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Post by lolo"layla" Sun 16 Oct 2011, 18:48

10 questions; George Clooney
Peter Hapak for TIME

Your new movie, The Ides of March, is pretty dark. Is your view of politicians that they're all compromised?
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

Your character, a presidential candidate, makes a mistake. Do people allow candidates failings if they don't influence who they are as politicians?
I really do think it almost always comes down to not just the stupid act itself but the covering up of that stupid act. I truly believe if Nixon had taken the tapes and burned them on his front lawn and said, "Screw you. These belong to me," Watergate would have been very different.

Are you disappointed in Obama?
I get angry at people who don't stand for him, actually. If this were a Republican president, Republicans would say, "We were losing 400,000 jobs a month. We stopped it. We saved the car industry." You could go down the list. Democrats should talk to Hollywood about how to posture some of these things. Say you're about to get into tax loopholes. Instead of "loopholes," say "cheating." And then on the floor of the Senate, get up and say, "We're not going to raise your taxes, but we're not for cheating. Are you?" I just think Democrats are bad at that. (See TIME's review of The Ides of March.)

Ronald Reagan said, "How can the President not be an actor?" How good an actor is Obama?
If you consider a good actor to be the guy that you want when you got one take left and the sun is setting, then he's a very good actor, because when his back's against the wall, he's always terrific. He should sometimes bone up on some of the day-to-day skills of communication.

What are you doing with the Satellite Sentinel Project?
We have a camera 400 miles [640 km] above Sudan, taking pictures. I want [Sudan's President] Omar al-Bashir to enjoy the exact same amount of celebrity that I do. And we've found mass graves when they were trying to quickly bury them. We have photographs of tanks and helicopters and planes where there was supposed to be just tribal fighting. We're able to give these to the U.N.

Do you follow Twitter?
No, because I drink in the evening and I don't want anything that I write at midnight to end my career — "You can kiss my ass," all spelled wrong. (See George Clooney talk to TIME's Richard Stengel on a night with Silvio Berlusconi.)

Since you've lived there, has tourism to Lake Como increased?
Tourism to my home has increased. Every year, bigger boats come by. And every year what they say I paid for my house goes up. Now it's like $25 million. Which I did not pay.

What do you think of Occupy Wall Street?
Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

What about the Buffett rule, that people of a certain income should pay more taxes?
Asking people who have been lucky enough to make a great deal of money to participate more is a patriotic thing to do. I don't know how you argue against it.

Would you run for office?
No! I'd run from! My job's much, much more fun.

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Post by playfuldeb Tue 27 Dec 2011, 07:19

I like the way he thinks
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Post by it's me Tue 27 Dec 2011, 14:11

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a lot more



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Post by Joanna Tue 27 Dec 2011, 15:48


Thanks for the interesting article lolo Thumbs up!

Yes playful I like the B/W picture too. cheers
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Post by Joanna Tue 08 May 2012, 11:58

Just testing.... but no good result.


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Post by Joanna Tue 08 May 2012, 12:00

Sorry if this has been posted before

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Post by janieb Tue 08 May 2012, 19:12

I have wanted to see this interview for a while now. Great find!!!
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Post by Katiedot Wed 09 May 2012, 02:57

Just moving this to all Time Magazine thread so it's all in one place.
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Post by Michelle meyers Wed 09 May 2012, 04:19

i haven't seen this before . Thank you!
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Post by Joanna Wed 09 May 2012, 15:19

Thanks for the tidy up Katie
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