George Clooney

The Last Great Movie Star

Kimberly Potts

• Publisher: Applause
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN:
  9781557839176
• Edition: 1

He's famous for being named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, his penchant for practical jokes, and his vow never to remarry, as well as his Oscar-winning and Emmy-nominated acting career. But George Clooney's reputation as "the mayor of every movie set he's on" belies his essential seriousness, as a businessman and in his ascendancy to the Hollywood A-list.

In George Clooney: The Last Great Movie Star, Kimberly Potts traces the star's life from the small-town boy to big-screen star. After spending a decade languishing in failed TV series, he slowly and deliberately built a résumé that took him from TV stardom on ER to a winning film career as a serious actor, writer, producer and director. Along the way are his early attempts to break out into film (including his Batman movie flop) his many well-publicized romances, his political and humanitarian efforts, and his shrewdly developed formula for choosing smart blockbuster movie projects that he uses to finance his more personal passion projects, such as Syriana and good night, and good luck., finding success with both.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue
• 1: Like Father (and Aunt), Like Son
• 2: A Star Is Born
• 3: And He’s Off
• 4: And So It Begins …
• 5: Hangin’ with Mrs. Garrett
• 6: I’ll Do It My Way
• 7: Hits and a Missus
• 8: A Trip to the ER
• 9: “I Just Got a Career”
• 10: A TV Star Is Born
• 11: Casa de Clooney
• 12: From TV to Movies
• 13: From Dusk Till Dawn
• 14: Between the Boob Tube and the Big Screen
• 15: “You’ve Become Elvis!”
• 16: Being Batman … and a Boyfriend
• 17: Enter Soderbergh
• 18: The Three Kings Brouhaha
• 19: Breaking Up—ER and Balitran
• 20: “The New Cary Grant”
• 21: The Rat Pack Redux
• 22: Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck
• 23: Oscar Night—March 5, 2006
• 24: To the Oscars, Again—and Again
• 25: Not On His Watch
• 26: The Future
• Filmography
• The George Clooney Timeline
• George Clooney’s Top 100 Films
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Photo Insert