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...happening to him rather than who he is, he's able to exploit the power of fame for creative control. Since forming the production company Section Eight in 2000 with director Steven Soderbergh, with whom he had worked on Out of Sight, Clooney the producer has used Clooney the actor as barter. He did it to get Warner Bros. to make next year's Good Night and Good Luck, a movie about Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joseph McCarthy that CBS, Murrow's old network, had passed on as a TV movie. "It's hard to shoot something...
...acting and directing fees, owing to their willingness to swap cash for creative control. "I got paid more on K Street as a union camera operator than as a producer," Clooney says of the political-drama series they did for HBO. But on Ocean's Eleven, Clooney the actor made such a phenomenal amount on his percentage of the gross that he's still living off it. "We're basically living Ocean's to Ocean's," he says...
...addition to the Murrow movie, Section Eight has eight projects awaiting release, including an improvised sitcom about actors, premiering on Jan. 9 on HBO, and is developing a mini-series for FX comprising 10 short dramas based on the Ten Commandments, as well as 12 more films. Both partners are heavily involved in all of them. "They each put in several years of work on The Jacket," says Mandalay Pictures CEO Peter Guber about a small-budget thriller he's making with Soderbergh and Clooney, starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. "They really get into the details of the business...
...plus multiple roles--they probably engraved Rush's Emmy months ago.) And Life and Death is stylistically ambitious, but it never becomes more than a style exercise. As Sellers did, it desperately throws stunts at you to keep your attention. When it sheds light on Sellers' craft as an actor, it is fascinating. But above all, this is the story of a man his first wife lambastes as a "bore of a little boy." Life and Death finally proves her right. --By James Poniewozik
DIED. JOHN DREW BARRYMORE, 72, sporadically employed actor who never lived up to the reputations of his estranged, more famous family members, including his father John and his daughter Drew Barrymore; of undisclosed causes; in Los Angeles. He started acting at 17, landing roles in westerns like The Sundowners and High Lonesome, and appearing in a string of low-budget films in the U.S. and abroad. But he abused drugs and alcohol, frequently got into fights and was jailed several times for drunkenness and domestic violence. By the late 1960s his career had fizzled, and he spent his later years...