George Clooney

Chris Thomas King

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Star Trek Make-up Artist Jeff Lewis Talks Aliens and George Clooney's Wonderful Skin

Star Trek make-up artist Jeff Lewis is at the St. Louis Science Center tonight for First Fridays, a monthly series for Trekkies to geek out with their half-betazoid loving kin. The six-time Emmy nominee will make-up one lucky girl -- the the costume contest winner from last month's inaugural event - ... More >>

Intrigue drowns out argument in political thriller The Ides of March

Home Town Movies

Calling All St. Louis Screenwriters!

​Oscar season is upon us, which means everyone's anxious to know if "The Social Network" or "The King's Speech" will be this year's big winner. But all that cinematic energy shouldn't be reserved for Hollywood! We have our own movie-making community in the Lou, and for all you screenwriters ou ... More >>

Anton Corbijn turns the tried-and-true thriller inward in The American

Review Recaps: The 10 Movies Nominated for Best Picture, and Our Take on Them

Didn't get around to seeing all ten films nominated this year for Best Picture? No worries. Fake-it-til-you-make-it with these review snippets of the nominees, by our very own Basterds: the film critics of Village Voice Media.J. Hoberman writes of Avatar that it "is a technological wonder, fifteen y ... More >>

Up in the Air Earns Six Oscar Nominations

Up in the Air may get snubbed on Oscar night.​Besides honors for director-and-screenwriter Jason Reitman, Up in the Air was largely snubbed at the awards shows leading up to the Oscars.This morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the Oscars, with Up in t ... More >>

Envelope, Please! Here's the winner of the 2009 Unreal News Challenge.

St. Louis' Favorite Adopted Celeb, George Clooney, Hearts Haiti

Clooney filming in Lafayette Square last year. ​George Clooney was fete-ing the success of St. Louis-filmed Up in the Air at New York's Monkey Bar Wednesday night when he told The Hollywood Reporter that he will host a telethon to raise money for the people of Haiti.Clooney's program will run ... More >>

"It Wasn't Until I Bought Twelve Beef Jerky Sticks That I Realized I Had a Problem": Drury Hotel Ads Rip Off Up in the Air, Sort Of

Yes, it's true, George Clooney, er, Ryan Bingham would never stay in a Drury Inn. (They don't have luxurious terry cloth robes for him to wear after burrito-ing Vera Farmiga in the sofa cushions.) He would also never hoard his per diem food allowance to save up for a Himalayan. And he certainly woul ... More >>

Blogger Finds Bud vs. Coors Theme in Up in the Air, Unreal Takes It from There

Per the blog Whose Voice Is That? (via a Tweet from NYTimes media writer David Carr), the film Up in the Air contains a hitherto unnoticed subplot:Budweiser's quest for Coors! Writes WVIT?'s anonymous blogging voice:Up in the Air focuses on Ryan Bingam -- played by George Clooney -- a corporat ... More >>

2009 Unreal News Challenge

2009 in Review: March

​​The world as Gut Check knew it ended in March when we launched our Twitter account. Really, things have never been the same around these parts. The rest of the month after the jump.

Destination Unknown: Up in the Air steers clear of the predictable route, lands the emotion

Photos: George Clooney at Up in the Air Premiere Last Night in Los Angeles

It's been a while since we touched down in Clooney Chaos territory, but if you haven't heard by now, Up in the Air, the film largely shot in St. Louis and in which George Clooney stars, is receiving critical acclaim.​The film premiered last night in Los Angeles and UPI has posted a slideshow of th ... More >>

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

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 fl ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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 unti ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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

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. C ... More >>

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 m ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 com ... More >>

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! (v ... More >>

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 pe ... More >>

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 n ... More >>

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

"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 24t ... More >>

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

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

Daily Web Crawl

The House Always Wins

Ocean's Thirteen is a washed-up threequel. How much you wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to.

Hoop Dreams Come True

Through the Fire

Holiday Feast

Our critics chew on the film trends of '05

Rogues' Gallery

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

Blood for Oil

Brilliant, confounding Syriana digs for a necessary truth

Exhuming McCarthy

The Red Scare returns in Good Night, and Good Luck

A Ball, Screwed

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

Safe, Cracked

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

Mind Games

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

Are You Getting Touched Enough?

Week of June 5, 2002

Bona Fide

Joel and Ethan Coen's Brother hits a Homer

The Perfect Storm

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen

The Art of War