George Clooney: A Biography

by Joni Hirsch Blackman

Overview

This insightful biography of George Clooney looks at his work on-screen, his off-screen activities as a political activist, and the many things that make him stand out from the Hollywood crowd.

George Clooney: A Biography will help students understand that having achieved the clout accorded a Hollywood star, one can use it to fight injustice and create a better world. The biography covers Clooney's life from childhood through adulthood. It looks at the influence of his famous aunt, Rosemary Clooney, and his television-broadcaster father. It reveals his dream of becoming a professional baseball player and his failed tryout with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977.

To create her portrait, author Joni Hirsch Blackman called on sources as diverse as childhood friends, coworkers, and a UN official who traveled with Clooney on his missions as a UN Messenger of Peace. What comes across is a picture of a warm, caring, witty, and intelligent man whose priorities are his craft, his friends and family, and the world around him.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313358265
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/25/2009
Series:	Greenwood Biographies Series
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Joni Hirsch Blackman is a jourbanalist who has written for many national magazines including Time, People, USA Weekend, Family Life, and Child and Parenting.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword ix

Introduction xi

Timeline: Events in the Life of George Clooney xxiii

Chapter 1 Cute, Right from the Beginning 1

Chapter 2 Everyone's Famous 13

Chapter 3 The Acting Bug 31

Chapter 4 Pilots, Movies, and Sisters 43

Chapter 5 ER-The Right Thing 57

Chapter 6 A Movie Star 69

Chapter 7 Goodbye, ER; Hello, Beautiful People 85

Chapter 8 George versus the Stalkerazzi 97

Chapter 9 History Student 105

Chapter 10 Good Luck 115

Chapter 11 "Academy Award Winner George Clooney" 123

Chapter 12 Messenger of Peace 129

Chapter 13 Becoming Paul Newman 141

Selected Bibliography 155

Index 157