Ravenwood - 01/20/03 02:26 PM
The NY Daily News reports that George Clooney, TV's 'Booker' from Roseanne, is quite upset at the Bush Administration for acting too quickly and harshly with Iraq.
"The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos," claims Clooney. "We go into a war [with Iraq] and kill a lot of innocent people. Are we going to try and talk [to Saddam Hussein] ... without jumping in and killing people first?"
For the record, Clooney profited handsomely from the Gulf War in Iraq, by starring as a U.S. Army Major in the 1999 movie Three Kings, based on the Operation Desert Storm.
In other news, it is rumored that George Clooney also insulted Charlton Heston and poked fun at Alzheimer's Disease while receiving a film award from the National Board of Review. However, Ravenwood's Universe staff writers have been unable to find a mainstream press story corroborating the rumor.
UPDATE: I found a cached version of yesterday's Page Six column by Liz Smith:
George was in town to accept the Special Filmmaking Achievement Award from the National Board of Review. He made history at that event by wisecracking in a politically incorrect manner that "Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's." When I asked the actor if this was going too far, he said simply, "I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association; he deserves whatever anyone says about him."Clooney also claimed to be "graphically and fully informed about world events", and said he knows that war with Iraq is imminent. According to Page Six, he wants to know why no one is speaking out against it.
For someone who is supposedly "graphically and fully informed", why didn't Clooney know about Saturday's world wide pro-oppression rally?
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Whether one agrees with George Clooney's point of view or not, his crack about Alzheimer's isn't really particularly mean spirited. It's pretty funny. If it had been said by Jay Leno, David Letterman, or John Stewart instead of Clooney, a political sophomore, we'd have laughed and moved on.
And before I get flamed for not caring or understanding about Alzheimer's, I tended an elderly lady with the disease for several months. She could remember 1910 like it was yesterday, but she thought her daughter's house she was staying in was a hotel. I brought her toast one time and she started searching around for her pocketbook, to pay me. I tried to tell her not to worry about it, and she, being a fine Southern Lady of great prominence, stated, "I never took charity a day in my life and I won't start now!" So I told her, "No, I'll just put it on your tab." And then she was quite happy with our arrangement.
Sure Alzheimer's is a terrible malady, especially to those it isn't happening to who love the victim's former personality, but George Clooney's joke was fairly witty. Hint: he probably did not write it himself. Maybe Bill Maher put him up to it.
Posted by: Brian at January 22, 2003 11:37 PMTerrible malady? How about terminal disease?
Worse for those it isn't happening to? How about the person it does happen to?
You describe very early stages. Try being incontinent. How about having someone change your diaper. They pull all your teeth because you can't maintain them. Someone spoon feeds you, if your lucky. You can't recognize your husband/wife or your own children. Yeah, pretty funny. Clooney could get a lot of mileage out of this.
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