Good news for women across the nation: George Clooney has ended his year-long relationship with Sarah Larson. According to an insider, it was George who did the dumping (keep your mind out of the gutter):
George is relieved to be single again. He thinks Sarah is sweet and that is why it was so hard to break up with her. … The truth is that they had little in common and he just doesn't want to be tied down.
Bad news for women across the nation: We still have no chance.
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This little guy, Oscar, is one of the world's most popular dogs among Hollywood circles. He has been photographed with the likes of George Clooney and John Travolta thanks to his owner, Dennis Gill, who sold newspapers to celebrities in London. Oscar recently lost his three-year battle with cancer, but his legacy will live on through the animal lovers of the blogosphere.
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Scarlett Johansson wasted no time in debuting her engagement ring from fiancé Ryan Reynolds at last night's Costume Institute Gala at NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pretty much every celebrity you can imagine was in attendance (except for Reynolds), and 95 percent of the wardrobe choices made our heart cry.
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• Somebody get the host of this show an Emmy! [DListed]
• A gossip magazine is reporting that Katie Holmes is sick and tired of gossip magazines reporting about her. [INO]
• Megan Fox is on the cover of Christopher Amueroso Presents Paw Print, posed with a real fox. Out of frame is the shark that she's jumped. Bye, Megan Fox. [HT]
• Orlando Brown, star of That's So Raven, has gone missing. [ICYDK]
• "Hot men who look like lesbians" [CityRag]
• George Clooney is tired, just like Leatherheads. Zing! [PS]
Why George Clooney will never be a father:
Even one kid running around my villa makes me nervous, so I'm definitely not a candidate for father of the year! If I need to surround myself with children and feel like I have this big extended family, I can always call Brad and Angie and ask them to stay with me, just to remind me why I'm so happy without.
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Considering the unpredictability of Hollywood release schedules, it was presumptuous of us to assume, based on one week of data, that the film industry was in recession. But now it's been three weeks, and movie executives are becoming less and less arrogant with every failure.
Last week’s holdover, “21” trumped George Clooney’s “Leatherheads” at the box office this weekend with an estimated $15.1 million in ticket sales. “Leatherheads” opened to a soft $13.5 million, just edging out Jodie Foster-starrer "Nim's Island" for No. 2.
Nikki Rocco, Universal's president of domestic distribution, said she was "disappointed with the result" for "Leatherheads," a $58-million production … "What really upsets me is the level of overall business."
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… overall business was down from the same period in 2007 for the third straight weekend.
One of the best things about New York City is its particularly high population of smart angry people. Dumb angry people are a liability and will get you shot, but smart angry people make everything more fun, and they're all over this dungy, neon island. Whether they're at a party railing against globalization or buying Fear of a Black Planet on vinyl, you'll know smart angry people when you see them. You'll also know their handiwork when it appears.
The smart angry Copyranter recently noticed that one creative NY vandal – or group of vandals – has initiated a backlash against George Clooney and "the ads" for his new film, Leatherheads. No, cutting out Clooney's face and turning these advertisements on themselves won't stop Leatherheads from making millions – I never said smart angry people were effective – but it does make the commutes in the "En Why Dirty See" a little more unique.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight Canada that aired last night, actor and rumored gay man George Clooney said he will not show impudence to the movie star gods and slum it hard in a reprisal of his role as Dr Doug Ross on the 15th season of ER, the laughably unrealistic medical drama that catapulted his career.
"No, never — we never even talked about it," he says in the interview. "No one has ever asked me. It’s the funniest thing. The story came out, and I was like 'Where did that come from?'"
We think this means he'll also never consider a return to Facts of Life. What a shame.
• Not all overzealous Christians vote Republican. [YouTube]
• The world's still not fair: Kevin Federline is being paid $175,000 just for having his party at a particular place in Vegas. Poop. [DListed]
• Clooney puts his money where his mouth is. Specifically, Darfur. His mouth and money are in Darfur. [PS]
• Does Audrina Patridge even like Audrina Patridge? [INO]
• Remember when this chick was Clarissa and she explained it all? Now she's a mother of two. [ICYDK]
• There's a lad mag out of France called Maximal. Sound familiar? One can't trademark chauvinism. [HT]
• "Cartoon-alikes" [CityRag]
• Babies with baby weight. How depressing. [Yeeeah]
We hear word that some oddly popular event happened last night in Los Angeles. We're not really sure what it was all about, but we've got pictures of some of the self-congratulatory, insular men and women in attendance after the jump.
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• Here's Amnesia Sparkles – the drag queen responsible for making Cord "Cordless" – explaining how this Sunday's Oscars will be like sex with a black man. As you might guess, it's NSFW. [Queerty]
• Idle Americans are prepared to again fawn over American Idols, many of whom will soon become idle Americans once again. [DListed]
• That's not the breast place for a tattoo, Christina. [HT]
• A silvery Rihanna awaits your approval here. [INO]
• "I'm the Hillary Clinton of the Oscars." [ICYDK]
• Go organic! It'll make you feel like a new person filled with alien spirits! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! [CityRag]
• Hey! More and more people are discovering that we have too many goddamn golf courses in this country. Cacti of the American Southwest, we've made the first step. [NYT]
Recently, the criminally overpublished Time scribe Joel Stein offhandedly invited the hugely famous George Clooney to his house for dinner. Apparently unaware of Stein's inanity, Clooney took the bait, which was ultimately lamb and spaghetti carbonara.
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COPYCATS "Four of Hollywood's most influential thesps — George Clooney, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep — are pressuring the Screen Actors Guild to launch its contract talks as soon as possible to avert a strike."
A still-fuming Fabio spoke to Details magazine about the time two months ago when he almost came to blows with the much handsomer George Clooney, whom he alleges called his female dinner companions "Bitches [and] even badder…" The chesty hunk did not mince words:
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PEER MEDIATION "…George Clooney today is volunteering to personally set up a so-called 'mediation panel' including himself and with plans to ask Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and John Wells (the executive producer of ER and a controversial ex-WGA president) to be part of it, plus 3 or 4 bigwigs who are siding with the producers."
George Clooney, on Peacemaker co-star Nicole Kidman's pregnancy: "At least she is older than 16." OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
It is not a good time to be a Spears. Then again, was it ever?
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Sharon Stone has followed fellow actor George Clooney to Dubai for that city's film festival.
Rather than premiering a film in the Arab nation, Stone is debuting the amfAR foundation to the UAE, hopefully meaning she's abandoned acting for her true calling: Being a gaudy spectacle people attach to good things they want to get noticed.
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