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The 9:10 to Crazyland
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George Clooney: The Last Movie Star
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By Joel Stein
George Clooney wasn’t supposed to say yes. A reporter interviews a movie star at a restaurant or a hotel lobby or an office, with his publicist lurking in the corner, ready to cut off any vaguely interesting questions. But to come over to my house for dinner? That’s a trap no sucker has ever shoved a famous foot into. Partly because there are so many unknowns—you’re stuck alone chatting up the family while the reporter cooks, you accidentally let slip a cruel joke about a wedding photo, you somehow use the bathroom wrong—and partly because who the hell wants to spend Saturday night stuck at some dork’s house eating undercooked lamb? Would Gwyneth Paltrow come over? Johnny Depp? But George Clooney said yes, of course, why not, sounds fun. Read more
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The effort behind George Clooney’s effortless charm.
by Ian Parker April 14, 2008
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Marie Claire
George on why he supports Barack Obama:
“I’m a friend of the Clintons. I worked with Hillary before, so I like her and would have been happy to do whatever I could [to help her campaign], but then a couple of years ago, at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, up stepped the most eloquent speaker I’ve heard since maybe Kennedy. I just thought, ‘Well, there are people who are great and will do fine, then there’s a time in your life where you go, “This is something spectacular.””
Do you ever worry that, by pinning your colours to a particular candidate, you’ll offend people, even your fans?
RZ “No. The larger concern is that you’ll do damage because you’re an easy target.”
GC “I’m careful because my father [Nick Clooney] ran for Congress [as a Democrat] in 2004. I couldn’t campaign for him because the Republicans ran a ‘Hollywood vs. the heartland’ campaign, saying we were the immoral ones. It’s enticing when someone exciting [like Obama] says, ‘Please do this for me.’ But you have to ask, ‘Is this in their best interests?”
Renee on the on-screen chemistry with George during the filming of Leatherheads:
“Oh, there’s a natural comfort there, absolutely. But I was terrified – I didn’t want to be the one who sucked in his movie. You’d much rather disappoint somebody you’re not going to see again.”
George on Leatherheads’ old-fashioned setting:
“I have a great nostalgia for things that seem simpler. I know that they weren’t. I’m sure it wasn’t always ‘the good old days’ – people were dying of polio! I truly do understand the difference, but there was a clarity to the storytelling that I miss and I like. That’s why I did Good Night, and Good Luck.”
George on wanting children:
GC (Jokingly) “I did try to adopt Britney Spears – you know, somebody with some cash to take care of me in my old age.”
RZ [Laughs]
GC “She wasn’t having it”
RZ “No”
Here is the edited version of the full feature appearing in the magazine, which is on sale now.
Tackling Directing and George Clooney
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John Krasinski, who appears in “Leatherheads,” above, is directing an adaptation of “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” a collection of stories by David Foster Wallace.
By DAVE ITZKOFF
JUST as fans of the NBC sitcom “The Office” were celebrating the transformation of the fictional colleagues Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly from unrequited lovers to an honest-to-goodness couple, the writers’ strike cruelly stalled their romance and halted production on the show for several months. But for John Krasinski, the actor who plays Jim, the affable everydude of “The Office,” the news wasn’t all bad. He used the hiatus to resume postproduction work on his directorial debut, an adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” a collection of short stories and monologues that he has been trying to make into a film for more than five years.
Unscripted interview with George and John Krasinski
The Unscripted interview with George and John Krasinski for ‘Leatherheads’ is up now. (It’s the interview where George and John answer questions sent in by fans). It’s really great, really funny—they poke fun of one another, so cute. See it here!
LEATHERHEADS movie premiere, as viewed from an Extra
My wife, Linda and I went to one of the two Premier showings for movie Extras in Greenville, SC last night, and I did see myself in it (happily - after working 40hrs in 3 days last year). At 20 minutes or so into the movie there is a 2-3 second view of me walking out of the Historical Poinsett Hotel that Clooney has quickly pulled-up to on his motorcycle w/sidecar. Sometimes during the movie the images pass by rather quickly, but in other parts - the romantic ones in particular, the scenes are very close-up with Clooney and Renee Zellweger, where every word and facial expression have a lot of meaning, and are fun to interpret. The newbie to being in a lead role, Krasinski, does a great job in the way he conveys his confidence, his role as a football star, and as a war hero. Clooney, well need I say more? Having to play rough football with the younger guys and work on strategies for winning each game, he also shows his ability to work on a strategy to attempt to win-over Renee, the newspaper reporter. It was tough for “Dodge” to try to gain affection from the much younger “Lexie”, because he was competing over her against the war-hero and College superstar “Carter”. Renee was excellent in playing her role as kind of a sassy, but very attractive newspaper reporter starting to cover football games. She hung in there with the guys despite the occasional jokes directed at her during those games.
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