A Rosemary Clooney biopic?

If George Clooney is planning a movie about his famous Aunt Rosemary, he hasn’t told his family. “He’s said nothing about a Rosemary project. I think he would have mentioned it,” says Nick Clooney, his father and Rosemary’s brother. In Touch magazine says George Clooney and actress Reese Witherspoon discussed a Rosemary Clooney film over dinner last month in suburban Los Angeles. “There is talk of a movie about George’s aunt, the singer and actress Rosemary Clooney, and Reese (who won an Oscar for playing June Carter) has expressed interested in it,” the magazine quotes “an insider” in the Feb. 26 edition. The “insider” also speculates that George was romantically interested in Witherspoon, who separated from her husband in October. Nick says her read a rumor last fall in an email about a possible biographical movie about his sister, who died in 2002 at age 74. Nick called Rosemary’s son, actor Miguel Ferrer, who had not heard about it. Nick says he has not spoken in the past week to George, who is in South Carolina directing “Leatherheads,” a feature film about 1920s football with John Krasinki, Stephen Root and Renee Zellweger. Rosemary’s story already has been told on film. Sondra? Locke starred in the 1982 TV movie, “Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story.” The Maysville native began singing on WLW-AM in 1945. She had several hit songs, her own TV series and co-starred in “White Christmas” in the 1950s. She rebounded from drug addiction and mental health problems in the 1960s to tour with Bing Crosby in the 1970s and record many jazz albums. After George dropped out of Northern Kentucky University, he moved to Los Angeles in 1982 and lived for a year with his aunt while trying to establish a show business career. (The Cincinnati Enquirer)