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  • Lily Rabe comes aboard George Clooney directorial ‘The Tender Bar’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actor Lily Rabe has been cast as female lead in George Clooney’s upcoming Amazon movie “The Tender Bar”.

    Based on author J R Moehringer’s memoir of the same name, the drama will also feature actors Ben Affleck and Tye Sheridan.

    Published in 2005, the book is a “coming-of-age” story and centres on the author, who as a young boy is seeking a replacement for his father, a New York City disc jockey who had vanished before his son spoke his first word.

    When he can’t find his father’s voice on the radio anymore, the boy turns in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he finds friendship from his Uncle Charlie and other adults, who take him to the beach, to ballgames, and ultimately into their circle.

    Sheridan will play Moehringer in the movie, while Affleck will feature as his Uncle Charlie.

    Rabe will step into the role of Moehringer’s mother, who is the main female character in the memoir, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

    Clooney will direct the movie from a script by Oscar-winning scribe William Monahan.

    He will also produce the movie along with his producing partner Grant Heslov through their Smokehouse Pictures banner.

    Rabe is best known for featuring in multiple seasons of popular show “American Horror Story”.

    She is also a known stage artiste and had received a nomination for Tony award for best actress in a play for her performance as Portia in “The Merchant of Venice”.

    The actor most recently starred in HBO’s “The Undoing”, opposite Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.

  • George Clooney wants to ‘steer clear of’ politics

    By IANS
    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood icon George Clooney says he is not planning a career in politics, adding that he just wants to use his fame in contributing to social causes close to his heart.

    “I’m friends with a lot of politicians who I like and respect and think the world of. Their life is very difficult and I don’t envy a moment of it. I truly feel as if I don’t have to make compromises in the world I work in and if I want to take up a cause and fight for it, I can do that without having to say, ‘Well I can’t tick off this guy because he’s raised half a million dollars for my political campaign’,” Clooney said in an interview with OK! Magazine, femalefirst.co.uk reported.

    “I can be much more effective in the things I want to work on without being tied to politics at all. I’ll steer clear of that one,” he added.

    The 59-year-old star admitted he feels a “great sense of responsibility” to ensure his three-year-old twins Alexander and Ella, who he shares with his wife Amal, grow up aware of their privilege.

    “I have a great sense of responsibility to the twins because life with them is going to be much easier in some ways, but more difficult in other ways. It’s going to be challenging to remind children who have been born under the magnifying glass of celebrity — but also with money and all of those privileges,” he said.

    “It’s important to get them to understand empathy and to understand about other people who aren’t as fortunate as they are. I feel a great responsibility for that,” he added.

  • George Clooney reveals he was once drunk on sets of ‘One Fine Day’

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: American actor George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer discussed their time on the sets of ‘One Fine Day’ while appearing on Variety’s ‘Entertainers on Actors’ show.

    The pair featured in the 1996 flick as outsiders who had a frenzied experience in New York City.

    “It’s been for such a long time. I don’t think I’ve seen you since the debut of ‘One Fine Day,’” Pfeiffer said.

    Joking over the same, Clooney declared that it was Pfeiffer’s “plan” from the start to avoid him for more than twenty years.

    The ‘Painful Cruelty’ star at that point opened up about arriving at work to film the movie after gulping down several drinks.

    “I was in New York, I was remaining at the Morgans Hotel, and my companion Rande Gerber, who is my accomplice now in the tequila organization – I had the free day. So I had a couple of beverages,” he reviewed.

    “We kept awake and had a couple of vodkas or something. At that point, I got back home at one AM, and I’m similar to, ‘Gracious s**t.’ I was really pounded.”

    The following morning, the ‘Cash Monster’ star said that he woke up and felt “Alright.”

    “At that point, I glanced in the mirror, and I resembled, ‘Goodness, I’m actually tanked.’ I got to the set, and we strolled to the trailer and I plunked down and you took a gander at me. You go, ‘What?’” he proceeded.

    “What’s more, I resembled, ‘I didn’t realise we planned to work today.’”

    During the conversation, Clooney said that the two recorded independently frequently, and there were ‘not many special cases’ the point at which they were not dealing with what basically felt like “two different movies.”

    Clooney proceeded with his story: “And you go, ‘You’re actually smashed.’ It’s a scene we did in an oner where you and I are arguing and forward to one another. I continued attempting to splash whatever mouth shower I could in light of the fact that I resembled a…”

    “A bottling works,” Pfeiffer, who additionally filled in as a chief maker – and accordingly Clooney’s chief – on the flick.

    “Like a refinery,” the actor explained.

    In any case, that wasn’t the lone time the star showed up on set following an unpleasant evening.

    Pfeiffer at that point reviewed her co-star showing up one day “with a wrecked face.”

    “No doubt, I was playing b-ball with the team at noon, and I took an elbow in the face from one of the group individuals, and it broke my eye attachment,” Clooney recollected.

    “Also, I resembled, ‘I can in any case shoot.’ I recollect that we really shot scenes where we obstructed portion of my face with a child.”

  • George Clooney says Capitol attack put Trump family ‘into the dustbin of history’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star George Clooney has condemned the attack on the Capitol Hill in the US by thousands of supporters of Donald Trump saying that the president’s name will now forever be associated with “insurrection”.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, during an appearance on the The Business weekly podcast, “The Midnight Sky” star said it was “devastating” to watch the people’s house being “desecrated”.

    “This puts Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. Ivanka, all of them, into the dustbin of history. That name will now forever be associated with insurrection,” Clooney said.

    The Trump supporters on Wednesday clashed with police at the Capitol, where members of the Congress were going through the process of counting and certifying the Electoral College votes.

    The violent attack resulted in at least four deaths and interrupting a constitutional process to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the election.

    Clooney said the incident was “the straw that broke the camel’s back”.

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    “It is also a tremendous overreach in a way — everybody kept waiting for, what’s the one thing, the straw that breaks the camel’s back and it just seemed like that line just kept getting moved and moved and moved and outrage didn’t even matter anymore, even to the point of calling the Secretary of State in Georgia and pressuring him. None of that seemed to matter. This mattered.”

    The 59-year-old actor believes something hopeful will come out of this “disaster”.

    “If this is what it takes to set us on the right path, I think that, not that it’s worth it, it’s not worth it in any shape or form, but at least we should find something hopeful to come out of some of this disaster,” he said.

    Prior to Clooney, Hollywood stars Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, James Mangold, Sacha Baron Cohen, Josh Gadh, James Gunn, veteran singer Stevie Wonder, Selena Gomez and rapper Cardi B among others criticised the attack.

    On Friday, Trump also condemned the violent supporters who stormed the US Capitol, saying they do not represent America, as he vowed to ensure a peaceful and smooth transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden.

    “Now, Congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power,” he said.