His father, Nick, a former journalist, Clooney and Bill Small, chairman of news and documentary Emmys, discuss Clooney’s film Good Night, and Good Luck, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., in January 2009.
Though you’d be hard-pressed to get
him to admit it, George Clooney may
very well be the perfect movie star for
our time. In an era dominated by prefabricated pretty boys, metrosexual ambiguity and unbridled post-adolescent
angst, the 49-year-old Kentucky native
evokes images of old-fashioned actors
such as Clark Gable and Cary Grant—
dashing, masculine and mysterious, the
sort of man other men want to be like
and women want to be with.
He also has a legendary sense of
humor, which makes him approachable.
Who else would ever admit to falling
in love with a pot-bellied pig, which he
kept as a pet for 18 years?
Asked where his playfulness comes
from, Clooney reflects on his years as
a young actor struggling to make it in
Hollywood, which seems to keep him
humble and rooted even now that he’s
long been a bona fide movie star.
