George Clooney to play Dild O'Really?????

[MADem]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/486911p-409939c.html

George Clooney may get his ultimate revenge against Bill O'Reilly if he is willing to be cast way against type. The author of "The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O'Reilly," out today from St. Martin's Press, wants the activist actor to play the conservative Fox TV host, who's jousted with Clooney more than once, in a movie version.
TV critic Marvin Kitman spent five years researching the book, interviewing O'Reilly 29 times. He says Clooney, who directed "Good Night, and Good Luck," about the great journalist Edward R. Murrow, could do it. "That's why they call it acting," Kitman said.

This, despite Clooney telling us in the past that O'Reilly "mistakenly sees himself as Murrow."

He also compared O'Reilly to redbaiting Sen. Joe McCarthy - unfavorably....Clooney's spokesman, Stan Rosenfield, said: "I haven't been able to reach George. I just don't know if he'd want to do it. He has three movies coming up: 'Leatherheads,' which he's directing, 'White Jazz' and the Coen brothers movie."

Must be tempting, though.

[wryter2000]

1. That would be so awesome!

Are they really going to make a movie about Billo? :crazy:

[Buzz Clik]

2. A movie about O'Reilly? A waste of celluloid.

[MADem]

22. Well, they did a quality film about the Boston Strangler....

Your main character doesn't always have to be a hero to make it an interesting portrayal. Sometimes the assholes are the most interesting of all!

[patrice]

3. Don't feed ego-monsters!!

[Buzz Clik]

6. Bill's ship is sinking. Let's do nothing to reverse that trend.

[K8-EEE]

15. B.O. seriously looks like HELL these days...!!

I mean worse than he used to...the makeup ain't even halfway making it!

[patrice]

25. Bill = 0

There's a few others on my 0 list; can't tell you who they are, because I am filtering them from my perception.

[babylonsister]

4. I love Clooney; I really wouldn't want his mug replacing O'Lielly's, even

if it's only for a movie.

[patrice]

26. No Way!!! Clooney's too good looking to play O'Liely

[BuelahWitch]

5. George would have to ugly himself up to play Billo

As he is now, he could loofah me anytime! :bounce:

[Buzz Clik]

8. Blotchy makeup.

[K8-EEE]

9. Plus he's real nice!!

I don't know him or anything but have seen him around (Studio City) town and he's always quick with the wink & smile, not one of these OH POOR ME I'M FAMOUS DON'T NOTICE ME people...and he goes to the dive-esque local haunts! GOD I LOVE HIM...

[SaveOurDemocracy]

10. LMAOOOOO

Where is the line forming??

[rknryd]

13. That's impossible

There is no amount of makeup or special effects that could ugly up George C. enough to play bile o'lielly.

Clooney = /swoon:loveya:

[K8-EEE]

17. His dad Nick also swoon-a-riffic!!

Twice my age and a big who cares...I got to meet him at a KCET fundraiser, George is a def chip off the old dreambook block!

[rknryd]

20. You -you -you met HIM............

Did you touch him

[K8-EEE]

23. Hey PSSST!!

No it's the dad I met -- at the KCET thing, he's a charmer still and funny and cute!

I didn't talk to GC but I did work at the trib to him that was on AMC??? So I was kind of scoping him out as you can imagine, soooo nice but this is what rocks about him, the people at his table were the same guys he used to play basketball with at Studio City park back in his salad days (he was adored by us local gals way back from his Facts of Life appearances!) Anyhow those same guys were there at the Bev Hilton and sitting at the VIP table with GC which I thought was SO COOL!

Lindsay Lohan was there and stormed out early re: some damn thing...Salma Hayek was nice...Ellen Barken kind of actressy/annoying IMO...

[rknryd]

28. opps ok

you said 'also' so I thought that meant besides meeting G.C. you also met his dad.
I misunderstood:shrug:

[K8-EEE]

7. Gorgeous George Play THAT Geek??

Nah....he couldn't even really turn down the mojo on the Fred Friendly character in Good Night & Good Luck. OMG...I LOVE THAT MAN! It would be kind of horrible to see him being such a jerk...besides they need somebody splotchier and jowlier.

[MADem]

24. Good makeup can do wonders...then it is all down to the acting chops

[rhiannon55]

11. No way would yummy George Clooney be believable

physically as ugly-as-mud Billo. I don't think any amount of makeup and acting could do it....

They need to cast someone MUCH more pig-like.

[JuniperLea]

12. I've always liked Clooney's work

He's a damn fine actor. I have no doubt he could deliver the lines convincingly, but it would take hours and hours and hours in a makeup chair to even begin to create that evil monster's countenance!

[Mz Pip]

14. I might be worth it

if they do a fantasy shower scene with a loofah. :evilgrin:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Sweet Freedom]

27. Omigod! My brain!

Ouch, ouch, ouch!!!

I'm so torn...it's gorgeous George, but, but it's ugly Bill.

Ow, ow, ow.

[Hamlette]

16. the book is paired with Culture Warrior at Amazon...don't think its a hit piece

anyone know? Sounds like it might be a book for O'Reilly fans?

[maxsolomon]

18. who would MAKE that movie?

not the hollywood i know, thank YHWH.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

19. Stephen Colbert Would Be Best Choice

He could do it in character.

[Turbineguy]

21. Another

"Springtime for Hitler"!

"One and One is Two,
Two and two is Four,
I'm feelin so bad,
Cuz I'm a republican whore!"

[lies and propaganda]

29. there arent enough ROFLMAO's in the world

i would die a hundred deaths (in the Shakespearean way!)