Clooney on The Daily Show
It is alarming how charming and delightful Mr. George Clooney is. It's a good thing he made friends with Sodebergh and became a star just when it looked like he might go back to being a non-star all those years ago. Now he can make sweet-ass movies, of which I hope Leatherheads will be one.
Also: he had a pet pig for many, many years which slept with him in his bed.
ALL HAIL CLOONEY!
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posted by Jesse Thorn at Friday, April 04, 2008
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I'm actually a big fan of George Clooney. O' Brother and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind are both in my top 5 films (O' Brother's #2). When it comes to interviews, like all the best people, he loves to play along.
If his behind-the-scenes folks would let him, I'm sure he'd be what I like to refer to as a "Couch Sitter"; the 1st-guests that willingly stick around for the rest of the show. I have great respect for couch sitters.
He's the modern day Cary Grant: great comedically, great dramatically, and just plain mandsome. And I love Cary Grant, so.
Actually, I'm kind of revealing a lot about myself. I have to go think for a while.
He told a hilarious story on an old episode of the Dennis Miller HBO show (the whole interview was amusing come to think of it) which is recapped somewhat here in Salon
He may be pulling in $12 million a picture and deified by women worldwide, but George Clooney is apparently not above digging around in cat shit for the sake of a good joke.
Actor Richard Kind (who plays Paul on "Spin City" and is a member of Clooney's inner circle) and his pet feline learned that lesson the hard way.
"Richard had this cat that he loved and adored," Ben Weiss, a "Friends" assistant director and another Clooney crony, recalls in the upcoming issue of Men's Journal. "So George would go in the bathroom, and that's where the litter box was. And there would be cat shit in there, so George would clean it up and flush it down the toilet. Then Richard would go in there and say, 'God, it's so weird. My cat hasn't taken a shit in forever.'"
This went on for days: the cat crapping, Clooney merrily scooping and flushing. And eventually, Kind grew understandably concerned.
"Richard went to the vet to get some kind of thing to make the cat go to the bathroom," says Weiss. "The poor cat. The cat's shitting, and George is still cleaning it up."
Clearly, the madness had to end. So the erstwhile "ER" star capped it off with a bang (or, more accurately, a thud).
"Finally, George stood over the cat box and took a giant shit," Weiss tells the magazine. "And finally Richard goes in there and says, 'Oh, my God! Kitty!'"
Smelling salts, stat.
That reminds me of a great story he told on the Tonight Show or something.
He, Matt Damon, and Brad Pitt were all together getting their prints in the forecourt at Grauman's. George, as clever as he is, realizes that the first thing people are going to think is "Wow, so-and-so had some tiny feet!".
So he calls up Matt and begins to plot. He knows that he can make his hands look bigger by putting them down and pulling back towards himself, so that's covered.
He asks Matt how big his feet are, and he tells George something along the lines of 10-12. George's are the same. So he tells Matt he's going to wear a larger-size shoe, and convinces him to do the same. Lo and behold, they show up wearing something like a size 16 shoe.
Now here's the kicker: George and Matt didn't bother to tell Brad about their plan!
If George Clooney wasn't awesome enough before...
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