Creepy Clooney uses aunt’s tunes for seduction
George Clooney used his Aunt Rosemary to help him propose to Amal Alamuddin, the actor revealed the other day to TV interviewer Charlie Rose. You’ll h av e to decide for yourself if this is sweet or creepy, since Rosemary died in 2002 at 74.
Are you old enough to remember her? Rosemary Clooney was a top singer in the 1950s and ’60s, when public tastes were rather different from today. Just Google her hit Come On’a My House or the immortal Mambo Italiano. Her brother Nick is George’s father.
Anyway, as George recounted to Rose, he spent 28 minutes at his California house one day last winter, pleading with Amal to marry him. In the process, he played Mambo Italiano and also another of Rosie’s hits, Beautiful Brown Eyes, to bolster his case. It worked, as the world knows.
‘Astonishing’ sexism: Maggie Gyllenhaal, a favourite of mine, has joined the procession of female stars complaining about sexism in Hollywood and she has a good example:
“There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood,” she told The Wrap magazine. “I’m 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55.”
She got this opinion from a Hollywood bigshot; we don’t know what project this was, either. But she did say she didn’t like it: “It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad and then it made me feel angry and then it made me laugh.”
Last year she won a Golden Globe for her work in the BBC’s spy-thriller series The Honourable Woman.
I want to believe, in romance: David Duchovny says the latest he’s-really-dating-Gillian-Anderson this-rumours are just as wrong as all the previous versions.
The claim’s been around ever since The X-Files debuted, way back in 1993. It was revived the other day when they were on stage together someplace and he gave her a friendly kiss.
But when TVLine.com asked, he was pretty clear: “It’s never happened, it’s not going to happen … I see Gillian, I kiss her hello. She’s my friend … I don’t understand why people want more.”
He’s 54. She’s 46.
You too can glow like Lowe: Well, why shouldn’t Rob Lowe have his own line of skin-care products? That’s the question he asked himself and he didn’t get a convincing answer.
So say hello to Profile, five products for men. “This is not a repackaged women’s line with macho print,”
Lowe told Women’s Wear Daily. “This is formulated specifically for men’s skin, which is up to 30 per cent thicker than women’s skin.”
The actor claims he’s been developing this stuff for six years.
“The thing I really want people to understand is that I built this line from the ground up. I’m not the celebrity endorser, I’m not the face of the product. I’m the developer of it. I have an entrepreneurial spirit.”
Prices will start at $24.50 US.