – except 90!" Cronkite's response? "We're so grateful for your talent being given to our nation."
people.com
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY APRIL 28, 2006 06:00AM EST
George Clooney – who recently returned from a trip to war-torn Darfur with his father Nick – meets up Thursday with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in Washington, D.C. The Oscar winner urged lawmakers to stop the reported genocide in the embattled region of Sudan. "What we cannot do is turn our heads and look away," he told reporters.
ROAD HOG
PUBLISHED: THURSDAY JULY 27, 2006 06:00AM EST
While touring the Dolomites (a section of the Alps) with a few pals on Tuesday, George Clooney makes a rest stop in the Italian village of Badia. The Oscar winner has been summering at his estate in Lake Como in northern Italy.
AND...CUT!
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY AUGUST 22, 2006 06:00AM EST
Brad Pitt makes peace with pal and costar George Clooney as the duo take it easy on the Los Angeles set of Ocean's Thirteen on Monday.
REVVED UP
And easy rider Clooney shows off his vintage wheels while filming Ocean's Thirteen in L.A. on Monday.
ACTING AMBASSADOR
PUBLISHED: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 06:00AM EST
George Clooney sets his sights on Africa as he attends a private dinner to benefit the Save Darfur Coalition Wednesday in New York City. He was joined by two of his biggest fans: his parents, Nick and Nina.
DAPPER DIPLOMAT
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 06:00AM EST
Global citizen George Clooney makes his case to the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to stop the violence in Sudan's Darfur region. "Make no mistake, it is the first genocide of the 21st century," he said. "And if it continues unchecked, it will not be the last." The actor spent five days in the region in April interviewing refugees.
AFRICAN OUTREACH
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 06:00AM EST
George Clooney, a longtime advocate for sending peacekeepers to Darfur, makes another earnest appeal Monday in Burbank, Calif., to help stop genocidal violence in the Sudanese region (with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, and actor Don Cheadle, left, by his side). Despite his political involvement, the Oscar winner says he has no ambitions to run for office.
GENTLEMAN GEORGE
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY OCTOBER 03, 2006 06:00AM EST
George Clooney tries to keep a low profile with a female companion during an evening out in Studio City, Calif., on Friday.
MAN OF THE HOUR
PUBLISHED: MONDAY OCTOBER 16, 2006 06:00AM EST
Julia Roberts gets a close-up with George Clooney at the 21st Annual American Cinematheque Award Gala in Beverly Hills on Friday, where the actress honored her friend and Ocean's Eleven costar. "It really doesn't get much better than this," an elated Clooney told PEOPLE backstage.
A WINK & A SMILE
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 2006 06:00AM EST
Fresh from his Italian motorcycle expedition, George Clooney gets back to work on the Las Vegas set of Ocean's Thirteen on Wednesday.
MUTUAL ADMIRATION
PUBLISHED: THURSDAY NOVEMBER 02, 2006 06:00AM EST
It's props all around! George Clooney accepts the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award from the veteran newsman himself in New York on Wednesday. The actor and humanitarian told Cronkite, "You are what I wish to be – except 90!" Cronkite's response? "We're so grateful for your talent being given to our nation."
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BUSINESS CASUAL
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY AUGUST 16, 2005 02:00PM EST
A decidedly dressed-down George Clooney (left) and business partner Rande Gerber (a.k.a. Cindy Crawford's other half) stroll down Madison Avenue on Monday. The duo, who are reportedly planning a Las Vegas hotel and casino, stopped in Barneys and gave money to a panhandler. (people)
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY AUGUST 16, 2005 02:00PM EST
A decidedly dressed-down George Clooney (left) and business partner Rande Gerber (a.k.a. Cindy Crawford's other half) stroll down Madison Avenue on Monday. The duo, who are reportedly planning a Las Vegas hotel and casino, stopped in Barneys and gave money to a panhandler. (people)
