Devito to promote Limoncello after Night Out with George
DeVito coming out with personal brand of lemon-flavored liqueur
By The Associated Press 05/02/2007
NEW YORK (AP) — Danny DeVito is taking an embarrassing moment on ABC’s “The View” and turning it into his own brand of limoncello, a lemon-flavored liqueur. The 62-year-old actor-director made a loopy appearance on the daytime talk show last November, saying he’d had a late night out with George Clooney. “I knew it was the last seven limoncellos that was going to get me,” DeVito said on the show. DeVito — who was promoting his new comedy, “Deck the Halls” — slurred his speech and used some bad language when joking about President Bush, among other gaffes, during his appearance on “The View.” When Clooney was later asked how much was consumed, he replied: “A lot…I got to the point where I was dumping the shots into, ah, you know, a plant next to me and, um, I don’t think…I don’t think Danny saw me do that.” DeVito is now launching Danny DeVito’s Premium Limoncello, which was unveiled Monday at the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America Annual Convention in Orlando, Fla.His 60-proof liqueur, to be launched later this year by Harbrew Imports Inc. of Freeport, N.Y., is the “best limoncello you ever tasted,” DeVito said in a statement.
I didn’t get Danny drunk and Arianna is no friend
George sez: I didn’t get Danny drunk and Arianna is no friend
Don’t blame George Clooney for getting Danny DeVito all liquored up the night before his appearance on “The View.” “Danny drew me into this,” Clooney explained at “The Good German” after-party Tuesday night. Sure, they’d had dinner that night in New York at Scalinatella with Stan Rosenfield, their shared publicist and yes, there was wine, vodka and an Italian liquer called lemoncello involved.
“But I was in bed by 11:30 and when I woke up the next morning, I was The Devil. Where did that come from?” He did watch DeVito on the “View” and said he laughed at his inebriated antics such as talking about having sex with wife Rhea Pearlman in the White House and calling President Bush a ‘numbnuts.’ “I saw the piece and I gotta say, it was hysterical. But if you’re going to take those kinds of shots, you gotta take your licks. I don’t think it will hurt him at all. Hey, he’s Louis DePalma.”
And the two are still buds. Which is more than one can say about Clooney and Arianna Huffington. According to Clooney, Huffington has never apologized to him for making it look like he’d written a blog for her Huffingtonpost website last April. And while she eventually did mega mea culpa’s to the entire blogosphere for the deception, she never bothered to say “my bad” to the Oscar winner.
“In the smack down world, she did get smacked, but that’s fair enough because she really was out of line. But we were never friends,” he explained. “She just called me up and asked me to do a blog. I said “Sure but I’ve never done it and don’t know anything about it.’ So she pieced one together from five interviews I’d done in the past and made it look like I’d written it. The thing that really pissed me off is that I don’t write that badly. I would have never written anything that dogmatic. I’m the son of a journalist and my dad looked at it and said, “What the hell is this?’ And I said, I have no idea!.” When Clooney saw his so-called blog on her site, he immediately sent out a press release asking her to admit what she did, which she at first refused to do, claiming she had gotten permission to use the old quotes from his camp.
“It was so dumb. You can’t just make shit up. She said, “Well, I did it for Arthur Schlessinger and I said, I don’t care who else you did it for. At the end of it, we got into screaming fights. She told me I was being ridiculous and I said ‘Well, I’m not the one who lost a debate with Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
Ouch. Score one for George. ( Envelope)
George recaps night out and details on the Private TGG Screening Dinner
December 2, 2006 by admin
Filed under General Articles, Gossip
How Danny Devito And George Clooney Got So Drunk
Saturday, December 02, 2006 (Fox News)
By Roger Friedman
How Danny And George Got So Drunk
Now this is how a night can become stuff of legend.
Danny DeVito and George Clooney’s big night out—the one that led to Danny’s drunken appearance on “The View”—has finally been explained to me by none other than Clooney himself.
And here’s the big news: no matter how intoxicated George or Danny got, the real loser of the night was publicist Stan Rosenfeld. Rosenfeld, who also represents Robert DeNiro (among others), told me that when he returned to the Lowell Hotel he threw up three times. “Three,” he emphasized, holding up fingers.
“Apparently you cannot mix Limoncello and red wine,” Stan said, with a laugh. The funny thing is, if you know Stan, you know this is not a regular thing for him.
The dinner, by the way, took place at the famed Italian restaurant Scalinatella on Third Ave. and 61 St. There were five men at dinner, including George, Danny, Stan and John Lambros, the amiable husband of former MTV star and regular on-air personality Karen “Duff” Duffy.
Says Duff: “The funny thing is, John was home and in bed by midnight.”
So it was the intensity and quantity of beverages imbibed, not the length of time during which they were consumed that got everybody so completely wasted.
It was all Clooney could do to keep a straight face in retelling the story on Friday night at a dizzyingly swanky private dinner for his new movie, “The Good German,” at the Hotel Plaza Athenee.
He joked about it with director Steven Soderbergh, actor pal Sam Rockwell, and the many well wishers who came by to compliment Clooney and co-star Cate Blanchett (who was absent) on the black and white noir film.
And believe me, the Plaza Athenee dining room was jam-packed from one end to another with celebs. Martha Stewart brought her 25-year-old opera singer nephew. Sean Penn showed up with a group of friends and took a far corner table. The luscious Eva Mendes (wearing a suede cap and a smile) and her longtime boyfriend worked the crowd. Directors Nora Ephron, Barry Levinson, Tom McCarthy and Philip Haas were all there, as was Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy with his wife Dana and son Brendan, who showed off pics of his new twin girls.
McCarthy, who’s starred with Clooney in two films, shared a laugh with People’s Sexiest Man. “You’ve killed me twice!” Clooney said.
Also spotted: Bob and Lynne Balaban, Patty Clarkson, NBC’s Richard Valeriani and wife Kathie Berlin, plus Soderbergh’s wife Jules Asner (formerly of the E! Channel and now a budding novelist), CBS’s Harry Smith, “60 Minutes’” Lesley Stahl and Morley Safer, movie producer Ed Pressman and wife Annie, and so on and so forth.
Patty Clarkson laughed: “Everyone keeps coming up and congratulating me on the movie. Only I’m not in it.” This is because Patty is in most of the good, interesting, ambitious films every year like “The Station Agent” or “Pieces of April.” But not this one.
“Are you sure you’re not in it?” I asked.
“I’m sure!” she said.
The dining room was churning with stars and the crowd was so dense that at one point hostess Peggy Siegal was ordering people to stop schmoozing and get to their tables like a schoolmarm in a black designer dress with great jewelry.
We even asked Martha Stewart at one point to make the room snap to, and she considered it. “I could say I’m Martha Stewart, and everyone sit down,” she said. But she was busy chatting with screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Brian’s dad Charles is the COO of her company.
For a few scary minutes it was like that night in 2000 when Denise Rich gave a dinner for 1500 people at the Sheraton had no seating plan.
For Siegal, who had a plan, this was just one more night in what was maybe the busiest week of her long career. On Thursday night she hosted the celeb screening of “Blood Diamond” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Honsou and sit-down dinner at Le Cirque. On Wednesday night it was the Museum of Modern Art party for several hundred fans of Nancy Meyers’ “The Holiday” with Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Cameron Diaz.
“I have eight screenings in seven days,” Peggy was overheard shouting to a movie star over the din at MoMa. “You know, there are only seven days in a week! On Saturday, I’ve got two screenings of ‘Babel.’”
Siegal’s screenings and dinners at this time of year that even other party planners, like Andrew Saffir, make the scene. Amy Sacco, who owns the hot after hours night club Bungalow 8, surveys the scene and then shepherds the top guests over to W 27 St., so they can continue partying in private.
Meanwhile, the guests—many of whom are Oscar voters—carry on discussions and debates about the movies they’ve seen, the buzz and the business. None of the women want to see “Apocalypto.” Everyone loves “Volver,” and “The Queen.” The names you hear, like mantras: Sharon Stone. Penelope. Forest Whitaker. “Marty.” Jennifer Hudson. Everyone is curious about “Notes on a Scandal.”
Names you don’t hear at Oscar-themed events: TomKat, Jacko, Brangelina. The latter may be invoked, however, if Brad Pitt accompanies Angelina Jolie to “The Good Shepherd” premiere on Tuesday. Security teams are putting in bids now. Orphans are sprucing up resumes.
But wait: George, how did you all get so tanked?
“Mixing red wine, vodka, and the Limoncello,” he said.
Stan did not have the vodka, thank god, although he says if he’d been billed for the hotel bed, he wouldn’t have been surprised. Urrgggh.
What does it really sound like? A bunch of guys who don’t drink that much, drinking too much, too fast. But that would spoil the legend. What fun would that be? Already we know too much. Is it a new Rat Pack? Probably not, but we can dream, can’t we?
A Warning To George Clooney
A Warning To George Clooney - Don’t Go Drinking With Bill O’Reilly
Reported by Deborah - November 30, 2006
Danny DeVito became the FOX whipping boy of the week after appearing on The View obviously inebriated and doing a silly bit on Bush. Alan Colmes joined O’Reilly last night for a segment on “Liberal Anger” but Colmes, upbeat and confident, refused to follow Bill’s script. In fact, he seemed to enjoy reminding BOR that DeVito had been partying with George Clooney the night before he appeared on The View prompting O’Reilly to express some conservative anger for Clooney. He told Colmes, “If I went drinking with George Clooney, he’d be MIA.” (News Hounds)
Videos: George jokes about partying with Danny
TMZ.com has a video from Splash News of George getting ready to leave his midtown hotel (11/30/06) when he is asked by cameraman “Hey George, any chance you might do some partying with Britney and Paris in LA?” Clooney happily says “I guess not huh”. Photographers and fans laugh as he is then asked “Maybe you can get Danny to go with you.” George then replies “I tell ya, Danny appearently can’t drink with me, that’s the problem.” Clooney says goodbye to all and then as he gets in his SUV camera says “Oh and congrats on getting the People magazine award, to which the laughing Oscar winner says “ha ah ha, Thanks.” (Thanks to Nicole for the headsup!)
Also from Splash news (click on video upper right corner) a video of George outside his New York hotel (11/29/06), Clooney was asked about the big night out. He told a reporter: “It was a good night.” Clooney then asks [of DeVito]: “How did he do?” The reporter replies: “He wasn’t too good on The View this morning.” Clooney laughs and says: “Oh, really?” The reporter says: “He said something about limoncellos.” Clooney’s male companion jokes: “We only had eleven.” Clooney adds [just audible]: “The guy’s a pro.” The pair are getting into a waiting SUV that then takes them to a recording of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
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