Brad Pitt In "The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford"

Helen Barlow

For a long time Brad Pitt was not a film-festival kind of guy, but this year he has gone into overdrive. Whether he was skylarking with his good friend George Clooney and his Ocean's 13 buddies in Cannes, supporting his beloved Angelina Jolie as the producer of A Mighty Heart or presenting his own serious turn in Venice as the infamous outlaw in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, he was grinning from ear-to-ear, perhaps pleased that after years of making films he is finally being taken more seriously.

And, yes, at 43 he looks good, too - positively dapper in his vintage-style cream linen suit. Maybe that growing brood of kids has given him direction.

"It's the most fun I've ever had; it's also the biggest pain in the ass I've ever experienced," he says of being the father of the adopted Maddox, six, Pax, three, and Zahara, two, as well as his birth child, Shiloh, one, who is a stunning mix of himself and Jolie.

"I love it and can't recommend it any more highly but when I do have time to work then I really have to focus, because I know there's a short window to get something done. Actually, I've become much more efficient; I'm quite pleased by it all."

If Ben Affleck complains that "Bennifer", his relationship with Jennifer Lopez, was the cause of his career undoing, Pitt has thrived in the so-called "Brangelina", the term given to his relationship with Jolie,?whom he met on Mr & Mrs Smith.

He has become surprisingly more articulate when dealing with the press, has taken on greater challenges behind and in front of the camera and shares Jolie's passion for humanitarian causes.

Professionally, Pitt has found inspiration in his friendship with Clooney, who has long had his own production outfit to make adventurous movies. Pitt originally formed Plan B with his former wife Jennifer Aniston and Brad Grey. Plan B has produced big-budget films such as Troy, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and the Oscar-winning The Departed, as well as the adventurous flop Running with Scissors, starring Pitt's former fiancee, Gwyneth Paltrow.

With Aniston long out of the company and Jolie constantly by his side, Pitt has developed a more hands-on approach with A Mighty Heart, based on Mariane Pearl's book, and Jesse James, by New Zealand-born Australian director Andrew Dominik (Chopper). Interestingly, there are also Australian links to his recent Plan B productions: Shantaram, which stars Johnny Depp, is about the astounding life of former Australian heroin addict and underworld figure Gregory David Roberts, who sets up free clinics in India, while The Time Traveler's Wife stars Eric Bana.

"I got into it [producing movies] to be a part of stories that I wouldn't normally be right for as an actor," Pitt says.

"I got into it after seeing how films can go off the rails and thinking I have something to offer there, to help support directors I want to work with. Our simple edict has been just great storytellers and great stories and it's proven to be rewarding for us."

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford represents Pitt's greatest achievement. He nurtured the well-received film, which is based on Ron Hansen's novel, from its inception. When he took out the Venice acting prize for his brooding portrayal of Jesse James, that was the icing on the cake.

(Interestingly, both Pitt and James spent their formative years in Missouri.)

"This is a very complex, slow-burning style of film that is not part of the current zeitgeist of filmmaking - it's more a throwback to some of the great films of the '70s," Pitt says of the project, which went through about 40?edits before arriving at its current 150-minute incarnation.

"I actually liked the first cut, which was four-and-a-half hours long, but we didn't think people would have a lot of tolerance for it. I think it's a delicious film that sits and breathes like good wine. It's my favourite kind of storytelling."

The story follows the doomed outlaw in the final year of his life just after the American Civil War has ended. Paranoid that someone is going to kill him, he lashes out and shoots men who were once his friends. Eventually he becomes resigned to his fate, meted out by Robert Ford (Casey Affleck, who is the younger brother of Ben and a favourite for the Venice acting award). Not only was Ford after the huge reward but he also yearned for the fame it would bring. Much has been made of this theme in terms of Pitt's?own?celebrity.

"I don't think it's the main point of the story, but I can certainly understand his feelings of having a bounty on his head to some degree. Fortunately, nobody's pointing guns at me," he?laughs.

"In the movie, Jesse James was certainly caught up in his own celebrity - he was weary of living an alias and had really lost himself in this perpetuation of his outlaw life. Robert Ford represents another aspect of celebrity here with his blind want for fame without really understanding the consequences."

Pitt, who considers the film more a gangster tale than a Western, hand-picked Dominik, who had made another?movie about a wanted man, Chopper Read.

"When I saw Chopper I was really blown away by it. I thought it was a very important film, and very authentic, original storytelling. Andrew understands the undercurrents that propel people to behave the way they do and in ways that don't always make sense. Through the whole lengthy process of making our film, he stayed true to his vision."

Now it seems that the 39-year-old director is a new member of Pitt's extended cinematic family. So, too, is Affleck, a close friend of Matt Damon, who appeared in Ocean's 13.

Sam Rockwell, who plays Ford's older brother, Charley, has long been championed by Clooney since he was the star of Clooney's directorial debut, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, in which Pitt and Damon had cameo roles.

As Pitt's clout is increasing, it doesn't hurt having friends such as Clooney. A frequent visitor to Clooney's plush pad in Lake Como, Italy, Pitt is often the brunt of Clooney's humour.

After Clooney won People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for the second time in 2006, he famously quipped, "Brad's going to be upset." Pitt was the first to win the award twice. Currently they are appearing together in the Coen Brothers' comedy Burn After Reading.

Pitt has joined his Fight Club director David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in a tale about a man who ages in reverse, where he joins his Babel co-star Cate Blanchett. He rejoins Ed Norton for State of Play, in which he will play the former campaign manager of Norton's congressman. And it has just been announced that he will replace Damon in The Fighter, which stars Mark Wahlberg as one-time world champion boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward.

There's no doubting that Pitt, who first made his mark seducing Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise and later delivered gnarly performances in Twelve Monkeys, Snatch and Fight Club, remains eclectic in his choices.

"My decision to take on a film is not calculated in terms of its potential success," he says.

"I just go with the story that speaks to me, that I feel strongly about, and more importantly with the people I'm surrounded by. I don't even think about aiming for a bigger audience. My main concern is quality and I think there's quality in all categories of filmmaking."

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
Director Andrew Dominik
Stars Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell
Rated MA15+.
Opens November 1.

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Is George Clooney Double Dealing ?

David Michael

George Clooney is no stranger to a crisis of conscience. Two years ago he was sitting alongside Bono and Bob Geldof at the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, throwing his weight behind the cause of lobbying the then leader of the Word Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, to wipe out Third World debt.

Only a matter of hours before the meeting it had been announced that a consortium fronted by Clooney (including Brad Pitt) was planning to open a behemoth Las Vegas casino complex called Las Ramblas.

"The casino had been something we'd been working on for years and that announcement was unfortunate," admits Clooney, with hindsight. "I told my partners, we can't do it this way, we have to evolve and participate, let's give 25 per cent of anything that we make to the Make Poverty History campaign. Then at least you can justify the idea."

Crisis over, Clooney was spared further accusations of double standards when the rapid increase in the cost of construction and the spiralling fortunes of Vegas casinos caused a U-turn in the billion-dollar project, although Clooney, Pitt and Co made good on the sale of their land.

At the Venice Film Festival last month to promote his latest film Michael Clayton Clooney was again wobbling on a tightrope of apparent hypocrisy when it was suggested at the film's press conference that his appearance in advertisements for Nestle coffee brand Nespresso was perhaps at odds with a film that directly questioned multinational corruption.

Nestle was much maligned in the late 1970s for its unethical marketing of formula baby milk in developing countries.

Not amused, Clooney abruptly dismissed the question but the next day, speaking to a smaller gathering of press, decided on a little damage limitation.

"It's irritating because I'm doing the best I can to bring attention to things," he sighed.

"Every major corporation in the world has been picketed and I'm not sure what the specific agenda was on that one. Those are the moments where you want to go: 'What are you doing to help the world'?" With the veneer of his customary charm scratched, it was soon business as usual in Venice as his Cary Grant smile and warm familiarity went into overdrive.

Within minutes the assembled press were again laughing at his jokes, not caring if they'd heard his self-deprecating remarks about playing Batman before.

There's no doubt Clooney is the most charismatic and likeable of the Hollywood A-list and, as is par for the course with his attendance at these events, people fall over themselves to get a piece of him.

To get some time alone with him I literally have to tear him away from a gaggle of feverish Italian girls swarming round him in a hotel hallway, wanting pictures taken with him on their mobile phones.

With an Italian residence in Lake Como, Clooney has always been a favourite in this part of the world.

Having been twice voted sexiest man alive by People magazine, his demand is justified. However, he has long risen above such frivolity of being a Hollywood star. As his casino dalliance demonstrates, he's now a high roller.

This year Clooney was ranked 27 in Variety magazine's top 100 Most Powerful and Influential People list. The scale of the accolade is not immediately apparent, but when you consider he ranks higher than Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger, with only the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Bill Gates above him, it's a clear indication Gorgeous George is more than just a pretty face.

Sporting a salt-and-pepper beard and wearing his regulation dark jacket and shirt combo, Clooney admits to me he often wrestles with his "Irish-Catholic guilt" since his success.

"I have some money and a nice house in Italy, but when you're out there saying we should raise some money for the poor or making these films that ask questions, you kind of look like a schmuck.

"So it's a weird situation: you don't want to give up all those things you've worked hard for and enjoy, but I think you have to participate in one way or another."

Despite his recent spate of politically charged films such as Syriana, Good Night, And Good Luck and now Michael Clayton, Clooney has done more than just let his films do the talking.

He has been an advocate in campaigning for the Sudanese Government to stop the genocide in Darfur, lobbying both the UN and US Senate in the process. Plus, as part of his contract with Omega watches, he's working with them on the development of a fuel cell, not to mention presenting himself as the pin-up boy for eco-friendly electric cars.

"I can't do a film about oil corruption and consumption and drive a big Bronco," he says. "I can point to my life 10 years ago when I excitedly bought a Bronco. I'm evolving too."

The young Clooney grew up in Kentucky on the television sets of his father, news anchorman Nick Clooney. The spark to begin acting came when his California-based uncle, actor Jose Ferrer, visited town on a film and suggested his nephew should move to Los Angeles to take a shot at acting.

From the age of 21 Clooney spent a decade making a mediocre living off low-profile TV parts. While the quantity was there, quality was another matter.

"I did a series called Sunset Beat where I played an undercover cop on a Harley during the day and a rock star at night," he laughs. "I've done some really bad television."

In hindsight it may have been his now pal and co-star on the Ocean's films, Brad Pitt, who initially stunted his film career. Clooney had auditioned several times for Ridley Scott for the part of J.D. in Thelma & Louise (1991), a role that ultimately went to Pitt and catapulted him to heart-throb stardom.

"It was pretty embarrassing," joked Clooney in front of Pitt, while doing press for Ocean's Thirteen. "They brought Brad and me in and they just made us take our shirts off and stand there for a while, and then they picked Brad."

Clooney had to be patient, waiting until he was 33 years old to land his big break as Dr Doug Ross in ER, with a transition into film swiftly following. Coming to success later in life has provided Clooney with a sobering outlook on his lot in life.

"I saw how little it has to do with you," he says of his journey. "It's all about luck. The problem with famous people in general is that they actually think they're geniuses. You get famous and you think, 'Yes, of course I should be famous and I've earned it all'. You haven't, you got lucky. I got lucky, I was in a TV show that got a Thursday night-time slot at 10pm and it was a massive hit, and as a result I get to do movies I want to do." Such a grounded perspective fuels an all-round-good-guy persona, which according to his Michael Clayton writer-director Tony Gilroy is the genuine Clooney. "I would say, of all the actors and movie stars I've dealt with over the years, George has the least amount of filter between the way he presents public and private. He doesn't act. The guy: that's him."

But does Clooney find it difficult to flick on that movie star switch? "I'm at that point, in my life and my career, where very few things rattle me. I'm not sick of being 'on'. It doesn't bother me. There are times, but not often."

Perhaps the biggest test of his temperament came during last year's Oscar race, when Clooney's smile may as well have been fixed as he did the rounds to support not only his directorial effort for Good Night, And Good Luck, but also Syriana. In the latter he eventually took best supporting actor for his role as a conflicted CIA agent.

"It was an interesting time," he reflects. "I was going through the whole Oscar campaign . . . where you kiss babies and stuff. You go to all these different events and you can convince yourself you're doing it for the film, but in a way you start to feel unclean about yourself."

He admits to feeling "really beat up" during the experience. He was filming Michael Clayton, in which he plays the eponymous "fixer" for a New York law firm who is coming to terms with the morality of his work while trying to hold together his fraying personal life.

Adding to his dishevelled appearance in Syriana, his Michael Clayton role shows he has no interest in playing the pristine Hollywood leading man, that he could still easily pull off even at 46 years old (he is, after all, currently dating a 28-year-old, ex-Vegas waitress Sarah Larson). The best of examples of his lack of vanity on screen come with his work with the Coen Brothers - O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Intolerable Cruelty and Burn After Reading.

"The end part in my trilogy of idiots with them", Clooney labels it. "They seem to find I make a good knucklehead."

Of course the reality is far from that. If the private jets, advertising endorsements and multimillion-dollar pay cheques of his day job have unavoidably made the ground less then firm when he campaigns and acts on burning issues, it's also compromised any political ambitions.

"I've always been involved in social and political things my whole life," says the instinctively political animal.

"I campaigned for a guy for governor when I was 13 years old. The truth is that, at this time in history, being an actor, unless you're a Republican helping out a Republican, you can't show up as you do damage.

"When my father ran for Congress in the last election I couldn't campaign for him because it was Hollywood verses the heartland. Likewise with John Kerry, whose request I had to turn down."

Ultimately, he concludes, running for office himself is the only thing about which he does have a clear conscience. "In politics you have to make a tremendous amount of compromises in everything and I'm not built like that. I'm more stubborn than that. I'd be a horrible politician. No, I would run from office."

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George Clooney Still Cruising The Film Industry

Helen Barlow

If you're hoping that George Clooney might do action roles again, it will never happen. That's the word from the actor-director, who is now more famous for serious work such as Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck. He has hardly had any great success in action movies and, in typical Clooney style, those roles have become part of his comedy routine when dealing with the press.

"The first time I cried in a movie was at the premiere of Batman & Robin; Peacemaker II? Nah. I'm too old to do action films. It's no good now; I could fall apart. I think they're made for people of a certain age and I'm not of that age any more."

At 46, Clooney looks lean, leaner even than before he stacked on 14 kilos to play an overweight CIA agent in Syriana. That film could have led to his undoing; he had an accident performing his own stunt during the torture scene so that spinal fluid came dripping out of his nose.

Today, talking up his thriller Michael Clayton at the Venice Film Festival, he is effectively launching his first extensive publicity campaign since his 2006 Oscar win as best supporting actor for Syriana: he was likewise nominated as director and co-writer for Good Night, and Good Luck.

He is also determined to show that he is as fit as a fiddle.

"I am fine now," he says. "I have just finished a movie called Leatherheads which I wrote, directed and starred in. I had to play football with a bunch of 21-year-olds. I must have been stupid, but I felt OK."

He co-stars in the 1920s romantic comedy with Renee Zellweger, whom he once dated, but he doesn't mention that. Nor does he mention his current girlfriend, Sarah Larson, a cocktail waitress he met at the premiere for Ocean's 13 and with whom he had a subsequent motorcycle accident.

Larson did not make it onto the Venice red carpet for the Michael Clayton premiere, but accompanied her beau to the film's lavish party, where Clooney allowed himself to be photographed as he bent over to kiss her at the dinner table. In Toronto when interrogated by the Americans, he deflected questions about his "new love".

"Have I ever talked about my private life?" he responded with that ever-present grin.

He does, however, open up about the passing of his pet pig, Max. Has he been able to replace him?

"You can't replace a good pig like that. He has not been replaced. I have not been home to Los Angeles since I left on January 3 to go to the Carolinas to shoot the movie. You cannot get a pig on the road. Well, you can, but people will talk."

Like Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck, Michael Clayton is a production from Section Eight, the company Clooney established with Steven Soderbergh to make films that Hollywood studios would generally pass on - stories that raise the intellectual bar and that are intended to resonate with an audience well after being viewed. This smart thriller about corporate greed is directed by Tony Gilroy, who wrote the screenplays for the Bourne trilogy.

Clooney plays the title character, a tough-minded corporate fixer for a high-profile Manhattan law firm that is being taken over by a British conglomerate headed by Tilda Swinton. As the film opens, the firm's top litigator (Tom Wilkinson) has been working against a high-profile class action that recalls Erin Brockovich, but he has lost his nerve and is having a breakdown.

Clooney's Clayton is tough in the workplace, but is divorced and has mounting gambling debts; while Swinton's corporate CEO chooses the wrong path for the corporate good. All three characters have lost their way and are at their wit's end.

For Clooney, the film is not political.

"It's more a genre film, a well-made thriller like films from the '70s [such as] The Parallax View or The Candidate. You could take these characters and you could supplant them in the health care system or politics or virtually anywhere that corruption exists," he says.

Still carrying the extra weight from Syriana and sporting stubble and his naturally grey hair in the film, Clooney didn't have to conjure his character's exhaustion - he had just come from his 2006 Oscar campaign.

"It is a campaign where you actually kiss babies, but Academy members mostly," he frowns.

"You are trying to convince yourself you are doing it for the film, but you start to feel unclean about yourself. It was press screenings every night, flying to London for the BAFTAs. I felt beat up. I still could not exercise because of this injury. It did not take much to look like that."

The day after Michael Clayton wrapped and the Oscars were done and dusted, Clooney was on a plane to Darfur with his dad.

"There was something inside of me which made me want to go out and do something else. There is this weird thing that happens. It [the Oscars] stops being about promoting a film, more like comparing art. Once you start saying that David Strathairn is better than Philip Seymour Hoffman ... that is something which makes you want to go and stand in Chad for 10 days."

Now, after directing a comedy, he is happily retaining his upbeat mood by re-teaming with the Coen Brothers for Burn After Reading.

"It's one of the reasons I am growing this beard," he notes, rubbing his stubble. "Do you like it? There is a lot of testosterone in my family.

"The Coens' film has nothing to do with politics. It's as wrong as it can be. I wish I could understand it. I tell them I don't understand it. They go: 'Yeah ... heh, heh, heh.' In the story I'm having an affair with Tilda - I need a stepladder! [Swinton jokes how Clooney thinks she's a man!] I play my third idiot for the Coens after O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty. They seem to find knucklehead funny with me."

Brad Pitt, Clooney's close friend since the Ocean's movies, also stars in the film. Together with Don Cheadle and Matt Damon they have raised about $US10 million ($11 million) at their Darfur Not On Our Watch fund-raisers. A family that plays together, raises funds together. Clooney likes the idea of an extended creative family. He came to showbusiness via his famous aunt, the singer Rosemary Clooney, but it was his TV anchorman dad Nick who instilled in him his resolve.

"There are just certain moments when you ask yourself, 'What you are doing to help the world?' I grew up around famous people. My father was a big star for a time. My aunt Rosemary was a big star. I saw it and I saw how little it has to do with you. The problem with famous people is that they actually start to think of themselves as geniuses. They think: 'Of course I am famous - I have earned it all.'

"You have to capitalise on it. You have to be available for it. It came to me later in life, at age 33, so I do not take it for granted."

So what of that matinee idol, that gorgeous guy with all the girls? Clooney remains a confirmed bachelor since his early failed marriage to actress Talia Balsam, but steps out with an array of younger beauties.

"Settle down? I settle down nicely with a good glass of wine," Clooney said in our previous Venice interview. "A good glass of wine and a painkiller."

The guy popping champagne with girls and living the sweet life as depicted in his Martini ads is for real, Gilroy confirms.

"Yes, he's definitely got that going on, too. I've never seen anything like it. I don't know if anyone's ever been better at the job of movie star than George is."

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Seven Hospital Staff Suspended For Looking At George Clooney's Chart

A US hospital where George Clooney was treated after he was knocked off his motorbike has accused about 40 staff, including doctors, of inappropriately looking at the movie star's chart, a union said on Wednesday.

The Health Professional and Allied Employees union in New Jersey said seven of its members had been suspended for a month without pay by the Palisades Medical Center -- across the Hudson River from Manhattan -- over the incident.

Clooney, 46, who won an Oscar last year for his supporting role in the political thriller Syriana, fractured a rib and his companion, Sarah Larson, broke her foot when the two were knocked off his motorbike by a car late last month.

Union president Ann Twomey said in a statement the union's nurses and health professionals may have been authorized to view Clooney's chart. The union was investigating.

"While we believe that individuals need to be held accountable if they violated patient privacy, we also believe that the hospital had a responsibility to establish proper systems to protect patient privacy," Twomey said.

"The hospital instead rushed to judgment and imposed harsh economic penalties, instead of working to prevent future breaches of security," she said.

Hospital officials were not available for comment.

In statement to local media, Clooney said: "While I very much believe in a patient's right to privacy, I would hope that this could be settled without suspending medical workers."

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George Clooney Believes No Woman Can Snare Him

George Clooney may be the world's most eligible bachelor - or the most visible bachelor, anyway - but not all of his Hollywood friends think he will stay that way.

Michelle Pfeiffer, his co-star in one of his first hit movies, One Fine Day, revealed that she has upped a long-standing bet that he will, one day, find a nice girl and settle down.

The bet started out years ago at US$100. But Clooney, ever more adamant about staying unattached, has steadily increased the stakes. "I bet him he would get married and he keeps inflating the bet, from $100 to $100,000," Pfeiffer told Jonathan Ross in an interview. "I still think he will."

A hundred grand for Pfeiffer and Clooney is not, of course, the daunting sum it might be for the rest of us.

Clooney won an Oscar last year for his supporting role in Syriana, and received universal acclaim for writing and directing Good Night, and Good Luck.

At 46, Clooney is of course a celebrated charmer, frequently listed in the gossip rags as one of the sexiest men alive. He hardly lives like a monk - he rarely goes anywhere without a beautiful woman on his arm.

But Clooney has also campaigned harder than anyone to try to stop the genocide in Darfur, addressing the UN and lobbying politicians on both sides of the American political aisle.

He's often touted as a possible future political candidate, along the lines of Ronald Reagan, a charmer from another era, or Arnold Schwarzenegger. That seems unlikely, though. "Run for office?" he once said. "No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties."

Clooney did tie the knot once in the late 1980s, but it lasted just three years.

As for his record on winning bets, he looks like he's sitting pretty. Pfeiffer, along with Nicole Kidman, once bet him $20,000 he would have a child by the time he turned 40. When he turned that corner six years ago, he graciously returned the cheques the two women wrote with a note saying: "Double or nothing for another 10 years."

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George Clooney And Sarah Larson Out After The Motorcycle Crash

George Clooney’s new ladylove Sarah Larson was a small-town hippie who loved playing bongos and going camping, reveals her ex boyfriend.

Musician Tommy McKaughan, Larson’s childhood sweetheart, reveals that the slender brunette was a ‘hippie chick’ at heart.

“Sarah believes everyone has a soulmate, and I think she would make a great soulmate for George. She was a hippie chick who was the rebel of her family,” the Sun quoted him, as saying.

He also insists that if Clooney is ready to settle down and raise a family, Larson would be the perfect candidate.

“If George truly wants to settle down and have children, Sarah would make an excellent mum. During high school she had a part-time job at a local day-care centre rocking babies to sleep,” he said.

Tommy, a singer with psychedelic rock band Pizza T and the Z Kamp Express, also revealed Larson’s musical side.

“She played bongos and the guitar, burned incense and candles and loved camping in woods and going on road trips to concerts,” he said.

Clooney and Larson at the Ocean's Thirteen premiere party in the hotel in June.

The actor was smitten, and Larson was soon spotted romancing the actor at the Venice film festival, wearing 1.5million pounds worth of Bulgari diamonds.

Following their stint in Venice, the couple boarded Clooney’s private jet and headed off to France to attend the Deauville film festival.

The couple however found themselves in hospital recently after the motorcycle they were riding was hit by a car in New Jersey.

While Clooney suffered a hairline fracture of a rib and road rash, Larson was left with a broken foot.

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