Word: passional
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...downside to putting on passion projects is that they rarely make any money. Section Eight has made 23 film and television projects in the past four years, but none besides Ocean's Eleven has made a profit. "Steven and I are massively in the hole for Section Eight. Massively. We figured the other day that we are each $850,000 in the hole," Clooney says of the partnership, in which they have agreed to finance any project the other feels strongly about. Nevertheless, it's a relationship that he believes more star-director combos should attempt. "I think...
...sense that Clooney's passion for acting will run its course sooner rather than later. He gained 30 lbs. in 30 days for a role in Syriana, a Soderbergh-produced film about oil corruption with Damon and Amanda Peet. Although he has worked off 18 lbs. playing basketball and eating light, he regrets taking the role. "There was not one thing that was fun about it," he says. "It really messed me up. I have these migraines now. I would trade not having done the movie for the pain it's caused me." But then he catches himself and realizes...
...that not much business is done there, that it's all prepackaged. Nonetheless, we all go, in case something happens, and besides, everyone shows up, and it's always great to kind of catch up with everyone about what's going on. I think that my reputation for a passion about politics and covering the political scene over the years is pretty selfevident...
...Ballets Russes, then the world's premiere company, and went on to work in Europe and the U.S. with such choreographers as George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton in major troupes like the Vic-Wells Ballet and the first incarnation of the American Ballet Theater. Known for her unsnobbish passion, delicacy and range, she is indelibly linked to Giselle, a role she played frequently to fervent acclaim in productions throughout the world...
...thing about him, however, has not varied: his fierce love for his wife, who is a Tutsi, and their children. It is, the film makes clear, the model for the protective passion he extended to the 1,268 "guests" who crammed into his Belgian-owned hotel, the Mille Collines. His transformation is marvelously captured by Cheadle. As you wonder whether Rusesabagina's slippery maneuverability is sufficient to master the bloodlust rising around him, you can see the fear behind his eyes even while marveling at his improvisational adaptability. He takes the crises as they come, handles them as best...