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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Clooney or did i post now.
Nobody was more surprised than me when I recently awoke in my bed, after a night of troubled dreams, to discover I had been transformed into an enormous George Clooney fan.
Up to then, I had thought mainly of George Clooney as well, just "George Clooney" - more a Celebrity Proper noun than a person or an actor, much less my favourite kind of actor, the comic.
But then in the space of a week or so, Elly and i saw, "Burn After Reading," at the world's most comfortable cinema, the Dendy Newtown followed by " Intolerable Cruelty, " in the comfort of our own home.
And Clooney was such a goddam highlight. His charm, smile and verve mostly keep him just barely infallible in the face of a hostile universe. And nobody is more surprised than him.
And how when his naivete does finally get the best of him, and he ends up absurdly floundering about because of it, nobody is more surprised than him.
Like when he confronts Catherine Zeta-Jones's, Marilyn Rexroth, all crestfallen -" I guess something inside of me died when i realised you hired a goon to kill me."
Off course, it is supremely amoozing cos Marilyn had simply outwitted Wheezy Joe, the goon Clooney's Miles Massey had hired to kill Marilyn, doubled his fee and sent him out to take Miles down..
Anyhow, y'all should see that movie and the "Burn After Reading."
Eloise and I have re-cast the movie of our lives. She will be played by Drew Barrymore and George Clooney will take on the role of me. Brad Pitt will play our personal trainer.
Up to then, I had thought mainly of George Clooney as well, just "George Clooney" - more a Celebrity Proper noun than a person or an actor, much less my favourite kind of actor, the comic.
But then in the space of a week or so, Elly and i saw, "Burn After Reading," at the world's most comfortable cinema, the Dendy Newtown followed by " Intolerable Cruelty, " in the comfort of our own home.
And Clooney was such a goddam highlight. His charm, smile and verve mostly keep him just barely infallible in the face of a hostile universe. And nobody is more surprised than him.
And how when his naivete does finally get the best of him, and he ends up absurdly floundering about because of it, nobody is more surprised than him.
Like when he confronts Catherine Zeta-Jones's, Marilyn Rexroth, all crestfallen -" I guess something inside of me died when i realised you hired a goon to kill me."
Off course, it is supremely amoozing cos Marilyn had simply outwitted Wheezy Joe, the goon Clooney's Miles Massey had hired to kill Marilyn, doubled his fee and sent him out to take Miles down..
Anyhow, y'all should see that movie and the "Burn After Reading."
Eloise and I have re-cast the movie of our lives. She will be played by Drew Barrymore and George Clooney will take on the role of me. Brad Pitt will play our personal trainer.
