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...fact-based comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats. He lends his voice to the title character in the animated version of Roald Dahl's children's tale Fantastic Mr. Fox. And opening this weekend, he's a solo frequent flyer and corporate axman in Up in the Air--the apex of this Clooney trifecta and one of the year's most rewarding films...
...goofy, he can do suave, and in dramas like Syriana, for which he won an Oscar, he can seem close to emotional exhaustion. Up in the Air, which has already been named the year's best film by the National Board of Review, takes him in a new direction, one that may be closer to his core: a self-sufficient man who doesn't want to be tied down. His Ryan Bingham is a management consultant hired by the bosses at large companies to tell their employees they're no longer employed. And he does so with such ostensible sympathy...
...Air is not primarily an issue movie, banging home its thesis on the anvil of melodrama. It's closer to a romantic comedy. Ryan finds a kindred spirit in another high-flying exec, the sultry Alex (Vera Farmiga). As she tells Ryan, "Think of me as yourself, only with a vagina." Their relationship is affectionate, lusty and unfettered--the perfect sky alliance. It's a life Ryan loves: the pampering by flight attendants, the plush anonymity of hotel rooms. What you might call loneliness, he calls self-reliance. This is threatened by a young corporate rival (Anna Kendrick), who wants...
...lives there: he too is a traveling man with an aversion to commitment. Clooney has always ridden high on the confidence that people will buy anything he pitches--even a savory comedy-drama with a tart undertaste. Odds are that the great salesman's work in Up in the Air will create, among audiences and Oscar voters alike, a lot of satisfied customers...
Charlie Gasparino's résumé is jam-packed: on-air editor for CNBC and contributor to the Daily Beast, the New York Post and Forbes. But at least one Wall Street executive has a different description: "A monumental asshole, who added dramatically to the financial instability during '08 and early '09." Gasparino's news bulletins (or rumormongering, depending on your view) on CNBC during that period often moved the market. He's well aware of the animosity. "They don't like the fact that I called them on the carpet," he told me. "I mean, you are not going...