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"Good Night and Good Luck" Live on CNN

CNN will exclusively televise actor George Clooney’s record-breaking Broadway show “Good Night, and Good Luck,” on Saturday, June 7, the network announced.

The limited-run play’s penultimate performance from the Winter Garden Theatre in New York will air live on CNN and CNN International and stream on CNN.com at 7 p.m. ET.

“This announcement marks a historic Broadway first: never before has a live play ever been televised,” the network said in a news release.

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by Anonymousreply 132June 14, 2025 10:35 PM

Woot!

by Anonymousreply 1June 1, 2025 7:32 PM

Jesus. Somebody needs to shoot CNN in the head and just end its suffering already. Seriously, it’s melted down into such a calamitous hot mess that I’m often stunned that the company’s board just doesn’t step in, clean house and reboot the damn network.

by Anonymousreply 2June 1, 2025 7:45 PM

Why, R2?

I think this is a kind of cool idea for a news network.

I'll definitely be watching, especially since I would probably never attend the performance in person.

by Anonymousreply 3June 1, 2025 7:49 PM

Beats paying hundreds of dollars to watch it on Broadway.

Thanks, CNN!

by Anonymousreply 4June 1, 2025 9:55 PM

Hope this means it will be on HBO shortly after.

by Anonymousreply 5June 1, 2025 10:05 PM

It'll be streaming on MAX, as well as CNN.

by Anonymousreply 6June 1, 2025 11:15 PM

Clooney did a live broadcast of Fail Safe years ago. He must like the rush.

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by Anonymousreply 7June 2, 2025 3:09 AM

Who dat

by Anonymousreply 8June 2, 2025 3:16 AM

[quote] Clooney did a live broadcast of Fail Safe years ago. He must like the rush.

Just like the rush he gets from sniffing poppers, while he's banging an Italian Twink!

by Anonymousreply 9June 2, 2025 9:27 AM

Not watching CNN after Jake Tapper and Clooneys gang up on Biden. Fuck ‘em!

by Anonymousreply 10June 2, 2025 10:56 AM

Fake Tapper gurgling on red nuts?

by Anonymousreply 11June 2, 2025 12:31 PM

I thought that the whole idea of a Broadway show, was seeing it in person?

It's LIVE theater, and not a TV show FFS.

by Anonymousreply 12June 2, 2025 3:55 PM

[quote] Fake Tapper gurgling on red nuts?

Huh?

by Anonymousreply 13June 2, 2025 11:26 PM

This should be good.

I might make an event of it, with my friends.

A viewing party!

by Anonymousreply 14June 4, 2025 11:59 AM

What's this movie about?

by Anonymousreply 15June 5, 2025 12:45 AM

1. It's a play, not a movie.

2. It WAS a movie. Watch it.

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by Anonymousreply 16June 5, 2025 1:34 AM

Play not doing well at b.o.?

by Anonymousreply 17June 5, 2025 1:39 AM

I love this Hollywood icon. Love him.

by Anonymousreply 18June 5, 2025 1:54 AM

It's setting all kinds of box-office records, but it's a limited run and this is the penultimate performance.

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by Anonymousreply 19June 5, 2025 2:04 AM

Bump

7pm ET on CNN, CNN International and CNN.com with no cable login required. The show will also air live on Max.

by Anonymousreply 20June 7, 2025 9:31 PM

Abe Vigoda looks rough

by Anonymousreply 21June 7, 2025 9:33 PM

Abe had a late night

by Anonymousreply 22June 7, 2025 9:35 PM

Present!

by Anonymousreply 23June 7, 2025 11:07 PM

Anyone watching? It occurred to me at 6:54 pm that the 7 pm time I saw might be Eastern time (I'm in the Central time zone), so I did a quick check. Lo and behold, it started at 6, so dinner is being delayed.

by Anonymousreply 24June 7, 2025 11:13 PM

How many of the male cast members did Clooney bang? 🤔

by Anonymousreply 25June 7, 2025 11:16 PM

Can one stream this on HBO Max?

by Anonymousreply 26June 7, 2025 11:17 PM

Impressive staging.

by Anonymousreply 27June 7, 2025 11:18 PM

R26 Yes, one can

by Anonymousreply 28June 7, 2025 11:19 PM

R26, yes

by Anonymousreply 29June 7, 2025 11:19 PM

Tony and Emmy for an evening's work

by Anonymousreply 30June 7, 2025 11:20 PM

God, this is tedious. I loved the movie.

by Anonymousreply 31June 7, 2025 11:22 PM

R31 - attention span of a goldfish.

by Anonymousreply 32June 7, 2025 11:26 PM

Ha ha! Isn't it hilarious how Liberace pretended to be straight?

by Anonymousreply 33June 7, 2025 11:33 PM

[quote]I thought that the whole idea of a Broadway show, was seeing it in person?

That's like saying you won't buy the cast recording of a B'way musical because it was meant to be heard in the theater.

by Anonymousreply 34June 7, 2025 11:43 PM

Just posted on ATC. It breaks my heart a bit.

[quote]I just wanna say as someone who can’t get to Broadway (and doesn’t feel safe travelling to the States right now) I’m very grateful for the opportunity to see a Broadway show “live” tonight.

by Anonymousreply 35June 7, 2025 11:51 PM

Clooney seems more like David Strathairn's understudy here; he should have retained his role as Fred Friendly.

Will CNN keep the viewers engaged during intermission? Chances are many will not return after the break.

by Anonymousreply 36June 7, 2025 11:51 PM

Is this really the first live broadcast of a Broadway show? Some queen here should know.

by Anonymousreply 37June 7, 2025 11:55 PM

Not by a long shot..

by Anonymousreply 38June 8, 2025 12:02 AM

^^ should have reprised his role.

R37: I may be mistaken, but did "The Sound of Music" and "Once Upon A Mattress" stream live?

by Anonymousreply 39June 8, 2025 12:03 AM

Those were live broadcasts of network-produced shows, not Broadway productions broadcast live from a Broadway theater. I believe this is a first...and historic.

by Anonymousreply 40June 8, 2025 12:07 AM

Live From Lincoln Center

by Anonymousreply 41June 8, 2025 12:13 AM

If they were to do this with any show it should’ve been Jodie Comer’s seminal Prima Facie

by Anonymousreply 42June 8, 2025 12:18 AM

They all sound/look like they're lip-synching. George looks deflated.

by Anonymousreply 43June 8, 2025 12:21 AM

Lincoln Center isn't a Broadway theater.

by Anonymousreply 44June 8, 2025 12:24 AM

R44, part of it is. The Vivian Beaumont is classified as a Broadway theater.

by Anonymousreply 45June 8, 2025 12:29 AM

The ketchup is being flung tonight!!!

Wow! Didn't see "that" coming

by Anonymousreply 46June 8, 2025 12:33 AM

I only could last for 15 minutes and got bored.

by Anonymousreply 47June 8, 2025 12:37 AM

They're doing a panel on the impact of Edward R Murrow with Connie Chung?! Where's Maury?

Way to completely miss the point CNN.

by Anonymousreply 48June 8, 2025 12:37 AM

I'm crying. It was wonderful. Damn.

by Anonymousreply 49June 8, 2025 12:39 AM

Amal, is that you at r47?

by Anonymousreply 50June 8, 2025 12:42 AM

Watched with my MAGA mom. LOVED his final speech.

I feel very lucky to have been able to experience that. The live applause after his commentaries was wonderful.

by Anonymousreply 51June 8, 2025 12:44 AM

Where is our Edward R. Murrow? Our Guernica?

by Anonymousreply 52June 8, 2025 12:44 AM

R35 grow a back bone.

by Anonymousreply 53June 8, 2025 12:44 AM

R49 see a psychiatrist

by Anonymousreply 54June 8, 2025 12:46 AM

Clooney’s really hit the wall hasn’t he?

by Anonymousreply 55June 8, 2025 12:52 AM

R47 That makes two of us. I really wanted to enjoy it but it lost my attention.

by Anonymousreply 56June 8, 2025 12:52 AM

the video montage at the end with elon doing the nazi salute was extraordinary

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by Anonymousreply 57June 8, 2025 12:54 AM

The after show with TV journalists is more provocative than the play. Go Abby!

by Anonymousreply 58June 8, 2025 12:57 AM

I’m enjoying it very much. Better than I thought it would be, more interesting than I thought it would be, and it couldn’t be more timely.

Murrow”s speeches on this subject don’t date. And I think George Clooney is very good, his Tony nomination makes sense.

by Anonymousreply 59June 8, 2025 1:03 AM

R54 see a cult deprogrammer.

by Anonymousreply 60June 8, 2025 1:27 AM

R59 I was very moved by that montage, and his final speech. So great.

by Anonymousreply 61June 8, 2025 1:28 AM

The most salient comments during the panel discussion, after the play, were about corporations owning the news media. When it became important to the bigwigs that news had to make money, objectivity, honor, and trust went down the tubes. Look what’s happening at CBS now, and ABC recently Both caving to Trump so they can continue making money with less interference from The Orange Man.

by Anonymousreply 62June 8, 2025 2:29 AM

He really needs to play Cary Grant in a film someday, too!

by Anonymousreply 63June 8, 2025 5:03 AM

Very special experience. Watched it with friends here in SF. It's about time we see something more provocative like this.

by Anonymousreply 64June 8, 2025 8:22 AM

[Quote] That makes two of us. I really wanted to enjoy it but it lost my attention.

More like two million of you🥱🥱

by Anonymousreply 65June 8, 2025 8:34 AM

Good Night is appropriate, as it would induce sleep within 10 minutes.

by Anonymousreply 66June 8, 2025 9:44 AM

Provocative? Hardly. It was like NPR for the eyes.

by Anonymousreply 67June 8, 2025 10:29 AM

I really can't stand Clooney and his pre-interview with Cooper brought on that epiphany. He was banging on about the McCarthy era and how today's political climate is worse, but once we get rid of the ringleaders, we'll get back to normal blahblahblah. Then I thought about his "Letter to Biden."

You're a fucking one-note, smug, and honestly, kinda creepy ACTOR.

I did like seeing Fran Kranz tho.

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by Anonymousreply 68June 8, 2025 10:36 AM

Can they fuse the Tony and Emmy together to make one big monstruous award for George and Amal to carry around once they leave town?

by Anonymousreply 69June 8, 2025 11:18 AM

It was a wonderment how they kept the actors' head mics hidden. Other than the briefest glimpse of George's (and one other actor's) mic cord on his nape going down into his collar I saw no evidence of the mics near their faces.

But I assume they must have all been mic'ed. How did they do that?

by Anonymousreply 70June 8, 2025 12:58 PM

[quote] 'Good Night, and Good Luck' CNN live broadcast brings George Clooney's play to the masses

Saturday afternoon out west and evening back east, as citizens faced off against ICE agents in the streets of Los Angeles, "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's 2005 dramatic film tribute to CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, became a Major Television Event, broadcast live from Manhattan's Winter Garden Theater, by CNN and Max.

That it was made available free to anyone with an internet connection, via the CNN website, was a nice gesture to theater fans, Clooney stans and anyone interested to see how a movie about television translates into a play about television.

The broadcast is being ballyhooed as historic, the first time a play has been aired live from Broadway. And while there is no arguing with that fact, performances of plays have been recorded onstage before, and are being so now. It's a great practice; I wish it were done more often.

At the moment, PBS is streaming recent productions of Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate!," the Bob Dylan-scored "Girl From the North Country," David Henry Hwang's "Yellow Face" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning mental health rock musical "Next to Normal." Britain's National Theater at Home subscription service offers a wealth of classical and modern plays, including Andrew Scott's one-man "Vanya," as hot a ticket in New York this spring as Clooney's play.

And the archives run deep; that a trip to YouTube can deliver you Richard Burton's "Hamlet" or "Sunday in the Park With George" with Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters is a gift not to be overlooked.

Clooney, with co-star Anthony Edwards, had earlier been behind a live broadcast of "Ambush," the fourth season opener of "ER" as a throwback to the particular seat-of-your-pants, walking-on-a-wire energy of 1950s television. (It was performed twice, once for the East and once for the West Coast.) That it earned an audience of 42.71 million, breaking a couple of records in the bargain, suggests that, from a commercial perspective, it was not at all a bad idea.

Like that episode, the "live" element of Saturday's broadcast was essentially a stunt, though one that ensured, at least, that no post-production editing has been applied, and that if anyone blew a line, or the house was invaded by heckling MAGA hats, or simply disrupted by audience members who regarded the enormous price they paid for a ticket as a license to chatter through the show, it would presumably have been part of the broadcast.

None of that happened — but, it could have! (Clooney did stumble over "simple," but that's all I caught.) And, it offered the groundlings at home the chance to see a much-discussed, well-reviewed production only a relatively few were able to see in person — which I applaud on principal and enjoyed in practice — and which will very probably not come again, not counting the next day's final performance.

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by Anonymousreply 71June 8, 2025 1:57 PM

The movie captured a moment in time. It was an important part of our history. The McCarthy Era. The Red Scare. Haven't seen the play. Missed it last night.

by Anonymousreply 72June 8, 2025 2:16 PM

[quote] which I applaud on principal and enjoyed in practice

Oh, dear.

I guess the LA Times can't afford proofreaders anymore.

by Anonymousreply 73June 8, 2025 2:26 PM

That article fails to mention Clooney's other foray into live television broadcast of a play -- "Fail-Safe" back in 2000.

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by Anonymousreply 74June 8, 2025 2:27 PM

I recorded it on my DVR.

I'd like to watch it tonight, and see what all the fuss is about.

by Anonymousreply 75June 8, 2025 6:24 PM

Mine didn’t record R75. Interested to hear if it worked for you.

by Anonymousreply 76June 8, 2025 7:07 PM

I'm not R75, but I recorded it on my YouTubeTV DVR and it worked.

by Anonymousreply 77June 8, 2025 7:12 PM

R64 yes. The more I think about it the more I love it. I feel sorry for the people here who said they bailed after 15 minutes.

I was so moved by the ending. In fact, I think it was a singularly unique television experience. One of the best I've ever had. The end montage and speech was so powerful. Clooney really nailed it. It must've been quite an experience to see it live on stage

by Anonymousreply 78June 8, 2025 7:13 PM

Someone posted the sensational, powerful ending.

Clooney's extended, teary pause at the end is everything.

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by Anonymousreply 79June 8, 2025 7:32 PM

For some reason (I guess because they both deal with CBS) I always confuse the movie with "The Insider," the one about "60 Minutes" and the tobacco industry.

by Anonymousreply 80June 8, 2025 7:46 PM

R80 I know they also did a movie about Dan Rather's George W. Bush National Guard memo.

The thing is, that memo was a proven fake, so I don't see what the movie could really be about.

by Anonymousreply 81June 8, 2025 10:05 PM

Thank you for posting the play's raw final scene, R79; it almost deserves its own thread.

Overnight, the streets of LA could prove crucial to the preservation of our country as we know it:

[quote]"Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light ... "

by Anonymousreply 82June 8, 2025 10:19 PM

[quote] The end montage and speech was so powerful. Clooney really nailed it.

Towards the very end, George Clooney took a very long pause, and I thought it was a mistake. He was looking around making these weird facial gestures.

Was it a mistake, and he forgot his lines?

Or was it supposed to be drawn out like that? The pause really seemed to go on for forever. Almost uncomfortably so.

by Anonymousreply 83June 8, 2025 10:48 PM

R83 it was a dramatic pause. I found it unbelievably effective. We're not used to it.

by Anonymousreply 84June 8, 2025 10:53 PM

He's a tedious actor that ends speech is really just pandering and we've heard it a million times before in one form or another. Glad I didn't watch what preceded it

by Anonymousreply 85June 8, 2025 11:00 PM

R85 Well, at least you're not bitter.

by Anonymousreply 86June 8, 2025 11:08 PM

R85 Always good to get the MAGA moron perspective.

by Anonymousreply 87June 8, 2025 11:18 PM

Boring as fuck. I hate being preached at and his grimacing while he pontificated away was getting on my nerves. The end especially. He’s not a good enough actor to pull off the dramatic pause shit some of you are drooling about.

And all the archival footage was lazy and predictable — no budget to get someone to actually play McCarthy? That would have been interesting.

He’s a B list actor at best. Never would have gotten in the door if not for Auntie Rosemary, who at least had some talent.

And who the fuck yaps about McCarthyism now?yes, it was relevant but it’s been done to death already on TV and films.

At least it was free. I can’t imagine waiting in line to watch this and pay mucho bucks.

by Anonymousreply 88June 8, 2025 11:28 PM

[Quote] Well, at least you're not bitter. Always good to get the MAGA moron perspective.

Well, you're certainly bitter. I'll bet you have worn out the letters M-A-G-R-E-P-U-G on your keyboard

by Anonymousreply 89June 8, 2025 11:32 PM

Female singer added nothing to production. Friend said she was a filler while they changed sets.

by Anonymousreply 90June 8, 2025 11:37 PM

[quote] And all the archival footage was lazy and predictable — no budget to get someone to actually play McCarthy? That would have been interesting.

I found the archival footage to be powerful.

There is nothing more impactful than hearing the hateful words of someone like Joe McCarthy, from his own mouth..

[quote] Female singer added nothing to production. Friend said she was a filler while they changed sets.

The music was one of my favorite things about the production.

It totally set the mood, not to mention that her voice was beautiful.

by Anonymousreply 91June 8, 2025 11:40 PM

No posting history, r88?

by Anonymousreply 92June 8, 2025 11:45 PM

R73, first to be fired today are Proof Readers. What reporters type on the screen goes into the publication. Typos and all.

by Anonymousreply 93June 8, 2025 11:46 PM

He's lost his looks.

by Anonymousreply 94June 8, 2025 11:46 PM

Yeah it was great. Anyone who didn't like it is a moron Trump supporter, because it showed how dangerous and insidious they all are.

by Anonymousreply 95June 8, 2025 11:47 PM

R92

You have started 0 threads which have received 0 replies. You have received 2806 WW votes and have posted 801 replies to threads.

Good enough for you, cunt?

by Anonymousreply 96June 8, 2025 11:51 PM

R96 tell us that you have nothing to do with your time without telling us

by Anonymousreply 97June 8, 2025 11:57 PM

I've seen the movie many times as I used to show it to classes. Agree that Strathairn was better. The vocalist was in the movie, too--she evokes a time and place. Loved the final montage. My students had problems with the references ten years ago. Wonder how many can follow it today.

I remember watching Murrow as a wee one. No one was like him.

Love Franz Kraus. Ilana Glazer looked homely.

by Anonymousreply 98June 9, 2025 12:11 AM

Didn't recognize Paul Gross at first

by Anonymousreply 99June 9, 2025 12:15 AM

I saw Buena Vista Social Club documentary years ago. It was just lovely. But I don't recall music like this. It was more Latin JAzz. Great music though.

by Anonymousreply 100June 9, 2025 12:30 AM

R100 Come again?

by Anonymousreply 101June 9, 2025 12:31 AM

The dramatic pause Clooney takes is part of his performance. It’s the logical emotional reaction to everything he’s experienced in the play so far — he has basically been forced out of his controversial position at CBS, and has experienced a friend and colleague being driven to suicide because he was being persecuted. The “Julius Caesar” line — which he can’t being himself to finish — was from his earlier anti-McCarthy broadcast.

Clooney gave an excellent performance in this, and deserved his nomination, which is partly for providing the service of bringing this show to Broadway and TV.

by Anonymousreply 102June 9, 2025 1:55 AM

R101, wrong thread. I thought I was posting in the Tony Awards thread.

by Anonymousreply 103June 9, 2025 2:17 AM

R102 Thank you. You've crystallized my thoughts eloquently.

It was very cool of them to air the next to last performance.. And honestly his final speech should be remembered as a highlight in the history of television.

by Anonymousreply 104June 9, 2025 2:19 AM

R103 I figured. ; - )

by Anonymousreply 105June 9, 2025 2:19 AM

Anything with Clooney unwatchable.

by Anonymousreply 106June 9, 2025 2:56 AM

R92 Why is THAT important?

by Anonymousreply 107June 9, 2025 10:18 AM

Interestingly, no one is talking about it today. And George thought they would be.

by Anonymousreply 108June 9, 2025 4:40 PM

R87 Can't respond to a point of view that doesn't agree with hers even if we're talking about a television program. Criticizing Good Night and Good Luck makes you a racist, a Maga, a white supremacist. . .

Maybe people just didn't like the presentation or don't like George Clooney who was never a favorite of mine.

by Anonymousreply 109June 9, 2025 8:36 PM

R109 notice this dummy doesn't deny being a MAGA moron.

by Anonymousreply 110June 10, 2025 12:52 AM

Did it get good ratings?

by Anonymousreply 111June 10, 2025 1:38 AM

R85 and R91 The original ‘’Goofus and Gallant’’ everyone.

by Anonymousreply 112June 10, 2025 3:14 AM

I always hated Clooney not bitter just hated him. He has never taken his shirt off on screen-never. He must have a pathetic body. He’s just an insecure prick who made money on his face then hired the right people to advise him in his career.

by Anonymousreply 113June 10, 2025 3:21 AM

He totally assumed he would win a Tony and had cleared a space on the mantle. He can put an old photo of himself there because now he is an old photo.

by Anonymousreply 114June 10, 2025 3:26 AM

He has really aged and I read he’s not happy about it-even George Clooney doesn’t look like George Clooney.

by Anonymousreply 115June 10, 2025 3:30 AM

I'm over Clooney. I used to enjoy his earlier work,, but the recent movie he did with Brad Pitt was total garbage. And honestly I resent him when he gets political. I'm like, "where the fuck have you been?" He hooked up with Cyndi Crawford's husband on that Tequila deal and he sold the company and he is now a billionaire. Ever since he married Amal, he has lived in Italy and t he UK. He sold his place in Italy two or three years ago and now lives exclusively in the UK A very nice estate in Surrey. And then he rolls into town for a couple of months or when he has a movie to promote and those are fewer and fewer. And he decides that he needs to write an editorial in the NYT to tell the POTUS he needs to step aside. He has a level of arrogance and self righteousness that I find sickening.

by Anonymousreply 116June 10, 2025 4:15 AM

I've never given a second of thought to George Clooney in my life except when I saw him in Batman, Three Kings, and the 2005 Good Night and Good Luck, which I barely remember.

I went into Sunday night's broadcast blind, and was blown away. Particularly by the closing minutes. It was an excellent production.

I don't understand people here (or the one person posting over and over) who seem so personally invested in his personal life and motivations. "He thought he was gonna win a Tony!" How the fuck do you know that? He appeared to lose quite graciously, and I suspect he was realistic enough to understand that Hollywood people often don't win Tomys when nominated.

Better to judge the play on its merits, and not this weird parasocial relationship you imagine you have with him.

by Anonymousreply 117June 10, 2025 12:32 PM

I'm glad the play aired on CNN and that more people saw it. It is an important part of our history that too many people are not aware of. It's ironic it aired on CNN because like most of the other networks CNN is part of the corporate media that enabled Trump and helped get him elected. As for Clooney, I'm not "invested in him" but I really feel he was out of line with his editorial telling Biden he was unfit, because George saw him at a fundraiser and Joe couldn't call his name. Fuck Clooney. He inserted himself into the middle of a political situation and decided to write his NYT editorial opinion, and he has as much political influence a fucking Susan Sarandon. Of course the Media loves him for doing that.

by Anonymousreply 118June 10, 2025 3:55 PM

I didn’t like the movie. I love Strathairn but I dislike Clooney as a writer and director.

And I forgot to watch the livestream. Oh well.

by Anonymousreply 119June 10, 2025 4:15 PM

I can’t find this anywhere online. Has anyone seen a t*Trent for it?

by Anonymousreply 120June 10, 2025 4:20 PM

[Quote] Fuck Clooney. He inserted himself into the middle of a political situation and decided to write his NYT editorial opinion

I agree and he doesn't really live in the United States, He's been living in Lake Cuomo for a number of years now And there are many who think that he didn't really write that editorial opinion. He just put his name to it

[Quote] and he has as much political influence a fucking Susan Sarandon

In this particular instance he had more influence than SS because he was a Biden supporter and had a fundraiser for Biden. And apparently Joe didn't recognize him and Clooney felt that Biden was not mentally fit to be president for another 4 years

by Anonymousreply 121June 11, 2025 10:21 PM

[quote]He appeared to lose quite graciously, and I suspect he was realistic enough to understand that Hollywood people often don't win Tomys when nominated.

Are you Amal?

Amusing that you're doing the same thing you're trashing others for doing.

by Anonymousreply 122June 11, 2025 10:31 PM

I doubt he thought he was going to win a Tony—Colewas the prediction of every pundit. And no one predicted GNGL would take Best Play—it was always Purpose vs. Oh, Mary with John Proctor as a long shot dark horse.

I think his best performance was in Michael Clayton

by Anonymousreply 123June 11, 2025 10:49 PM

R122 How so?

by Anonymousreply 124June 11, 2025 10:53 PM

R123 of course he knew he wasn't going to win. I imagine he was surprised to even be nominated.

by Anonymousreply 125June 11, 2025 10:54 PM

[quote]He's been living in Lake Cuomo

Oh, DEAR!!!!

by Anonymousreply 126June 12, 2025 12:02 AM

I've been on DL since 2003. R113 is the most stupid, most inane post I've seen on here, hands down.

Judging an actor by how many times he takes his clothes off on-screen means pron performers should receive Oscars.

by Anonymousreply 127June 12, 2025 12:43 AM

It received good ratings

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by Anonymousreply 128June 12, 2025 9:31 PM

For CNN that’s like getting 4 viewers.

by Anonymousreply 129June 12, 2025 10:00 PM

Bet CBS said “No thanks.”

by Anonymousreply 130June 12, 2025 10:05 PM

R128 of course it did. It was a fantastic viewing experience, despite what the one obsessed dummy who keeps posting over and over again thinks.

by Anonymousreply 131June 14, 2025 9:31 PM

I think it’s fair to say that George Clooney is not a great actor, though he can be effective in the right role, but on the basis of this, he’s certainly not much of a stage actor. He might’ve done better as a producer to have kept David Strathairn as Murrow, who in Clooney’s hands lacks authority or any charisma suitable of the period.

On stage, it looks to have been a very clumsily designed production that is certainly helped by the focus a television adaptation brings to the proceedings.

One feels sorry for Ilana Glazer and Carter Hudson, given the impossible task of essaying the roles of the married couple played with such élan in the film by world-class charmers Patricia Clarkson and Robert Downey, Jr. Their relevance to the story is minimal, other than to raise awareness of the odd morals of the time that completely subjugated women.

That Clooney himself is the butt of the joke - which he heartily acknowledges and laughs at - and his own political standing somewhat diminished due to last summer’s DNC shenanigans for which he made headlines then and now with the publication of Tapper’s mostly reviled book, makes him a weak stand-in for the inscrutable Murrow. But the history itself is powerful, never more so in the events that played out during the play’s run, which is punctuated in a final speech and montage. It’s good to see this broadcast, even if the stage adaptation adds nothing to the film and may even deliver less clarity of the facts and the ethics involved.

by Anonymousreply 132June 14, 2025 10:35 PM
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