George Clooney

'That's the Way it Was: Remembering Walter Cronkite' to Air Sunday on CBS - Posted July 17, 2009
CBS will preempt 60 Minutes this Sunday for a special on the life of Walter Cronkite, who died earlier this evening in New York. Some of the biggest names in politics, news and entertainment - including Pres. Barack Obama, CBS News colleagues Mike Wallace, Morley Safer and Don Hewitt, Katie Couric, George... [TVNewser]

'That's the Way it Was: Remembering Walter Cronkite' to Air Sunday on CBS - Posted July 17, 2009
CBS will preempt 60 Minutes this Sunday for a special on the life of Walter Cronkite, who died earlier this evening in New York. Some of the biggest names in politics, news and entertainment - including Pres. Barack Obama, CBS News colleagues Mike Wallace, Morley Safer and Don Hewitt, Katie Couric, George... [TVNewser]

CNN's Time 100 Special: Ted Turner, Bono and More - Posted May 1, 2009
Where can you see Bono chat with George Clooney, or Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens reminiscence about billions made and lost? Tonight at 11pmET on CNN, for the Anderson Cooper 360 special highlighting this year's Time 100 list. "These people are really good friends. They know a lot about each other on... [TVNewser]

CNN's Time 100 Special: Ted Turner, Bono and More - Posted May 1, 2009
Where can you see Bono chat with George Clooney, or Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens reminiscence about billions made and lost? Tonight at 11pmET on CNN, for the Anderson Cooper 360 special highlighting this year's Time 100 list. "These people are really good friends. They know a lot about each other on... [TVNewser]

Reel Journalism Screens "The Soloist" - Posted April 15, 2009
Last night former WaPo VP Pat Butler joined Nick Clooney and LA Times columnist Steve Lopez for a screening of "The Soloist" at the AFI Silver Theater. The Newseum and American University hosted the event as a part of the Reel Journalism film series, which explores the intersection of movies and... [FishBowlDC]

Reel Journalism Screens "The Soloist" - Posted April 15, 2009
Last night former WaPo VP Pat Butler joined Nick Clooney and LA Times columnist Steve Lopez for a screening of "The Soloist" at the AFI Silver Theater. The Newseum and American University hosted the event as a part of the Reel Journalism film series, which explores the intersection of movies and... [FishBowlDC]

9pm Battle: Colmes, Ayers on "Hannity," Clooney, Iseman on "King" - Posted February 23, 2009
It's going to be a ratings battle tonight at 9pmET, as FNC and CNN each have unique line-ups. Alan Colmes makes his first return appearance to the 9pmET hour, and he'll be bringing his former co-host, Sean Hannity, an exclusive interview — with Bill Ayers. The interview took place in FNC's Chicago... [TVNewser]

Beck Talks "Twilight," Clooney, Jolie - Posted February 17, 2009
FNC anchor Glenn Beck is profiled in Patricia Sheridan's "Breakfast With..." series, and discusses a variety of issues (and makes a variety of pop culture references). The difference between FNC and CNN: "This is just much more of an entrepreneurial spirit and much less corporate. Do your thing." The economic stimulus: "The government... [TVNewser]

Actors Petition SAG to Not Make Them Look Like Greedy Dirt Bags - Posted December 16, 2008
Some top actors are pleading with the Screen Actors Guild to not call for a vote on a strike next month. From NYT: In a petition, more than 130 well-known actors - including George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin and Sally Field - urged guild leaders to halt the strike authorization vote. "We support... [FishBowlLA]

Clooney Wanted To Direct 'Frost/Nixon' But Had To Take A Back Seat To Opie - Posted December 3, 2008
George Clooney reveals to the Brits that he was dying to direct "Frost/Nixon" but had abandon the idea because Ron Howard reared his head, Britain's Daily Express reports. Clooney apparently wanted to "kick ass" with this project, an approach that didn't sit so well with Brit writer Peter Morgan, who penned the... [FishBowlLA]

Milton Katselas, Acting Teacher/Scientologist Dies at 75 - Posted October 30, 2008
Milton Katselas, an acting teacher par excellence and founder of the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school, has passed away from heart failure, AP says. Katselas, whose students included Gene Hackman, Doris Roberts, George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer among scores of others, was 75. The founder of the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school was... [FishBowlLA]

News About People Named Rupert - Posted April 24, 2008
Per FBNY: Rupert Murdoch hired hackers to develop pirating software. They deny using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service. Uh-huh. We guess the media giant needed a hacker to get around paying his cable television charges. Per wOw: Candice Bergen weighs in on Murdoch's $580... [FishBowlLA]

George Clooney--Salad Spritzer. Watermelon Freak, Pepper Grinder - Posted April 7, 2008
Ian Parker succeedes where Joel Stein failed. In the New Yorker's 10 page celebrity profile, we learn that George Clooney sprays his salad with Balsamic Breeze: a wonderfully balanced blend of bold balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil-all in an innovative spray bottle. Plus, there's just 1 calorie per spray! And... [FishBowlLA]

L.A. Times Scoops the Snoops: How Ornstein Got the Dirt - Posted April 3, 2008
Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Charles Ornstein speaks to us about his story in today's LAT which details yet another breach of confidentiality at UCLA Medical Center: 1. How did you get this story? Just as I was tipped off by a source about UCLA firing workers in the Britney Spears snooping, I similarly... [FishBowlLA]

What Does Gary Busey Want From Ryan Seacrest? - Posted February 24, 2008
We're determined to find out what Gary Busey meant when he menacingly told Ryan Seacrest that he'd been looking for him for years. When Seacrest asked what he'd done, Busey said, "It's what you haven't done." What hadn't he done? Our only guess is that he hadn't asked the questions his researchers... [FishBowlLA]

Sundown on Sunset: Local Color - Posted February 22, 2008
HBO has picked up Academy-Award nominated doc. A Taxi to the Dark Side, after Discovery chickened out. Barbara Walters will interview Ellen Page, Harrison Ford, Vanessa Williams, and Mylie Cyrus. Pick the two with shows on ABC. Who will be forgotten in the Montage of Dead Stars this year? Joel Stein invites George... [FishBowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted February 22, 2008
Our Favorite Line of the Day: Courtesy of Elizabeth Snead, who reported on the Hep A scare at Ashton Kutcher's birthday party (or was it his bar mitzvah?). She writes: "All together now, 'Happy hepatitis to you, happy hepatitis to you!'" Handicapping The Oscars: Sheigh Crabtree puts together a lovely picture book... [FishBowlLA]

Lunch: Captain Picard, I Presume? - Posted February 20, 2008
— DIANE CLEHANE Between the heinous weather that has us nursing what must be walking pneumonia, a deadly dull award season (Does anybody really care about the Oscars without the parties?) and some mind-numbingly bad television we've been forced to endure (What the hell happened to Nip/Tuck?), we were yearning for some... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch At Michael's: Paging George Clooney! Fern Mallis is Saving You a Seat at Fashion Week! - Posted January 23, 2008
— DIANE CLEHANE What recession? The dining room at 55th & Fifth was buzzing with the usual assemblage of bold face names, social swans and television types that tucked into their Cobb salads with gusto while digesting some of the week's harrowing headlines. Hollywood figured heavily into many of today's conversation with... [FishBowlNY]

Someone At L.A. Times Obsessed With Britney Spears' Lesbian Kiss - Posted January 3, 2008
Open Letter to Meredith Artley: You have a pervert on your staff. We don't know who it is (though if you feel like supplying the name, by all means ...) We just know that every time -- and we mean every time -- there is a story about Britney Spears in the... [FishBowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted December 28, 2007
Lil' Meat Pie In The Oven: Reporter Mark Salisbury is a lot less grossed-out than we are that Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter conceived their newborn daughter while filming Sweeney Todd, a movie in which she plays a baker who stuffs meat pies with human flesh. Oprah-In-Chief: Columnist Tina Daunt has... [FishBowlLA]

DiCaprio, Clooney To Make Farragut North - Posted December 6, 2007
Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney seem to have found a novel way around campaign finance restrictions. They're collaborating on a film about the ill-fated Howard Dean campaign, with Leo playing Jay Carson, young, brash press secretary. Carson did that little thing for Dean and now is Hilary Clinton's traveling press secretary.... [FishBowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted October 23, 2007
House Poor: Reporter Scott Gold sifts through the ash and braves the fire to find a quintessentially California story: One couple's dedication to real estate at all costs. Good Night And Good Luck: Actors Ryan Gosling and George Clooney are stepping away from high-profile projects, the result of "creative differences" and box-office... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: Oct. 11, 2007 - Posted October 11, 2007
DiCaprio, Clooney Team Up for WB Warner Bros. has a super A-list project on its hands courtesy of a big-screen adaptation of Beau Willimon's play called Farragut North, Var's Michael Fleming reports. Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in the pic with George Clooney "eyeing" the project to direct. Both actor's respective... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: Oct. 11, 2007 - Posted October 11, 2007
DiCaprio, Clooney Team Up for WB Warner Bros. has a super A-list project on its hands courtesy of a big-screen adaptation of Beau Willimon's play called Farragut North, Var's Michael Fleming reports. Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in the pic with George Clooney "eyeing" the project to direct. Both actor's respective... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: September 7, 2007 - Posted September 7, 2007
Smith for Seven Pounds Will Smith is pursuing a major reteam with the creative minds behind The Pursuit of Happyness. The actor has inked to star in Seven Pounds, Variety reports. The project reunites him with helmer Gabriel Muccino and production company Escape Artists along with Smith's own Overbrook Entertainment. Variety's Tatiana... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: September 7, 2007 - Posted September 7, 2007
Smith for Seven Pounds Will Smith is pursuing a major reteam with the creative minds behind The Pursuit of Happyness. The actor has inked to star in Seven Pounds, Variety reports. The project reunites him with helmer Gabriel Muccino and production company Escape Artists along with Smith's own Overbrook Entertainment. Variety's Tatiana... [FishBowlLA]

Forget The Debates, Voters Need Only Watch "Law & Order" - Posted August 21, 2007
Someone at Zap2It has been hitting the NoDoze and Diet Coke. Spurred on by the presidential bid of Law & Order actor Fred Thompson, the entertainment Web site created an intricate 6-degrees-type graphic linking the rest of the presidential candidates to the show. Our favorite links Sam Brownback via George Clooney... [FishBowlLA]

Lunch At Michael's: The Dog Days Are Here! - Posted August 8, 2007
— DIANE CLEHANE The morning monsoon that shut down the city for several hours kept all but the true diehards away today at 55th & Fifth. Even general manager Steve Millington was kept from his post due to a weather-related nanny nightmare (we can relate). Others, like our pal Jaqui Lividini, arrived... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch at Michael's: Ken Sunshine: Lindsay's Woes Are 'Beyond PR Issues' - Posted July 25, 2007
— DIANE CLEHANE We've truly hit the dog days of summer when there isn't one Fiji water sipping-celeb in sight come high noon at 55th & Fifth. Luckily, that didn't mean there was a shortage of Tinseltown talk in the dining room. The topic du jour — what else? — Lindsay Lohan's... [FishBowlNY]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted July 19, 2007
A Little Welcome Wagon: Tom Cruise and Will Smith will team up to throw the Beckhams a welcome-to-LA bash on Sunday for 600 of their closest friends, including Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Jim Carrey, Anjelica Huston, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Brian Grazer, Warner Bros. President Alan Horn... [FishBowlLA]

Annie Leibovitz Captures the African Conversation for Vanity Fair - Posted June 6, 2007
In an unprecedented effort by Vanity Fair, 20 different covers of the July issue hit newsstands today for their Africa issue, featuring famous peeps having a "conversation" about the continent as shot by Annie Leibovitz. Feast your eyes on the slideshow: Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali, Queen Rania of Jordan, Bono,... [UnBeige]

Morning Reading List, 06.04.07 - Posted June 4, 2007
Good morning Washington. Slate beats Salon. An NBC release announced that "Meet the Press with Tim Russert" was "the No. 1 Sunday morning public affairs program. On Sunday, for the week ending May 27, the Russert-moderated program attracted 2.898 million total viewers. CBS 'Face the Nation' had 2.866 million viewers, ABC 'This Week'... [FishBowlDC]

And You Thought You Were Going To Get Some Work Done Today... - Posted May 29, 2007
Our friends at ERSnews.com have a back-to-work-after-the-long-weekend treat for you all (albeit a geeky investigative-reporter-type treat). The State Controller's office has a dandy unclaimed property search tool online. You can punch in any one's name and see what's owed them and by whom (we, unfortunately, are owed nothing). ERS found a few... [FishBowlLA]

Is Borat Too Big For Shared Vanity Fair Cover? - Posted February 8, 2007
Apparently. According to Nikke Finke, Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller and Jack Black were supposed to don the cover of Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood issue, but Cohen and Ferrell's manager, Jimmy Miller, reportedly nixed the deal, contending his clients were too big for a shared cover. Owen Wilson and... [FishBowlNY]

New Blog on the Block - Posted January 11, 2007
Variety has launched a new party-esque society blog, Variety on the Town, that seems to be a departure from other party-eque society sites in that it leaves all the panty-free pandemonium on the other side of the velvet rope. The site launched on Jan. 5, "just in time for the avalanche of... [FishBowlLA]

Separated At Birth: Howard Kurtz - Posted January 4, 2007
Washington Post's Howard Kurtz is this week's Separated at Birth. According to MyHeritage.com's nifty face recognition database: Kurtz... ...looks like Joe Rogan? Dan Rather? Neil Sedaka? Johnny Damon? Gavin Rossdale? Neil Diamond? Ray Romano? George Clooney? And, Danny DeVito? Did you miss our earlier Separateds? Or just want to see them again? Check out Tony Kornheiser, John Harris, Len Downie, David Corn, Bob... [FishBowlDC]