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Larry Fast (Lawrence R. Fast) is a synthesizer expert and composer. He is best known for Synergy, his 1975-1987 series of synthesizer music albums, and for his contribution to a number of popular music acts, including Peter Gabriel, Foreigner, and Hall and Oates.Synergy - Larry Fast - Delta Two | Mauricio Pineros Lopez | 2.31K subscribers | 63,148 views | November 17, 2009

George Clooney doesn't want you to get any ideas. A source who attended the "Ides of March" premiere on Wednesday tells us the 50-year-old sex symbol wasn't "comfortable" taking photos with other women. And his co-star Evan Rachel Wood wasn't about to push the envelope. When photographers on the red carpet encouraged Wood to pose for a shot with Clooney, she replied: "Eh, you better ask him."

It takes a certain degree of nerve to title a film The Ides of March—not merely because it invites Shakespearian comparisons but, more particularly, because the word that most commonly precedes the calendric phrase in the English-speaking world is "beware." George Clooney has nonetheless taken this gamble in his latest directorial outing, a political fable adapted from the Beau Willimon play Farragut North (itself named, more modestly, after a downtown Washington, DC Metro station).