So, I've just turned 29. Any insights? No, not really - just a short post. But I have felt that I'm starting to hit my stride - my powers of cool are growing still. Age is a strange thing in that one's perspective on it changes as we get older - at 15, I thought life ended at 22. At 20, 30 seemed distant. Looking at 30 now, all I can really see is the need to lose some weight by 40. Heaven knows what Avery thinks - is 3 the new 2?But one important thing that we can all appreciate is aging gracefully - not grumbling too much, looking like you used to, but more distinguished, laughing off jokes about fossils and your name being before Moses on the roll... There is a deceptive art to being graceful and it involves much more than simply getting the Reed Richards racing stripes. It's about letting go of the Angry Young Man that we all hold inside us (well, all of us who are men, anyway). It's about mellowing and recognising that quiet resistance is as effective as violent protest. It's about realising that no matter what younger people think, you ARE still cooler than them. In short, it's about being
He is humble, he is elegant, he is Clooney. Elegant and Graceful are terms not generally applied to men, but that's OK because I've just made him a god. George onscreen can be tough, sophisticated, funny, goofy, charming - anything he wants to be really. But it is offscreen where he really wins me over. He has a policy of doing an independent film that he believes in alternately with every blockbuster he makes for a big-name company. As if that in itself weren't enough, he often funds the films himself, he's an active environmentalist and he's one of the sexiest guys ever to get over the 50 mark - I mean look at him - if I were ever going to jump the fence... This is a guy who we would welcome into our homes because we know he'd be an entertaining and gracious guest and even though your sister would fall for him, he'd be too much of a gentleman to do anything about it.
To Clooney, ladies and gents. May the ripe old age of 30 next year see me being just half as cool, charming and of course graceful as he is.
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As long as you don't make any Batman movies, I think you'll be fine.
Wasn't that film awful? I frequently deny its existence so that my vision of George remains untainted...
Say what you want about Bat-Nipples, but Danny Ocean was a class act. You need to take the good with the bad, sometimes.
That's true, though Arnuld's constant ice-liners made Batman and Robin hilarious.
Oh, and happy belated 30th.
Actually, it was my 29th, but thanks!
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