Daily Dose of George Clooney!
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Q: The Coen Brothers certainly know how to pull the vanity out of you!
George Clooney: (laughs) Yes. Thanks, yeah.
Q: You seem quite happy to send yourself up in their company
GC: Well they're the kind of guys that you would do anything for, you know? And, they say well, let's do a whole bit about your teeth and you go, okay, do it about the teeth. They really have opened up great places for me to be able to work. I trust them with everything so I will do what they ask. Fall flat on your face but I'd rather fall flat on my face with them than somebody I don't trust....MORE
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| OCH, IDO George weds Zeta in Brigadoon wedding Cath Bennett
KILTED George Clooney gets hitched to Catherine Zeta Jones Brigadoon-style in their new movie.
Complete with stern-faced minister and tone-deaf piper, gorgeous Clooney says ``Aye do'' in a tacky wedding chapel while kitted out in a kilt, sash and sporran.
Confirmed bachelor Clooney and the Welsh beauty exchange vows in a mocked-up Scots wedding in romantic comedy Intolerable Cruelty. The bizarreceremony is complete with leering ``minister'' Rev MacKinnon and a short fat bagpiper who follows them down the aisle.
Clooney's dark red and green kilt indicates his character must be related to the MacPherson clan.
Last week, we revealed Clooney had pulled on full Highland dress for the role as high-flying divorce attorney Miles Massey.
His views on matrimony change when he falls in love with Zeta Jones's gold-digging Marylin. After a quick candlelit supper and a few crocodile tears from Marylin, Massey proposes and they wed the same night at the tacky Wee Kirk At The Heather in Vegas.
In true American fashion, the two sign a pre-nuptial agreement, hire kilts and walk down the aisle.
Clooney, 42, and his sidekick Wrigley, played by Paul Adelstein, are kitted out in nationalistic American tartan.
Directors Joel and Ethan Coen claimed they drew on their own experiences at a proper Scots wedding for authenticity.
Clooney joins a long list of Hollywood stars who have donned the kilt for the big screen, but not all have pulled it off.
Austin Powers star Mike Myers piled on the pounds, went ginger and played the bagpipes for his role as the Scots spy.
Sex And The City star Kyle McLaughlin almost carried it off when he wed dark-haired Charlotte.
Veteran movie star Samuel L. Jackson pulled it on with trendy boots for his role with Robert Carlyle in 51st State.
Few thought Mel Gibson got away with the ropey Scots accent in Braveheart but he looked like the real thing in a kilt. And the stars of Hollywood's golden era, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, also loved pulling on the tartan.
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  By George, They've Got ItOctober 2003 -- MEETING George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel to discuss "Intolerable Cruelty" carries an air of strange appropriateness...more
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Ducking the question...Devious yet delightful
Calgary Sun
Louis B. Hobson
New York — In the past, George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones were two of the more press-friendly celebrities. When they promoted their films, they met with journalists in small groups and were as candid as they were disarming....more
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Cath's in a swoon for Cloon
 HMMM, is CATHERINE EATER JONES trying to tell MICHAEL DOUGLAS something? The sexy actress couldn’t take her eyes off gorgeous co-star GEORGE CLOONEY at the Los Angeles premiere of their new film, Intolerable Cruelty....more |
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Satire with a smile
Susan Wloszczyna
USA TODAY
 New York — Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear. And, boy, does he ever keep them pearly white. The better to put the legal bite on all those filthy rich divorce clients who pollute the matrimonial waters of Beverly Hills.In Intolerable Cruelty, Joel and Ethan Coen's second comedic collusion with George Clooney, which opens next Friday, those confounding filmmaker brothers could not resist making the ridiculously handsome actor look, well, ridiculous once again...more
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GEORGE & ZETA HAVE NEVER LOOKED GREATER
 October 2, 2003 -- A mugging and hugging George Clooney cozies up to co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones at the "Intolerable Cruelty" premiere in L.A. Zeta-Jones, 34, .....more |
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 Intolerable Cruelty inspired by Bennifer?October 2003
George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones turned up to the premiere of their new movie 'Intolerable Cruelty' in LA last night (Tuesday)...more
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 'Cruel' KissesGeorge Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones have teamed up with the Oscar-winning trio .....more
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 George Reveals How to Spot a Gold DiggerSeptember 2003
Talk about a double whammy! GEORGE CLOONEY and CATHERINE ZETA-JONES are teaming up for 'Intolerable Cruelty,' a modern-day, dark romantic comedy from the COEN BROTHERS. Tonight on ET, our own MARK STEINES catches up with the on-screen couple -- and George tells how to spot a gold digger...more
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 To the manner bornGeorge Clooney carries the flag for screwball comedy in Coens''Intolerable Cruelty'
Is George Clooney the new king of screwball comedy? Think Cary Grant and Clark Gable, two dashing male leads who relished such roles in the popular 1930s and '40s genre. They fought the battle of the sexes with witty dialogue, made fun of the rich as though they existed to do so, and love reigned in the end...more
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 Mirth, monotony and Gorgeous George at Venice film festival9/3/03
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 Romance in the air as Clooney steals show9/4/03
Catherine Zeta Jones and George Clooney stole the show at the Venice Film Festival yesterday....more
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 Clooney fan upstages Zeta Jones9/4/03
Catherine Zeta Jones has been upstaged by a veil-wearing woman who proposed to her Intolerable Cruelty co-star George Clooney with a ring and a priest in tow...more
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 Clooney 'gets married' in VeniceGeorge Clooney has finally tied the knot, after accepting a joke marriage proposal at the Venice Film Festival...more
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 George gets his girl9/3/03
What a difference 24 hours can make to a man's fortunes. Only yesterday George Clooney, 42, was bemoaning the fact he couldn't get a girl. Today he has landed one - Catherine Zeta-Jones, 33, no less....more
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| Gimme the golden guy Soren Andersen
The News Tribune
For the past four months Hollywood has deluged us with movies made for one purpose and one purpose only:To grab our money.
Now, with the summer silly season of cookie-cutter, big-boom blockbusters fading into the sunset, get ready to be inundated with pictures designed with a quite different purpose in mind: To grab Oscars. And to grab our money too, of course.
The movie business is, after all, first and foremost a business. But beyond profits, Tinseltown craves prestige and respect. And no way will "Bad Boys II" and "Lara Croft Tomb Raider" win the respect of anybody. One can only be force-fed so many cotton-candy movies, full of empty-calorie elements like megaviolence and computer-generated imagery - and yes, I'm talking about you, "Terminator 3" - before one wants to throw up.
So here comes Oscar season. And not a moment too soon, either.
But as we look ahead to pictures coming out in the next few months, we can't help but notice that Hollywood seems to have climbed into the Wayback Machine in its quest for Oscar gold.
Way back to the Napoleonic Wars. Way back to the battle of the Alamo. Way back to the Civil War. And way, way back to a misty imagined time when Hobbits and Elves battled wicked wizards in Middle Earth.
Sweeping period epics are back in a big, big way this year, with Russell Crowe in "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," Tom Cruise in "The Last Samurai," Jude Law and Nicole Kidman in "Cold Mountain" and Frodo & Co. in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" all due out around the holidays.
It's easy to understand the why behind this glut of historical movies. Quick now: What do "Ben-Hur," "Lawrence of Arabia," "Braveheart," "The English Patient," "Dances with Wolves," "Unforgiven" and "Gladiator" all have in common? Best Picture Oscars, that's what. And every one of them is a period epic.
Hollywood notices stuff like that. It notices, too, that they all did big business at the box office. So hoping history repeats itself, Hollywood is getting all historical on us.
Which isn't to say that everything coming down the pike in the next four months will be serious cinema. There also will be big unashamedly commercial crowd-pleasers such as "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat" (opening Nov. 21) and "The Matrix Revolutions" (Nov. 5), along with romances and horror movies and all the rest. But when the curtain rises on the Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 29 (moved up a month from its longtime late-March time slot), expect one of the historical epics to make Oscar history.
Here are 10 films that look like contenders.
"Mystic River" (Oct 10)
Star power: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and the director, a fellow named Clint Eastwood.
The story: Three men from a working-class neighborhood in Boston, friends since boyhood, grapple with the devastating effects of a long-ago trauma and a contemporary murder.
Oscar potential: Since debuting at this year's Cannes Film Festival, "Mystic River" is generating some of the strongest buzz for an Eastwood-directed movie since "Unforgiven." And we all know how that movie fared at Oscar time.
  "Intolerable Cruelty" (Oct. 10)Star power: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Bob Thornton, Geoffrey Rush and quirky filmmaker brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen.
The story: A divorce lawyer with an affinity for the jugular tangles with a much-married lady who has raised wringing alimony from ex-spouses to a fine art. Schemers, start your machinations.
Oscar potential: Comedies don't usually fare well at Oscar time, but if Clooney is as good here as he was in his previous collaboration with the Coens, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" then a nomination might be a possibility.
"Runaway Jury" (Oct. 17)
Star power: Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman appearing together on screen for the first time.
The story: Hoffman and Hackman play legal adversaries in the latest adaptation of a John Grisham courtroom best seller. Hackman plays a jury consultant, Hoffman a principled lawyer and John Cusack a juror who's ripe to be tampered with in a trial that has the gun industry in the crosshairs.
Oscar potential: Hoffman and Hackman both have golden guys on their mantelpieces already, and the possibility that one or the other will go home with another cannot be ruled out.
"Veronica Guerin" (Oct. 17)
Star power: Cate Blanchett, Brenda Fricker.
The story: Blanchett plays a crusading Irish investigative journalist whose probing into the Dublin underworld led to her murder in 1996.
Oscar potential: A true-life tale. A tragic heroine. And Blanchett, who was nominated for her lead-role performance in "Elizabeth." Definitely a contender, we think.
"The Human Stain" (sometime in October)
Star power: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman.
The story: Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Benton ("Kramer vs. Kramer," "Places in the Heart") directs this adaptation of Philip Roth's best seller about a disgraced college professor who scandalizes the academic community by entering into an affair with a young cleaning woman played by Nicole Kidman.
Oscar potential: With that cast and that pedigree, sky high.
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" (Nov. 14)
Star power: Russell Crowe, director Peter Weir.
The story: Clear the decks and run out the guns. Capt. Jack Aubrey, one of the fightingest skippers in the British Navy, sets sail during the Napoleonic Wars in what promises to be a stirring epic based on the popular series of seafaring novels by the late Patrick O'Brian.
Ten years in the planning, and with a budget reported to be in the $135 million range, this could put Peter Weir in the forefront of A-list directors at last. He's been a critical darling ever since "Picnic at Hanging Rock" in 1975 and has had his share of Hollywood hits, but he's never worked on a picture of this scale before.
Oscar potential: Huge. Oscar does love historical epics, and "Master and Commander's" studio, Twentieth Century Fox, moved the picture from a June 6 opening back to November to better position for a run at the gold. If the movie lives up to its buzz, Crowe could be in line for his fourth best actor nomination (he won for "Gladiator") and Weir for his fourth nod in the director's category (he's been previously nominated for "Witness," "Dead Poets Society" and "The Truman Show").
"The Last Samurai" (Dec. 5)
Star power: Tom Cruise
The story: Speaking of historical epics, Cruise plays a Civil War veteran who journeys to Japan in the 1870s to train that country's military in the Western way of making war. But once there, he finds himself powerfully attracted to the warrior code of the samurai. Big battle scenes? You betcha. "Glory" proved that director Edward Zwick knows how to stage such grand and gory spectacles.
Oscar potential: Hefty, though "Master and Commander," which precedes it into the marketplace (and into the minds of Oscar voters) might steal its thunder.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (Dec. 17)
Star power: The now-familiar band of brothers: Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood and Sean Astin.
The story: The epic comes to its end.
Oscar potential: Handicappers are predicting this is the one to beat. The thinking is that academy voters have held off showering the series with statues in the major categories (the first two installments have won a combined total of six in technical areas) until all three parts are out in the world. If "The Return of the King" matches the scope and excellence of its predecessors (and since they were filmed back-to-back, there's little reason to think that it won't), director Peter Jackson can probably look forward to a very pleasant evening next year at the Oscar ceremony.
"The Alamo" (Christmas Day)
Star power: Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett, Jason Patric as Jim Bowie and Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston.
The story: Everyone knows this story.
Oscar potential: Hey, if the John Wayne version could get nominated for best picture and a slew of other categories in 1961 (it won for best sound), there's no reason to think this new take on the epic tale won't have a shot.
"Cold Mountain" (Christmas Day)
Star power: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, director Anthony Minghella.
The story: Charles Frazier's best seller about a Confederate soldier's long, eventful trek homeward after the Civil War is an American "Odyssey," though, for budgetary reasons, it was filmed in Romania.
Oscar potential: Hmmm. Let's see. The last time Minghella tackled a picture of this scope - that would be "The English Patient" - the movie walked away with nine golden guys, including the awards for best picture and best director.
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  " Intolerable Cruelty" Premiere Date(Starring: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones)
Thursday, October 2, 2003 - at 6:30 p.m.
at Mann's Village Theatre
961 Broxton Ave, in Westwood, California
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Catherine Gets 'Cruel' with Clooney!
Talk about a double whammy! GEORGE CLOONEY and CATHERINE ZETA-JONES are teaming up for 'Intolerable Cruelty,' a modern-day dark romantic comedy from the COEN BROTHERS....more
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Irish Man Wraps Up His ShoWest Coverage!!
3/12/03
AICN
Intolerable Cruelty: It’s the Coen Brothers and George Clooney. I’m there already. But if that wasn’t enough, the preview looks pretty funny, with Clooney being the ultimate slimy yet charming lawyer, and Catherine Zeta-Jones looking really tempting and eventually proving irresistible to Clooney’s lawyer character, despite the fact that he’s trying to destroy her in court. The preview was funny in that quirky, Coen style, not in a slapstick, wacky-comedy style. Also, and I don’t know if this was intentional or just my imagination, but some of the settings and camera angles looked almost identical to ones used in Ocean’s 11, when Clooney has some of his scenes with Julia Roberts in the restaurant. Maybe I’m wrong, but it sure looked like it. This doesn’t open till fall, and I’ll definitely be there.
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Film Delayed By Zeta-Jones' Pregnancy
2/20/03
Catherine Zeta-Jones' pregnancy has delayed the release of her latest movie - by six months.
Intolerable Cruelty, which stars the Welsh beauty and George Clooney, was slated to be released in April.
But as the Chicago actress is due to give birth to her second child with husband Michael Douglas in mid-April and wouldn't be able to promote the film, Universal Pictures has opted to hold it until after the baby is born.
Sources tell magazine US Weekly that audiences will have to wait until October to see the flick.
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| Clooney suits up for a period football comedy a la Hawks Cindy Pearlman
Chicago Sun-Times
1/27/03
George Clooney is about to score--and we're not talking about his love life. "I'm trying to get a period football film together," Clooney tells this column. "It's set in 1925 and it revolves around the sport, but it's more of a Howard Hawks comedy."
Clooney also will star with red-hot "Chicago" actress Catherine Zeta-Jones in "Intolerable Cruelty" due out this fall and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. "It's a big old slapstick comedy. It's very loud," he previews. "I'm a divorce attorney, and she's a woman who marries men for money. It's all about the pre-nup."
He adds, "I'm a guy who makes the perfect pre-nup. She's a fellow lawyer who I beat in court, but later she sucks me into marrying her. I tear up my own pre-nup and she f---- me out of everything."
Everything is good these days for Clooney, who made his directorial debut in the weekend's "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."
Question: Was it tough for Clooney to get pals Brad Pitt and Matt Damon to make cameos as "Dating Game" losers? "We were all doing press for 'Ocean's 11,' and I told them I was doing this movie," Clooney says. "How could they say no?" Star Sam Rockwell also didn't say "no" to an opening scene where he's buck naked.
Says Clooney: "I was being so careful and demanded the set be cleared. Before anyone could leave, Sam just shows up, drops his robe and he's standing there naked."
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| Mean Mr. Mustard Has Our First INTOLERABLE CRUELTY Review!! 1/22/03
AICN
Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
I just mentioned the Coen Brothers yesterday, and all of a sudden, the floodgates are open. Not only did we get a review of BAD SANTA, which they produced, but we also got in our very first look at INTOLERABLE CRUELTY, their next film to hit theaters. The fact that they seem to have hit it off so well with Clooney is really exciting, and I can’t wait to see how this nasty bit of business finally looks onscreen. It’s been yeeeeeeears since I first read it...
Hey Harry, Mean Mr. Mustard here. About a year ago this time I saw the very first screening of Adaptation, one of the most eagerly awaited films of 2002 (among film lovers) and I immediately wrote in to AICN to say how it surpassed Being John Malkovich and correctly predicted that Cage, Streep, and Cooper would all be getting nominations and awards at years end. Funny how almost exactly a year later I am writing to say that I just saw the very first screening one of the most eagerly awaited films (among film lovers) of 2003, the new film from The Coen Brothers, Intolerable Cruelty.
And yes, the brothers themselves, along with one of the producers of the film, Brian Graizer (sp?) came in to the screening room at the last minute and sat in their taped-off seats in the back row.
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Anyway, Intolerable Cruelty is sort of a throw back to the old screwball comedies of the 50's and 60's with a demented Coen brothers touch of course. Here is the set-up: a hugely successful yet slimy and shyster Los Angeles divorce lawyer (George Clooney) sabotages the divorce precedings of his rich client (Edward Herrmann) so that his client doesn't have to pay a settlement to his ex wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones), herself a serial divorcee. There are many plot twists from that point, including yet another marriage/divorce for Zeta-Jones, this time to a millionaire Texas Oil tycoon (a scene stealing cameo from Billy Bob Thornton), and yet more plot twists from there, but the true fire works come in the final act.
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SPOILER ALERT
Clooney falls for Zeta-Jones (who wouldn't), they get married, and to prove good faith to one another, there is no pre-nump between the two. Big mistake! Hidden agendas are soon revealed, and the film takes a War of the Roses twist, with Clooney and Zeta-Jones flip-flopping at trying to do in the other or trying to stop the other from being done in (depending on who's net value is worth more at that given moment), with a big bald hit man for hire who calls himself The Weasel (because he suffers from a nasty case of asthma) in the middle of these two. I guarantee you that the biggest laugh that you will have in theaters this year will be when a blinded by mace Weasel mistakes one certain "device" for another and... OH YOU JUST HAVE TO SEE IT, AND YOU WILL LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF!!
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While not in the same league of O Brother Where Art Though or Fargo, it's still one the Coen brothers best efforts, and more satisfying from an audience perspective than their last film, The Man Who Wasn't There which looked great, but was to cold and cynical for a lot of viewers. The Coen's usual Cinematographer Roger Deakins, shot this one as well, but it's doesn't have the scope, sweep, and visual punch that The Man Who Wasn't There, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Fargo had, but in all fairness, that probably has more to do with Intolerable Cruelty's setting of modern Los Angeles as opposed to the snow filled mid-west or the past of the Great Depression and homage B&W of the 1940's.
My only other problem with the film is small, and can easily be fixed in postproduction. The film spans over a period of a few years, but it isn't really made all that clear until more than half way through that a few years must have past between certain scenes. All they have to do is insert title cards, and start off with 1999 at the beginning and gradually insert a year until we get to the climax, which would be 2003. Problem solved, no confusion or head scratching from the audience.
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The cast was excellent. An unrecognizable Geoffrey Rush with a long ponytail gets some great laughs in early on as the husband of one of Clooney’s clients. Paul Adelstein is very funny as Clooney's Jr. Partner/assistant/sidekick, as is Cedric the Entertainer as a PI who specializes in divorce cases. And whoever played the Weasel...perfect! But this is a film where the two leads are perfectly matched and cast and Intolerable Cruelty belongs to Clooney and Zeta-Jones. Clooney is to the Coen brothers what Depp is to Burton and De Niro is to Scorsese, it's just a perfect match of Actor/Director that brings out the best each in each other. Zeta-Jones coming straight off of Chicago once again proves that she has undeniable star power, and a great knack for comedy.
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I don't think that I can predict nominations or year end awards for Intolerable Cruelty like I did with Adaptation, but I can predict this: because it's one of the lightest and most audiences friendly films that the Coen brothers have ever made, and because it has two genuine movie stars at the top of their form, audiences will eat Intolerable Cruelty up and Intolerable Cruelty will be the very first Coen brothers film to break the 100million mark. The release date is apparently set for October, but I think that Universal should take a chance and counter program it with this years summer blockbusters. Trust me Universal, between The Hulk, X2, The Matrix 2, T-3, Bad Boys 2, Charlie's Angels 2, American Pie 3, Tomb Raider 2, and The Fast and the Furious 2, Intolerable Cruelty would be the perfect off beat summer film that audiences will eat up. ...Mean Mr. Mustard out!
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According to Coming Soon, the George Clooney/ Catherine Zeta-Jones comedy Intolerable Cruelty's release has now been pushed from Spring to Fall in 2003.
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| Clooney talks Intolerable Cruelty 12/09/02
Hollywood star George Clooney has been speaking about his latest collaboration with Joel and Ethan Coen, Intolerable Cruelty, describing the movie as "insane".
The film, which should hit our screens next year, is the first time Clooney has worked with the film-making siblings since their 2000 outing O Brother, Where Art Thou? and he's admitted that this flick is "really fun".
"I play an unscrupulous divorce attorney," Clooney told Coming Soon!, "and Catherine Zeta Jones plays a woman who marries lots of different men for money and we fall in love and then go about trying to steal money from one another."
The next project involving the former ER heartthrob to grace our screens will be his directorial debut Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, which opens in the UK in March.
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Clooney's latest Vegas shoot starts with road test of new Porsche NormLVRJ
9/06/02
George Clooney had a personal reason for not flying to Las Vegas for a week of filming his new movie "Intolerable Cruelty."
It had nothing to do with fear of flying since 9-11.
Let's just say jaws were dropping and heads were spinning along Interstate 15 as Clooney road tested his new Porsche.
Production wrapped up Thursday, after Clooney and co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones spent most of week filming at Caesars Palace.
Most of the filming was set in the Forum Casino, drawing a crowd one day of 700.
One scene shows the characters of Clooney and Zeta-Jones honeymooning in suite 8316, the same suite used in 1987 during the filming of "Rain Man," when Tom Cruise's character Charlie Babbitt taught Dustin Hoffman (Raymond Babbitt) how to dance.
In another scene, every gambler's dream is realized when Clooney walks through Caesars' casino and in quick succession plays many slot machines at once. Almost simultaneously, all the machines he played hit jackpots. Caesars slot technicians worked with the prop master to make the machines all pay out on cue.
Caesars closed the Terrazza restaurant one day so a romantic scene of Clooney and Zeta-Jones could be shot.
Clooney plays Miles Massey, a wealthy Los Angeles divorce attorney. Massey bumps into much-divorced Marilyn Rexroth (Zeta-Jones), who is described as "a hard-headed woman pursuing financial independence through serial matrimony."
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| New Coen Brothers' project filming smoothly New Coen brothers' project filming smoothly! Shooting Stars
9/02/02
Things are progressing more than tolerably for "Intolerable Cruelty."
The dark comedy from the Oscar-winning Coen brothers ("Fargo," "O Brother, Where Art Thou?") is scheduled to wrap principal photography Wednesday following a weeklong Vegas stay, primarily at Caesars Palace.
And things seem to be going quite swimmingly, according to set insiders, who report a smooth shoot with well-behaved spectators watching stars George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones shoot scenes everywhere from the casino to the Forum Shops.
After a Labor Day break, production picks up again Tuesday with additional scenes at a swank Caesars restaurant, plus exteriors at downtown's Wee Kirk O' the Heather Wedding Chapel, the site of the whirlwind nuptials uniting ace divorce attorney Miles Massey (Clooney) and serial bride Marylin Rexroth (Zeta-Jones), the victim of Massey's latest courtroom triumph, who in turn plans to make Massey pay.
From "Intolerable Cruelty's" wedding, the focus shifts to dating, courtesy of Telepictures' game show "Elimidate," which brings an all-star lineup to Las Vegas for a 10-day visit.
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George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, sharing laughs at Whiskey Sky (Green Valley Ranch) on Saturday night. They will soon team up in local scenes for the film "Intolerable Cruelty."...
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| Clooney, Zeta-Jones visit Sin City for Coen brothers film! LVRJ
8/26/02
 All roads lead to Vegas -- or, in the case of George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, back to Vegas.Last year, the two stars just missed each other, cinematically speaking. Zeta-Jones spent part of February shooting "America's Sweethearts" at the Hyatt Regency Lake Las Vegas (in Henderson, of course), while Clooney checked into the Bellagio in March for "Ocean's Eleven."
This year, however, they're teaming up for "Intolerable Cruelty," which begins a weeklong shoot Wednesday, headquartered at Caesars Palace.
The black comedy represents a reunion for Clooney and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who guided him to what's arguably his best performance (so far) in 2000's "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
In the Depression-era "O Brother," Clooney sported prison stripes, a Clark Gable-style moustache and copious amounts of Dapper Dan hair pomade.
In "Intolerable Cruelty," however, he's a different kind of Dapper Dan: fabulously successful Los Angeles divorce attorney Miles Massey, who meets his match in Marylin Rexroth (Zeta-Jones), the victim of Massey's latest courtroom triumph.
Unbeknownst to him, however, Rexroth remains a master of financial progress through serial matrimony -- and plans to make Massey pay one way or another.
The inevitable clash of these titans occurs -- where else? -- in the Wedding Capital of the World. That explains why the Wee Kirk O' the Heather Wedding Chapel is one of "Intolerable Cruelty's" locations. (Word has it that only the chapel exterior will be filmed, to match an interior scene already filmed back in Hollywood: wedding chapel mad with plaid in the best Scottish tradition.)
At Caesars, "Intolerable Cruelty's" locations include a swanky suite, the casino, restaurants and bars.
They'll undoubtedly glow under the expert eye of the Coens' longtime cinematographer, Roger Deakins, a multiple Oscar-nominee for such visual triumphs as the Coens' "Fargo," "O Brother" and last year's "The Man Who Wasn't There."
The latter's star, Billy Bob Thornton, also has a role in "Intolerable Cruelty" -- but he won't be making the Vegas trip. (Neither will co-stars Geoffrey Rush or Cedric the Entertainer.)
"Intolerable Cruelty" began filming in Southern California in June; the Las Vegas segments are expected to conclude principal photography.
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| From AICN Bruce Campbell is still on his booktour dropping bits of fresh, and not so fresh info to fans along the way
Well Father Geek received a couple of bits on fan fave Bruce Campbell today that I thought You might be interested in, nothing earth-shattering, but cool none the less...
Just wanted to toss out a few tidbits about the Bruce. He appeared in Philadelphia today for a book signing (still shilling "If Chins Could Kill") and some other things. The following were mentioned on Philly's Y100 Morning Show with Preston and Steve this morning:
-- The Chin says that he makes a quick appearance in the new Coen Brothers George Clooney/Catherine Zeta-Jones movie at the end, playing a scene with another MAJOR character, which he says "is THE key moment in the film where it all comes together."
(Father Geek note: This is Intolerable Cruelty, also starring Billy Bob Thornton and Geoffrey Rush. Its being shot in Las Vegas and LA and is set for a September 4, 2003 release in the Netherlands.)
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| Cedric tolerates Coen's 'Cruelty,' travels Fox road Zorianna Kit
6/03/02
Los Angeles (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Cedric the Entertainer is in negotiations to join the cast of Universal Pictures' "Intolerable Cruelty" for director Joel Coen. At the same time, Cedric has come aboard to star in and produce the comedy "Family First," in development at Fox Searchlight. That project is currently out to directors.
"Cruelty," produced by Imagine Entertainment and Alphaville, stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as a Beverly Hills gold digger with several past husbands and George Clooney as the world's toughest divorce attorney. Rivals at first, they end up falling in love. Cedric will play Gus Petch, a detective who works with Clooney's character.
"Family First" is described as an African-American road movie in the vein of such films as "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "Vacation." It's about a man (Cedric) who takes his family -- including his wife, two teenage kids and a youngster -- on a trek to a family reunion in Texas.
Brothers Todd and Richie Jones ("The Hughleys") wrote the script, which is being produced by Paul Hall ("Shaft") of Hallway Pictures. Hall brought the project to Cedric, who is also producing the material with his manager Eric Rhone. Hallway executive Wendy Park will co-produce.
Cedric, also repped by CAA, next stars in Paramount Pictures' "Serving Sarah" and MGM's "Barbershop." This fall, he will be seen on his own sketch/variety series on Fox titled "Cedric the Entertainer Presents."
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Intolerable Cruelty
Aussie Geoffrey Rush has joined the cast of the next Coen Brother's film, INTOLERABLE CRUELTY. He joins Billy Bob Thornton, Catherine Zeta-Jones and George Clooney, in the film about "a Beverly Hills' gold digger, her many former husbands and the world's toughest divorce attorney". Rush will portray a daytime-drama TV director.
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| Thornton, Rush getting taste of Coen's 'Cruelty' 4/24/02
Zorianna Kit
LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Billy Bob Thornton and Geoffrey Rush have signed on for small roles in Universal Pictures' "Intolerable Cruelty" for Joel Coen to direct with Imagine Entertainment and Alphaville producing. The project goes into production in the summer.
The project stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as a Beverly Hills gold digger with several past husbands and George Clooney as the world's toughest divorce attorney. Rivals at first, they end up falling in love.
Thornton will play Howard Doyle, a soap opera star who poses as one of the woman's husbands. Rush plays a daytime drama television director who appears at the beginning of the film.
Imagine's Brian Grazer and Alphaville's Jim Jacks and Sean Daniel are producing the project with Ethan Coen, who rewrote the material with brother Joel Coen.
Thornton and Rush are repped by CAA.
Thanks to Brenda for this story!
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George Clooney is set to team up with Catherine Zeta Jones.
Evening Mail
11/23/01
Following his roles alongside Julia Roberts, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez, the former ER star will steam up the screen alongside Catherine in The Intolerable Cruelty, a new black comedy by the guys who produced Brother Where Art Thou. George will play a womanising Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who skilfully saves a male client from his gold-digging ex-wife, that's Catherine, even though the husband was the cheating party.
The ex-wife decides to seek revenge on the lawyer and take back the fortune he made from the divorce, but the plan is complicated when the two become romantically entangled.
Catherine will start work on Cruelty as soon as she completes her starring role opposite Richard Gere and Rene Zellweger in the big-screen version of the award winning musical Chicago, due to start shooting next month.
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| Clooney, Zeta-Jones Find "Cruelty" Josh Grossberg
11/16/01
O brother, is George Clooney a modern-day Cary Grant?
The former ER hunk--who has costarred with such A-list leading ladies as Julia Roberts, Michelle Pfeiffer,Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez--will next be steaming up the screen opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Intolerable Cruelty, a new black comedy by those inscrutable Coen brothers.
According to Daily Variety, Clooney will, appropriately enough, star as a womanizing Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who skillfully saves a male client from his gold-digging ex-wife (Zeta-Jones), even though the husband was the cheating party. The ex-missus decides to seek revenge on the lawyer and take back the fortune he made off the divorce, but the plan is complicated when the two become romantically entangled.
Per tradition, Joel Coen will cowrite and direct Cruelty, while brother Ethan will serve in his usual cowriter-producer role. The duo's latest feature, The Man Who Wasn't There, starring Billy Bob Thornton as an existential barber, is in theaters now.
Cruelty will reportedly combine elements of the Coen brothers' darkly comic neo-noir thrillers like Blood Simple with the old-fashioned glamour pictures of Hollywood's past (like the Howard Hawks' films in which bitter rivals fall in love).
Zeta-Jones will segue into Cruelty as soon as she completes her starring role opposite Richard Gere and Renée Zellweger in Miramax's big-screen version of the Tony-winning musical Chicago, due to start shooting next month.
This will be Clooney's second feature for the Coen brothers, having starred in last year's Depression-era comedy, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
He'll been seen next opposite Roberts in director Steven Soderbergh's all-star remake of Ocean's Eleven, which hits theaters December 7.
Before diving into Cruelty, Clooney must wrap Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, also with Roberts. The dark comedy, which marks his directing debut, centers on Gong Show host Chuck Barris' purported secret life as a CIA assassin and is currently in production.
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Cruelty' kind to Zeta-Jones...Thesps pair up in Howard Hawks-style old-H'wood glamour picVariety
Michael Fleming
11/16/01
New York -- Catherine Zeta-Jones will team with George Clooney in "Intolerable Cruelty," a Universal black comedy that will be the next project for Joel and Ethan Coen.
Joel Coen will direct, with Ethan Coen producing along with Jim Jacks, Brian Grazer and Sean Daniel in a co-production between Imagine Films and Alphaville. Despite the dark overtones in the script, the studio made the film a priority because it's a Howard Hawks-style old-Hollywood glamour pic pairing Clooney and Zeta-Jones as bitter rivals who fall in love.
Clooney plays a divorce lawyer so skilled that he manages to keep a client from losing his fortune to his ex-wife even though he was caught in the clinches with another woman. The ex-wife, played by Zeta-Jones, is so angry that she lays out a plan to separate the lawyer from his fortune. That plan is complicated when romantic sparks fly.
Zeta-Jones' reps at WMA were near a deal for her to star in the film after she completes "Chicago," the Rob Marshall-directed Miramax musical that co-stars Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere, with filming to begin in December for a Christmas 2002 release.
Clooney also is preoccupied with a Miramax film: He's making his directing debut with "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," a comedy in which he co-stars with Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore and Julia Roberts.
Originally scripted by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone, "Intolerable Cruelty" is a project that had such directors as Ron Howard, Andrew Bergman and Jonathan Demme circling. The Coens committed when their attempts to direct Brad Pitt in "To the White Sea" sank.
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