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  ABC News: George Clooney Speaks About Crisis in Darfur -- 4.30.06
George Clooney travelled to Darfur with his father to document the crisis.
Clooney and his television-anchor dad smuggled cameras into the Darfur refugee camps to report on what's been called the 21st century's first genocide.
George Clooney: The news is that two years after we've said "genocide" that it's still going on and it's increasing -- and that somewhere in there we can all talk about this and make speeches and say this is horrible and we have to do something.
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  George Clooney's Evil Plan Succeeds - Gawker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
George Clooney was seen on the slopes of Park City ski resort.
George and I are old buddies and he is in fact, staying at my home near Annapolis, Maryland on Chesapeake Bay.
Clooney was at the Euphoria in Bloomfield, NJ on Friday night with a singer named Chris Conklin.
www.gawker.com /news/george-clooney/george-clooneys-evil-plan-succeeds-164651.php   (1872 words)

  
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George Clooney wants you to know that he was misquoted as saying Sen. Barack Obama told him that he (Obama) was planning to run for President.
Actor/director George Clooney was "toasted by a host of fellow stars" at a lavish benefit held last Friday for American Cinematheque, a not-for-profit organization in Los Angeles that, since 1981, has supported film -- the kind of film not always available to a wide audience.
Oh, that wacky George Clooney: He's announced that he'd like to outwit the paparazzi, who are continually linking him with this actress or that one, by going out to dinner every night with a different celebrity, whether male or female, and letting everyone draw (incorrect) conclusions.
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 George Clooney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama ER (1994–1999) and his rise as an "A-List" movie star in contemporary American cinema.
George is also the nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer and the cousin of her actor son Miguel Ferrer.
Clooney's father, Nick, ran as a Democrat in the 2004 election for a seat in the House of Representatives representing Kentucky's 4th Congressional district.
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 George Clooney Photos - George Clooney News - George Clooney Information
More Pictures As the nephew of the late singer Rosemary Clooney, and the son of a TV newscaster, you might think George Clooney had a leg up in showbiz.
Clooney first came to audience's attention when he guest-starred on the TV shows 'The Facts of Life,' 'E/R' (not that one), and in the films 'Return of...
George Clooney is one of the best actors out there and in my opinion one of of the all-time greats.
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 Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | 'I've learned how to fight'
George Clooney can't seem to leave the US government alone: his two new films both tackle high-level corruption.
Clooney's father is a silent presence throughout Good Night, and Good Luck, which was inspired partly by the memories Clooney has of hanging around as a child at the TV studio where he worked, in Kentucky.
Clooney Snr believed, as Murrow did, that McCarthy's anti-communist hearings compromised basic civil liberties in the US, in a way that his son parallels with Bush's anti-terrorism laws.
film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,,1706303,00.html   (1724 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: George Clooney Talks About His New Movie, Good Night and Good Luck -- October 6, 2005
GEORGE CLOONEY: We even had about 10 percent of the people asking us, because, you know, we use actual McCarthy footage, he plays himself in the film, and we had about 10 percent of the audience asking us who the actor was playing Joe McCarthy.
GEORGE CLOONEY: Murrow taking on McCarthy was one of the great high points in broadcast journalism, along with Cronkite stepping out from behind his desk and talking about how Vietnam doesn't work were two moments in broadcast journalism that you could point directly to and say actually changed American policy.
GEORGE CLOONEY: He hated the show, but it bought him the ability to continue to do "See It Now." I've done that, I do films that are big commercial films so they can do smaller films, and I understand that.
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 George Clooney Biography
George's uncle was the actor Jose Ferrer, and now he came to Kentucky, along with his actor sons Miguel and Rafael, to make a horse-racing movie called And They're Off.
Here Clooney managed to hold his own beside one of the industry's finest actresses, even though they were required to deliver their lines at twice the normal speed.
Clooney was annoyed with the way reporters would resort to aggression, like insulting a star's partner at the airport or in a restaurant, just to get a "newsworthy" reaction from the star, which they could then sell to Hard Copy.
www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/george_clooney_biog.html   (4727 words)

  
 GEORGE CLOONEY
Clooney was born in Lexington and raised in Augusta, Kentucky.
At last, 21-year-old Clooney found his calling when his best friend and cousin, Miguel Ferrer (singer Rosemary Clooney is George's aunt and Miguel's mother), came to Lexington and helped him earn a part in a small feature film.
Clooney arrived in California in 1982 and spent the next year unemployed, sleeping in a friend's closet and bicycling to auditions.
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 clooneyfiles.com - George Clooney
Rosemary Clooney wasn't particularly chuffed to have her wilful young nephew arrive on her doorstep with no money and no job, so she hired him to drive her around the country as she toured with other 40's singers.
Clooney happily credits himself with "possibly sinking the entire 'Batman' franchise." But he says the whole fiasco helped him take a real look at the way his career was headed.
Not only does Clooney act, he has a development deal with CBS and his production company is going from strength to strength with a number of projects in various stages of development.
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 George Clooney at Hollywood.com
Clooney was born on May 6, 1961 and raised in the small Kentucky town of Augusta – a scant 40 miles north of Cincinnati, OH.
Clooney, who grew up watching his broadcast journalist father in action, showed a great aptitude for the ethical journalistic issues at hand, co-writing the screenplay with his longtime friend and partner Grant Heslov; the duo took greater-than-average pains to insure the historical accuracy of the events dramatized.
Clooney grew a scraggly beard and gained several extra pounds to play the role, while suffering a painful back injury on the final day of shooting, which required therapy and rehabilitation in a scene that failed to even make the finished film.
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 The Blog | Arianna Huffington: On George Clooney's Blog | The Huffington Post
The George Clooney blog that was posted on the Huffington Post Sunday was published only after we received written approval from his representative to do so.
I thought George Clooney's blog was sincere and I was impressed with his honesty.
Geez, George, I get why you're mad, but the comments were for the most part well-received.
www.huffingtonpost.com /arianna-huffington/on-george-clooneys-blog_b_17350.html   (1398 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Home - Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: Clooney & Huffington's blog of war   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
George Clooney is spitting mad at Arianna Huffington - and the blogosphere is wobbling on its axis.
Clooney, in his only interview on the subject, took off the gloves in his fight with Huffington over a blog purportedly written by the "Syriana" Oscar-winner and posted on her Web site Monday.
Yesterday, Clooney released an angry statement calling Huffington's methods "purposefully misleading," and she acknowledged that his so-called blog - slamming Dems who voted for the war in Iraq for fear of being labeled "liberal" - was actually compiled from Clooney's recent interviews with the UK's Guardian and CNN's Larry King.
www.nydailynews.com /front/story/400027p-338931c.html   (975 words)

  
 CNN.com - Clooney, senators urge action on Darfur - Apr 28, 2006
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Oscar winner George Clooney Thursday joined two senators, Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas and Democrat Barack Obama, to appeal for greater action to address what is being described as genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.
Clooney was recently in Sudan with his father and showed a brief film of their trip.
Clooney noted that world bodies have given various reasons why they cannot expend their resources to deal with the conflict.
www.cnn.com /2006/POLITICS/04/27/darfur.clooney   (555 words)

  
 George Clooney | CLOONEY STUDIO
New thumbnail pap pics of George Clooney on his bike in Laglio with a "female companion" are at
No mention if George is to return the favour, but seems a likely event for him to attend, or at least send a video greeting.
Clooney Studio is run by a George Clooney fan for fans and is not connected to George Clooney or anyone associated with him.
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 clooneyfiles.com: clooneyfiles home
GEORGE CLOONEY has laid an unusual bet with his fellow movie hunks for 2007 - the loser will be the one to win the sexiest man alive title.
George who currently holds the title of world's sexiest man has made a wager with Brad Pitt and Matt Damon that will see them trying not to be sexy in 2007.
George Clooney is shooting down reports that he's having a romance with former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson reports PEOPLE.
www.clooneyfiles.com   (856 words)

  
 The Salon Interview: George Clooney - Salon
Clooney's second turn as a director (after the underrated "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind") is a tribute to Murrow (played by a pitch-perfect David Strathairn), a man of moral certitude and great elegance.
Clooney is himself a student of journalism; his father was a TV anchor who frequently ran up against management (he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2004), and the younger Clooney studied the profession at Northern Kentucky University before turning his attention to acting.
Clooney spoke to Salon recently from his home in Lake Como, Italy, shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit, and after "Good Night, and Good Luck" premiered at the Venice Film Festival to raves, and a best-actor award for Strathairn.
www.salon.com /ent/feature/2005/09/16/george_clooney/index.html   (1165 words)

  
 George Clooney Forums - Topix
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 Styles and Scenes by Elizabeth Snead - The Envelope
Clooney needs to have a little talk with his publicist, the screwup seems to be entirely hers in giving out his "approval" when he emphatically did not wish it to be given.
George is a man who has a unique perspective of American discourse influenced by the work of his TV man father, Nick Clooney.
Clooney "why would anyone want to name someone whose last name ends in looney?" Like Alex Baldwin he assumes that everyone is in love with him and he can do no wrong when he is a second rate actor who make provocative statements to keep his name in the forefront.
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Film and television actor George Clooney has had a twenty-year career as a leading man on both the big and small screens.
Since then, Clooney has had leading roles in such films as Batman and Robin, The Peacemaker, and Ocean's 11, and has used his celebrity status as a platform from which to publicly proclaim his leftwing political views.
That's what bothers me." Clooney did not mention that the Iraqi dictator had refused to comply with U.N. weapons inspection resolutions on seventeen separate occasions over a twelve-year period; by any measure, a twelve-year wait hardly qualifies as trigger-happy impetuousness.
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 OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan
George Clooney is a fellow who read an article and now wants to tell us the truth, if we can handle it.
George Clooney has a canny respect for the Hollywood establishment, for its executives and agents, and treats his audience as if it were composed of his intellectual and artistic inferiors.
Clooney's remarks were also part of the tinniness of the age, and of modern Hollywood.
www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/pnoonan/?id=110008062   (1550 words)

  
 George Clooney
Clooney played doctor in two different TV hospital shows, E/R, a 1984 half-hour sitcom starring Elliott Gould, and ten years later ER, the hour-long medical melodrama.
Clooney responded with a detailed letter explaining how and why O'Reilly's complaints were bogus, and telling him exactly how to access the charity's books and see for himself.
When Clooney stepped up again to organize a telethon for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, O'Reilly offered more scathing criticism of Clooney's "celebrity activism" and said he would "be watching" how the funds were spent.
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 George Clooney, Pictures, Movies, Bio
Born May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky, George Clooney spent almost a decade in acting obscurity before landing the role of television's hottest heartthrob in the medical drama ER in 1994.
Early on, Clooney's only dream was to play professional baseball, but following a failed tryout with the Cincinnati Reds he turned to acting with the help of his father, broadcaster Nick Clooney and his aunt, singer and actress Rosemary Clooney.
In 2005, Clooney produced, written and starred in Good Night, and Good Luck based on the life and career of 50's TV journalist Edward R. Murrow.
www.chiff.com /pop-culture/george-clooney.htm   (314 words)

  
 George Clooney
Recently Entertainment Weekly caught up with George Clooney and Brad Pitt to talk about life and their Ocean's Thirteen movie that has just opened.
Ocean's Thirteen is the third and final part of the popular Oceans films with George Clooney and his Hollywood hearth-throb crew.
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon will be appearing at the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard to promote their Oceans Thirteen movie.
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 George Clooney's beloved potbelly pig Max dies at age 19 - Pravda.Ru
George Clooney's beloved potbelly pig Max dies at age 19
Actor George Clooney's beloved potbelly pig Max has died.
Clooney was out of town promoting his upcoming film "The Good German" when Max died, according to USA Today.
english.pravda.ru /news/society/05-12-2006/85784-clooney-0   (374 words)

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