Welcome to the family business, Nick Zeidler

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Clooney movie shoot a family affair

Feb. 11, 2011

Welcome to the family business, Nick Zeidler.

George Clooney’s 14-year-old nephew filmed his movie debut Thursday morning in Northside as an extra in his uncle’s “Ides of March.”

“He’s in show business now!” said Clooney about Zeidler, who was following his great-aunt Rosemary, grandfather Nick, and uncle George into movies.

Clooney, who plays presidential candidate Gov. Mike Morris, invited Zeidler to be in a street scene wearing a sandwich-board-style campaign poster for his opponent that read “Pullman for President.”

“He thought it would be fun. And he let Nick bring along some friends,” says Ada Zeidler of Petersburg, George’s older sister.

So Nick Zeidler skipped eighth-grade classes at Conner Middle School in Hebron on Thursday morning to stand in front of Park Chili with three teen-age friends.

“You’ll be in the opening sequence of the movie,” Clooney told him after shooting four drive-by takes from a camera mounted in a minivan.

Thursday was a Clooney family affair. George’s parents, Nick and Nina Clooney, came to watch grandson “Nicky” along with Ada and her daughter, Allison Zeidler, celebrating her 20th birthday.

Ada Zeidler appreciated the rare chance to see her Oscar-winning brother at work.
“He’s been so busy. It’s always nice to be able to see him,” she says.

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^{George Clooney has a brief visit with his sister's daughter, Allison Zeidler, 20, center, and his sister, Ada Zeidler, right, in between shooting.}

Police had posted no parking signs along Hamilton Avenue Wednesday, in preparation for the filming. Three police cruisers arrived by 7:30 a.m. Thursday, a half-hour before the production staff and several dozen spectators started to gather.

Two crew members washed the front windows of Ace Hardware and Electric on Hamilton Avenue, as a third positioned a Morris for president poster behind the glass.

Clooney, who will direct and star, arrived shortly after 9 a.m. wearing a blue Xavier University “X” ball cap. He supervised extras walking in front of and entering the store. Police stopped traffic about a half-dozen times for the filming.

By 10:15 a.m., Clooney and his crew were gone.

Katiedot wrote:Ok, but does anyone else feel it's a little creepy to be cyberstalking his family like this? I don't mind newspaper cuttings (or the electronic equivalent) or any other information that's in the public domain being shared on this site, but please don't go looking for personal stuff like facebook pages etc.

It's none of our business and they're entitled to a private life that is private - and no, I don't buy the argument that anything on the web is public. When someone opens up a facebook account, they're not expecting a couple hundred of their uncle's fans to be reading what's on there.

So, pretty please?

Atalante wrote:
Dans cette vie on fait ce qu'on veut !!!

Cyberstalking, really !!!

If they choose to go public it's their choice not anybody else's. Grant and Lysa Heslov go public. George let his nephew move into the showbusiness, their choice !!!

Cyberstalking tsssssssssss.