Subject: George Clooney

• Daily Web Crawl

  November 14, 2007

• "It's Clooney Chaos!"

  Yes, George Clooney is coming to St. Louis to film Up in the Air and yes, the producers are looking for extras, and yes, you, St. Louisans, can get involved.Casting director Joni Tackette will be searching for approximately 2,100 paid extras in an open call at the Crestwood Court Mall on January 24th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and January 25th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. All potential extras should be 18 or older and bring a recent color snapshot and a pen. More details and a downloadable application are

  January 16, 2009

• The Art of War

  January 13, 1999

• Clooney Watch: Central West End's Sub Zero

  He's beyond cool. He's sub-zero.Cross-posted at STLog.OMG! George Clooney -- currently in town for the shooting of the feature film Up in the Air -- did indeed patronize vodka/sushi bar Sub Zero (306 North Euclid Avenue; Web site) in the Central West End on Sunday evening. Unreal could confirm no more details than that (and felt degraded trying). We respect Mr. Clooney as a private citizen - obvi! But that shall not stop Unreal from gossiping about where he was after the fact. If any of

  March 3, 2009

• What You Doing for Spring Break? Mayor Slay Wants to Know.

  Spring break or busts!The RFT received an e-mail blast yesterday from Mayor Francis Slay's re-election campaign. As some of you may know, the mayor is quite Internet savvy with his blog, podcasts and whatnot. He's also a big fan of so-called "mini-polls" in which he asks St. Louisans all sorts of pertinent questions, such as "How do you feel about Valentine's Day?" and "Are you ready for swimsuit season?"In this week's poll (dispatched via e-mail yesterday), the mayor wants to know this: "What e

  March 6, 2009

• Don't Stalk George Clooney. EAT HIM.

  OK. We here at Gut Check International Headquarters are as guilty as anyone of obsessing over George Clooney's presence in our fair city. However, today brings news that makes even us blanch. PETA wants to sell tofu that tastes like the actor.Yeah. You read that right.From the always reputable E! (via Eater) comes news that the animal-rights organization has somehow acquired a towel soaked with Clooney's sweat and wants to use said sweat to flavor tofu. "The technology actually exists to take yo

  March 13, 2009

• Listening Post

  June 16, 1999

• This Week's RFT, March 19-25

  It's Thursday. And you know what that means? You guessed it -- this week's Riverfront Times is on newsstands now. Below is a quick rundown of just a few of the stories you won't want to miss. In the "News Dept." writer Nicholas Phillips explains why some rival agencies complain that casting company TalentPlus is hogging auditions for the George Clooney movie, Up in the Air. Trust me, you're not going to want to miss our feature presentation, "Vanishing Act," the first of a gripping two-part

  March 19, 2009

• Maplewood Official is Cuckoo for Clooney

  Yesterday, my colleague Kristen Hinman wrote an open letter to George Clooney after observing the actor dining at Niche restaurant last Saturday.Hinman's letter (published in Daily RFT) elicited a quick e-mail from Maplewood Community Development Director Rachelle L'Ecuyer who e-mailed in to tell us how much she enjoyed the blog post. L'Ecuyer also forwarded us her own open-letter to Clooney that included a photo of the actor along with the following caption. Think that's amusing/bizarre? Then y

  March 31, 2009

• OMG! George Clooney Supports Local Artists!

  Local photographer Jim Trotter keeps telling people about how worker-bees on George Clooney's Up in the Air rented one of his photographs to use in the movie, and, well, "everyone is so excited about it," Trotter says, "so, hell, I got excited, too!"A month or so ago, a set designer working on the movie walked into Warehouse of Dinettes, one of the lucky-thirteen spots around town where Trotter keeps art-for-sale on the walls. Shortly afterward, the set designer paid a visit to Trotter's Creve C

  April 1, 2009

• Vote for Daily RFT's "Ass Clown of the Week"

  flickr.com/photos/pomoQuite literally, an ass clown.I've been meaning to do this for awhile. Here's the idea. Each week you (the reader) and I will nominate a few lucky individuals for Daily RFT's coveted "Ass Clown of the Week" award. What's an ass clown, you ask? Urban Dictionary provides a long list of definitions, but the two most popular meanings are...ass clown (Ãis kloun); noun1. one, who, through the fault of his parents' conception, is a skid mark in society's collective underwear;2. o

  April 2, 2009

• Will George Clooney Show at Busch Stadium?

  What would Clooney wear to a Cards game?I have it on good faith that smokin'-hot-movie-star-about-town George Clooney has a standing offer to throw out a first pitch during a St. Louis Cardinals game while he's here shooting Up in the Air. Gotta give the Cardinals credit for such a gracious offer. Clooney is a serious fan of his hometown team, the Cincinnati Reds -- and reportedly even tried out for the Reds after graduating from high school.  So, will Georgie Boy show up today? And if so,

  April 6, 2009

• Unreal auditions for Up in the Air, test drives a new energy mouth spray and names a street after ourself

  February 4, 2009

• Intolerable Cruelty: Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery with Burn After Reading

  September 10, 2008

• Leatherheads, George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.

  April 2, 2008

• Gone a-Courting

  September 12, 2007

• Blood for Oil

  Brilliant, confounding Syriana digs for a necessary truth

  December 7, 2005

• The House Always Wins

  June 6, 2007

• Nostalgia Trip

  December 13, 2006

• Film Openings

  Week of December 4, 2002

  December 4, 2002

• Hoop Dreams Come True

  Through the Fire

  March 15, 2006

• Holiday Feast

  Our critics chew on the film trends of '05

  December 21, 2005

• Rogues' Gallery

  Racists, louts and terrorists earned their place among the best of 2005

  December 21, 2005

• Exhuming McCarthy

  The Red Scare returns in Good Night, and Good Luck

  October 19, 2005

• Faker's Dozen

  A rare superior sequel, Ocean's Twelve entertains with cinematic sleight of hand

  December 8, 2004

• Suth'n Comfort

  Tom Hanks steals the Coens' latest by playing -- get this -- funny

  March 24, 2004

• A Ball, Screwed

  The Coens make a '40s comedy with a Cary named Clooney

  October 8, 2003

• Stars of David

  The Jewish Film Festival of St. Louis unspools this week

  June 4, 2003

• Safe, Cracked

  The Italian Job, a remake better than the original, is a steal

  May 28, 2003

• Film Openings

  Week of January 22, 2003

  January 22, 2003

• Mind Games

  George Clooney impressively toys with the twisted delusions of a game-show producer

  January 22, 2003

• Ocean's Ill Heaven

  The tides of Solaris tempt Clooney with life after death

  November 27, 2002

• Are You Getting Touched Enough?

  June 5, 2002

• Bona Fide

  January 10, 2001

• Blow Up the Box

  December 27, 2000

• The Perfect Storm

  June 28, 2000

• THREE KINGS

  September 29, 1999

• Top 10 Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend, June 5-7

  If you love summer more than any other season, the first weekend in June should mean something -- and if you find yourself having fun and spending wee amounts of green, you'll likely remember this weekend fondly while trudging through the slush of February. Here's our best attempt at directing you to cheap fun around St. Louis. We'll start with a bonus item of our own: For $5, you can see more than 60 of the best local bands, from 1 p.m. to midnight on Sunday, as part of the RFT Music Showcase i

  June 5, 2009

• Sea Change: Miso on Meramec's new sushi chef is the best thing since sliced fish

  June 17, 2009

• FoodWire: Greek Wine Dinner at Tenderloin Room 9.18

  The Tenderloin Room (232 North Kingshighway; website), a favorite haunt of George Clooney while he was in town filming Up in the Air, is hosting a Greek wine dinner on Friday, September 18, as part of its monthly "World of Wine" dinner series. The four-course meal, featuring Greek wines paired with each course, is $55 per person (tax and tip not included). Call 314-361-0900 to make reservations or for more information. Menu after the jump.

  September 8, 2009

• Trailer for Up in the Air...a.k.a... What the F*** is George Clooney Talking About?

  Here's a trailer for the George Clooney flick Up in the Air filmed in St. Louis earlier this year.I don't know about you, but I have no earthly idea what Clooney's character is talking about in this clip. (Perhaps that's why they call the film Up in the Air?)  I sort of follow him right up until he gets to the swan and shark comparison. Someone tell me, are sharks promiscuous lovers? Up in the Air Teaser Trailer from /Film on Vimeo.

  September 9, 2009

• Early Reviewers High on Up in the Air

  flickr.com/photos/philsdarkroom​Of course St. Louisans already knew that Up in the Air, also known as The George Clooney Movie, was the film event of the year, but now the rest of the world appears to be getting wise -- especially people who have actually seen the movie instead of mere glimpses of George dining out around town,  trudging through fake snow in Maplewood or visiting strip clubs and harassing midgets on the east side.Entertainment Weekly reports that Jason Reitman's film is t

  September 16, 2009

• Local Writer Has Song on Up in the Air Soundtrack

  Congratulations to Kevin Renick, the local writer/music fan/songwriter who appears to have had a song of his included on the soundtrack to Up In the Air. (You know, the one George Clooney filmed here in St. Louis earlier this year.) Joe Williams of the Post-Dispatch has all the details on his blog, Joe's Movie Lounge -- and it's a neat story involving Renick asking director Ivan Reitman to listen to the song after a talk at Webster, and Reitman making good on his word. Very cool!

  September 16, 2009

• A St. Louis State of Mind: Up in the Air Screens in LA

  A still for Up in the Air features Goerge Clooney at Lambert Field.​[Editor's note: As many RFT readers know, for many years Randall Roberts was a fixture at this paper, first as a freelancer, later as music editor and then as a staff writer, before he packed up his quill pen and ink bottle and hied to the left coast, where he now music-edits our sister paper LA Weekly.Well, you can take the boy out of St. Louis, but you can't take St. Louis out of the boy. So it was that Randy found himself a

  October 8, 2009

• Kevin Renick's Song "Up in the Air" Makes It into Up in the Air

  A few weeks ago, we reported that Kevin Renick's song "Up in the Air" was set for inclusion in the George Clooney movie Up In the Air. My colleague in LA, Randy Roberts, saw a screening of the movie, and confirmed its inclusion. Says the Daily RFT: And then there's the closing song, "Up In the Air," which runs during the credits and was written by former Riverfront Times proofreader Kevin Renick (!). It's a soft acoustic song composed by the St. Louis-based writer and musician. As the credits r

  October 9, 2009

• Shhh! It's A Sneak Peek of Up In the Air

  www.screendaily.com​ The first local press screening of the Jason Reitman/George Clooney film Up In the Air -- perhaps the most eagerly anticipated movie in St. Louis since that flick about the World's Fair -- happened this morning at the Tivoli in the Delmar Loop.While we've been asked by the PR company to withhold any reviews or features until the theatrical release in December, it can't hurt to share a few first impressions with you, loyal Daily RFT readers.And for anyone lucky (or sneaky)

  October 28, 2009

• Got Your Goat: We don't mean to sound paranoid, but: Did aliens abduct George Clooney's sense of humor?

  November 4, 2009

• Google Offering Free WiFi in 47 Airports in USA, Including St. Louis

  google.comJust when we thought Google couldn't get any more loveable.​First George Clooney, now free Wifi. Clearly Lambert Airport was the place to be in St. Louis in 2009. To be fair, free WiFi and Clooney were not simultaneous events: the WiFi only started today, and, like Clooney, it will be fleeting, lasting only until January 15, 2010.Still. Free WiFi! This exciting new development is due to the largesse of Google, which, for the holidays, has placed free WiFi in 46 other airports across

  November 10, 2009

• What a Fox: Wes Anderson brings his Wes Anderson-ness to animation — and it's a fantastic fit

  November 12, 2009

• Choice Cuts: The St. Louis International Film Festival's eighteenth year brings together films shot around the world and in our back yard

  November 12, 2009