Articles tagged with: George Clooney
It looks like 2008 has turned into the year of strikes - even the most comically pointless, vanity-fuelled professions are packing up their tools in a huff.
By which we, of course, mean acting. Just a few short months after the Hollywood writers strike came bumbling to an end, the two big actor unions are squabbling over whether or not they should go on strike too. And in times as troubled as these a wise, near-biblical hero figure is needed to set everything back on course.
And, with thudding inevitability, that figure is George Clooney. George Clooney has written a letter to both the Screen Actors Guild (which wants to strike) and the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists (which doesn't) proclaiming his clear and ineffably correct opinion on who's right and who's wrong. Turns out he thinks that everyone's right. Nice going George, that could have got nasty.
Last time hecklerspray got a crank call, it was an easy solve.
All we had to do was pull the string that was attached to our paper-cup earpiece and it lead us straight to Zac Efron’s mom. She was in our living room, even though clearly nobody would have let her in – after all she is a literal cow. It happened just like in Beastmaster, witches and all. Well that is certainly what it says on Zac’s Wikipedia page anyway – third paragraph down.
As we stood there watching Zac Efron’s cow mom scurry back to the field from whence she came, we couldn’t help but wonder how a major star, like say George Clooney, might handle an uncalled-for crank like that.
And the answer there is police involvement.
For as much as the world justifiably makes fun of Fabio, not many would perhaps make as much fun to his face.
Two feet behind him sniggering and pointing? Yes. While watching his fake butter commercials from the comfort and safety of our living room? Naturally. But not to his face, because he’s actually a pretty big dude, and if you get beaten up by Fabio you may as well just fasten a plastic bag over your face right tight because you only have a lifetime of crippling humiliation to look forward to.
According to an interview in April’s edition of Esquire magazine, actor George Clooney had somewhat of a similar realisation when he had a nasty encounter with Fabio in a restaurant. Well, it's about figgin' time he spoke up about an incident that was barely an incident and everyone had forgotten about. Yeesh!
You have to feel sorry for the UN, always failing to get everyone to live together in peace - but George Clooney's here to fix that.
George Clooney has just been named as the UN's latest 'messenger of peace', where he's pledged in particular to use his fame to highlight the humanitarian snafu in Darfur. But why George Clooney?
It's obvious - George Clooney will be a good UN messenger of peace because he was once in a film called The Peacemaker, something that stands him in good stead to also become a UN messenger for slick Las Vegas heists and a UN messenger for rubber-nippled superheroes.
Former male prostitute Justin Randall Timberlake - aka Randy T - has thrown down the gauntlet to his sex-rivals George 'the Silver bullet' Clooney and Brad 'I'm going to kick your fucking face off' Pitt.
Randy T was recently handed the title 'King of Sex' by Rolling Stone magazine in exchange for backstage tickets to see him in action. Timberlake told Barbara Walters on her 10 Most Fascinating People special that he will defend his title to the death. Clooney and Pitt have taken this challenge seriously and arranged for a no-holds barred celebrity battle royale. Each of them will take it in turn to beat off as many men as possible to preserve the sanctity of their ring. The celebrity will the longest staying power will receive the coveted 'King of Sex' title belt.
George Clooney is one of the most socially-conscious actors around today - something we know because he made a film that was vaguely about oil or something once - and there isn't a good cause that he won't stand directly behind.
But sometimes we get the feeling that George Clooney bites off a little more than he can chew. Speaking out about the Darfur crisis? Fine. Trying to stop mass atrocities? Easy. AIDS? Poverty? Piece of cake. But now George Clooney has decided to do the impossible and try and tackle the biggest humanitarian crisis of our times - the Britney Spears custody case. Britney Spears getting banned from driving her children after she was caught running a red light has angered George Clooney so much that he's launched into an impassioned defence of her treatment at the hands of the paparazzi, something that he plans to follow-up next week with a incisive commentary on the current state of J-Lo's baby-bump.
