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...Clooney was the only star who could have said yes, because no other star wears his celebrity so easily. Nominated for another Oscar for Michael Clayton, Clooney has managed to become this era's leading man without ever conveying the sense that he takes the role seriously. "He's a throwback to what movie stars used to be," says Grant Heslov, who has been friends with Clooney since they met in an acting class in 1983 and is now his partner at their new film and TV production company, Smoke House. "You see him and you think, Wouldn't that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Clooney: The Last Movie Star | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...called my voice mail and left his home number. In the summer, at his six-house compound in Lake Como, Italy, he throws nightly Algonquin-style dinners featuring such guests as Al Gore, Walter Cronkite and Quincy Jones. "He's an excellent host," says Tony Gilroy, director of Michael Clayton. "He's really smart about figuring out what people need and want. Are they hot? Happy? Cold? Thirsty? He has that ability to bend himself to the space he's in and instantly adjust to the group he's with." So I wondered, Can George Clooney possibly be a guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Clooney: The Last Movie Star | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...Harvardwood showed me a realistic portrayal of what life would be like for the first couple of years,” says Clayton W. Brooks III ’10, who went on the trip this year and hopes to go into the recording industry...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir and Charles R. Melvoin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvardwood 101 | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...Boston College (2-3) in the evening—a young Harvard men’s tennis lineup showed a remarkable resilience and maturity to record 5-2 and 6-1 victories, respectively. Its achievement was made all the more remarkable by the absence of co-captains junior Chris Clayton and senior Dan Nguyen due to illness. “It was a great and long day,” assistant coach Andrew Rueb said. “We were very good at taking the game to our opponents today, one through six, and as a coach that?...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Energized Crimson Earns Sweep | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...brother Ethan, 50--in the mainstream, though their entry, No Country for Old Men, carries the double-whammy genre curse of being a kind of western-horror movie. Can it beat out Anderson's parched epic or Reitman's new-family-values comedy? Its other competition: Michael Clayton, with George Clooney agonizing handsomely in a story about nasty business ethics (a favorite Academy theme, so the movie has a chance of winning), and Atonement, which fits the old tradition of quality, as a period romance in which beautiful people get horribly victimized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 800-lb. Golden Gorilla | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

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