This is the opposite of normal.
Posted on 09/28/2017 6:30:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
HILLSBORO, Ohio — Across southern Ohio, northern Kentucky and other parts of the Cincinnati media market, actor George Clooney’s father was a celebrity long before his now-famous son. In the 1960s and ’70s, Nick Clooney hosted variety shows out of Cincinnati — in the days when the city was a hotbed of local programming that was syndicated live to Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis and other locales — before becoming a top-rated local news anchor and a fine journalist.
Consequently, local residents watched George grow up and take a special pride in his success. George has always shared his father’s ability to project a sense of warmth and sincerity through the screen, along with a fair dose of “aw, shucks” Midwestern humility. The famous Clooney family — which also includes George’s aunt, the late singer Rosemary Clooney — felt like neighbors even to area residents who never personally met them.
So it’s been puzzling to watch George’s immersion into liberal politics over the years. Most people here have always written that off as the usual thing that happens when people go to Hollywood. But it could be that George grew up with left-of-center philosophies; his dad ran as a Democrat for Congress in northern Kentucky about a decade ago (and was soundly defeated). Either way, George Clooney’s liberal activism jarringly contrasts with the region that produced him.
The famous Clooney modesty appears sadly to have faded somewhat with George, based on his comments at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival about ousted White House adviser Steve Bannon. Clooney said this about an old Bannon screenplay: “Now, if he’d somehow managed miraculously to get that thing produced, he’d still be in Hollywood, still making movies and licking my a — to get me to do one of his stupid-a — screenplays.”(continued)
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As an aside, is there anyone VERY famous in Hollywood that knew NO ONE before heading out for stardom?
There must be but there almost always seems to be a connection somewhere.
Maybe The Duke :)
Nepotism is huge in Hollywood and has been for decades. No, John Wayne didn’t know anyone, he was part of a college football team that director John Ford used in a movie and the rest is history.
Most of us were never not normal.
Logic rules, emotion sways, rules prevail.
Talk about a scary Halloween costume.
I hope you sold your soul to the right team to have such knowledge sitting at your fingertips :)
Not sure HOW anyone would know that about John Wayne without 2 hours’ research and i’m afraid to ask :)
Because I’m a huge John Wayne fan and read a soft cover biography of him years ago. I also know that he only married Latinas and had a harder punch than Muhammad Ali according to several boxing bigwigs.
DAMN!!! He WAS A big dude!!
Was Tom Morrisey really related? If that’s how you spell it.
The boxer? Would make sense now.
John Wayne is a hero in my house also. About 15 years ago I ordered John Wayne: American, a great biography of The Duke from the Conservative Bookclub. One of the best books I’ve ever read! I’m about due for a reread...
John Wayne was a stage hand before he was an actor. I've read a couple stories on the injury which cost him his scholarship. The one I like best is he blew his shoulder out body surfing at the Wedge.
A co-star once bet Wayne he couldn’t punch him. The rule was they would stand on opposite sides of a door frame. They set up and the co-star closed the door between them. Wayne punched him through the door.
He was big but his six-four height was a PR exaggeration. There are plenty of photos available of Wayne standing next to stars of known height.
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