OlderGeorge Clooney Rags on Brad Pitt
George Clooney playfully ragged on good friend Brad Pitt on last night’s The Late Show with David Letterman. George knocked Brad for also winning the title of “People’s Sexiest Man” twice. George joked of Brad: “He was a little upset. It sort of knocked his thing down a notch.”
Brad congratulated George’s win by taking out full-page ads in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which read:
Dear George,
Congratulations on being People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive.
[insert cornball picture of George from 1985]
Your Friend,
“The Reverend Ted”
Yes, it’s in reference to that Ted. The Ted Haggard who was guilty of “sexually immoral conduct” and ex-pastor of mega-church New Life Church.
George retaliated on Letterman by showing old school pictures of Brad wearing tapered pants and a beret. Above is George imitating one of Brad’s cheesy poses.
George also joked of Matt Damon: “We felt bad for Matt Damon because he really wanted it. He campaigned hard for it but we think he just came up short.”
UPDATE :: Video added below! Check it out.
George Clooney - The Late Show with David Letterman, 11/28
Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt
Celebrity Babies
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Aniston
Katie Holmes
Vanessa Hudgens
Us Weekly
537 Comments
Good Morning. This was posted on bradforums.
November 29, 2006
Are Americans Cheap?
By John Stossel
The New York Times and Washington Post editorialize about America’s “stinginess.” Former President Jimmy Carter says when it comes to helping others, “The rich states don’t give a damn.” Standing outside the White House, the singer Bono told the press that America doesn’t do enough to help the needy:
“It’s the crumbs off our tables that we offer these countries.”
It seems obvious to Bono and President Carter that America offers “crumbs” because the governments of most other wealthy countries distribute a larger percentage of their nations’ wealth in foreign aid. Yes, the U.S. government gave out $20 billion last year, much more than other countries give, but that’s only because we are so stupendously wealthy. If you calculate foreign aid as a percentage of our wealth, the United States gives much less than others.
Actress Angelina Jolie calls that “really disgusting” in my new TV special, titled “Cheap in America.” “ABC News” will broadcast it tonight (Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 10 p.m. — sorry — I know some of you are reading this column after that). Jolie goes on to say, “I think most American people, you know, really do think we give more. And I know that they would if they could understand how little they give and how much more we can afford to give, absolutely, without even noticing.”
But wait a second … when talking aid, why do Jolie and the others talk just about what the government gives? Why conflate America with our government? America is the people.
Jolie could look to herself as an example of the generous American. She gives weeks of her time and millions of her own dollars to charities.
That’s an old quote from Angelina and it’s reference to the American Goverment, not the people.
I also wanted to mention that the whole point of the ad was because George had contacted Variety and wanted to put a “For your consideration” ad in the paper for Matt Damon for Sexiest Man Alive. Variety told him NO! They were a serious newspaper and do not run things like that. Clooney told Brad and Brad contacted Variety and they gladly ran the ad for Brad.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
LMAO
George Clooney is one of the most interesting people in hollywood right now.It’s always fun to watch him because he is really smart and funny.I like the way he likes to make fun of himself and this all star-system he lives in.As for his relationship with Brad ,i like the way they tease each other,it shows that they both have humor.Let’s not forget that both of them have the best to say for each other in every opportunity,like here:
CLOONEY: A great guy. I mean a great, truly great guy.
KING: Do you like working with him?
CLOONEY: Love working with him.
They are both respectful actors with many serious interests in their lives,and i don’t think that anyone could believe that they truly care about whose got the “sexiest man alive”title.They just joke about it and that’s all.A joke.
I love the jokes between the two of them
B12 Says:
November 29th, 2006 at 6:02 am
The Rev Ted reference is from a line in Ocean’s that George says to Brad :
“Ted Nugent called he wants his shirt back”
*****
Thanks B12. I frankly think the ref to Ted Nugent is better than to Haggard. Do you think Clooney just did not understand that “Rev Ted” is sometimes what Nugent used to call himself.
I bet Brad loved that he could get the ad in Variety when Clooney couldn’t.
Meli Says:
November 29th, 2006 at 6:51 am
George Clooney is one of the most interesting people in hollywood right now
======================================================
Are you serious? Clooney has got to be one of the most boring people in HW right now. Clooney goes on interviews and says the same damn thing every.single.time. I think I’ve heard that Matt campaigned hard for SMA thing about 5x’s now.
The Good German is going to be another bomb for Clooney. The movie is horrible to the point of people in the screenings laughing out loud at it.
Clooney’s a poser. His whole trip to Darfur wasn’t because he all of a sudden decided he wanted to go. He went because George wants in with the Bono’s , Brad’s and Angelina’s. Hell, Matt Damon went to Africa so George had to go. Always on someone else’s urging or coat tails. Just watch how comitted Clooney will be for Africa and specifically Darfur. That will be his father Nick’s cause not George’s.
Clooney is a famwhore of the highest order.
gdtert
Huh? Says
That’s your opinion and i respect that.Mine is different.
I bet Brad loved that he could get the ad in Variety when Clooney couldn’t.
====================================================
I think that was the whole point. Remember who the big dog really is, George. heh
I have to agree about George though, he is a bit of the famwhore. He campaigned so hard for that Oscar, his covers on VF and the SMA title. I also get the vibe that George has this weird love/hate thing with Brad. I think he likes him, wants to be like him, and yet is jealous of the attention and respect that Brad receives.
Brad has been extremly succesful with his production company, George had to close his and start anew, etc., etc.
Oops..meant famewhore…not fam-***** (read the post above) like in family which we know George doesn’t want. lol.
Clooney is also a DRUNK too
I also get the vibe that George has this weird love/hate thing with Brad.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I agree with this. The public loves Brad in a way that George has never experienced. I think too that Clooney is stuck in that frat boy mentality while everyone around him has moved on with family and kids. Clooney is looking to stay relevant so he attaches himself to these people’s causes.
live them alone, he and brad are one of the tre men left in hollywood
true men
Haha, I love George, he’s hilarious.
Clooney’s an a**!
Enough with him already. He’s so overexposed. He doesn’t know when to stop. Clooney’s an older Ben Affleck to me.
haven’t read the thread yet but I’d like to say……
Listen, you dried up coon-eyed closet homo’ I don’t even want to begin to know WHY you’re once again the sexiest man alive, concidering that you look like you’re on the worst side of 50. And I don’t know WHO you had to gratify orally to get it. Nor do I care how chummy you and Brad may be *cough* NOT *cough*
But let me tell you, you acted like the immature d*uche that you are. All that “we joke with each other’, Brad is used to this back and forth childish game
and no doubt had a laugh. But I’m NOT Brad, I’m a fan, I don’t like this last media stunt that you pulled. Nationwide. Reminds me too much of someone else. See, Brad doesn’t need the publicty like you do, that’s why you escalated it the way you did.
You made fun of his old pictures, fine we all do that with our old yearbooks, but you come acoss as a childish jealous man, got a mancrush do we? ANY picture of his looks 10 xs better than you look, haved looked or ever WILL look in your life. LEAVE MY BRADLEY ALONE!
You think you’re the head of this century’s “Rat Pack” but look out, you’ll be marching alone
Please people, PEOPLE. George has been politically active and an outspoken progressive for as long as he’s been famous. He is always the first to go toe to toe with anyone who steps outta line, he’s smacked Bill O’Reilly upside the head enumerable times, he was the first to address the papzi’s getting out of control (re Princess Diana’s death), he started talking about Darfur long before others were — his films Syriana was an expose of the whole govt/oil/war deal, Good Night and Good Luck inspired many to start speaking out about BushCo (see Keith Olberman), he’s always entered the political fray without a second’s hesitation…and he does it for several reasons…he’s smart, he cares about people, and he loves his country. I’d advise everyone to read George’s GQ interview from a few years back to get the gist of the man…he’s from a good family that was morally conscientious and sensitive to race and social issues, in Kentucky of all places..his father Nick is his hero (as a kid, George remembers his Dad, a local newscaster, cussing people out and getting up from parties and leaving when someone would say the n-word, or something else particularly racist) - his Dad was a stand-up guy and that’s who he most admires. He is friends with people that are very much like his Dad, politically aware, socially conscious good men like Brad, like Matt. He’s not too hard to figure out. I for one, have always loved George.
I just wish he’d get his damn teeth fixed.
Sorry AG, lolol.
They’re done. They won’t be doing any Ocean’s movies anymore and if Brad hadn’t agreed to do this last one it wouldn’t of gotten made. George did it for the money. It’s the only film that’s ever made $$ for him. George’s films always flop with the exception of The Perfect Storm.
Clooney hasn’t figured out yet that just because you own a production company doesn’t mean you have to star in almost every single film. I saw George’s Syriana DVD on sale for $3.99. LMAO
The Good German looks horrible and poor Cate she’s going to get raked over the coals for this one.
he started talking about Darfur long before others were —
—————————————————————————————
No he didn’t. George got involved with the One campaign because of Brad. He’s said this over and over again. That he was embarassed to say he was unaware and uninvolved.
George once O’Reilly went after him and asked him on his show numerous times backed off and out. He’s admitted because it hurt his career. George is about George and if something can get him a cover, a sound bite, or his mug all over the news he’ll do it.
CLINIQUA Says:
Well said.
BABEL World-wide boxoffice gross:
Domestic (USA) : $15,336,983 (as of Nov. 27)
Foreign (16 territories, 902 screens): $17,294,765 (as of Nov. 26)
Total WW: $32,631,748
Territories include: Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Israel, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden Switzerland, Turkey
Source: screendaily.com
Well, George did overexpose himself. Clooney lobbied *very* hard for that Oscar to the point of nauseum.
Clooney’s the type of guy who you can take in small dosages. The one knock on Clooney has always been that he stays current with the situation at hand and has no follow up. He gets on a bandwagon and then is gone. He doesn’t commit himself to the hard work like say an Angelina Jolie. Jolie’s been committed to her causes for 6 going on 7 yrs to the point that she’s worked with Congress and the Senate to get laws enacted and bills passed. I’d be shocked to see George do that kind of work. The hard, roll up your sleeves and get down into it work.
While O’Reilly may be a loudmouth he was right about The Red Cross and corruption was exposed.
Clooney had nothing to do with Africa until Brad. Clooney said that he became involved because of Brad during the Ocean’s shoot in Italy. The question is how committed is George really? Will he follow through when it’s no longer the hot topic?
The measure of a man isn’t what he does when someone is looking, it’s what he does when they aren’t.
TEAM CLOONEY!!!!
Good morning, everyone!
Re: Clooney
We liked him in ER, and surprised he left at the hight of his popularity. Then he made a tricky transition to film which he did very well. Regarding Brad, I think I saw an interview that George also auditioned for Thelma and Louise which was taken by Brad, which shot him to fame. George missed that chance to Brad. GC had to do many TV things and took him very long to ‘make it’ to the top. Now that he got an Oscar before Brad, and now this two-time award for what’s it’s worth, he finally feels ‘caught up’ maybe. So yes I think there is a bit of love-hate LOL On the other hand in the family department, Brad again is far ahead of him, but again I don’t think GC is interested in getting what Brad has (tons of kids and wife).
Re: “Minivan majority”— Minivan and Lilyan
I agree with you both. I do fit Lilyan’s description of over-40 married with two kids, working mom who support Angie and despise Aniston. In Angie’s youth and wild days I never really paid attention except for her films, she was sort of like Linsay L etc. she was young. It was only after she started adopting, getting involved in her charity work, then getting bashed by Aniston’s fans after hooking up with Brad, that I really took an interest and now support her whole-heartedly. I didn’t know about Aniston at all except she being married to Brad and that she was a TV actress (I don’t watch sitcoms). Now with all what she did to run a fake sympathy campaign I loathe her personality and everything she stands for.
B12 Says:
November 29th, 2006 at 8:15 am
====================================
ITA. Excellent post.
Good morning, good people. I’m with Cliniqua. I have always had a soft spot for George (sorry, but waaaay before I came to like the Braddy Daddy). I think it is connected to his birth family. Plus I think he looks awfully good in a tux.
That said, my perpetual SMA is Pierce Brosnan, and that has a lot to do with how he is so connected to his five kids and his role as nurturer during the illness of his first wife, Cassandra. Maybe that’s a theme for me. Brad to me is soooo much sexier now; when I see him with Mad or Z or the People Mag pic of him holding the newborn Shi, he is sex on a stick. Of course fatherhood does not work in all cases (FedX, Ryan, Jude — okay, Jude is cute, but not sexy to me).
The mini-van majority is, like NASCAR dads or soccer moms, just a mediaworld shorthand for a point of view — not a descriptor of actual people. The siding of the m-vm with X is also linked, as has been said here before, to X’s TVQ — she was likeable on Friends (if that sort of thing is your pleasure), and she was the almost-”normal” looking girl who bagged the screen hunk. I have never liked a single so-called America’s Sweetheart, from Meg Ryan on, and I never paid too much attention to X. I have always liked AJ, even at her edgiest, but I admire her now enormously. I think she does not run her life by focus group approval, and that, of course, annoys the folks who have been trained by the entertainment industry to consume the blandest possible pablum.
CLINIQUA Says:
November 29th, 2006 at 7:51 am
(see Keith Olberman)
*****************
Oh I do cliniqua, every night at 8 and 12 and in my dreams…*sigh* No, I see what you’re saying I’m just playing around. But to be fair, I don’t remember him every saying that George or “Good Luck and Good Night” inspired him to speak out against this administration. His first special comment was right after Hurricane Katrina. Murrow is his mentor, he even received his award for the fantastic reporting he did on ground zero when 9/11 happened, it was the radio though.
On topic: “The Rev. Ted” oh Brad lol
Pages: « 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 … 18 » Show All
Share This Post:
Comment and Share!