Thanks to Clooney Gazette for scanning this Q&A with George from Vox Magazines first issue. They also have a great scan from les Inrockuptibles featuring Wes Anderson on The Fantastic Mr Fox you can read it here.
And thanks to Laetval for posting this (Google) translation in the CNCU Forum!
The Cary Grant of the 21st century
He is on all fronts: environmental, humanitarian, celebrities and film. However, the actor-director does not have the big head and “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” his new comedy, is the proof!
Vox : George, you are the poster of the men who stare at goats! What would you say if you were to summarize in a few words?
George : For me, the men who stare, is a comedy although it has not the usual standards. is the story of Bob Wilton, a desperate reporter who is happy meeting Lyn Cassady, a soldier with paranormal powers fighting terrorism. they go together in Iraq when they meet Bill Django, the founder of the unit that runs a prison. like that, I see that you do not bend to laugh, but I assure you it’s pretty funny.
V : by your side, there are Ewan McGregor, we see everywhere now, including defending gay’s rights alongside Jim Carrey in ‘I love philip morris “! here’s one that will start to get a sacred competition!
G : but the better and deserved it. this is an actor who looks like Brad Pitt in the way of understanding the existence and fame: it does not take the head is not watermelon, simplicity, generosity, and a extreme kindness. me if I was 15 years younger, is the type which I like.
V : you also are very generous. you just give one million dollars to victims of Haiti!
Kells gives a great review of Amy Ferris Memoir Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis. Retail Price is $16.95 but you can purchase it through Clooney Unlimited at a new price of $11.53 or less for used.
Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis by Amy Ferris (Seal Press, 2009) $16.95
Not all authors can combine humor, heartbreak, candidness, and the ability to tell a great story, but Amy Ferris does this. In her new memoir, Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis, she shares the details of her own mid-life menopause, quitting smoking after 32 years, married life, as well as the having to care for her mother who is suffering from severe dementia.
The book begins with an insomnia-filled Amy up at 3 a.m. googling old boyfriends. How could I not love a book that offers that gem in the first chapter? Written in short vignettes, I could not put the book down once I began reading it. Each section offered a new surprise, laugh-out-loud humor, and definitely some guffaw-moments, such as the section “Ragtime,” which may have you asking the males in your life some intimate questions to the poignant section “Kathy,” about the death of her best friend.
Ferris’ book does what many other memoirs don’t do, it tells the truth. Not just the good stuff, but the complex emotions we feel and the ridiculousness of daily life happening around us. Ferris is not afraid to be candid. She shares her private thoughts as well as her nighttime fears from believing she has some incurable disease to answering an email at night to a friend’s concerns about death in saying she’s “more afraid of being forgotten. Her honesty offers a calmness to the reader in that we are not alone in our thoughts and feelings.
The book is unique in its format—different fonts, font sizes, italics or boldness throughout its pages. At first, I thought this layout would be distracting while I read the book, but what I realized was how the quirkiness of the book’s appearance only adds to the anecdotes Ferris tells and mirrors the distinctiveness of her writing and voice.
Ferris is wise, hilarious, and has successfully created a book that draws the reader into her world of junk drawers, insomnia, and the intricacy of relationships. Marrying George Clooney was a highly satisfying read from beginning to end and I would add that it was definitely the best and funniest memoir I read all year. Highly recommend.
Product Description
Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis
By Amy FerrisWhile wide awake in the middle of the night (welcome to menopause!), Amy Ferris began chronicling every one of her funny, sad, hysterical, down and dirty, and raw to the bones stories. Along with fantasizing about marrying George Clooney, Ferris is faced with a plethora of other insomnia-induced thoughts and activities. From googling old boyfriends to researching obscure and fatal diseases on the web; from scouting five-star spa destinations to having angry, bitter, e-mail exchanges with her brother. She worries endlessly about her husband, relies heavily on Ambien, and tries to arrange care via the Internet for her mother (who has both severe dementia and a massive love-bubble crush on Jesus Christ)—all while refraining from lighting up just one more cigarette. Marrying George Clooney explores a range of emotions experienced through this life-altering period. In this candid look at “the change,” Ferris offers a humorous spin on a not-so-funny topic.
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The Source featured a special on Haiti in their March issue. Included was a two page pictorial on the Hope for Haiti Now benefit which had some pics of George so I’ve added scans to the gallery.
I’ve updated magazines with these latest issues
New York Times looks back on the Best Performances of the Decade. You can catch George at the end praising Marion Cotillard in her performance of La vie en rose. (Start Time 6:20)
And here they feature George and Vera Farmiga in their 7th Annual Great Performers Choices.
George Clooney
Age: 48
Role: Ryan Bingham, a high-flying corporate hatchet man who reevaluates his connection-free lifestyle after falling for a fellow traveler (Vera Farmiga).
Oscar History: Four previous nominations: two for acting, one for directing, one for writing. He’s won once: Best Supporting Actor for 2005’s Syriana.
He Always had it in him: Though Clooney’s turn in Up in the Air has several surprisingly emotional moments near the end, it’s the breezy feel of most of the performance that’s won praise from critics and audiences alike. “Laurance Olivier disappeared into roles and you never could recognize him,” Clooney says. “Then there was Spencer Tracy, and he was always sort of … Spencer Tracy. I don’t know where I fit in. There’s always some element of me in there. So if it feels effortless, then I did my job. I mean, I am a professional. I know what I’m doing.
Up Next: He’ll star as a hitman completing one last assignment in Italy in The American (Out Sept 1), based on Martin Booth’s 2004 novel A Very Private Gentleman. — Dave Karger
Belgium has a new entertainment magazine out this month featuring an interview with George. Here’s an excerpt from the site and hopefully soon we will have a full scan and translation thanks to Atalante!
And how’s the Sexiest Man Alive with the pressure of an Oscar season?
George Clooney: “That’s not so bad. Four years ago I already won one for my role in Syriana, which was more than I had counted on in my life. I can now just concentrate on my work, and if people think that I have something to earn, they should above all not imply. But actually I have a love-hate relationship with the Oscar season. In recent years everyone will be price beasts late December, because December 31 is the deadline for nominations to be. But if they could, they would only films that the Oscars the night before release, and just advanced screenings for the voters to keep as many nominations as possible to win. In other words: the campaigns of those films are completely suspended from the Oscar Buzz who hangs around. It is almost impossible to be more like “movies” to go see. They are immediately labeled “Oscar candidate” , without having been given the chance, simply because of their themes or good word of mouth, to find an audience. I think it unfair to the makers of those films. “
Do you not just annoying that you often need to include yourself.
Clooney: “That too, yes. (Laughs) Okay, I admit it: it is actually above that. The winter months lend themselves to more film lovers to bring in the halls. You would be silly for a movie Up in the Air in the middle of the summer release, along with Transformers and Harry Potter. A miscreant has done that once with Out of Sight (the sublime adaptation of Elmore Leonard, his good friend Steven Soderbergh, ed). After three weeks we were all over the halls. Come to think: perhaps the situation is so bad. ” (Laughs)
Up in the Air is, next Avatar course, tipped as the big favorite for the Oscars. The film is about a lonely man who prefers all his time in an airplane spends in the hope of ever ten million frequent flyer miles to collect. Do you have to fight for that role?
Clooney: ‘The way you suggested, they would rather have me have to beg for participating! Fortunately, both the movie and the role a little more nuanced than the synopsis. The real important thing is that the man was gradually finds out he has not always twenty or thirty may continue. Whether you like it or not, things change as you get older. You get a different perspective on life, and pick-up line that worked two years ago, is suddenly very wrong or even just become pathetic. I do not like to admit, but as I read the script, I’ve often been thinking: “Hey, this is recognizable.”
Thanks to Atalante for posting this in the CNCU Forum!
With the Awards season in full roll the congratulations ads have started appearing. Here is CAA congrats to it’s clients nominated in the upcoming Globes as well as an AFI Advert.
also a small piece in the Variety Yesterday concerning George’s involvement in the Haiti Telethon.
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