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Clooney Snaps at Critic Who Called 'Solaris' Boring [CAP THIS PIC ]
http://story.news.yahoo.com ^ | Sun Feb 9,12:43 PM ET | By Erik Kirschbaum

Posted on 02/09/2003 2:35:54 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK

BERLIN (Reuters) - George Clooney (news) reacted with a stream of invective when a journalist called the American actor's latest film -- the box office flop "Solaris" -- "boring" after it was screened at the Berlin Film Festival.

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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Actor George Clooney takes a hit off of Richard Gere's gerbil.

61 posted on 02/09/2003 5:07:06 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
George Clooney is a peice of **it.

He can gp to practice his craft in Bagdad with Fonda,Sheen.Sarandon,Streissand and the other out of touch with the real world druggie celebraties.
62 posted on 02/09/2003 5:10:22 PM PST by Kay Soze
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
The critical journalist said that much had been written about the film, "but I found it boring."
"You make a lot of films, do you?" Clooney asked rhetorically. "You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk!"

The irony is dripping. Clooney doesn't listen to himself talk, does he?

I mean, under the Clooney Rule, Clooney wouldn't be allowed to criticize President Bush, would he?

63 posted on 02/09/2003 5:11:03 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: All
"Wow, I didn't think Mr. Heston would take that crak about the Alzheimer's personally."
64 posted on 02/09/2003 5:14:08 PM PST by txradioguy (HOOAH! Not just a word, A way of life!)
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To: txradioguy
Please tell me he didn't really say that.
65 posted on 02/09/2003 5:15:28 PM PST by cake_crumb (Without dictators, what reason would we have to keep the UN?)
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To: cake_crumb
He didn't say that but he did make a joke about Heston's alzheimer's then when a reporter asked him if Clooney thought is was a tad bit insensitive Clooney replied "I don't care. He deserves anything bad that happens to him."
Seems Clooney is a big anti-2nd amendment gun grabber and he hates the fact that Heston is the president of the NRA. Never mind that Heston walked w/ Dr. King in Selma and was instrumental in getting blacks into the trade unions in Hollyweird.
66 posted on 02/09/2003 5:18:34 PM PST by txradioguy (HOOAH! Not just a word, A way of life!)
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To: boris
I watched the subtitled Russian version,...twice, several years apart,...I really wanted to follow the Sci-Fi plot,...I walked out on both because they were so incredibly boring. Maybe something in the translation. Of course I was also wildly entertained during that same period reading Emmanual Kant and Charles Sanders Peirce, but Solaris I must admit left me a bit bored. Maybe he actually performed his part well.
67 posted on 02/09/2003 5:24:21 PM PST by Cvengr
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To: Helms
"Wanna know whose funding hard left causes- ticket goers."

Right you are. That's why I haven't gone to a movie theatre in many years. It's also the reason I don't buy the CDs and video cassettes or any other film industry spin-off products.

68 posted on 02/09/2003 5:26:28 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: txradioguy
LOONEY: "You make a lot of films, do you?" Clooney asked rhetorically. "You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk!"

REPORTER: (my words) 'Well George, from what we've seen....you're not much of a filmmaker yourself....and don't get me started on the acting. Oh by the way, what's the name of your gay lover?' (Reporter ducks and runs out of room before George starts crying....)

69 posted on 02/09/2003 5:30:16 PM PST by BossLady
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

70 posted on 02/09/2003 5:44:05 PM PST by ItsBacon (I smell bacon! Where's the bacon? baconbaconbaconbaconbaconbaconbaconbacon)
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To: cake_crumb
>>A_Turk, was that YOU who told Cloony his movie was boring??

Naah, I hadn't even watched the flick. It was a nother Turk :)
71 posted on 02/09/2003 8:17:00 PM PST by a_Turk (Ready? Set? Wait!!)
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To: Riley
If I hadn't just bought a brand new telescope, that'd have my undivided attention tonight!

Ah, man, there's nothing like first light with a new scope. Have fun!

72 posted on 02/09/2003 8:20:11 PM PST by Denver Ditdat
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To: Denver Ditdat
Thanks! Unfortunately, one of the three Solaris downloads tanked right at the end, and SUN doesn't just let you download it again.

We have an astronomy thread going, if you're interested.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/839394/posts

73 posted on 02/09/2003 8:23:24 PM PST by Riley
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
The plot sounds interesting.
74 posted on 02/09/2003 8:24:20 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: Helms
Wanna know whose funding hard left causes- ticket goers.

You are right; so I never go to movies, just go to freerepublic - it is much more intertaining.
75 posted on 02/09/2003 8:36:24 PM PST by Travelgirl
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Based on a 1961 novel, "Solaris" is about a psychologist sent to a space station orbiting a planet covered in an energy-rich galactic ocean. Chris Kelvin, the character played by Clooney, investigates a series of strange deaths on the space station, but is visited by a reincarnation of his long-dead wife that forces him to confront his past.

The novel raises the question whether the ocean is a giant brain that conducts psychoanalytical experiments on the space travelers sent to observe it.

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76 posted on 02/10/2003 1:57:05 PM PST by SerpentDove (Saddam done pissed us all the way off)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Whaddaya Mean Saddam Won't Grant Me A Visa!?

77 posted on 02/10/2003 2:00:51 PM PST by Happy2BMe (It's All About You - It's All About Me - It's All About Being Free!)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
The Russian version was boring. This one must be stupefying.
78 posted on 02/10/2003 2:04:53 PM PST by CaptRon
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK; newgeezer
Am I looking more like Ted Kennedy every day or is the world just moving to the right?
79 posted on 02/10/2003 2:06:41 PM PST by biblewonk
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To: PackerBoy
I prefer Clooney's honest (albeit overly defensive and emotional) reaction to Caine's smug quip, don't you?

Hardly... Caine has more class in his eyelash than Clooney has in his entire swollen head.

80 posted on 02/10/2003 2:15:37 PM PST by Sloth
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