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And what if George Clooney got an Oscar (or three)? There are few better ways of derailing somebody's career than handing him a statuette.


* And what if George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER  got an Oscar (or three)? There are few better ways of derailing somebody's career than handing him a statuette. In 2002, Halle Berry won a Best Actress Oscar--and then made a superhero su·per·he·ro  
n. pl. su·per·he·roes
A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime.
 movie called Catwoman that squandered squan·der  
tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders
1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste.

2.
 all the credibility she had garnered from her Academy Award. Adrien Brody followed up his win for The Pianist by playing a guy tormented by a time-traveling sport coat in The Jacket (no, we're not kidding). The director James Cameron won for Titanic and then vanished. So if you want Clooney to pay for the selfcongratulatory political tripe tripe

the scalded and cleaned rumen and reticulum. The omasum is discarded because of the difficulty in cleaning between the leaves.
 he's been peddling--as an actor in Syriana and as the director/producer/co-writer of Good Night, and Good Luck--maybe you should pray he wins something. Then he might go away. Or star in the big-screen version of that great D.C. comic character, Matter-Eater Lad.
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