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GEORGE CLOONEY, tired of being haunted by paparazzi's videocams, tried playground tactics: when a bully picks on you, stop dating his sister. Clooney struck a deal with Paramount Pictures--in writing--that Hard Copy would no longer cover him, or he'd boycott Paramount's other, puffier show, Entertainment Tonight. The deal lasted six months. Then Hard Copy did a story on Clooney's girlfriend Celine Balidran. The actor quickly imposed a ban on ET and spoke about it publicly, even berating Paramount executive Frank Kelly for making the deal at all. "A so-called news format show will...
...what is perhaps the most poignant scene in the movie, Cohen sits down with Duddy in the sauna of his country club and lectures him on the risks and pitfalls of the business world. Cohen's face is fatter, his eyes puffier, his hair thinner, but underneath he is a 45-year-old Duddy, playing the same game. All the failures, the deadends, the shameful deeds accumulated over decades have done nothing to wean Cohen from a world where all behavior is governed by passions. "Listen, Duddy," he tells Kravitz through the steam sauna, "it's not all wine...
When Huey Long-his voice getting a little more raucous, his face a little puffier, his eyes more noticeably protuberant-was Railroad Commissioner, stridently upholding the rights of the people, but somehow mixing them up with a belief that Standard Oil had cheated him of $1,050, Sam Jones was getting admitted to the bar. And when Huey Long was getting licked for Governor in 1924, and plunging into the politician's purgatory of private practice, deals, publicity hunting, Local Boy Sam Jones, 26, was wrenching himself away from DeRidder and moving to Lake Charles (population then...
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