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| Clooney and Zeta Jones wow crowds at LA premiere |
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  George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones wowed the crowds in Los Angeles for the world premiere of their new film Intolerable Cruelty. |
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  Clooney plays a womanising Beverly Hills attorney while Zeta Jones is a gold-digger out for revenge in the romantic comedy. |
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  Zeta Jones arrived with husband Michael Douglas for the premiere at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. |
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  Tom Jones maintained the Welsh flavour of the evening, while film-making brothers Ethan and Joel Coen, who directed and produced the film, enjoyed their big night. |
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| George Reveals How to Spot a Gold Digger September 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!"Is it easy to spot someone who's been married several times?" asks the hunky confirmed bachelor. "Just the rings alone -- yeah, you can."
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 'Intolerable Cruelty' tells the story of an incredibly successful L.A. divorce attorney, Miles Massey (George), who is seeking new challenges. When he meets the oft-divorced Marilyn Rexroth (Catherine), a tough-as-nails woman pursuing financial independence through "serial matrimony," the two square off in the mother-of-all battles of the sexes."I think they're romantics," George says about the characters. "They go in eyes wide open and they do it anyway. I think they're romantic -- in a Coen brothers way."
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 'Intolerable Cruelty' marks George's second collaboration with acclaimed filmmakers JOEL and ETHAN COEN after 2000's 'O Brother Where Art Thou,' which garnered a Golden Globe award for the former "ER" actor. The new film also features GEOFFREY RUSH ('Pirates of the Caribbean'), CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER ('Barbershop') and BILLY BOB THORNTON, who headlined the Coen Bros. last film, 'The Man Who Wasn't There.' 'Cruelty,' however, marks a change of pace for the filmmaking team.
"It's tough to do a romantic comedy because everyone knows what the ending is going to be," explains George, "but there was a real, old-fashioned screwball thing to this; everything's a little more elevated, a little more than you see normally anymore. I always find it funny to see people reacting at extremes."
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 George Clooney: She's a good kisser. I advise everyone to do it. Billy: I have to imagine that a passionate kiss, a first kiss between two people when you haven't really met... I don't care if you're acting, that's awkward.Catherine: Well, George kept wanting to rehearse all the time. (laughs)
George: I wanted to go back and work it out. I just felt that before we worked it out on film that we should feel comfortable with each other.
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