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| | George Clooney & Stacy Keibler are still together & they?ll be in DC this weekend | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some new photos of George Clooney and Stacy Keibler last night in LA. They went out to dinner with Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber. So, what can we determine from these pics? Stacy gets along with George?s BFFs, Cindy and Rande. Stacy and George are still together. George is enough of a gentleman to open Stacy?s car door for her. And Stacy and George still make eye contact, which is a good sign. It?s always a bad sign when George can?t even force himself to make eye contact with one of his pieces. Still, I swear Stacy looks a little bit nervous and scared. Like, ?Will this be the night he tells me to pack my bags? Is this the night where he orders a car service for me and I ask why and he says, ?Baby, you know why??? Poor Stacy.
George and Stacy are due at the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend, although their invitations are probably a bit tarnished now that every crackhead and famewhore is coming. Of course, what does Stacy care? She doesn?t. While George and the men talk politics, Stacy will be staring off into space, thinking about puppies and butterflies.
As I mentioned in today?s Brangelina post, Star Magazine has a funny fake story about Brad calling up George after he proposed to Angelina, and Brad?s enthusiasm was contagious. So, obviously, George has decided to go twinsies with Brad and George is going to propose to Stacy! The whole piece isn?t worth transcribing, but there are a few highlights I wanted to mention. Apparently, George loves that ?Stacy?s like one of the guys and puts no pressure on him.? So George has decided to propose and he?s already planning yet another ?double wedding? with Brangelina. Obviously, Angelina isn?t happy about this because she kind of hates Stacy and Angelina refuses to get to know any of George?s pieces-of-the-month. Ridiculous.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | George Clooney & Stacy Keibler are still together, on vacation in Mexico | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I should really be following Stacy Keibler on Twitter. It would save me some time, I think. Like, I would have known days ago that Stacy was Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Except that if I hadn?t seen these photos, I would have only believed that Stacy was there with friends, not her boyfriend. But here you go – George Clooney took Stacy down to Cabo yet again. They also spent Thanksgiving and Christmas down there, I believe. It?s noteworthy because it seemed like Stacy and George had been keeping separate schedules after the Oscars, and some of us thought that Clooney and Keibler were about to end their relationship, per their contract. Well? it seems like contract renegotiations went well for Stacy. Another trip to Cabo, with George and his friends – including Rande Gerber and some young dude with a baby.
Just a week earlier, he was sitting in a jail after being arrested while protesting outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington D.C. So no doubt, sunning himself in Mexico with his girlfriend by his side was quite the tonic for George Clooney. Following his high-profile arrest alongside his father Nick, the 50-year-old actor jetted off to his regular haunt in Cabo San Lucas with Stacy Keibler and a few friends.
Looking relaxed in a pair of blue shorts and T-shirt, the Descendants star sipped on a beer as he chatted to his friends. Former wrestler Keiber, 32, looked like she was enjoying the warm weather in a black bikini, ripped denim shorts and her favourite fedora hat. Last week, she uploaded a photo of an idyllic beach on Twitter, gushing: ‘Soaking up the sun in Cabo! What are your favourite beaches?’
She also revealed she had been reading Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games novels. She tweeted: ‘Just read @thehungergames in 2 days. #obsessed.’
Cabo San Lucas is one of Clooney’s favourite holiday destinations, which he has taken a string of previous girlfriends to. In the eight months they’ve been dating, Keibler has already joined Clooney in Cabo three times, making this recent trip her fourth. The actor first took to Cabo last October for her 32nd birthday and they also spent the New Year’s holidays there with his close friends Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber.
Their latest trip follows Clooney’s arrest for civil disobedience after crossing a police line during a protest outside the Sudan embassy on March 16. He was fined $100 after spending a few hours behind bars before being released.
[From The Mail]
Is it weird to anyone else that Clooney no longer travels to Lake Como with any regularity? Maybe he?ll go this summer – but I don?t think he?s been back since he and Elisabetta Canalis called it quits. Are the memories of Eli?s Adam?s apple just that devastating to poor George? Does he miss Eli? Is he happy with Stacy? Maybe he?ll just stick with Stacy until she messes up – like, she?ll give an interview about how much she wants babies and marriage. And then it will be over.
I?m still dying to know the identity of that dude with the baby. Who brings a baby on vacation with George Clooney?!?!
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | George Clooney just got arrested outside of the Sudanese embassy in DC | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I was expecting to see the headline ?George Clooney arrested? at some point in my life. But I always thought the headline would involve the words ?prostitute? or ?men?s bathroom? or ?sex game gone awry leading to unfortunate death of a young woman.? Fortunately for all, George Clooney just got arrested for doing something awesome – he was with her father and a group of activists and Congressmen, all protesting outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington.
No, it wasn’t for a movie. Actor George Clooney, long a political activist, was arrested and handcuffed outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington for protesting the country’s blockage of food and aid as well as its treatment of its people.
Clooney’s father, journalist Nick Clooney, 78, was with him and was also arrested, as were Martin Luther King III, NAACP President Ben Jealous, Rep Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and former Rep. Tom Andrews (D-Mass.). They were taken away in a police van.
Speaking before the large crowd that gathered to watch the protest, Clooney said the group wanted “the (Sudanese) government in Khartoum to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children. Stop raping them, and stop starving them.”
Because the embassy is private property, Clooney and colleagues knew that refusing to move would end in arrest. They were warned three times before police moved in to make the arrests.
The group held a sign that read “Sudan: Stop Weapons of Mass Starvation,” the Associated Press reported.
[From MSNBC]
An embassy isn?t just ?private property?. An embassy is that country?s sovereign soil. If the Sudanese ambassador (or attach, or whomever) thought Clooney was on Sudanese soil, they could have arrested him and taken him into the embassy. Clooney and his group of do-gooders should be happy that they were taken into custody by the Metro police.
As for what happens next? I doubt Sudan will press charges (do they really want any more bad press?), but if Clooney does face charges, it will probably just be a misdemeanor and he?ll pay a fine or something.
Here?s MSNBC?s video of the arrest – I love how the lady just starts riffing on all of Clooney?s Hollywood friends.
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Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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Getting an early start to his day, George Clooney was seen out and about in Washington DC this morning (March 14).
The ?Descendants? stud looked dapper in a dark suit as he prepared to testify before Congress regarding war crimes in Sudan, as well as a meeting with President Barack Obama.
During his recent interview on the ?Today? show, George shared that his post-Oscars trip to Sudan was nothing short of alarming.
"We showed up in one village and there was -- 150 people had come out and were cheering for us to come. Clearly somebody had told them that we were coming. ... And then all of a sudden everyone just started running,? he explained, noting that there were rockets flying overhead and exploding nearby.
"Right now what is going on in the Sudan changes the cost of your gas every single day of your life. If for no other reason than your economic interests, there is plenty of reason to make sure that your government is involved in trying to secure some form of peace."
However, Clooney noted that the ethnic cleansing in Sudan is the real problem. "You feel an enormous, enormous sense of responsibility. We're only successful as a human race by how we look out for the people who can't look out for themselves."
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| | George Clooney returns from Sudan, will testify before Senate about ethnic cleansing | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As I was watching the first ten minutes of The Today Show this morning, I was unprepared for the clip of Ann Curry?s interview with George Clooney. I mean, Clooney is just talking about his latest trip to Sudan, and it?s all very serious, but first thing in the morning, all I could think was ?Damn, Clooney looks HOT.? Like, you should watch the video because it?s interesting, but you should also watch it because of the hotness. I?m not all about Clooney?s attractiveness, you know. My mother is – she?s a major Clooney fan-girl. But I never get all hot and bothered for him? until right now. It?s the scruff, right? His hair is grown out, he looks disheveled and it?s hot. And he’s talking about important issues, and he doesn’t sound like an idiot. Which adds to the hotness.
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Apparently, Clooney flew to Sudan shortly after the Oscars, which is the same thing he did in 2006, after he won his Oscar. He talks about the people he met, the ethnic cleansing in the villages, and President Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, who has been indicted for war crimes. Clooney is in Washington today (these photos are from Washington) to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about his trip to Sudan; afterward, and then he?s going to meet with Secretary Hillary Clinton and President Obama in the Oval Office. Do you think he?ll shave?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Stacy Keibler is jealous of Angelina Jolie & she wants George Clooney's baby | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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We haven?t heard much about Stacy Keibler since the Oscars. I was thinking about that yesterday, idly wondering how her post-Oscars contract renegotiation was going. If this week?s tabloid stories are any indication, I?d say that Stacy is still hellbent on being George Clooney?s ?Oscar-Date Barbie? for at least another year. While I thought George seemed rather over it at the Oscars, I?ve often been wrong about body-language-reading with George and his ladies. Maybe Stacy will stick around, maybe she won?t. But she probably won?t get many more chances to hang out with Angelina Jolie – more than a month ago, Us Weekly reported that Angelina kind-of hates Stacy. And now Star Mag claims that Stacy kind-of hates Jolie too. If ?hate? means ?is insanely jealous of?.
Brad isn?t the only one who didn?t like Angelina Jolie?s leg-posing: Just ask George Clooney?s flavor of the month, Stacy Keibler.
?She told George that Angelina was hamming it up too much,? says an insider, who reveals that Stacy is ?quite jealous? of Angie.
?She had hoped to be the belle of the ball, but she proved to be pretty uninteresting on the red carpet the minute she left George?s side. Besides, all eyes were on Angelina.?
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
Oscar-Date Barbie FAIL. All are secondary to The Leg! The Leg must dominate the weak. The Leg must dominate the world!!!!!!! To be fair to Stacy, I really don?t think this is how she really feels. George, Brad Pitt and their ladies went out to dinner after the Oscars, and my guess is that Stacy and Angelina were, at worst, civil to each other. Stacy knows her place on the celebrity food chain – I doubt she thinks she?s in ?competition? with Angelina Jolie for attention, you know?
But getting back to Stacy?s contract renegotiations, In Touch Weekly has a funny/sad story that I guess we?re supposed to believe? Allegedly, Clooney sat Stacy down and asked her to consider having his baby. OUT OF WEDLOCK!! *clutches pearls*
George Clooney has always insisted that he doesn?t want kids – but it looks like he may have finally changed his tune! An insider says Clooney has talked to Stacy Keibler about trying to have a baby as soon as possible. George apparently has had babies on the brain for some time now – and he thinks his 32-year-old girlfriend would make an ideal baby mama.
?Stacy is completely head over heels in love with him, and she knew going into the relationship that he wasn?t likely to marry her,? says a friend. ?But she is really ready to have a child and feels that George would make the perfect father.?
According to another friend, George and Stacy had ?the talk,? where they discussed where they thought the relationship was going and about the idea of having a child out of wedlock.
?George brought it up first, but Stacy thinks it?s a good idea,? the pal says. ?George is constantly telling her how perfect she is for him in every way.?
[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]
Yeah, this didn?t happen. I agree with all of you theorize that Clooney had a vasectomy – I think that?s how he?s avoided certain ?accidents? with his often low-class girls. And while vasectomies are reversible, I just don?t think any of this happened in any way. Clooney and Stacy probably did sit down for The Talk. But ?The Talk? was about her contract and whether he could still afford her increased rates.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | George Clooney Doesn't Give a Sh*t If You Think He's Gay | | Added 13 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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In an interview with The Advocate, George Clooney addresses those gay rumors that have been following him for most of his career due to the revolving door of women around his penis.
The gay rumor has followed you for years.
I think it?s funny, but the last thing you?ll ever see me do is jump up and down, saying, ?These are lies!? That would be unfair and unkind to my good friends in the gay community. I?m not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing. My private life is private, and I?m very happy in it. Who does it hurt if someone thinks I?m gay? I?ll be long dead and there will still be people who say I was gay. I don?t give a shit.
That’s weird. I always thought jumping up and down and vehemently denying something was the way to go when you want to put an end to unfounded rumors. “He’s so adamant,” people would say. “He must be telling the truth.”
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| | George Clooney: 'Who does it hurt if someone thinks I?m gay' I don't give a sh-t' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney has a nice interview in the new issue of The Advocate. I?m guessing that he did this before the Oscars, which means that George was probably in the mind-set of ?This will be published after I win my second Oscar, so I need to sound like I?ve just been crowned The King of Hollywood.? That?s not fair, though. He?s only slightly preachy in this piece. The reason behind the interview is interesting – he?s participating in a one-night-only reading of Dustin Lance Black?s play 8, which is ?adapted from transcripts of California?s historic Proposition 8 trial.? Clooney is all about gay rights! And he doesn?t care if you think he?s gay, either. Well? he probably does care. But he doesn?t want you to know he cares. You can read the whole piece here, and here are some highlights:
On why he’s fighting for marriage equality: It?s always been this albatross that stood out to me as the final leg of the civil rights movement. It really came to a head during the 2004 elections, when it was used as a wedge issue, and it was a very effective tool to keep the Republicans in office and to avoid talking about other issues. Well before Prop. 8, I?ve made the point that every time we?ve stood against equality, we?ve been on the wrong side of history. It?s the same kind of argument they made when they didn?t want blacks to serve in the military, or when they didn?t want blacks to marry whites. One day the marriage equality fight will look as archaic as George Wallace standing on the University of Alabama steps keeping James Hood from attending college because he was black. People will be embarrassed to have been on the wrong side. So it?s encouraging to know that this too will seem like such a silly argument to our next generation. There are even a lot of young conservatives today for whom marriage equality isn?t an issue. It always takes government an extra generation to catch up to the people.
On his bromance with Brad Pitt: I do think we?ve set the bar very high. People think Brad and I hang out all the time, but the truth is that we see each other very rarely, maybe a couple times a year. I?ve had great fun spending time with my friend again over the awards season. Not only do I enjoy him as a person and respect his talent, but I also love what he does in the world. I can?t speak highly enough about how hard he works at making the world better. I?m very proud to call him my friend.
On actors coming out: It?s obviously not the same as if it were the ?50s and ?60s with Rock Hudson. Look at Neil Patrick Harris. He?s a big star on a hit show, and no one?s telling him he can?t play a straight womanizer. I use Neil as an example because I?ve spent time with him and I like him a lot. People like Neil and Ellen DeGeneres have opened the door to making it easier for everyone, and now each person just has to figure out his or her own path. Maybe it?s as simple as a gay actor going to work and getting the job done.
On gay rumors about him: I think it?s funny, but the last thing you?ll ever see me do is jump up and down, saying, ?These are lies!? That would be unfair and unkind to my good friends in the gay community. I?m not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing. My private life is private, and I?m very happy in it. Who does it hurt if someone thinks I?m gay? I?ll be long dead and there will still be people who say I was gay. I don?t give a sh-t.
On making a gay biopic, such as The Paul Lynde Story: Yeah, I?d play the center square. The title of the movie would be I?ll Take Paul Lynde to Block. Listen, there are a bunch of interesting stories out there, but I just haven?t found a screenplay with a gay subject that felt right for me as something that I could direct or act in. I?m certainly not avoiding it. Whether it?s about being gay or it just happens to have a gay character, if it?s a great screenplay, let?s go do it.
George thinks Ryan Gosling is hot: Not that I don?t think Bradley Cooper is a perfectly sexy guy, but I?m still shocked that Ryan Gosling didn?t get Sexiest Man Alive last year. I thought he worked hard and ran a very solid campaign, so I feel that he was ripped off.
On Michael Fassbender’s nude scene in Shame: Well, c?mon. Every guy who saw that movie was like, ?Jesus Christ,? at the exact same time.
[From The Advocate]
I love that Clooney keeps talking about Michael Fassbender and, you know, the Fassdong. Clooney should be Fassy?s publicist – he?s doing more to get Michael noticed than anyone else (except for me, I guess).
As for the possibility that Clooney is gay – I?ve gone back and forth on it in the past. At this point, I think Clooney is mostly straight. If you told me he liked dudes who looked like ladies, I wouldn?t be surprised. If you told me he?ll date a woman even if she wasn?t born a woman, I would agree. But I do think he?s mostly straight – if he was gay, he would certainly have better taste in beards, wouldn?t he? He has sex with women. Woman with Adam?s apples. Women who are very strong, women who don?t mind dominating in some friendly games amongst consenting adults.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.
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| | George Clooney & Marchesa-clad Stacy Keibler: tacky, bitter or beautiful? | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last night, Jean Dujardin and Harvey Weinstein scored a major victory when Dujardin, a little-known French actor with oodles of charm and humor and barely any name recognition, ended up taking home the Best Actor Oscar. Didn?t Dujardin know that the Oscar was supposed to go to George Clooney?!?!? And so that became the conversation – how did Clooney lose what was considered a ?sure thing?? Clooney came into the awards season ahead of everyone else, he was the one to beat, it was his to lose. So what went wrong? Are we looking at what went wrong in these photos? Are people getting tired of seeing Clooney?s escort-of-the-moment on every red carpet?
Now, I?m not really blaming Stacy Keibler. She?s doing her best, she?s hustling, she?s trying to be the perfect Oscar-Date Barbie. Whatever happened between late December and today, it?s all Clooney. He wants to date C-list wrestlers and scandal-prone Italian ?performers? – which is fine. His choice. But he wants to dress them up and whitewash them – ?Pretty Woman? these girls and force us to accept them as his equal partners. And it?s just not working anymore, is it? That?s what Clooney?s body language on the red carpet told me – his face said, ?I might need a new strategy.? Of course, he might end up doubling-down on this strategy, though. Every time I think one of his girls is on the way out, she ends up hanging on for months longer. But it certainly seemed like he didn?t want Stacy to even open her mouth, right? He seemed contemptuous. Bitter.
So, poor Oscar-Date Barbie. I felt bad that she felt the need to dress up like a damn Oscar statue in this gold Marchesa. Why was everyone talking about how great this dress is? It?s not good. And I have to say something shocking about it too – I think Stacy makes the dress look much better than it really should look. Somehow, a busted dress on a budget girl equals ?not that horrible.? I did hate Stacy?s hair, though. And her earrings were horrible!!
Last thing: we got a promotional email letting us know that Stacy had used ?Biore Combination Skin Balancing Cleanser? before the Oscars. I wonder how much she got paid for that endorsement? Poor Oscar-Date Barbie.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | George Clooney talks about his profound loneliness, all for his Oscar campaign | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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George Clooney covers the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, and dear God, this man can TALK. He wants the Oscar so badly – does his blatant desire make you like him more or less? This bitch of an article is NINE PAGES. You can read the whole thing here – I?m going to try to do some highlights below:
George watches TV: He watches ESPN and Modern Family as well as everything from The Soup to Jersey Shore. He is in bed by 10?p.m. almost every evening, wakes multiple times a night and loathes going to bed without the TV on. “Turning off the television causes me to think, and once I start that vision roaring, I have a very tough time getting to sleep,” he admits. With the flickering screen, “I’m able to numb out.” Even then, “Without question, I wake every night five times.”
He drinks too much sometimes: “I drink at times too much. I do enjoy drinking, and there have been times in my life when it’s crossed the line from being fun to having to drink late at night for absolutely no reason. So what I do is, I stop. I haven’t had a drink since New Year’s Eve.”
Clooney?s not about the money: The combined budgets of his two current movies are a fraction of Batman’s and about the equivalent of most superstars’ fees — $12 million for Ides and $20 million for Descendants. Clooney took a humble $300,000 upfront for the latter. It’s one of his more intriguing aspects that he has remained so powerful and prominent in our imagination without bigger hits or taking more than scale — at most a few hundred thousand dollars, backend excluded — since the $10 million he received for 2000?s The Perfect Storm. He is singularly unmotivated by money, though time and again he returns to the theme, expressing an awareness that, if necessary, he will sell one of his homes. (He puts nothing in the stock market, which he describes as “Vegas, without the fun.”)
Clooney the writer: “I woke and sat down and wrote the whole scene in the kitchen between Ryan [Gosling] and myself: ‘You want to be president. ? You can start a war, you can lie, you can cheat, you can bankrupt the country, but you can’t f– the interns.’ ” He personally attended the 2010 American Film Market — that annual November gathering in Santa Monica where buyers and sellers haggle over rights — just to raise money for the film, then gave away his share of profits to get it made. “[Co-writer] Grant Heslov and I sat there for a day and a half, and they’d bring in 12 people from Japan, from the Netherlands, and I would pitch them the whole movie, and then the next group would come in,” he says with a laugh. “I was an encyclopedia salesman!”
How he lives, and THR brings up the Clooney Dilemma: Clooney’s house, bought for $980,000 back in 1995 with ER paychecks (hardly chump change, but not the kind of price that proclaims movie-star excess), looks as if it could belong to any normal man who happened to make some money, apart from its subtle and discreet taste. There are no Oscars, Emmys or other awards visible in public places, no servants bustling in hushed tones — just his personal assistant of many years, Angel, and a black cocker spaniel named Einstein that Clooney adopted from a local shelter. A few days earlier, Einstein ate all the loose cash left out by Clooney’s present girlfriend, Stacy Keibler of Dancing With the Stars (a former professional wrestler). The women who pass in and out of his life, few lasting longer than two or three years, have been the source of endless Internet speculation, likely because they rarely appear to be his professional or intellectual equals, and range from waitresses to models to an Italian starlet.
His relationship with Keibler, and marriage: He won’t go into his relationship with Keibler because “there is so little in my life that is private,” but he does admit that this man who once won a bet with Michelle Pfeiffer that he wouldn’t be married again by 40 hasn’t ruled it out. Divorced from actress Talia Balsam, he has in the past rejected the idea; now he argues, “I don’t even think about it, really.”
On Brad Pitt: “Brad is one of the great guys,” he says. “We’re good friends, but it’s different from what people think, meaning we don’t spend a lot of time together. He has been to my home in Como; we motorcycle together. But until recently, I hadn’t seen Brad in a year.”
Lonely Boy: “Anyone would be lying if they said they didn’t get lonely at times,” he says. “The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it’s a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.” He adds, “I have been infinitely more alone in a bad relationship; there’s nothing more isolating. I have been in places in my life where that has existed.” He also has been cheated on and even ditched “and left for someone; all those things. And it was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw it coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get [one woman] back. But we all make dumb mistakes.”
A Brad Pitt story: “A couple of years ago, [Brad Pitt] really nailed me. He did one of those shows and they asked him when he was going to marry Angie, and he said, ‘I’ll marry when George can legally marry [a man].’?” He laughs. “He really got me badly, something I have had to deal with the past few years. But I could give a shit. I have to live in the world that I care about and that’s all that matters.”
Criticizing the Iraq War: “They did a half-hour show on Fox saying my career was over, and there was a cover of one of those magazines with the word ‘traitor’ written on it, and the White House was passing out a deck of weasels and I was on one of the cards,” he recalls. After initial anger, there was a brief moment when he felt afraid. “I called my dad and said, ‘Am I in trouble?’ And he said, ‘Grow up. You’ve got money. You’ve got a job. You can’t demand freedom of speech and then say, “But don’t say bad things about me.” ‘ And he was right.”
Bell?s palsy: At 14, a pivotal age for anyone, disaster struck in the form of Bell’s palsy, a kind of paralysis whose cause is unknown that leads to dysfunction in the facial nerves. Clooney has made light of the matter, but it lasted far longer than most of his friends realize. “As I started high school, half my face was paralyzed for six months,” he says. “That’s a long, long time. You wake up one morning and your tongue is numb, and you can’t drink. Milk starts pouring out of the side of your face. You don’t know when it’s going to end; you don’t know if it is going to end. And there’s no treatment.”
He?s tried coke: He drank, partied and even sampled cocaine, though he says, “I didn’t have an issue with it. I’m not a big druggie, not at all. Blow is absolutely a nonstarter.”
On his Three Kings director David O. Russell: “I saw David [O. Russell, the director with whom Clooney had a famous falling-out] a few weeks ago at a party. There was a bunch of filmmakers there. And I felt compelled to go over and go, ‘So are we done?’ And he goes, ‘Please.’ And I said, ‘OK.’ Because we made a really, really great film, and we had a really rough time together, but it’s a case of both of us getting older. I really do appreciate the work he continues to do, and I think he appreciates what I’m trying to do.”
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
You won?t even believe how much I had to cut out. Seriously. This man can TALK. He talks a lot about his childhood, about his back injury and dealing with years of pain (which he?s still dealing with). He talks about his friends and the lean years of Hollywood and all of that. Most of it you?ve heard before, because Clooney says the same stuff over and over. But it?s a decent read. He seemed really vulnerable in this piece, honestly. I do kind of feel bad for him. Poor Lonely Boy.
Photos courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, WENN.
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