Epstein Secrets

or a French matinee idol) I f=und him charming...but of course my working contact was brief encounters s=nce September I think the fact the Jean is the George Clooney of Franc= did not help the real George deal with the race. Fincher's remake had a moment of Oscar buzz just as nominating ballots went=out and Roone

Cannes all the w=y to February. His team told him he could win Best Picture back in France but he had to se= Eastwood, Spielberg, Scorsese, Daldry, Payne and Fincher's work. We had =ust seen Woody Allen and Terry Malick's films in Cannes, which were conten=ers for nominations, but not slam dunk winner

ician, David Byrne. Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011 | check into the paparazzi-proof Cipriani's on the private Giudecca Island for a week—a safe haven for George Clooney, Al Pacino and Gwyneth Paltrow. Cipriani's is impossible to book | have been told for months that Friday night is sold out. In Italy, George Clooney

his wife's infidelity. You have to love the role-reversal casting. Nobody cheats on George—which is why his performance is so poignant. Clooney and Payne met at the Toronto Film Festival two years ago and were shooting in Oahu months later. Payne edited the film at Clooney's Italian villa on Lake Como,

is year, her exclusive Oscar diary chronicles close encounters with Michelle Williams, Meryl Streep, Harvey Weinstein, Nancy Reagan, Elizabeth Olsen, George Clooney and his French doppelganger Jean Dujardin and, of course, Uggie. photographs by Patrick McMullan and Billy Farrell Agency HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013450 -

senfield, Brad and Angelina, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, Cindy Crawford, Jimmy Kimmel, Ryan Seacrest and best adapted screenplay winner Alexander Payne. George and Brad cancelled each other out with two great performances. Clooney immediately returned to his best role as humanitarian, flew to the Su