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Clooneys Quip, Discuss Journalism

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 28, 2009

George Clooney traded jokes with his father, veteran journalist Nick Clooney, before a screening Monday night of the actor's 2005 film "Good Night and Good Luck."

The 47-year-old actor wrote and directed the film about legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow, which his father is now using to teach journalism students at American University. Both Clooneys appeared at a screening of the film for students, alumni and others at the Newseum, a museum about the news.
Nick Clooney said it's important to him that college students can learn from his son's work.

"I don't care for that," George snapped back.

"Never cared for this kid! His sister's great," the elder Clooney quipped.

"I always wanted to be adopted, couldn't find anyone," the son said, drawing laughs.

The younger Clooney said he grew up hearing about Murrow, and their family took pride in how journalists held the government accountable during the paranoia of the 1950s communist threat. Clooney said he wanted to make a movie to let people hear some "really well-written words about the Fourth Estate again."

"You will get precisely the news you deserve if you accept mediocrity," Nick Clooney told his journalism students.

Accusations Irk Musician

Gabriela Montero says she and the other members of the Obama inauguration quartet were not trying to fool anybody by having recorded music played in the biting cold.

Shaken by comparisons to lip-syncers Milli Vanilli, the pianist insists she and fellow musicians Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Anthony McGill "did the right thing."

"What is upsetting me these days is the fact that we put so much love into this, with a very profound desire to make it so beautiful," the Venezuelan-American pianist said Tuesday. "My only regret is that, unfortunately, some people have chosen to focus on the wrong thing."

Haggards To Appear On 'Oprah'

Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard's wife says she knew about his struggles with same-sex attraction for years and felt he was "winning the battle" before a scandal involving a male prostitute triggered his downfall in late 2006.

Gayle Haggard makes the remarks in an appearance with her husband on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to air Wednesday. She said she was shocked when Haggard first told her the truth about the allegations against him.

"The first words out of my mouth were, 'Who are you?'" she said, according to a publicity release issued Tuesday by Harpo Productions.

However, Gayle Haggard also said her husband told her early in their 30-year marriage that he "struggled with some thoughts."

Today's Birthdays

Actor Alan Alda is 73. Singer Sarah McLachlan is 41. DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill) is 41. Singer Joey Fatone Jr. ('N Sync) is 32. Singer Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) is 29. Actor Elijah Wood is 28.

Source: The Associated Press

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