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| | Critics Choice Fashion: Stacy Keibler & George Clooney, glamorous in Armani? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney was anointed by Hollywood last night at the Critics Choice Awards. At least, that?s how it went in George?s mind. Look? one of my problems with George is that although he and I share many of the same political views, I?m usually turned off by his political and general smugness. I feel like his speech about Haiti – not to mention his acceptance speech – turned into a ?Clooney Knows Best, Listen Up Women and Children, I?m Going To Tell You What You Should Think About Important Issues? lecture. Do I agree with what he says for the most part? Yep. I just find his attitude unbearable sometimes. Although?I did think it was sweet when George won and he went over to the Moneyball table and he and Brad Pitt kissed each other. Brad was really classy, and he gave George a standing ovation. Their bromance is sweet.
Anyway?George was there with Oscar-Date Barbie, of course. This is one of the first red carpets where Stacy has worn her hair down. I?m surprised by how cute she looks with a blowout! She should wear it down more often, it really softens her. It makes her look younger too – perhaps too young, because it really does seem like George is showing off his daughter, right?
Stacy?s dress is Armani – Armani loves George, and Armani always ends up dressing George?s girls. The fit of the dress is great, and I even like the little cowl neck, and the sparkly straps at the back. This is a solid look for Stacy, one of her best. Her makeup is even subdued! No drag queeny makeup for Oscar Date-Barbie.
The camera kept cutting to George?s table too, and Stacy always looked lively and happy. I saw her posing for photos with Viola Davis, which? I mean, Viola has better things to do. Stacy seems like an enthusiastic puppy, just happy to jump around and get attention. We’ll see, Stacy. We’ll see.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.
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| | George Clooney & Stacy Keibler at the NBR Awards: adorable or trashy? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney took home the Best Actor Award at the National Board of Review Awards last night. And his Oscar-Date Barbie was at his side, of course. Stacy wore this Marchesa dress, which? what does THAT mean? Is she trying to get Harvey Weinstein?s eye? Does Stacy want to get into movies? Maybe she just liked the dress. Honestly, considering the kind of crap Marchesa usually puts out (ice skater fugness), this dress isn?t terrible. Stacy even looks kind of glamorous. Plus, her makeup improved here, especially since she was looking drag queeny in Palm Springs.
As for Clooney and what this award means, and his chances in the long-run for a Best Actor Oscar? I don?t know. The National Board of Review is one of the most prestigious of the critics? awards, and the fact that they?ve anointed Clooney definitely helps his chances. Clooney is also helping himself by hustling harder than I?ve seen him hustle in previous years – I don?t remember Clooney doing this many television, magazine and newspaper interviews in a LONG time. And while he?s being interviewed, he?s doing the awards season dance – oh, he doesn?t care about the awards, but yes, he?s going to hustle and campaign because why not and why don?t you love him and just vote for him anyway? Whatever. Team Pitt. I would love to see Brad win over Clooney. And I would love to see Michael Fassbender beat both of them.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Stacy Keibler and George Clooney Are in Cabo | | Added 13 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Because celebrities work so hard reading words off pieces of paper, they need a vacation every month or so just to unwind. Eye strain is no joke! Hence, George Clooney and Stacy Keibler are in Cabo San Lucas, for the third time in the span of two months, riding around in golf carts and telling some poor Mexican to fetch them Perrier and a vodka tonic, post haste.
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| | George Clooney covers Esquire: 'Democrats are terrible at selling' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney covers the January issue of Esquire Magazine, the theme of which is ?The Meaning of Life?. Ugh, dudes. It?s just a magazine! Anyway, Clooney is shilling The Descendants hard, of course, and George really, really wants another Oscar. So instead of sitting down with People Magazine to talk about his girlfriend (that comes a few weeks from now), George sits down with his dog, Einstein, and talks about ?the meaning of life.? The whole article is written in George?s ?voice? – you can read the whole thing here. I?ll try to do some highlights:
On politics: I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, “Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.”
Clooney on the Democratic Party?s biggest problem: ?If this were a Republican president and Republican government, the advisors around it would be selling this as the most successful three years of a presidency in years. They’d start by saying, “When my guy took office, we were losing four hundred thousand jobs a month. That would mean fourteen million less jobs if we continued along that pace. And it stopped immediately. We saved the auto industry. We passed a health-care bill that no one could pass” ? although Republicans wouldn’t have wanted that. “We killed Osama bin Laden.” You could go down the list of things that you could brag about. But Democrats are terrible at selling. So they’re just kind of apologizing, and everybody feels disillusioned.?
Clooney doesn?t play the stock market: I didn’t put money in the stock market. To me that’s like Vegas without the dancing girls ? none of the fun, no gambling or dancing or drinking ? and you don’t get to participate. So I paid off my house in cash when I could. It’s about having a foundation for when things go bad. I still have that mentality. When things go badly, I’ll have this piece of land I can sell first, and then I have this piece of land I can sell second. You always think that way.
He?s not a balls-out Method Actor: Somebody asked me, How can you relate to being a father? Well, I’m also not running for president, but I played that role in Ides of March. I wasn’t an actual lawyer when I did Michael Clayton, and I don’t fire people for a living like I did in Up in the Air. Go down the list. It’s just a job. An acting job is playing pretend. I’ve been a child of somebody’s. I’ve been an uncle. All my friends have kids. I’m around kids. I have an understanding of what it is. And I also have a really good script that informs me what is required of this father. Because, for the most part, the father I play in The Descendants doesn’t resemble any of the fathers that I know. I don’t have friends who have the kind of issues that this guy has. So a lot of it is just the information you get from the screenplay. There are Method actors that are really wonderful. I don’t bash anybody’s way of working because the results are the only thing that matter in this game. But for me, I don’t have to do heroin to play a heroin addict.
On money, and doing commercials overseas: Ides of March I did for scale ? scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer. And I don’t have any back end on it. So I’m not going to make any money after that. I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well. The wedding one in Norway was great. I usually try to keep away from anything that would have to do with me personally. I always think the commercials should make fun of me, sort of as a personality, but I try to keep my personal life out of it. But they called and sent the script, and the idea was funny. This woman in Norway wakes up and she’s married to me. It makes a big difference when you’re working with the Carol Burnett of Norway. She’s great, and it turned out fantastic. That commercial in particular helped fund a satellite project that keeps an eye on the Sudanese border to try to hold these war criminals in check. The satellite project costs about a million and two a year. So I’m always looking for a gig like that.
On relationships and marriage: People forget that I was married. I love that, Will he get married? I don’t talk about it because I don’t think about it. I don’t ever question other peoples’ versions of how they live their lives or what they do. I understand that it’s a subject of interest for people. But sometimes it exists only because it came up years ago. It becomes this conversation piece that constantly resurfaces. Everybody sort of has their own versions of what they think I am and what they think that is. I’m just living my life and doing the best I can. The rest of those versions, there’s not much I can do about. No matter what I do, I’m somehow upsetting someone in some way or making somebody happy. I can only live my own life and my version of it. My life isn’t focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I’m doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work. If I focused on results, if it’s only about the ultimate results, I’d be a failure in Sudan, I’d be a failure in film, I’d be a failure with my friendships, I’d be a failure in relationships. I look at it as an ongoing process.
[From Esquire]
I love that he talked about that awesome Norwegian commercial – go here to see it. He also talks a lot about politics and his humanitarian work, and he even talks about his dog. It was a decent piece, and the whole ?in Clooney?s own voice? angle worked really well for this particular piece. I get tired of most Esquire celebrity pieces that are just a lot of filler crap that no one cares about. Good read!
Photos courtesy of Esquire.
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| | George Clooney: 'Acting is not hard work' nobody wants to hear you complain' | | Added 13 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 13 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 13 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 13 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 13 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 13 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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