I've added candids of George and Sarah leaving the hotel in NY 05-06-08

George was out on the town Friday 04-25-08 in West Hollywood dining at Dan Tan's. Catch the Video  at X17.

Mags Updates

Variety Plus  04-23-08

Thanks to Reve we now have scans of the UK Marie Claire May Issue!

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And here he is in Studio City out with Grant on Thursday 04-24-08

Olympic boycott over Darfur would be 'excessive': George Clooney 

MADRID (AFP) — Boycotting the Beijing Olympic Games to try to pressure China into taking action to stop the violence in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur would be "excessive", said US actor George Clooney in an interview published Saturday in Spain.

"It seems excessive to boycott the Games because China does business in Darfur. It's always more important to keep a line of communication open," the Oscar-winning thespian told the El Pais newspaper.

Clooney, 46, has become a leading advocate for action to end the conflict in Darfur and for more humanitarian aid for the millions caught up in the conflict, after filming a documentary on the ongoing violence there last year.

He set up Not on Our Watch, a humanitarian group that focuses global attention on Darfur and has raised over nine million dollars (five million euros) for the region, with his "Ocean's Thirteen" castmates Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle.

Some Western activists have proposed shunning the Beijing Olympic Games in August in a bid to pressure China, the top arms supplier to Sudan and a major investor, particularly in its oil industry.

The Darfur conflict, which the United Nations says has claimed the lives of about 200,000 people and displaced 2.2 million, has raged since 2003 when rebel groups demanded a greater share of the country's resources.

Arab militias aligned to the government in Khartoum have been accused of horrendous violence against civilians as well as soldiers in quelling the rebellion.

Clooney, who won the Oscar as best supporting actor in 2006 for his role as a CIA agent in the political thriller "Syriana", was named an official UN peace envoy in January.

The star, who owns a villa on Italy's Lake Como, also said in the El Pais interview that he though Europe was more ecologically friendly than the United States.

"What is certain is that there is less consumption (in Europe) than in the United States and people recycle more. Things work in a much more intelligent way," he said.

The actor, who suffered a broken rib in a motorcyle accident in the United States last year, said he tries to do his part to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions when in Italy by always travelling by motorcyle.

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Half say celebrities don't aid causes they promote: poll

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fifty-one percent of Americans say celebrities make little or no positive difference to the issues they promote while 45 percent say they have a large or some positive influence, according to a new survey.

Oprah Winfrey was seen as the best champion of causes with 49 percent of those surveyed in the Harris Poll saying she was very effective at raising awareness. The others in the top five were Bono (32 percent), Angelina Jolie (31 percent), Brad Pitt (23 percent) and George Clooney (22 percent).

Harris surveyed 2,513 U.S. adults online between March 11 and 18.

Younger people were more likely than older people to believe celebrities make a positive difference, and Democrats (55 percent) more likely than Republicans (36 percent) to feel the same, Harris said in a statement.

Fifteen percent of those surveyed said they have supported a cause because of what they heard an actor, singer or other celebrity say or do.
Forty-seven percent said it was bad for celebrities to endorse political candidates.


Fan Art: 
I've added some great Wallpapers made by some great Clooney Fans!

Walls by Gabylicious (Thanks Gaby for posting these in the CNCP Forum!)

Walls by Deesign

Walls by JohnX


Secrets of the stars
21 April 2008
The Courier-Mail

What GEORGE CLOONEY can't live without
The guys: ``There are seven men. We've all been together for many, many years. We're really close and really supportive of one another.''
Loyalty: ``Probably the one thing I'm most proud of in my life is how hard I've worked at keeping everybody around. It can get tricky because when you start to get famous, people surround you and tell you how great you are.''
Immediacy: ``Anyone who knows me knows I actually live for the moment. I have to make every day count.''
Making work fun: ``I started out in television and I was in shows that didn't allow so much fun or I wasn't in a position where I could do that. I made a decision to have a really good time doing my work. You know, it isn't brain surgery.''
Coffee: ``I live on the stuff.''
Basketball: ``That's my exercise.''
Prenuptial agreements: ``They're very important. I have one with anyone that I go to dinner with.''
Good manners: ``Being polite is important. I hold doors open for people. Not just girls, but people. And when filming of Oceans 12 disturbed my neighbours in Laglio (in northern Italy), I wrote a letter of apology to them.''
Drinking: ``Drinking is imperative. If you lived my life, you'd drink, too.''

Candid Updates:
Added some more pics from George's arrival in Rome (Airport) 2008-04-08



A few words from Clooney's ex Lisa Snowdon 
Pulled from the Recent Daily Mail Interview "Lisa Snowdon's life through a lens".

People always ask me what George Clooney was like in bed. It's usually after a few drinks have made them brave. I never tell. We finished three years ago, but I still get asked about it a lot. The media attention when we were together was unbelievable. I'm not sure how I survived it. The hardest thing to deal with was the perception that I was going out with George to further my career. In fact, it did me no favours at all. Work almost totally dried up. People saw me living a new life and thought I wouldn't be interested in modelling again. And TV people didn't know where to place me. They'd see me in Hollywood with George and think, "She's not going to be interested in doing a show for the BBC."

I miss George's castrated pot-bellied pig. Max was really the cutest pet and I got along with him famously. That surprised a few people, because he wasn't keen on women, as it was a woman who castrated him. But I never had any problems with him. When I was staying at George's house in LA, I'd always know it was time to wake up because Max would start squealing, asking to be let in. So I'd go downstairs and give him some fruit for breakfast. Often he'd happily wander around the house. I'd come out of the bathroom and meet him on the landing. A pot-bellied pig might not sound like an ideal pet, but once you get to know them it's just like having a dog around.


Personally speaking George reached out and squeezed me by the arm ...
By Justine Picardie
20 April 2008
The Sunday Telegraph

When the invitation arrived to have dinner with George last week, I was delighted. You see, me and George, we go a long way back. We're the same age - 46 - but I only got to know him in the mid-1990s, when I saw him every week. And though I'm happily married to another man, there have been times in the past, I confess, when I've spent Saturday nights on the sofa ogling George.

As it turned out, dinner wasn't quite as intimate as I'd hoped: it was with 65 others, in a Covent Garden restaurant. George was sitting with his friend Mariella Frostrup, who was hosting the evening with Lucy Yeomans, the editor of Harper's Bazaar, to celebrate the premiere of his latest film, Leatherheads; I was some distance away, on another table, with a good view of the back of his head.


Magazines
Thanks to Marta for these great scans

04-23-08 Hola

041608 Semana and 04108 Hola

2008-04-16 OK (SP)

2008-04-09 OK (SP)

2008-03-05 Hola


More Mags
Thanks to Reve for sending us some more wonderful scans.

2008-04-14 Tele Cable Sat

2008-04-00 Studio

2008-04-00 Paris Match

Madame (Fr)


Adverts
Thanks to Marta for sending this Martini Advert

Here's George having dinner in Paris on 04-11-08

Additional Candid Updates:

 Here's George arriving in Paris at the Bourget Airport  04-11-08

Actress Renee Zellweger and actor George Clooney attend the premiere of "Leatherheads" on April 11, 2008 in Paris, France.
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Renee Zellweger and George Clooney attend the 'Leatherheads' party hosted by Belstaff at the Eden Hotel on April 10, 2008 in Rome, Italy.
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Actors Renee Zellweger (L) and George Clooney (R) attend the 'Leatherheads' premiere at the Warner Cinema Moderno on April 10, 2008 in Rome, Italy.
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George appeared as a guest on the Italian talk show 'Che tempo che fa' Milan, Italy - 04-10-08

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I've added scans of The New Yorker 04-14-08

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How Clooney avoided a life at the grocery checkout
By GEORGE HADLEY-GARCIA

Genre-hopping
Clooney also likes, for variety's sake and probably with an eye to extending his career longevity, to try his hand at different genres. He admits, "I never wanted people to say there's a George Clooney kind of picture. That would be pretty limiting. Plus, to me, it would mean I wasn't really capable of doing more than one type of picture, that I wasn't an actor of much depth. . . . I like to think I've grown and can do drama, comedy, all sorts of pictures and characters, with surprises ahead for myself and for the audience."

In 2006, the actor won an Academy Award for his supporting role in "Syriana," and was also nominated in the directorial category for a film in which he also starred, "Good Night, and Good Luck," based on the historical characters of broadcaster Edward R. Murrow and political witch-hunter Joseph McCarthy, the Republican senator from Wisconsin in the 1950s.





The Clooney conundrum: handsome hero of Hollywood
Liberal campaigner, ladies' man, and yet still one of the boys. As the actor leaves a trail of swooning women across London, John Walsh asks: how does he do it?

First Bruni, now Clooney. Only a week after France's first lady packed her Christian Dior frocks and flew back to Paris, another sharply dressed foreign glamourpuss descended on London this week, sampled the local cuisine, posed for photographs in front of baying paparazzi, talked politics for hours with Gordon Brown and was snapped with Mrs Brown on the doorstep of No 10.

He is one of the most bankable film stars in the world (Oceans 13 netted him £7m) but his finest role is playing Mr Perfect. He does it well, if not quite to perfection. Ludicrously handsome at 46, with huge, liquid brown eyes, salt-and- pepper hair and pristine teeth, he's commonly accepted as the man most women, of any age, would most like to part from his designer trousers.



This evening, Gorgeous George caused quite a stir when he left his Roman hotel Hotel de Russie to dine at Bolognese restaurant. Fans and photogs were waiting in droves for a chance to see the star. A few scored autographs and one fan managed to slip Clooney a small Valentine-looking booklet of some sort.  04-09-08

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Actors Renee Zellwegger and George Clooney attend the "Leatherheads" photocall at the St. Regis Grand Hotel on April 9, 2008 in Rome, Italy.
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Here's George out and about in London 04/08/08

Renee Zellweger and George Clooney attends the Leatherheads film premiere held at the Odeon Leicester Square on April 8, 2008 in London, England.
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Leaving the Dorchester Hotel 04/07/08 More in the Gallery

George Clooney attends the Harpers Bazaar dinner for George Clooney hosted by editor Lucy Yeomans, at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon on April 7, 2008 in London, England.
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and here's George leaving L'Atelier afterwards

where he headed to Bungalow 8 nightclub in London England. Also listed as attendees were Elle Macpherson and Jemima Khan both pictured with George earlier that night at the Harpers Bazaar Dinner here. More in the Gallery 


Clooney in Downing Street visit
Hollywood actor and director George Clooney has visited Downing Street to discuss the Darfur crisis with Prime Minister Gordon Brown.  The star, who is a UN "messenger of peace", said a "wonderful suggestion" for buying peacekeeping helicopters had been made at the meeting. Mr Brown said the situation in Darfur, part of Sudan, was "unacceptable" and praised Mr Clooney's "leadership".   The 46-year-old star is in London for the premiere of his film Leatherheads. During his visit Mr Clooney, an Oscar-winner, posed for pictures with Mr Brown and his wife Sarah Brown. Speaking later to reporters at London's Dorchester Hotel, he said a "wonderful suggestion" had been made at the meeting about a fund which could involve leasing or buying helicopters "to create some security".  Mr Clooney added that it had been mooted London could be a place where Sudanese rebel leaders hold peace talks. Mr Brown said: "In February and March alone, fighting displaced 58,000 people.   "Humanitarian access is limited and Unamid (United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur) deployment is still too slow. "The rebels and government continue to openly flout United Nations Security Council resolutions through attacks on civilians.  "I am grateful for the leadership George Clooney has shown in drawing attention to this crisis - this is a humanitarian tragedy of colossal proportions and the world must take note and act.   "The UK is working with the international community and others to pressure all sides to agree a ceasefire, start peace talks, and facilitate the rapid deployment of Unamid."  Clooney took up his UN role in January.  (Source)

More in the Gallery George was at this Tribeca Apartment building filming a segement for The Charlie Rose Show. It was rumored at first that he was there to attend the JZ/Beyonce Wedding Party. 04/04/08

Also added were pics of George at the taping of the Jon Stewart Show 


The New Yorker
Somebody Has to Be in Control
The effort behind George Clooney’s effortless charm.
by Ian Parker

George Clooney was at home in Los Angeles one afternoon in mid-January, a few days before he flew to Sudan in his new role as a United Nations “Messenger of Peace” (an appointment that overlooked reports of a recent public scuffle with Fabio, the leonine model). Clooney, who is unusual in being both very famous and, apparently, at ease with the fact—he can sometimes look like a spokesman for celebrity itself—was sitting on a long pale sofa, alongside Sarah Larson, his girlfriend. Bowls of chopped salad were on the coffee table in front of them: when Clooney’s electronic pepper grinder was activated, it sent a beam of light shining down onto the lettuce, like a police helicopter.

George is looking fantastic as he hits the NY streets solo Friday night.  04/04/08


Game for anything 
Clooney tries to avoid acting his age in new comedy 'Leatherheads'
Los Angeles Daily News  Published April 4 2008

Ten years ago, fresh off the success of their sexy crime comedy "Out of Sight," George Clooney and director Steven Soderbergh planned to make a sports comedy called "Leatherheads."

Clooney would play an aging pro football player, circa 1925, watching the game he loves turn from sandlot spectacle into a money-making machine.

The movie never got off the ground.

"We had four great characters, but we didn't have a story," Clooney said. "We could never come up with a third act."

The movie languished until Clooney spent a few weeks working on it while vacationing at his Italian villa in Lake Como two summers ago. Clooney decided to direct "Leatherheads" himself.

"Well ... no one can say I'm too young for the part now," Clooney, 46, joked. "Maybe too old."

"Leatherheads" is a departure from the serious movies the star has been making lately.

"The actual truth of it is, after 'Good Night'--and 'Syriana' for that matter--everything I was offered to direct was a political film," he told the New York Daily News. "All heavy stuff. And I actually think of myself as a director, not an 'issues' director. And the way to [protect] that is to direct different types of things, different genres, mix it up.

"So I thought, 'What's next for me should not be a message film. It shouldn't have a statement.' And there's nothing further from a statement than 'Leatherheads.' It was the perfect one to do."


Also added thanks to Reve scans of the French TV Magazine 04/06/08

And Thanks to Lilalucy I've added some great screencaps in O Brother Where Art Thou? , Solaris and Michael Clayton

Updated 20+ Pics of George at the afterparty of the NY Leatherheads Screening

George Clooney Oscar Roundtable 2008 PhotoShoot (featured in 2008-01-28 Newsweek)More in the Gallery

George Clooney already showed star quality in the second grade
From being a young emcee to supplying props, he had a flair.
By Denise G. Callahan Staff Writer Thursday, April 03, 2008

While Kentucky usually gets the credit for favorite son George Clooney, his former teachers and friends in Mason say they deserve some of it.

Carol Rauch, now associate academic director at the University of Cincinnati, was Clooney's music teacher at Western Row Elementary School in Mason. She said she almost took a road trip to Maysville, Ky., last week when Clooney screened his new flick "Leatherheads" for the first time.

"I was going to run to Maysville the other night and try to get in to see him at the opening of his movie," she said. "I was going to say to him, 'I gave you your start in show biz.' But it was too cold out."

Rauch wrote a Christmas play when Clooney was in the second grade, and he and his sister, Ada, starred in it. Rauch, like many other Mason residents, said Clooney had star power even at that tender age.



George Clooney Mugged Hollywood Star Caught in Terrifying Incident  Sex symbol George Clooney was mugged at gunpoint.  According to UsMagazine.com, on a recent trip to southern Sudan, Clooney was held at gunpoint while going through a checkpoint.   “There were all these young kids with AK47s. They pointed guns at us and stole what they could.”  Although the incident would have caused quite a stir to most people, Clooney seemed cool about the mugging, adding, “It happens all the time.” The incident didn’t seem like a personal attack on the star, as the actor claimed that the assailants didn’t recognize him, later joking, “They don't have great TV out there!”  Source


It’s no surprise that George Clooney is generous with his cash, but we were excited to learn that he’s taken part in raising some dough for Brad Pitt’s campaign to help rebuild New Orleans. Apparently, Clooney donated $300,000 — or the equivalent of two eco-friendly, sustainable homes. Currently, the Make It Right Foundation has raised enough for 81 out of the 150 homes needed.  Source 


Added more pics to 2008-04-01 NY , 2008-04-02 NY Leaving Carlysle Hotel , 2008-02-05 LA and 2008-04-02 David Letterman
 

Here's George leaving the Carlysle Hotel for the David Letterman Filming. 04/02/08
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and here he is arriving at the Ed Sullivan Theatre 04/02/08 More in the Gallery

Here's the cover shot of the UK Marie Claire Mag. If anyone has scans they wish to donate please email me

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Wallpapers provided by Marie Claire


Also Thanks to Lilalucy and Merlin for posting these mags in the CNCP Forum
2008-02-00 Vanity Fair (GR)  and 2008-04-04 OK

Here's candids of George, Sarah and his parents leaving Dan Tana's after the Leatherheads Premiere on Monday 03/31/08.

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Here's George arriving at his NY Hotel and having dinner out with friends. 04/01/08
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I've also updated/upgraded to 200+ pics from the Leatherheads World Premiere

2008-03-27 Greenville Press Conference
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Additional Updates:
I've added Candids of George and Grant Heslov riding around last Friday 03/21/08 in LA.
I've added more from the LA Press Conference for Leatherheads
More pictures have been added from the Salisbury Press Conference 

2005-11-26 GNGL Sec8 Celebration , 2001-12-04 LA Lennox Lewis Party , 2005-12-13 Backstage West GNGL Screen Q&A , 2006 (January 9th) Critics Choice Awards and 2007-05-23 Cannes Hotel Eden Roc 

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