The studio was advertising Michael Clayton on the radio heavily in New York in the lead-up to the Oscars. Apparently some Academy members listen to NY radio. The spots were hilarious because they talked about what a wonderful movie it was and what a masterful actor George Clooney was. Interspersed with all of this were three sound clips of George Clooney in which he spoke with the same over-acted Hillary-Clinton-in-a-lower-register voice. These three clips made William Shatner sound like Sir Lawrence Olivier. I could not imagine anything more painful than listening to George Clooney going on and on like that for two hours.
Yup!
Clooney is a one dimensional hack as an actor.