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Trivia
This little part of the clooneyfiles is dedicated
to all the facts and things that didn't really fit into one of
this sites' categories.
If you feel like something is missing here, please email me and please include a picture of the fact about George we
didn't know. Thanks!
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George as Robert Baer |
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George Clooney gained 30 pounds on a pasta-heavy diet to play Robert Baer. However, the actor refused to shave his head (Baer was bald) for fear of it not growing back. |
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George's Casa de Clooney |
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George´s calls
his 8 bedroom Tudor house the "Casa De Clooney". |
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playing basketball |
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He loves
to play basketball. Actually a safe sport, but Clooney got injured right before the movie prem of his directing debut "Confessions of a Dangeorous Mind" in December 2002. " Clooney hurt himself playing
basketball at his
home Sunday", publicist Stan Rosen
field said.
In BATMAN & ROBIN (1997), George Clooney injured his lower leg playing basketball, while shooting Batman and Robin. Because of this, he needed to cut the boot off of the Bat-suit in order to wear a cast. You can tell when his leg was injured from his limping while inside the freeze rocket. |
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his very own tennis
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.And has his own tennic court at
his house. |
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His Indian bike |
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He loves bikes. (He
bought Indian motorcycles for his friends as well).
More
bikepics here. |
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Kelly Preston received
pet pig MAX as a present from George. |
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The potbellied pig Max actually was a present
to his love Kelly Preston back in 1988. |
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Max in his dog house. |
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Clooney's pot-bellied pig Max sleeps in a little
dog house when being "outside". Max, which
was a present to a former girlfriend, was once run over by the Hollywood
star's friend Tommy Hinkley in October 2001.Clooney has been concerned about the Max's health since the accident which left the porker with cuts on his back and a squashed trotter. In Heat magazine Hinkley says: "Max is a black pig and it was dark. It seems kind of funny now but at the time it certainly wasn't. "We thought he might lost his leg but it looks like it will be okay. Thank God George and I are best friends. I think he has forgiven me but he was upset at the time." Clooney is inseparable from the pig and he is said to allow the animal to sleep in his room. |
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The 1979 AUGUSTA Basketball
Team. |
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George Timothy Clooney was
in the 1979 Augusta/Kentucky Basketball Team. |
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George's new mansion
at lake Como. |
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George loves Europe and that
he recently (September 2002) bought a villa in Italy in a village
called Laglio close to lake Como. |
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Stan Rosenfield, a Hollywood
p.r. man (publicist), represents Robert De Niro, George Clooney,
James Gandolfini and Will Smith. Contact: 310-286-7474.
And George Clooney's assistant, Ned Cosgrove,is a big
executive at Clooney's company, Section Eight. |
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George showing the medal to the press photographers. |
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George Clooney was honoured in Marseille/France medal of the town given to him by mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin on 02 August 2000. |
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Come and get it! |
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Clooney grew so sick of bungling burglars attempting to steal an ancient safe from his Italian home, he wrapped a bow around it and put it in his yard. He explains, "These idiots came in, cased the joint, and clearly decided , 'We'll need more people.' It was like OCEAN'S ELEVEN."
The burglars then made two failed attempts to make off with the safe, which was abandoned by the previous owners of the property, prompting the actor to call the local police.He adds, "They were doing everything they could to steal this f**king safe. So we put a giant red bow on it and left a note saying, 'Come and get it, you dumb f**ks.'" (September 9, 2003) |
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I spy! |
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Clooney almost landed in a legal battle with movie studios Dimension Films over a cameo appearance he makes in the new SPY KIDS sequel -- A source says the actor has a cameo in the movie, but he didn't want his image used in the previews; representatives for both Dimension and Clooney finally insist the actor will appear in the trailers with his full approval. (July 10, 2003) |
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Clooney was caught up in a sick prank when a fan told a lie to keep in contact with the star – Clooney met the woman at a charity organization where she melted his heart with tales about her critically ill daughter, who was apparently his biggest fan, but after some investigating, he finally found out the woman didn't have a sick daughter: the 'mother' was the daughter. (November 13, 2002) |
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The DVD of Clooney’s 2002 comedy WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD allows his fans to see Clooney and his co-stars challenge the crew on the movie to a game of basketball in between takes -- the match was caught on camera. (March 4, 2003)
Welcome to Collinwood Special Page. |
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f.l.t.r.: Brad Martin, Troy Hartman and James E. Mitchell. |
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His personal stunt doubles are stuntmen Brad Martin, Troy Hartman and James E. Mitchell. His friend and stunt double, Brad Martin, didn't get to double for George in OUT OF SIGHT, so George got him the role of the White Boxer. |
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The Logo of the E/R TV Show in 1984 |
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Coincidentally Clooney's first steady TV role was in the medical sitcom E/R (1984) that was based in Chicago and co-starred Elliott Gould, Mary McDonnell and Jason Alexander. Ten years later it would take another TV series ER (1994) (also based in Chicago) to finally launch Clooney into the galaxy of super stardom. |
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Quentin Tarantino and GC in FDTD. |
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His famed Roman haircut was actually an accident. While filming FROM DUSK TILL DAWN he wanted to make his character Seth Gecko look really crazy with a chopped off hairstyle. But the haircut became popular and turned into a positive. |
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Salma Hayek and GC in the video. |
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He appears in ZZ Top's 'She's Just Killin' Me' music video along with actress Salma Hayek. The song is on the OSD Soundtrack of "From Dusk Till Dawn". |
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He had a keg of Guinness installed in his dressing room during filming OCEAN'S ELEVEN (2001). |
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Rejected the part of David Gale in THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE. Oscar Winner Kevin Spacey took the leaading role. (2002) |
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George's cousin Miguel Ferrer. |
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His cousin, Miguel Ferrer appeared as a guest star in the two-hour pilot episode of ER (1994), and Clooney's aunt, Rosemary Clooney (Ferrer's mother) appeared in the second regular episode. Clooney shared scenes with neither of them. |
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The infamous SOALRIS scene. |
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Clooney bared his bottom in the movie SOLARIS to stir-up excitement and promote the film -- he was quoted telling a German magazine on Wednesday, “If my ass helps the film, I don't have a problem with that. (January 9, 2003) |
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George Clooney Statements:
- On being one Hollywood’s most eligible hunks: I've literally gone out to dinner and a girl comes over to the table and says, 'Can I have a kiss?' She leans over, gives me a kiss, I go back to the house, and the photograph is on the TV. It's hysterical.
- I came running out of the house naked with my pig,. Max... And my buddy Ben, who was in the guesthouse down below, came running out naked with a gun, because he thought someone was breaking in. So we're naked like this, and my biggest fexar was that we would end up getting killed and they would find two naked guns, a pig and a gun. [on an earthquake in San Francisco]
- I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad. - Playboy. July 2000.
- I decided if I walk outside and get hit by a bus, everybody'll say, 'He crammed a load into 34 years.'
- Clooney's Wild Night with Bill Murray
George Clooney had a wild time when he met Bill Murray for the first time at last month's Venice Film Festival - the pair partied together until the break of dawn. The Intolerable Cruelty star says he was in awe of the Ghostbusters when he spotted him in a bar - but decided to ignore his nerves and chat to him anyway. George says, "He always makes me laugh. I hadn't met him before but I saw him in a bar and went over. You can't not go - it's Bill Murray. And he was like, 'Well, look who's coming now!' I said, 'Yeah, yeah, bring it on!' But we had a great night. I ended up in a wheelchair that I stole from the Cipriani Hotel at seven in the morning, flying around the lobby, screaming at him. He cracks me up. (October 2003)
- "I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing "As Time Goes By" as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play "Chopsticks". But I've got a nice piano at my house!" (interview VERO MODA magazine, Autumn 2003)
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