What are you trying to say? *snicker*
Posted on 02/15/2003 7:09:24 AM PST by aculeus
If you're a hugely bankable Hollywood star, there are certain expectations of you. Maintain your profile, toe the line and keep schtum about politics. George Clooney, on the other hand, is hollering his disdain for his government and its dumb war plans, and he's directed his own, somewhat risky, film. Interview by Sally Vincent.
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"The question is," he goes on, "do we go on murdering each other, or are we going to take time out to ask ourselves why we're so angry in the first place? I get mad at someone, then I find out more about why they did what they did to make me mad, and the anger disperses. We get angry because we don't have enough information." His mousseline is now neatly stacked on the side of his plate. All tidied away.
"It's the head guys who really tick me off," he says. "You dumb down at the top, so what does that do to the bottom? Who's going to stand up for us now? I just want someone smart to stand up and shout, 'Bullsh**!' They tell us we're going to war and no one's saying 'Bullsh**' loud enough. And the language! Listen to the language! 'Evil.' 'Evil'? 'Nexus of evil'? 'Evil-doer'? That's my favourite, 'Evil-doer'! What's wrong with their vocabulary: couldn't they come up with 'schmuck'?"
This makes me laugh uncontrollably. I wonder if he'll mind if I gobble up his mousseline. "Look at us," he cries, "we're the guys who marched into France and liberated them, handing out stockings and chocolate. And we've slowly become all the things we fought against. How'd it happen?"
I feel the soul of America is at large. The words of Walt Whitman beat in my brain. "O Captain! My Captain!" I bleat. Clooney looks at me sideways. "We're so smart we don't even try to elect a leader. We elect someone to manage our country. Bush was elected, or sort of elected, on the issues of school vouchers and welfare reform. When the big one hit, we found we didn't have a leader at all. What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something. What has it all come down to? Selling things on television, is what. The three-second soundbite. We don't have any great speakers any more, we don't have great television any more, we don't have great films any more. Everything's knocked out by committee. That's how it is. How we deal with everything. That's politics. You turn on the TV for the news now and what do you get? 'Showdown in Iraq!' it goes, like it's a game. The news is a f***king game show. They're selling us a pre-emptive war and no one says, 'Bullsh**'. It's a conglomerate decision, all rounded off to make it palatable so we'll swallow it, believe it. But it's a lie. Of course it's a lie. We've been lying to ourselves since Vietnam. And if you say that, if you stand up and say no to the war in Iraq, immediately you're being 'unpatriotic'. But if you don't, if it's not you, who the f**k's it going to be?"
O Captain! My Captain! "It's not my place. I'm not a big, like, yogi guy, I'm just a stoopid film star. Stooooopid, goofball film star."
"Big guru guy," I say.
"Big guru guy," he says.
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(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
He's sure AVOIDING the hell outta Bill O'Reilly, huh? Can you imagine the blood-bath?
What are you trying to say? *snicker*
Ocean's Twelve (2004) .... Danny Ocean
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) .... Miles Massey
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) .... Jim Byrd
Solaris (2002) .... Kelvin
Shirtless: Hollywood's Sexiest Men (2002) (TV) (uncredited) (archive footage) .... Himself
Welcome to Collinwood (2002) .... Jerzy
Starbuck Holger Meins (2002) .... Himself
Ocean's Eleven (2001) .... Daniel 'Danny' Ocean ... aka 11 (2001) (USA: poster title) ... aka O11 (2001) (USA: informal short title)
America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001) (TV) .... Himself
Spy Kids (2001) .... Devlin
Revisiting Fail-Safe (2000) (V) .... Himself
Inside Look: Down from the Mountain (2000) (TV) .... Himself
2000 MTV Movie Awards (2000) (TV) .... Presenter
Perfect Storm, The (2000) .... Captain Billy Tyne
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) .... Ulysses Everett McGill ... aka O' Brother (2000) (France)
Fail Safe (2000) (TV) .... Col. Jack Grady, Command Pilot Group 6
Book That Wrote Itself, The (1999) .... Himself
Three Kings (1999) .... Maj. Archie Gates
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999) (voice) .... Dr. Gouache/Dr. Doctor
Playmate Pajama Party (1999) (V) (archive footage) (uncredited) .... Himself
Waiting for Woody (1998) .... Himself
Thin Red Line, The (1998) .... Capt. Charles Bosche
Out of Sight (1998) .... John Michael 'Jack' Foley
Peacemaker, The (1997) .... Colonel Thomas Devoe
Full Tilt Boogie (1997) .... Himself
Town Meeting with Diane Sawyer: Celebrities vs. the Press (1997) (TV) .... Himself
Batman & Robin (1997) .... Batman/Bruce Wayne
One Fine Day (1996) .... Jack Taylor
Curdled (1996) (uncredited) .... Seth Gecko
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) .... Seth Gecko
Golden Anniversary (1995) (TV) .... Himself ... aka Rosemary Clooney's Demi-Centennial (1995) (TV) (USA: complete title) ... aka Rosemary Clooney's Golden Anniversary (1995) (TV) (USA)
"ER" (1994) TV Series .... Dr. Doug Ross (1994-1999)
ER (1994) (TV) .... Dr. Douglas 'Doug' Ross
"Sisters" (1991) TV Series .... Detective James Falconer (1993-1994)
Harvest, The (1993) .... Lip Syncing Transvestite
Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (1993) (TV) .... Kevin Shea
Unbecoming Age (1992) .... Mac ... aka Magic Bubble, The (1992)
"Bodies of Evidence" (1992) TV Series .... Detective Ryan Walker
"Baby Talk" (1991) TV Series .... Joe (1991)
Red Surf (1990) .... Remar
"Sunset Beat" (1990) TV Series .... Chic Chesbro
Sunset Beat (1990) (TV) .... Chic Chesbro
"Roseanne" (1988) TV Series .... Booker Brooks (1988-1989)
Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988) .... Matt Stevens ... aka Return of the Killer Tomatoes: The Sequel (1988) (USA: video box title)
Grizzly II: The Predator (1987)
Return to Horror High (1987) .... Oliver
Combat High (1986) (TV) .... Maj. Biff Woods ... aka Combat Academy (1986) (TV)
"Facts of Life, The" (1979) TV Series .... George Burnett (1985-1987)
"E/R" (1984) TV Series .... Mark 'Ace' Kolmar
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Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Notable TV Guest Appearances
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Producer - filmography (2000s) (1990s)
Ocean's Twelve (2004) (executive producer)
Far from Heaven (2002) (executive producer)
Welcome to Collinwood (2002) (executive producer) (producer)
Insomnia (2002) (executive producer)
Rock Star (2001) (executive producer)
Fail Safe (2000) (TV) (executive producer)
Kilroy (1999) (TV) (producer)
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Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Notable TV Guest Appearances
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Director - filmography
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Notable TV Guest Appearances
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Writer - filmography
Kilroy (1999) (TV)
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Filmography as: Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Notable TV Guest Appearances
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Notable TV Guest Appearances
"Revealed with Jules Asner" (2001) playing "Himself" in episode: "George Clooney" 27 November 2002
"ER" (1994) playing "Dr. Doug Ross" (uncredited) in episode: "Such Sweet Sorrow" (episode # 6.21) 11 May 2000
"Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, The" (1999) playing "Himself" 30 September 1999
"Howard Stern Show, The" (1994) playing "Himself" 25 July 1999
"ER" (1994) playing "Dr. Doug Ross" (uncredited; voice) in episode: "Responsible Parties" (episode # 5.21) 13 May 1999
"Murphy Brown" (1988) playing "Doctor #2" in episode: "Never Can Say Goodbye: Part 2" (episode # 10.22) 18 May 1998
"South Park" (1997) playing "Sparky" (voice) in episode: "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" (episode # 1.4) 3 September 1997
"Friends" (1994) playing "Dr. Michael Mitchell" in episode: "One with Two Parts, The: Part 2" (episode # 1.16) 23 February 1995
"Building, The" (1993) playing "Bonnie's Fiancee" in episode: "Pilot" (episode # 1.1) 20 August 1993
"Roseanne" (1988) playing "Booker" in episode: "Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down" (episode # 4.6) 29 October 1991
"Golden Girls, The" (1985) playing "Bobby Hopkins" in episode: "To Catch a Neighbor" (episode # 2.24) 2 May 1987
"Murder, She Wrote" (1984) playing "Kip Howard" in episode: "No Laughing Murder" (episode # 3.18) 15 March 1987
"Hunter" (1984) playing "Matthew Winfield" in episode: "Double Exposure" (episode # 3.15) 14 February 1987
"Facts of Life, The" (1979) playing "George Burnett" in episode: "A Star is Torn" (episode # 8.15) 31 January 1987
"Facts of Life, The" (1979) playing "George Burnett" in episode: "Seven Little Indians" (episode # 8.12) 3 January 1987
"Facts of Life, The" (1979) playing "George Burnett" in episode: "Write and Wrong" (episode # 8.11) 13 December 1986
"Hotel" (1983) playing "Nick Miller" in episode: "Recriminations" (episode # 3.13) 29 January 1986
"Crazy Like a Fox" (1984) in episode: "Suitable for Framing" (episode # 1.12) 31 March 1985
"Street Hawk" (1985) playing "Kevin Stark" in episode: "A Second Self" (episode # 1.2) 11 January 1985
"Riptide" (1984) playing "Lenny Colwell" in episode: "Where the Girls Are" (episode # 2.1) 2 October 1984
I wish this guy would say this on TV, my grandfather who fought in France would like to get ahold of this guy. Good Lord, what an idiot between this and his Heston comments this guy is proving that he has alytzhymers(sp). I mean it, reading this article REALLY makes me mad, as in I would hit the SOB if I saw him now. It would almost be worth the day or two I sit in a jail cell.
But even more important is this...the rest of the world just doesn't comprende that that's not how the United States does things. We could've made Germany the 51st state if we'd wanted to -- or would it have been the 49th or 50th because of Hawaii and...ahhh, hell, you know what I'm talking about. And we could've added France . . . but who wants that cesspool. Puerto Rico, the Phillipines, etc.
Especially today, if we REALLY WANTED to annex ANY country, we could pick and choose with impunity. But we ain't threaded that way. Looney's like Clooney and all the others who say "it's just about the oil" and how "imperialistic" we are are just afflicted with a terminal case of the teenie-weenie complex.
This is where ignorance get you ... and the irony of calling Bush ignorant ... The term 'evil-doer' has religious connotations that speaks in the language the ones who did it understand, but this boob thinks we can call Bin Laden Yiddish names?!?
Anti-Bush Hollywood loud mouths are 'schmucks' ... Bin laden and followers are 'evil-doers'. Got it?
It is stunning to me that these people, who do well in Hollywood, cannot stomach the price of freedom most are willing to fight for, as they lie in the lap of luxury.
What a coward.
How many USO shows has this guy done for our troops overseas?
Ya wonder what aunt Rosemary must be thinking?
Now, does anyone seriously believe that all of these Hollywood schmucks would be heaping anything but praise on President Gore?
Freeping these a-holes as targets of opportunity can go a long way to ruining their careers.
And they deserve it.
Izzat so, Georgie? Seems to me your "anger" toward anyone CONSERVATIVE or whose name is BUSH just seems to grow, and grow, and grow, ya HYPOCRITE!!!!!
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