“I'm just a stoopid film star. Stooooopid, goofball film star.” – George Clooney

The Guardian via SMH ^ | March 1 2003 | Sally Vincent

[dyed_in_the_wool]

I'm sorry, but where's the point where he shows more education and experience in International Relations than Condi Rice, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld?
I keep looking but I don't see it.

[dead]

It's an adjective that the author used as a verb.

It means suave or elegant.

[thegreatbeast]

"First he took the lead in Three Kings, where it is impossible not to feel the depth of his personal disgust for the cynical hypocrisy of the Gulf War and for President Bush Mark 1's administrative weaselings."
I KNOW!!!!!!!! It's the most stinging indictment put on film since Chaplin's The Great Dictator!
"People have different cut-off points. They can't tolerate uncertainties. They try to deal with things, and when it all gets too much they turn to religion. For the certainty of it. I don't want to piss on anyone's beliefs and I don't want anyone pissing on mine. For me, when it all gets too much, I think it's my problem, something I've got to face out. I can't dump it on God. But if you must, you must. You believe when you die you sprout a pair of wings and go flying off into the ether? You want to go the snake-handling route? It's allowed. You've got to tolerate other people's cut-off points. It's not about who's right and who's
wrong. You've got to assume everyone's doing the best they can."
I KNOW!!!!!!!! Governor Ventura got it too. Religion is a crutch, you dumbasses! Growup! You think Clooney starts praying when the crafts people blow a take? Guess again! He just remembers, "It's not about who's right and who's
wrong."
"Next day, odd things started to happen. I found a teaspoon in the rubbish at the bottom of the receptacle I am pleased to call my handbag. Then another spoon. Then a pair of sugar tongs. God knows how they got there. And then I came upon my
special message: "I'll be warning the maitre d' that a woman has been stealing the silverware."
O MY GAWD, STOP IT! IS HE CHANNELLING NOEL COWARD! SO URBANE, SO WITTY. Right there in Claridges'! Celebrity looting! Oh my!
What a wanker.

[Billthedrill]

Painful read.

He wouldn't hang out with someone who thought Bush was an intellectual, though he'd defend anyone's right to hold that opinion, if that was the best they could come up with.

It's OK. I wouldn't hang out with anyone who thought Clooney was an intellectual. Especially Clooney.

[homeschool mama]

**In his head, he sounded just like Gregory Peck**

Hey Clooney. You're no Gregory Peck.

[BigBobber]

It's amazing how nepotism reigns in Hollywood. Nobody succeeds there through merit anymore. Look at how many "top flight" stars are the child, cousin, or nephew of someone famous.

This could help explain the dwindling profits and lousy products put out by that place.

[redhead]

"What the heck is soignee?"

Sophisticated. Su-wave and de-boner.

[Petronski]

Moron. I guess he thinks that the wonderful “electricity” springs magically from the ether.

I think he plans to turn the generators with Oompa Loompas in giant hamster wheels.

[dead]

You actually read it?!? I posted it and didn't even read it.

I just scanned it for his political insight. He's always good for a few idiotic comments in that area.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

TMI....... Way more sh*t than I ever would want to know about this sorry moron.

[LuisBasco]

He’s a total moron....

Exactly.

The news media in general and O'Reilly more specifically keep snowing readers and viewers with the idea that somehow this wealthy idiot needs to be held accountable.

Accountable for what? He's an idiot, period.

He is also a commodity that I refuse to purchase.

There are so many idiots in the 'entertainment" business: Martin Sheen, Barbra (or Barbar), Redford, etc. etc. etc.

[JoeSixPack1]

Way more sh*t than I ever would want to know about this sorry moron.

Ditto.

[ggekko]

Clooney's political views are comprised of the usual, superficial Hollywood political correctness. Nothing new there.

Having said that I must admit that he showed an unusual comic touch in "O' Brother Where Art Thou?". Maybe it was just a role that would come naturally to him: he was playing a man who thought he was much smarter than he actually was.

[Question_Assumptions]

But Clooney's a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a liberal like his dad.

His dad can't be a liberal. His dad is a journalist and we all know that journalists are moderates and wholly objective.

What else would he be? For instance, he's never dated a Republican. Holy hell! It would be too hard. He wouldn't hang out with someone who thought Bush was an intellectual, though he'd defend anyone's right to hold that opinion, if that was the best they could come up with.

We don't expect Bush to be an "intellectual". We expect him to be a good president and a decent human being. Indeed, I think many of us are happy that Bush isn't an "intellectual".

[Kay Soze]

He has made more glorifying violence than EDI Amein and Osama combined.

[A_perfect_lady]

He grew up in Kentucky, where hillbillies live and the cheeseburger was invented and all the boys are called Billy-Bob or Billy-Joe or Billy-Jim, with only about 15 surnames between the lot of them, and if you fell off your porch you'd squash four dogs and injure yourself on your pick-up truck.

Yeah, that's as far as I read. I was like, "Okay, gotcha. This article is going to be far, far too sophisticated for the likes of little ol' me."