George Clooney cemented his auteur standing with 2005’s “Good Night time, and Good Luck.’
The drama recalled journalist Edward R. Murrow’s conflict with Sen. Joseph McCarthy throughout what later grew to become referred to as the Blacklist period. Clooney co-wrote and co-starred in a movie that earned six Oscar nominations, together with Greatest Director and Greatest Authentic Screenplay.
Clooney’s directorial profession slumped following the film’s launch. Blame it on duds like “Leatherheads” (2008), “The Monuments Males” (2014), “Suburbicon” (2017″ and “The Tender Bar” (2021).
Now, the actor/director is bringing “Good Night time, and Good Luck” to Broadway. It’s a shrewd enterprise transfer and, in line with the star, an opportunity to reward the legacy media.
Right here’s what Clooney mentioned at a New York press convention tied to the play’s arrival.
“It’s a topic that may be very near our hearts, which is what [the press] does. Telling the reality and holding reality to energy. It’s a play we’re very excited to do.”
Most People perceive the legacy press not holds one get together accountable for its actions. Reporters ignored President Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive decline, for instance. Journalists additionally refused to cowl the Hunter Biden laptop computer scandal till months after the 2020 presidential election wrapped.
Even then, the protection proved muted and ineffective. Some truths have to be hidden, apparently.
The identical, apparently, applies to Clooney.
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The actor appeared alongside President Biden final June for a 2024 fundraising rally. The occasion funneled $30 million into the Commander in Chief’s coffers.
The gala did greater than that. It gave Clooney a close-up view of Biden’s cognitive decline. It wasn’t a “low cost faux” assault by his political adversaries.
It was actual.
But Clooney mentioned nothing for weeks following the fundraiser, preserving the essential reality to himself. Solely when Biden’s ballot numbers dipped following his disastrous June 27 debate did Clooney open up concerning the scenario.
The actor took to the pages of The New York Occasions to softly push Biden off the ticket.
“I really like Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice chairman and as president. I contemplate him a good friend, and I consider in him. Consider in his character. Consider in his morals. Within the final 4 years, he’s gained lots of the battles he’s confronted …However the one battle he can not win is the battle in opposition to time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, however the Joe Biden I used to be with three weeks in the past on the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘huge F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the identical man all of us witnessed on the debate.”
Had that early debate by no means occurred, or Biden’s approval scores remained aggressive, Clooney would have saved that secret to himself.
The reality would stay out of attain for People who nonetheless trusted the legacy media.
Maybe he’s not the most effective particular person to push the truth-telling ingredient of his personal manufacturing.