Thursday, January 30, 2014

Hollywood is Only His Day Job



Hollywood is Only His Day Job

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items
by John Nolte 30 Jan 2014, 7:54 AM PDT
'Monument' Trouble: Clooney Is No Cary Grant But He Could Have Been Greg Bautzer.

For nearly fifty years, until his death in 1987, Greg Bautzer was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. The self-made mover and shaker was movie star-handsome, serial-dated Hollywood's Lana Turners and Joan Crawfords, and was a major force behind many of the consequential decisions that would shape Hollywood for decades -- including the installation of studio heads.

Bautzer wasn't an actor, director, or mogul -- he was an entertainment attorney. And his genius was his dedication to his clients (including Howard Hughes -- then the most powerful man in the world) and an uncanny ability to promote and ingratiate himself among Hollywood's royalty.

Today, George Clooney is in trouble yet again because his talents as a director/writer/actor are not living up to the myth he and his Hollywood media pals have so carefully crafted over the last two decades. His latest film, "Monuments Men" is looking like a critical dud, and he alone has never been anything close to a box office draw.

This is not to say Clooney doesn't have artistic talent. But his modest talents as an artist cannot and never have lived up to the hype. Because he's movie star-handsome (though not a movie star), practices the correct politics, and is obviously a genius at glad-handing the media, when it comes to the films he's directed that hit the left's political sweet spot (Good Night, and Good Luck; The Ides of March) or is seen as a Big Star good enough to slum in oh-so-important indie films as an actor, the media and Academy fall all over themselves with hosannas.

But those movies just aren't very good. In fact, nothing Clooney does is very good.

Competent? Sure.

Diverting? Fine.

The truth is that his resume is mediocre at best. There are a couple near-misses (The Descendants, Up In the Air), but his biggest hit in years is Gravity and you have to be reminded he is in it.

Clooney's good-not-great artistic abilities and TV-level acting talents continue to be an embarrassment for him. 

Clooney should have stuck with his strengths: schmoozing, glad-handing, charming, being a guy people desperately want to be liked by… Had he chosen to become a manager or agent or Greg Bautzer,  he would probably be running Hollywood right now instead of wiping away another layer of flop sweat.

Clooney is only 53. He has three-decades of living ahead of him. Plenty of time cash in and do it right.

Monuments Men
The Monuments Men is a film about the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program.

Note: Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program recovered artworks stolen by Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler was the Nazi Party leader, and the fuhrer of Germany.
Nazi Party was a political party in Germany.
John B. Emerson is the U.S. ambassador for Germany, and was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).
George Clooney is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), an actor & writer & director & producer for The Monuments Men, and a messenger of peace for the United Nations.
Rozanne L. Ridgway is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), was the U.S. ambassador for Germany, and a co-chair for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Richard R. Burt was a U.S. ambassador for Germany, is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).
Madeleine K. Albright is an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), a director at the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and was the United Nations U.S. ambassador.
Susan E. Rice was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), the United Nations U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administration, and is the White House national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
George Clooney is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a messenger of peace for the United Nations, and an actor & writer & director & producer for The Monuments Men.
The Monuments Men is a film about the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program.
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program recovered artworks stolen by Adolf Hitler.











 


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