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Date Posted: 23:51:51 10/10/06 Tue
In reply to:
Angel
's message, "Re: George and Nancy" on 14:08:03 10/10/06 Tue
Hi Angel (and Tara, Maria, Chris, Merlin, Jen and all); I'm here! I'm here! I swear I'm here! I was just too busy on Sunday to come out and play (so to speak) and too lazy to do it yesterday. Looks like some lively conversation has been going on here in my absence. Ahem.
OKAY, MY TURN! EVERYONE SHUT UP WHILE LORRAINE TALKS! HEY! YOU IN THE BACK! SHUT UP, I HAVE IMPORTANT STUFF TO SAY!
Thank you.
Ah, let's see...
Tara, love the "joystick" quip as well as the big, demented laugh, how typically, lovably, um, YOU you are! I love that about you! Don't change, babe-- don't ever change!
And Angel, you are not allowed to disappear anymore, not even temporarily. After freaking us all out previously with your health scare(s) we'll only start to worry if we don't hear from you now. Just leave your pc on permanently and stay in front of it at all times. I'll send someone over periodically to put bowls of cheetos and bags of McDonald's and cans of Classic Coke, healthful stuff like that, in strategic places nearby so you don't starve. Granted, this arrangement may present certain challenges where basic hygiene and, uh, "toilet issues" are concerned, but you'll work it out, I'm sure. (If not, please don't ever come to my home.)
And Chris--I LOVE that photo of GC. LOVE IT. I must download it and add it to all my other GC pics in my very own "Gorgeous George" Powerpoint Presentation Thing. He looks soooo great, don't you think, everyone? Tan and fit and sexy as all get-out in that suit. Great shot of his face, too--that classic handsome profile. There are some really nice pics of George in the new Vanity Fair; I was drooling all over him in Walgreen's yesterday. (And was promptly asked to leave for my PDAs--tee hee hee)
Now then, as to your text-rant: Chris, sit down dear, we need to talk. The rest of you go on out and play in traffic until dinner...
Chris, I won't pretend I don't know what you mean when you make reference to George's "piggish" tendencies where women are concerned. I myself am of 2 minds about GC's perennial bachelorhood:
You mentioned jealousy as the possible reason you have a bee in your bonnet (as my Grandma used to say) about GC's commitment-phobic dating habits. I don't think so...
Here's what I think. I think like me you really like this guy and would really like to see him happy, really connected and happy, with a special someone. You watch his romantic comings and goings and you're aware of the time passing and his getting older and still being alone. What's his deal? you wonder. He can't truly be happy flitting from woman to woman like this, can he? Is George Clooney that superficial? Is he too selfishly obsessed with his career to make time in his life for the "right" person, and a family of his own?
Sometime over the summer, I came across a 2002 or 2003 interview GC did with his old ER buddy and co-star, Noah Wyle. I don't recall now which publication Wyle was conducting the interview for, but whatever-- the two were driving in LA and dishing about Holly-weird and laughing about old times, and Wyle brought up the subject of dating and love. (If I remember correctly, Noah Wyle and his wife were then expecting) He asked George a few pointed questions about his peripatetic love-life. What was up with all that, Noah asked. Had he (George) given up on ever getting married, on even the idea of marriage as a possibility?
And rather than make a joke or dodge the question, GC said something that I haven't forgotten.
He told Noah Wyle that he just wasn't sure anymore about marriage, that it's true that he once swore he'd never marry again (He was married from 1989 to 1992 to the actress Talia Balsam and reportedly it did not end well) and now he... honestly just didn't know. He noticed that he seemed to have fallen into a pattern of brief, intense relationships that lasted roughly 2-3 years and then ended, and--and for some reason this is the part I remember--he said "I swear I'm not doing that on purpose--it's just the way it's been working out." He sounded sort of saddened and a little bewildered by his inability to really settle down with someone. His dad Nick has even given up trying to figure out GC's love life:
Nick Clooney: "That young lady seems wonderful! Is she The One?"
George Clooney: "Huh? Her? Oh, er, um, I don't know... yeah... um, maybe..."
I'm just The Dad, Nick told a reporter--I don't know any more than you do.
Where kids are concerned, GC has been quoted as saying he's avoided having them because he's convinced the demands and general craziness of his career (and his own scattered, restless energies, perhaps?) would make him the sort of father who was never home and never around to really care for his children, and he couldn't live with that, that he'd "hate himself" for being that kind of dad.
So there you have it. I think we have to give him points for his unsparing honesty (about the importance of proper parenting at least), and bear in mind that George Clooney finally found big fame and accomplishment in his mid-to-late thirties rather than his twenties. Perhaps if he'd become successful and famous earlier, he'd now be at a place in his life emotionally where he'd feel ready for marriage and family. (Like Tom "I'm in love! I'm in love! No, seriously, I'm in love!" Cruise. Oh, no. Wait. Supposedly, Mister Big Fat Movie Star had all that with Nicole and the kids they'd adopted together, didn't he. Sorry. Bad example.)
As it is, GC seems to feel the need to keep challenging and proving himself professionally, seems really driven by that, and while that's the case I think he feels there just isn't room in his life for serious commitment to one person and all that usually comes with that (like babies).
I think he wants real love--not just or only good times with the latest pretty young thing--but can't seem to resolve the conflict between what he needs and what he's prepared to give up to get it.
I also think he's scared to death of hurting someone and getting hurt (again). Probably GC knows that he knows how to be a great boyfriend, but is shaky on whether or not he could ever be a good husband so he stays with what feels safer. I don't actually know George Clooney (even if I'm talking here like I do) but I do suspect he must ache sometimes for a deeper kind of happiness and is half-resigned to never having it.
Then again he may have met "The One" and, like JFK Jr. once did, fool us all and sneak off and get married somewhere in secret. Who really knows?
And then there's my other infinitely more depressing theory, the one that totally justifies your annoyance with him, Chris: That after all is said and done, George Timothy Clooney is just another attractive, desirable, wildly successful Alpha Male celebrity who is screwing around a lot Because He Can. Jack Nicholson, who is now 150 years old, is squiring around a 21 year old aspiring actress Because He Can. You understand what I'm saying?
Oh, God. Now I'm pissed off and depressed. Happy now, Chris? Huh?
You and your sexy George Clooney pictures.
That's it for now, kids. Mother has to go drink a lot of "medicine" and lie down for awhile. We'll talk later when she feels better, okay?
Smooches.
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