George Clooney: I Am Not the Godfather

Hi rien. I have to admit, George in the Oceans is my all time favorite work for him. He was great in Solaris and IC but, something about Danny Ocean was too close to the man I believe him to be. The man I image him to be. Loyal and crafty. And he is obviously a crook the way he took over Hollywood. LOL

Tinsel Town never knew what hit them when George stepped into the light. It loved him so much, it stayed focused on him. Brad Pitt has the same charisma. The light loves him. So in return, whoever is on the arm of these two men will always reap of benefits of standing beside them.

Brad is shy in his fame, with that comes the women (actresses) he embraces always try to steal his light, make out like they are the brighter star. Makes me laugh a when it comes to Brad because I think he could careless who is more famous. With George, he is the man in control, no woman could steal his light even if they bent over and exposed their crotch. Opps, what am I saying, his latest gal has done that. LOL

Still in his shadow, poor thang, you just gotta feel sorry for her.heehee

Hi Loveforfour. I don’t play video games so I don’t really know anything about Angelina or Lora Croft. If you say that makes her A list, I will take your word for it. I didn’t know the first thing about her until she hooked up with Brad. But, I must admit, I was so very tired of seeing JA’s face on every magazine cover. She was replaced by Angelina’s face after Brad hooked up with her, and to be completely honest, I am tired of seeing her face now too.

I remember back when he was with Gwennie, it was the same thing, she was everywhere. But, it really got weird when those two started to look alike with the same hairstyle and all. Imagine what would of happened if they had been married. Too scary to image.

On the other hand, I never really get tired of looking at George so I am thrilled his women don’t over shadow him. Funny,not even Julia could over shadow George and she is A list without a doubt and without a super star celebrity man on her arm. I guess she is the real Pretty Woman. George’s new gal could take a lesson or two from Julia and realize that George will always be the “center of attention” no matter who is on his arm.:-)

There is a picture of him on AOL’s entertainment page where he has a scruffy beard and a black tux on. Man oh man, I kid you you not, I about melted right out of my chair. So very fine.

@tiger
I think that is a man’s problem ;-)! If “the” woman steals the light, “the” man starts to be insecure…….But again, it depends on who the man is. Brad Pitt is a magnet for the camera. He can stay away from the water for weeks, still he looks good (I do not talk about the smell….). Since, not like GC, Pitt had only one woman (at time…sometimes it was too long…) we have to stand to see her face. JA is a very “special” case, because she did not change her style for many a time….GP is natural….too natural sometimes (I complain too much, I know). And then come AJ. The “fight” between JA and AJ…then..tuh, you have to stand “two faces” at once…
GC is different. He has a lot of women.Sometimes I think it is some kind of symbol of achievement, if you know what I mean… You will have no chance to see “a woman” in a long time. The last woman, if she makes him happy, I do not really bother what kind of Job she has. It is a job. It does not influence her character or love.
I read for quite some time, George was jealous with Danny. He called him “Julia’s cameraman” for quite a while. Why? Jealousy? Insecurity? Arrogance? If GC and JR were not only friend…what do you think would happen?
@Loveforfour
I watch Brad’s films for a long time. I stop watching them since Troy. I am a huge fan of Homer, and this film raped Homer’s book. I still can not forgive him. The last film (Jesse James) was tempting. But I saw the one with Henry Fonda already. So, I pass this film too.

And beauty is not my qualification for a good actor/actress. AJ is a good actress and I still watch her films…the changing performance in AMH is just amazing…and then she will be with James…(sigh)

@tiger

“Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel,” Is this “The Tinsel Town” you mean?

That is why I love “actors/actresses” or even “directors” who can touch my heart with their works, such as: Ed Norton, Gary Oldman, Jude Law Helen Mirren, My beloved Anthony Minghella, Clint Eastwood, Glenn Close……

Clooney , his films give me reason to think. Not yet melts my heart though….
His personal life? Frankly my dear, I don;t give a damn!
And Brad Pitt, unless he plays just like in “12 Monkeys” or “Kalifornia”, I will give him a chance again (as if he cared!)
His Personal life? You know the answer already.

Can you give me an easier question?
I do not have to see his face to know that King Baldwin IV (Kingdom of Heaven) is Edward! Did you hear the sadness in his voice? Did you see the embracing power of death in his blue eyes?
I cried when he hugged Ed Furlong in American History X.
I cried when he sang with David Morse in Down in the Valley
And thrilled by his anger in Primal Fear.
And I wanted to fly to Shanghai to hug him in Painted Veil
So again, can you give me an easier question?
So George? Okay, the car yes, but George? To be honest? Ah, better not honest……Eh..I dunno.

If you do watch the film, try to get the director’s cut. Even Orlando looked different!
I could really smash his face in American History X (If his eyes did not melt my heart first…). He could be hated with passion! But then, at the end I cried with him, understood the pain that he’s been going through….

Did I tell you the ones I despised so much? WORM! (ROUNDERS). God, how can somebody so low like that exist! And JACK TELLER (THE SCORE). Arrogant and cold. But, big but, he ate Robert De Niro alive!! De Niro looked so pale in this film.

Yes, I like The Fight Club, too. Brad Pitt looked good in this film. I would like to see George and Edward together. The screen will be busted out because of their magnetisms! For sure!

What I like about Edward is that he doesn’t have to be in the central of attention to get one. In Primal Fear, Gere had all the lines for himself. But there is a split moment, when Edward changed his character, the whole screen was stolen!

So, Tiger. I have to warn you. Knowing that George loves the attention, don’t be disappointed when “my Edward” steals the whole screen…quietly, or even secretly. And knowing Edward, he will have no mercy!!

Not that I know. He won Golden Globe for his role in Primal Fear. 2x nomination. I though Painted Veil was nominated, but I guess I was wrong. What a shame, Scorcesse won for a re-make film! I like the original one better.
The problem with Edward is, that he is a pain in the ass, so they say. I see it as an artist tries to keep his integrity. If you follow the wish of the producers all the time, by the end of your carrier you will not recognize yourself any more. I think Edward doesn’t want that. May be he does not make so many blockbuster, but hey, since it is a film, an art, then it does not have to be. Matrix was a blockbuster, but I fell a sleep in the middle of Matrix 3. With Edward, I was captured until the end.

I think you heard already, Edward plays the Hulk. What the Hulk is that? Oh, I believe it will be hulking awesome! You do not want to make Edward angry. You will not like it when he is angry…..I can not wait to see it!

I visit Nerd World from time to time. Surprised, surprised, I am one of Nerds. And you should read how “The Hulk” (Lev Grossman) complained about it. It is so hulking funny (stealing Grossman’s word).

I tell you, Tiger. Behind that fine brilliant actor, he is the biggest pain in the ass. Or should I say the other way around? Anyway, I love him. Not more than the way I am crazy about Jude Law, but I love him dearly. And if he doesn’t fight for his ideas, than it is not Edward whom I know.

I wonder if he will still have the clothes when he grows..o yeah, I want to see too…But hey, I think I saw every inch of him (except that Hulky thingy, what a pity), in Down In the Valley…

Ralph Fiennes once said, that award is like an applause, and every actor likes it. I think Oscar, BAFTA, or any other Awards is important for them. For me, I always believe in the actors themselves. For Directors, there are 5 directors that I will go to see their works without any complaints. Ridley Scott, My Beloved Anthony Minghella, David Cronenberg (for a Nerd, He is a must), Brian de Palma, Sidney Lumet. And one in process of liking, Clint Eastwood.

Were American History X and Fiht Club considered failures?

Was Ed Norton in Larry Flynt? I have seen that movie, I don’t remember him in it. What character did he play?

I agree with what he says there. He reminds me of Brad Pitt with his attitude about movie making. Ed might be a bit more direct in saying it, but I think this is the manner that Brad chooses his roles as well. A big part of why I enjoy his work so much and the amazing talent he is.

I compeletely agree about the awards. Your only as good as your last award. It always makes me laugh when celebrities are considered somehow “better” because they won the oscar. Nevermind it was 5 years ago. LOL

Far as I can say there are only a few actors that grow in their talent and usually it isn’t the ones with the awards.The outstanding talents don’t need awards to truly make a statement like all the rest of the puppets in Tinsel Town.

Which actors do I mean? Brad Pitt for one. He is the most impressive to me because he didn’t have any big name family members to help him along when he first showed up in Tinsel Town. He has lasted as a major talent as well as having his choice of movies that he wishes to make. I find that very attractive on him. I loved him in Babel. His look, everything. He is an actor who has matured and he has no problem exposing it through his craft.

Tom Cruise, another actor that you know, if he is in it, likely, it will be entertaining. Although his past choices are better compared to the movies I have seen him in lately.

I know people go on about Sean Penn being spectacular but, I am not drawn to his movies at all. The only movie I remember him in is the one where he was a stoner and he orders a pizza in class.

Judd Law, I am sorry, I just don’t get it at all.

And rien, I don’t know what an IMDB is so i couldn’t answer if you sound like one.

Have Penn and Law ever won any major awards?

Well, I am not as broad as you are when it comes to movies. I don’t search them out, if I stubble upon them and they speak to me, that is how I relate to them.For the exception of Brad’s movies, and he is about the only actor that can get me into the threatre to watch his craft at work.

It will be interesting to see Sean Penn and Brad in their new movie. Maybe I will see for myself what the big deal is about with Sean Penn. Course, that is if their personal drama doesn’t over shadow the movie. I will be very curios to see these two in chatacter in the same movie. I have always felt that Sean couldn’t hold a candle to Brad even though Brad always went on about him as someone he respects and admires for his craft. We shall see if they share the chemistry Brad had with Ed Norton in Fight Club.

Jude Law. I still don’t get it, i don’t find him attractive at all. But, to be fair, I have never seen him in a movie. I just know that he screwed his nanny while his children were present and that is just unacceptable to me. I wouldn’t give his movies the time of day and contribute to making him any richer than he already is. That is just my honest opinion on that.

PS: If you do want to watch other films from Sean Penn, try “21 grams”, “State of Grace (there you can watch Gary Oldman)”, and really, try to watch “At Close Range (that’s the correct title)”. The last title is his favorite, and mine.

You know what Eastwood said about Sean Penn: “Sean Penn’s problem is that he always plays good in each and every movies he’s in.”
Taken from Eastwood, I believe it.

Oh, then you will not be able to enjoy the work of my beloved Anthony Minghella. I am still sad about him (he passed away recently). Forget about the others, see the works of my beloved Anthony. Close your eyes if it’s necessary. But then you will not be able to see the atmosphere that he built. Even London looked so amazingly beautiful (The Holidays).

Yes, Brad Pitt is a very talented actor. Oh, my cold cold heart! I wish I could simply say : sod it! Forget Troy! But Illias is one of my favorite books, and I can not do anything against it.

May be I will try Jesse James……ehhhh I have to swallow my pride, and it is a damn hard thing to do.

You know, if you really think about it, we do not know anything about them, except what the tabs write. Will we spoil our own fun because of it? We are not sheep, are we? Let the celebs dance naked on the middle of the street, so to speak, well..when it’s Jude then I don’t know how my reaction will be…., we simply go to the cinema, see what we like, and that’s it.

It is very nice also to chat with you. Finally, I can “talk” with somebody who doesn’t always have the same opinion with me, but there are line that we can agree to.

About Troy, it is simply they follow the line of HW. Menelaos did not die. Paris did not survive. Achiles never entered Troy. Patroclus was not Achieles’ cousin, he was his lover. Helena returned to Menelaos. So, it is not Troy from Homer they made, but Troy from anywhere else. That is the reason why I did not like it.

Then Hector upbraided him. “Paris,” said he, “evil-hearted Paris, fair to see, but woman-mad, and false of tongue, would that you had never been born, or that you had died unwed. Better so, than live to be disgraced and looked askance at. Will not the Achaeans mock at us and say that we have sent one to champion us who is fair to see but who has neither wit nor courage? Did you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lovely woman wedded among a people of warriors–to bring sorrow upon your father, your city, and your whole country, but joy to your enemies, and hang-dog shamefacedness to yourself? And now can you not dare face Menelaus and learn what manner of man he is whose wife you have stolen? Where indeed would be your lyre and your love-tricks, your comely locks and your fair favour, when you were lying in the dust before him? The Trojans are a weak-kneed people, or ere this you would have had a shirt of stones for the wrongs you have done them.”

That’s the way Hector talked. Yes, Hector was just like what I imagined. Yes, Menelaos survived, and returned to his country. Otherwise, to whom shall Telemachos ask about His Father’s (Odyssey) whereabouts?

You know, I would like to have Achilles as great lover, and etc. But if Petersen made the film according to Homer, then he must follow it. I am also a woman. But BP is an actor. Is he afraid to play “gay” character? Or “Bi”? Just like many other Greeks Hero? Achilles was dressed up like a woman to avoid Trojan war (asked by his mother). Because he was predicted to be killed in this war. He was a mama’s son. A spoil rotten mama’s son. But, he was also a great warrior. A good fighter. That’s why the gods loved him.

You know, that’s my other problem. What I saw was, a rape scene. An Apollo Priest has to be a virgin. It was not a love scene. This Priest decided to give her life to worship Apollo. Why do you think Apollo was angry to the Greeks? Not only that Posseidon was angry with them (well, Odyssey in particular), but so was Apollo. That’s why they never could enter Troy. It was like raping a nun, you know. Well, at least in my eyes.

Sorry, I only get angry if I talk about Troy.

Why can’t you imagine Helena returned to Menelaos? Because Paris was more handsome? Paris was nothing but a coward spoiled womanizer. Or, you don’t want to have any imagination that may be BP will return to JA? Now I make the JP’s fans angry!!

AH, Tiger. If only we lived not so far from each other, we could discuss on and on.

Anyway, if you want to “visit” me, and “talk” to me, just say hello to me on Jude”s threads. I will find you, somehow.

So, enjoy “my” actors! Hey, if you want to “fall in love” with Gary Oldman, watch “Dracula” or “Scarlett Letter”. But Demi Moore was in Scarlett Letter, so ignore her, if you don’t like her. She could not cry, you know…he…he…he…she needed eyedrops for the scenes!