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| | George Clooney: 'Acting is not hard work' nobody wants to hear you complain' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some photos of George Clooney and Stacy Keibler from two nights ago. They went out to dinner and the paparazzi swarmed on them as they left the restaurant. According to People Magazine, Clooney & Cray-Cray were doing a double-date with Clooney?s producing partner and an unknown female, and everybody was drinking cocktails except for Clooney, who was only drinking wine. People also notes that Clooney and Keibler were ?packing on the PDA? – he was rubbing Stacy?s leg and at one point, Stacy ran her fingers through his wiglet hair and a source claimed: ?He just laughed and put his head on the table.”
Meanwhile, Clooney is not only campaigning for the Best Actor Oscar, he?s also campaigning for Man of the People. In a recent interview, Clooney took actors to task for complaining about how hard their job is. This is Clooney at his best, honestly:
“I cut tobacco for a living in Kentucky. That was hard work,” Clooney told the Hollywood Reporter. “I sold insurance door-to-door. That’s hard work. Acting is not hard work. If you’re lucky enough to be sitting at a table like this, you’ve been very lucky in your life. You caught the brass ring somewhere along the way. I’ve known a tremendous number of talented actors who didn’t get opportunities. Is it hard work? It’s long hours, but nobody wants to hear you complain. I remember I was selling women’s shoes at a department store, which is a lousy job.”
Clooney said no actors should complain about their profession.
“I remember I would hear of famous stars complaining in Hollywood about how hard their life was ? I didn’t want to hear that,” he said. “So I don’t find it difficult. I find it challenging, and sometimes I’m very bad at it, but I don’t find it hard.”
[From The Telegraph]
This is Clooney?s subtle way of reminding Academy members of how long he toiled, unrecognized and unappreciated. He?s a man of the people, he remembers what it was like to be a struggling actor (and a struggling anything), and he doesn?t take it for granted. I like this side of Clooney, always and forever. I hate the side of him that hires bimbos to be his ?girlfriends? for Oscar campaigns, though. How can I reconcile those two Clooneys?
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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| | George Clooney's Oscar chances get a boost from the National Board of Review | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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NOOoooooo. George Clooney and The Descendants just got a MAJOR boost for the awards season. So much for my one-woman campaign ?Say No To Oscar-Date Barbie?. Oscar-Date Barbie is going to be there! She?s going to be styled like Grace Kelly! She?s going to look smug and nervous and Clooney will look crotchety. It has been written.
So The National Board of Review released their awards list for this year. It does change up the expectations game somewhat – remember, Brad Pitt and Tree of Life got a boost from The New York Critics Circle Awards, announced earlier this week. Here?s the breakdown of the NBR awards:
Best Film: Hugo
Best Films of the Year (the shortlist): The Artist, The Descendants, Drive, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Ides of March, J. Edgar, Tree of Life and War Horse.
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Best Actor: George Clooney, The Descendants
Best Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best adapted screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s script, The Descendants
Best original screenplay: Will Reiser, 50/50
Best Ensemble: The cast of The Help
Spotlight Award: Michael Fassbender, for all of his roles this year
Breakthrough Awards: Felicity Jones in Like Crazy and Rooney Mara in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Yay for Tilda Swinton! I?ve been thinking that she would get an Oscar nomination for Kevin, and this gives her a nice boost. It also kind of sucks for Viola Davis, who likely hoped to glide through the season with all of the big accolades. Also YAY for Michael Fassbender. I wonder if Fassbender and Clooney will hang out during the awards season? I hope not. But it will probably happen – Fassbender loves a good party. Let?s get back to Clooney – does the NBR mean that Clooney?s a shoo-in for Best Actor? Not really. It means that he?s pretty much guaranteed a nomination, but there?s still a lot of campaigning to do.
One last thing: is Christopher Plummer the shoo-in for Best Supporting? Beginners came out of nowhere! Plummer might be a good position to get a ?career? Oscar.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | George Clooney & Stacy Keibler spent Thanksgiving in Cabo San Lucas with A-Rod | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney took his girlfriend Stacy Keibler down to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for the long Thanksgiving holiday. These Mexico jaunts are becoming a regular thing for Clooney – he spent last Christmas in Cabo with Elisabetta Canalis and some friends. Well, some of Clooney?s friends joined him on this trip too – notably, Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber and Alex Rodriguez. You can even see A-Rod in some of these photos – he?s facing George and Stacy. I feel like Alex was probably eyeing Stacy as a potential addition to his Gladiator Bikini Parties, where the buffest, burliest girl wins the chance to ride Alex?s jock for a night. Ew? I grossed myself out on that one.
Should we talk about Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber? They always travel to spend time with George and his girlfriend of the moment. Do you think Cindy ever gets tired of trying to make conversation with them? Do you think the girlfriends ever get jealous of Cindy? Because, just my opinion, George has always been in love with Cindy and he chooses girls that resemble her to varying degrees. It feels like it would be awkward, and yet Cindy and Rande turn up at all of George?s holidays.
I have another question: why is Clooney not spending his vacation time in Italy? He owns that beautiful villa, you?d think he?d want to spend more time there. I have a theory – something about Clooney wanting to be kind to Elisabetta Canalis, and he?s not going to bring any new girlfriends to Italy for a while. Plus, I think Clooney is just trying to dodge an Italian subpoena to appear in one of Silvio Berlosconi?s trials. At this point, can?t we just admit that Elisabetta was one of Berlosconi?s girls? She is exactly his type, and I suspect Elisabetta was a favorite for those bunga-bunga parties.
PS? I still can?t get enough of Clooney pointing at Stacy?s biscuits and making faces.
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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| | George Clooney on Stacy Keibler: 'she's very tall' She can kick my ass' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?m so glad that so many of you thought Stacy Keibler had (new) implants in yesterday?s post! CB and I were arguing about it, and I thought I was imagining those dents in the sides of her breasts. Chica totally got a boob job, and they look relatively new. Did Uncle Clooney buy her some new boobs? If he did, Cray-Cray should be terribly afraid. He usually only buys ?em new boobs when he?s about to dump ?em. Incidentally, Stacy Keibler was photographed leaving Clooney?s place solo (photos at the end of the post), and heading to LAX, where she caught a flight by herself. Did Clooney banish her?!? That would be hilarious, but doubtful. She?s Oscar Barbie! She?s all prepared to be his official Oscar-Date Barbie for all of the upcoming events. She?s contractually booked through March, I bet.
Anyway, you know what a kinky bastard Clooney is, right? Yeah. Well, he could barely contain himself as he described how Stacy could ?kick his ass? and how she can easily ?take him down?. Oh, Clooney.
If George Clooney and girlfriend Stacy Keibler ever get into a serious argument, the actor may have to watch his back.
“She’s very tall,” Clooney, 50, told E! News at The Descendants premiere in Los Angeles Tuesday night, when asked about his date. “She can kick my ass.”
Adding that the WWE star, 32, can also knock him down in a wrestling match, Clooney says, “She can take me two out of three falls.”
But luckily, Keibler is also a “nice girl,” according to Clooney. “She really is.”
[From People]
?And she gets some rope,? Clooney said, hitching up his pants and smirking. ?She gets his rope and I?m like, ?Baby, I don?t use rope, I use scarves.? And she?s like, ?We?re using the rope tonight, bitch.? And then she tackled me. Man, this girl. She?s really something, I tell ya. So anyway, our safe word is ?rutabaga? and she had this rope and she began tightening it around my??
?And then the poor People Magazine correspondent was like, ?Seriously, I?ve got enough, sir. Enjoy the premiere!? And the correspondent walked off the red carpet, his hands still shaking.
Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.
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| | George Clooney considered suicide after painful 'syriana' injury | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Back in 2004-05, George Clooney put on a lot of weight for a supporting role in Syriana. In the film (which I still have never seen), Clooney?s character is apparently being tortured, and as the scene progressed, Clooney did serious damage to his back. It was a serious enough injury that Clooney?s has had several surgeries to try to repair the damage, and I believe he still lives in pain. He even had to withdraw from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. because the stunt work would be too much for him. As I continue to see photos of Clooney?s press tour for The Ides of March and The Descendants, I?ve quietly begun to wonder if Clooney?s back isn?t still in bad shape. On many red carpets, Clooney?s shoulders have been slumped, and when he thinks the camera isn?t on him, he?s often mid-grimace. In Clooney?s recent Rolling Stone interview, he talks in detail about what it was like living in physical pain, and how he contemplated suicide:
George Clooney won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Syriana (2005), but you have to wonder if he winces every time he glances at his shiny trophy. Playing a bearded CIA operative caught up in the shifting sands of Middle East geopolitics, Clooney injured his spine during a scene in which his character is taped to a chair and tortured. Several surgeries were required to fix the problem, but Clooney still complains of rattling headaches. Back in 2005, he told Fresh Air?s Terry Gross that the pain became so persistent and aggravating at one point that he actually contemplated suicide. In the most recent issue of Rolling Stone, Clooney goes in to greater detail:
?I was at a point where I thought, ?I can?t exist like this. I can?t actually live.? I was lying in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm, unable to move, having these headaches where it feels like you?re having a stroke, and for a short three-week period, I started to think, ?I may have to do something drastic about this.? You start to think in terms of, you don?t want to leave a mess, so go in the garage, go in the car, start the engine. It seems like the nicest way to do it, but I never thought I?d get there. See, I was in a place where I was trying to figure out how to survive.?
[From Entertainment Weekly]
Poor guy. Now I feel bad for joking about how old he is. I mean, he is too old for these young chicas, and now we know that he probably doesn?t do much with them besides look. He just wants someone pretty on his arm, and for them not to jostle him! Poor George. I hate pain. I fear pain. I can totally understand having a moment of ?I can?t live in this kind of constant pain, so maybe I should just end it.? I?m not saying it?s right or recommending it or ANYTHING, I?m just saying that I understand, and good for Clooney for finding a way to live with it.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | George Clooney has iFart on his phone, loves the word 'Johnson' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney covers the new issue of Rolling Stone, likely to promote his latest film, The Descendants. I?m personally not all over seeing that, just because I think Alexander Payne is an overrated director whose films often make a better trailer than a good movie. I hated About Schmidt, did I ever mention that? I loathed that film. Anyway, Clooney is in his Oscar Campaign Mode, kissing his own ass in between feigning humility and talking about his humanitarian interests. Don?t get me wrong - I like Clooney?s passion for Hollywood, and his passion for his humanitarian work. But he?s sometimes off-putting instead of cool these days. Plus, I really think his back is killing him, because he?s always hunched over like a gnome these days, and that?s affected how I think of him now: like an old dude who has abused his body and who should stop messing around with these trashy young girls. Here are some highlights from the cover story:
Losing his virginity: Clooney reveals that that while he lost his virginity at the age of 16 (”young, very young, too young”), he had his first orgasm when he was much younger. “I believe it was while climbing a rope when I was six or seven years old,” he says. “I mean, nothing came out, but all the other elements were there. I remember getting to the top of the rope, hanging off the rope, and going, “Oh, my God, this feels great!”
Immature humor: Despite his debonair appearance, Clooney’s sense of humor can get a bit sophomoric. For example, the word “Johnson” always makes him laugh. “Always. ‘He showed her his Johnson and she left.’ You can actually say that in mixed company or on late-night TV.” He’s also pretty fond of farts, especially when hanging out with his pals. “We think it’s one of the funniest things in the history of mankind. Even the idea of a fart makes me laugh. Saying the word ‘fart’ makes me laugh. I have iFart on my phone. I have remote whoopee cushions. Farts. To me, there’s nothing funnier.”
On Stacy Keibler: He’s perfectly fine with his current lady, former pro wrestler Stacy Keibler, tweeting about “smiling all day long.” “She can do whatever she wants,” he says. “I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.”
He worships his dad: He may be one of the biggest celebrities in the world now, but Clooney grew up in the shadow of his father, a local TV newsman in Ohio and Kentucky. “You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio through northern Kentucky, my father was a big, big star. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us. If I scored 15 points in a basketball game, the paper would say ‘Nick Clooney’s son scored 15 points.’”
His early diagnosis with Bell?s Palsy: The fame was especially difficult for Clooney as he was struggling with the onset of Bell’s palsy, a form of facial paralysis. “It was very awkward, being watched like that, everybody looking at us, and then all of a sudden your face goes flat? My dad would always say, ‘It’s going to go away, you’ll be fine, you can handle it.” But it was a tricky thing. So, you develop a better personality and learn how to make jokes about it.”
His humanitarian work: ?My name is George and the world is in trouble. I can name you 40 hot spots in the world right now, and not just physically violent hot spots, but financially violent hot spots as well.”
He?s not Frank Sinatra: “I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don’t really exist. Things are actually fairly simple,” Clooney says.
He?s not metrosexual: “I’m the least metrosexual cat you’ve ever met. I’ve never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I’ve cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair,” Clooney says. “On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux ? it takes me three minutes to put on a tux ? and be out the door in 15 minutes.”
The Ides of March was cheap: Clooney directed and starred in ensemble political drama The Ides of March earlier this year. “It’s not designed for everybody to see, but I don’t give a shit,” he says. “I don?t need to be more famous and we shot it for $12 million, so anything we do is nice.”
The Descendants is a brilliant film, he says: Clooney’s most recent movie is a darkly amusing family drama called The Descendants, of which he says, “If it’s not nominated for Best Picture, I’ll be shocked. It’s that good.”
[From Rolling Stone]
Did I mention that I saw The Ides of March? I wouldn?t recommend it. It?s not actively bad, it?s just a waste of money and it has, like, a kindergarten-level understanding of politics. OK, that?s not fair. Middle-school level. If you want to see a good movie about modern presidential campaigning, watch the last two seasons of The West Wing and don?t mess around with this Ides of March nonsense.
As for his comments on Keibler - BITCH PUH-LEASE. He?s not stopping her tweeting? After he shut down Elisabetta Canalis?s Twitter after she re-tweeted something about Jennifer Aniston looking like Iggy Pop? Just wait for it.
Photos courtesy of Rolling Stone & WENN.
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| | George Clooney & Stacy Keibler at the H?wood Film Awards: busted & budget? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last night was a pretty great night for premieres and galas and events, so today is going to be full of photo-heavy posts. First up: the Hollywood Film Awards (presented by Starz). The HFA got a surprisingly good turnout considering it?s not really a big awards show. The ?stars? of the evening were definitely George Clooney and his girlfriend Stacy Keibler. As we know from yesterday?s post, Keibler is now charging up to $25,000 a night for these ?personal appearances?.
Stacy is wearing this purple Maria Lucia Hohan (the same designer of the dress Stacy wore in London). It?s awful, isn?t it? Stacy had been steadily improving, but I fear we are witnessing a D-list relapse! It looks like a really bad pageant dress, only I don?t even think that pageant girls wear these kinds of boob-embellishment gowns anymore. Plus, the bottom half is sheer, and that dress feature is? rather tacky. In this insistence. Um, are those built-in black bicycle shorts underneath the sheer skirt? WTF? Why do Clooney?s girls always look like strippers that got off of an eight-hour shift? And why does Clooney keep pointing to Stacy?s poor vagina?
To get that image out of your head, here are some photos of the always-lovely Ewan Mcgregor, who was also at the HFA last night. I?m not in love with his hair right now, but I still love him so much. Ewan and Clooney are tight, you know. I wonder what Ewan thinks of Clooney?s rental girls?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Stacy Keibler at Another 'Descendants' Premiere | | Added 12 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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George Clooney took his new piece Stacy Keibler to another Descendants premiere. This time in the UK and this time with a bit more cleavage.
Would it hurt Clooney to smile more though? He sort of does it here but it feels more like constipation than anything else.
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| | Stacy Keibler Drops Some Classy Cleavage | | Added 12 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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I for one am glad that Stacy Kebler is dating George Clooney, not because the son of a bitch gets to do things to her that I can only dream of, but because it means we get to see a lot of her these days. Here she is at yet another movie premiere dropping some
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| | Stacy Keibler Had a Wardrobe Malfunction | | Added 12 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Since the first time was a success and not an embarrassment, George Clooney and Stacy Keibler showed up together for the second time at the Paris premiere of The Descendants. This time not without minor technical difficulties.
At one point in the night, Stacy’s dress started slipping off one side revealing her boob tape. But she managed to readjust herself and put everything back in place.
May I just say, the inventor of double sided sticky tape can go to hell.
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