George was bereft when the Ib pig passed away in December , but he won't be replacing him. We use our own and third-party cookies to improve our services and show you related advertising with your preferences by analyzing your browsing habits and generating the corresponding profiles. If you go on surfing, we will consider you accepting its use. You can change the configuration or get more information here. I Accept. George Clooney - Biography. It sometimes seems well nigh impossible to make the transition from successful TV actor to film star.
George Clooney, however, has had no problem. Listen to this. Someone had repeatedly called on his private line, and had then left an odd message. Larson was not aghast, but she did not seem quite comfortable, either. Clooney, though, was punchy, seeming to accept the voicemail as no more than a test of his good humor: a chance to reconfirm his efficient, uncomplaining handling of the complications of a public life. He said that, with the help of his police-officer driver, the number had been traced to a pre-paid cell phone.
Now they were trying to find out if the suspect had paid by credit card. This year, apparently for no other reason than that it seemed that it should be so, Clooney became touted as a Messenger of Peace in the Writers Guild dispute. And at the Oscar-related panel discussion in L. Oh, yeah. And it makes you trust so little. You trust nothing. Or, if you do, you do it under a desk somewhere. I later spoke to Fabio.
He said that Clooney had had a drink or two, and overreacted, and this seemed at least possible. But Fabio perhaps overdressed his story. Clooney and Larson went to their car, and wondered how long it would be before they read about the fracas in the newspapers. Clooney stood up from the couch. He arrived, with his parents, a little late and breathless; his car had become stuck in unmoving midtown traffic, and he had walked, unrecognized, the last few blocks, wearing a dark suit and a black tie.
In the entrance lobby, the U. At the first sight of Clooney, a raucous cry went up, although one sensed a collective will to stop short of a full-throated scream that might discredit the organization.
Later, he talked to me about the way human contact can calm a crowd hungry for celebrity. Clooney grew up in a liberal household that was alert to world affairs, but he was rather disengaged as a young man; in his mullet-haired years, he missed many opportunities to vote.
Being called a traitor to your country? And he seemed to read politics through the prism of his own expertise in handling public perception. If, at that moment, Clooney mistook a media dustup for a moral crusade—a feud for a cause—he then found, in Darfur, a cause of overwhelming moral seriousness.
Early in , Clooney discussed the idea of a trip to Darfur with his father, and Nick Clooney called David Pressman, a New York lawyer and former State Department official, who had just returned from Sudan. Clooney spoke at the Darfur rally in Washington, D. Security Council. And in January of this year he returned to the region, joining a tour that had already been planned by Jane Holl Lute, a top U.
With the understanding that there would be a future relationship between Clooney and U. Lute, Clooney, Pressman, and a few others visited the Darfur region and elsewhere in Sudan, and also Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and India, on a fifteen-day journey that was, by all accounts, physically and emotionally wearing.
It keeps you up at night; and, more than that, you feel that the people around you, who are going to be there after you leave, are taking huge risks. He later told me that there was some U. I was, like, I got it, but this is what I do. He answered questions, and then moved to a suite of offices on the thirty-second floor, where he gave a dozen separate television interviews, speaking in a very low voice, without taking a break.
Late in the afternoon, Clooney made his way out, through the wide corridors of the United Nations building. Clooney directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay, which served partly as a tribute to his newsman father. Widely praised, the black-and-white drama helped Clooney earn his first nominations, for best director and best original screenplay. Clooney's next starring role was in the dramatic comedy, Up in the Air , which earned him rave reviews.
In the film, Clooney played Ryan Bingham, a consultant who specializes in firing employees. For The Ides of March in , Clooney proved to be a triple-threat, serving as the project's star, director, and co-writer. The political drama featured Clooney as a presidential candidate and Ryan Gosling as one of his aides. Also that same year, Clooney gave another impressive performance in the family drama The Descendants directed by Alexander Payne. He won a Golden Globe for his turn as a husband and father who must cope with new challenges and unpleasant revelations after his wife is severely injured in a boating accident.
Clooney was also featured in the sci-fi drama Gravity , while saw the release of The Monuments Men , which Clooney starred in and directed. DeMille Award at the annual Golden Globes telecast. Clooney was back on the big screen in , with featured roles in Hail, Caesar! The following year, he again stepped behind the camera to direct Suburbicon , starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore. Shortly after the release of Suburbicon , Clooney revealed in an interview with The Sunday Times that he was stepping back from acting.
One such project turned out to be an adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel, Catch, about American servicemen attempting to maintain their sanity amid the looming threat of death in combat during World War II. Clooney was set to direct and star as Colonel Cathcart in the limited series, his first regular television role since ER in the s. Beyond his disappointment with the election of George W.
Bush as President in , the actor was also an early opponent of the Iraq War, and later called the president "dim" in a interview.
I think it's coming. But I also think the real danger is going to be what happens after it. In , Clooney stepped up his involvement in political and social causes. He teamed up with his father and a few others to travel around the western region of Sudan, known as Darfur. Armed with a few small video cameras, Clooney and his father set out report on how the area had been ravaged by war and how the international community was struggling to set up refugee camps to help those in need.
By leveraging Clooney's Hollywood status, they believed they could bring greater attention to the Darfur crisis and could help fuel global interest in helping the region. Their edited footage was broadcast on such programs as Oprah. Later he spoke to a special meeting of the U. Security Council. In , he and Cheadle were recognized for their work for Darfur. The following year, with his parents standing at his side, Clooney was officially appointed as a U. Other entertainment A-listers followed their lead, with Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey also announcing donations.
Often the target of paparazzi, both in the United States and at his vacation home in Italy, Clooney's career has been a balancing act between maintaining his privacy and his Hollywood status. Much of these lessons were gleaned from advice given by his aunt Rosemary, who experienced an astounding level of fame early in her career only to fall prey to addictions and depression later in life. You know? Don't smoke three packs a day. Do a little exercising along the way.
And don't believe everybody when they tell you how great you are when you're And don't believe everybody when they tell you how lousy you are when you're Still, the world never seems to tire of Clooney news, particularly when it comes to his romantic life. Clooney was first married to American actress Talia Balsam. That union was short lived, and Clooney vowed that he would never marry again or have children. The pledge managed to catch the attention of actresses Nicole Kidman and Michelle Pfeiffer, who both stated that they believed Clooney would be a father before he turned 40, and even placed bets on it.
Both actresses lost their bets, and both sent Clooney checks to pay up. After nearly two years together, in July , it was reported that Clooney and Keibler had parted ways.
In April , Clooney who was been dubbed "Hollywood's most eligible bachelor" by the tabloids, proposed to Amal Alamuddin, according to a report in People magazine.
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