From Patchouli to Prada (Clooney’s “mystery” girl?)
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I can understand that some may have chosen to add malicious attacks and comments under this article but I don’t plan to respond to them, unless of course they are directed towards me and then…I might, because then it’s just funny. You may feel that my intentions in this article may have been dishonorable at best, but I wish no ill will towards anyone.
Sarah may have rubbed me the wrong way at times but I have no negative feelings towards her, believe it or not. I wasn’t going to come out here like Capt. Save-a-ho and write an article defending random attacks by strangers on the internet when I wrote it, but I was trying to humanize this rampant frenzy to search out her history and to stabilize it if I could. I tried to show her in the truthful light of someone that everyone could be familiar with. No need to turn her into a GOD or to turn her into a DEMON. She’s just a regular ass human, and guess what?….so is George Clooney.
If you are tremendously hurt or inspired by anything either of them do that is broadcasted through the media which paints them in either light, the only real problems that you have do not come from these people, who you will never likely come in contact with in real life, it comes for your own issues. There’s a show for that, it’s called Dr. Phil. Sorry they cancelled Lilith Fair.
I will not censor your comments, I am against that fully, but don’t expect me to feed into them either, positively or negatively. Maybe another mistake on my part is that I am failing to remove this article, but I do take great time and effort to compose my articles and thoughts and I view them as my own form of art. Words to me are something that I can form and something that I can create or express with, even if I can’t afford a $2,500 wacom tablet or expensive musical equipment. If you think my writing is shit…that’s cool. I think most film today is shit and most of the celebrities that people worship are talentless hacks. This is my forum which you are welcome to visit and comment on as you see fit. That’s all that it is; that and a forum for friends of mine whose views that I respect. I hope people are enjoying it. Maybe you’ll enjoy another article, maybe you don’t give a fuck. Either way thanks for visiting and I appreciate your time.
Now that I’ve said that, you are very welcome to continue
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I woke up Saturday morning when my phone rang at 9:13 pacific standard time. It was a message from my friend KB Smooth texting me from Rhode Island. The message said “Sarah Larson is dating George Clooney…” I got up and went to my computer. I searched on line to find pictures of Sarah and Clooney at a celebrity coctail party in Venice for the release of his new film Michael Clayton, where they were hanging out with Spike Lee, Bill Murray, and Richard Gere. Everything else that I found on the internet about her dating Clooney, refers to her as a “mystery girl“. No one seems to know anything about her except her name and age (28) but they seem to be searching frantically. Some refer to her as a possible “Go-Go dancer” but without confirmation. I don’t understand the intense interest, but I can say one thing; she’s not much of a fucking mystery. I’ve known her since she was 10.
The main difference was that she had a side-pontytail when I met her 2 years prior. The photo above is from our 7th grade Junior High year book. You may be thinking, “Damn! That’s fucked up. I can’t believe you posted that photo on the internet.” If you have this year book, then you know that I don’t have room to talk shit because my picture is actually worse. Yeah, I know, it was 1991 and it was a long time ago. If you think about it though, what’s really fucked up is that, at the time when the picture was taken, George Clooney was already a suave 30 yr old adult man with sideburns who was playing Booker Brookes on Roseanne. That’s 2 years older than Sarah is right now. When I was 6 years old and pretending that I was StreetHawk, this cat actually got to appear on an episode. That same year he started his 2 year run on the Facts of Life for crissakes! If Alan Thicke wrote the theme song to a show that you were a major character on, then you’ve been around for a minute. Hell, he was even getting acting gigs before I was a fetus floating next to a dangerous IUD.It’s wierd seeing somebody that you’ve known for almost 20 years in photographs romantically linking them with an Oscar winner. Sarah and I have attended the same schools since elementary and all the way up through college. We even lived in the same house at one point. She dated a former bandmate of mine for 6 years and was my ex-girlfriend’s best friend for years as well. We’ve been on road trips. Now everyone is so fascinated with her. I know why the people who know her are, but the rest of you…what’s the deal? What the fuck do you really want to know? She’s just some broad from Kent, a town located between Seattle and Tacoma Washington. A town, when we were growing up there, that had something to prove. When people live in a suburb like that, they like nothing more than to go to parties, get drunk off of their parents shitty beer and punch eachother in the throat.
The same day I found out about her new popularity, my mom told me that she was on the cover of People magazine and, later on E!, she was shown in a brief clip. I had been at work all day, however, before I left I had emailed a couple of publications stating simply that I knew her. I got a response and I spoke on the phone a couple of times with one publication in particular. It was insane. I was just interested in the process at first but I started to get swept away with the whole situation. I held back with info trying to see what they would say to me and, basically, trying to read the British man on the other end of the line. It was a little shady right off the bat. I got questions like “Would you say she was a maneater?” and gave responses like, “Um…no, I wouldn’t say that she was a ‘man eater‘…” Eventually, after being awakened early on my day off with a phone call, I said that I wouldn’t link him up with an ex-boyfriend of hers unless I heard something solid instead of bullshit. I got a monetary offer and a contract was sent to my friend. I don’t like feeling like I’m on the other end of a hustle and, although money is nice, neither of us (the ex-boyfriend and I) were out to destroy or hurt anyone, so we basically both decided not to take the cash or to deal with them further. Plus, when you sign a contract like that, there is a clause where you can’t speak about your story to anyone for at least 3 months afterwards. That means that if they twist your shit around, which they will inevitably do, you can’t make a rebuttal anywhere else publically. Fuck it! It wasn’t enough to build my bronze statue in which I’m holding a giant lazer anyway. I’m spilling my guts here instead. In my own forum and in the appropriate context. I don’t really “hate” anyone, but I do know that all of this shit is going to be pouring out soon from one direction or another.
I lived in a house near Lake Meridian and Sarah lived about 3 houses away. Her family was nice enough and she was the oldest of 3 sisters. She also has a little brother and a step dad. Her mom had remarried after a divorce due to Sarah’s dad being gay and remarrying another man. It was actually very interesting because he had lived for a long time with the AIDS virus and, as I recall, scientists were interested in finding out why so that they could learn something more about the disease. I believe that he eventually died around 2002 or ’03. This should be the one thing, if anything, that should really draw some sympathy for her, but I don’t know how something like that is printed for a headline. It’s most likely in a shady manner, and I know that the tabloids are already aware of this to a certain degree because I was asked directly about it.
There is a post from a guy calling himself Pizza T on the internet, who not only calls himself a “hippy thug” but also claims that he dated Sarah for 6 years. Sites are wondering if it’s true because they haven’t been able to “confirm” it. Fuck, I’ll “confirm” it right now. It’s true. Their relationship started in High School. Our high school was fucked up too. You were either living in a country club, crazy ghetto broke and hood, or stuck being left in the middle like the rest of us. I was even supposed to walk at graduation with Sarah but, since the school hated me, I was barely allowed to walk at all. I walked by myself as the last student behind a kid in a wheel chair.
Sarah wasn’t rocking $3 million dollars worth of Bulgari jewels back then, she was wearing hemp necklaces, listening to the Grateful Dead, and attending Phish concerts. When I was 18 I got in my car with some friends, her boyfriend at the time included, and I travelled around California for about 3 months, scamming fast food, sleeping in my Datsun 510 with the fake Jaguar hood ornament, using psychedelics, and getting into free concerts. Sarah made a few trips down from Kent to see Tommy (Pizza T) visit, camp, etc. I wasn’t in a band with Tommy yet, but the majority of the people on the trip were. The band was called MUSIC and we would set up shows and they would play them in random towns we’d hit up on the trip. We were notorious for making offensive and/or low quality flyers to advertise. It was 1997 and quite a few such flyers that we made were contsructed from game pieces for contests at a fast food chain that I used to like to scam food from. The game pieces had photos of characters from a big movie that was out that summer. The movie was Batman and Robin starring, none other than George Clooney.
This photo of Sarah above is from that summer tour. It was taken at a spot called Whole in the Wall in Garberville, Ca where we had all slept that night. Some random middle aged naked guy showed up and decided to lounge out for a tan and we actually only took this picture of her so that we could snap him in it and remember that day. That brings me to a quick point. Sarah looks a lot tanner now and her hair isn’t blonde anymore, like it used to be. Another issue that it brings up is that, this was taken 10 years ago and I can’t seem to easily find any pictures of her that are more recent. She was there all of time but nobody seemed to feel the need to hold on to any pictures of her. Around this time I was closer to almost anyone else but her. I was a lot closer with her boyfriend and I actually met him through her. She, unfortunately, began to take on more of the role as someone’s girlfriend who complained a lot. The girl who, when everyone was hanging out and being dirty and happy and crazy and whatever else, seem to be bringing people down. We didn’t give a fuck about anything back then. It was a good time, in fact, it will always be one of the best times of my life. Things were new and exciting, but the metalic nagging shriek of, “TOMMY!” will always ring around like loose change in my memory bank. She was becoming a girl who’s bullshit and complaining sucked everyone into the drama of a relationship that they weren’t even in, through mere proximaty. This feeling continued pretty much until the last time I saw her which was years and years later.
Sure, we’ve kicked it by ourselves in more that one situation and gotten along alright, so I can definitely say that having a significant other there to fire off demands at played a part in lowering her social value, and that’s understandable. She has also played a mediator in a few situations of drama, but I wouldn’t say that was enough to cancel out the amount of drama that she had, at times, created herself. This is why I guarantee her past to unfold in no time. If you are one of the friends that was bitched about, or had to be approached by your friend on behalf of his girlfriend The 2 Coreys style, you have quite a bit of built up anger towards her. If you remember some of the specific drama you might be ready to blow.
Everyone knew she was prone to complaining and frustration, but when “Pizza T” arrived to school at Green River Community College one day after she had punched him in the face and left noticeable proof, it took it to another level. Obviously, he didn’t want to talk about it for too long at the time, it’s not the proudest moment you can have, but he did tell me what happened. She simply got upset about something trivial and punched him. Later, he called her out saying things like, “You fucking punched me in the head, Sarah!” It reminded me of Nanny 911 where things have gone too far and you can’t reverse time, all you can do is try to explain why what they did was excessive and wrong, all the while knowing that you can’t teach them why it’s wrong but can only help them learn that they can’t pull shit like that anymore. Later when we all moved to Olympia to attend The Evergreen State College shit escalated.
A bunch of us lived in a house on North St. across from a Masonic Lodge and down the street from the old Tumwater Brewery. It was a house where the rent was cheap because, otherwise, the owners would have had to pay to make it liveable for humans. There was a giant marijuana tapestry on the ceiling of the living room and from the street, you could see armed Marines in camo face-paint, which were cut from recruitment posters and taped in the windows like they were guarding the house. It was a shit hole and I slept on a couch that was always at least a little damp for some reason. A far cry from a Venice Coctail party. Sarah was always a little high maintenance for our crew, yet she lived in shitty places like this with us. She would talk with Tommy about how she wanted things in the house to be a certain way, or someone to move out, etc. etc. but she moved into a house that others lived in and tried to change it. Everyone else wanted her out because she would yell at everyone. General rule of thumb for anyone: If someone is not fucking you then they don’t have to put up with your shit. It got to the point where, if she ever even approached me with anything I would respond bluntly and firm to whatever she said, and make it clear that I wasn’t going to go into a conversation and listen to any of it. If I didn’t already agree, I don’t already agree, I don’t want anyone to try and work me over. She eventually moved out. She always needed everyone to tend to her and people weren’t getting sympathetic, they were getting pissed. Her powers didn’t work on me. She was just some chick I’d known for years and I was never attracted to her. She always kind of looked like a Gelfling to me anyway, but if she could work sympathy out of her looks she would have. You can’t really blame her, people adjust by what they are shown in through environments.
Sarah eventually rented a room in a house where one of our other good friends and former roommates had moved. There was a garage turned dance studio there. Sarah was still sewing up sundresses and trying to be earthy. She was studying an East Indian dance called Orisi which she would often bust out in the most innappropriate moments. Her “best friend” was my live-in girlfriend and we had our own place at that time. There were situations where I would reluctantly agree to go over to her place and have dinner. She would subtley put down my girlfriend in front of her and would always seem to try and show off her dance moves or body in some way. If I left the room to sit down, she would be in front of me in minutes shaking her hips and blocking my views/pathways. I wanted to put a gun to my dome in those situations. Sarah had made a few advances or inappropriate gestures towards me, even in front of the girlfriend and regardless of the fact that her boyfriend and I were friends. I became resentful in ways because, to me, it seemed like she could be very domineering towards my lady. I always felt that she would use her to make herself feel better. Her advances towards me may not have been necessarily “sexual”, but they were definitely innappropriate. I honestly believe that at the heart of everything was a need for focus and attention to be on her. I don’t think that she could even accept that someone loved someone else that was a good friend of hers, because the attention wasn’t all about her. It wasn’t about me or anyone else, I don’t think, I think it was about having the focus towards her at all times. If you disrespect someone that I love, I lose respect for you, it’s that simple. It’s quite possible that she had a lot going on, herself, that she didn’t verbalize within my earshot.
Sarah eventually hooked up with our former roommate of ours that she was living with in the new house now. Tommy found out and all hell broke loose, as you could imagine. They had been together for 6 years and it ended like that. At that point I was in a band with Pizza T and he would make all of his dramatic and drawn out phonecalls to her from my house. This was probably because I had more of a chill and welcoming environment to deal with such manners in than the chaotic environment he was living in. This was a bad time for me because, since Sarah was “best friends” with my girlfriend, she was always over as well. This drama eminated from my house and I didn’t want it there. I would often comment that I didn’t feel comfortable with her coming over anymore.
I’m still friends with the guy she wound up hooking up with, in fact. I haven’t even talked to Tommy in 2 years. We had a huge falling out which resulted in him blocking me from accessing our bands myspace page and posting bulletins and emails telling everyone (approx. 4,000 fans) that I had died of AIDS. Yeah, were are not friends, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not going to tell this story the way that I saw it. He got fucked over pretty hard and took it pretty hard. The guy she had transitioned to is the one that I’ve been talking with and who turned down offers to talk with publications. Interesting things are coming out from talks with everyone about this whole Clooney situation. The second boyfriend told me that he didn’t even know, until I just told him, that Sarah was still dating Tommy when they hooked up. I was catching the situation from all angles so I know that he sure as fuck thought they were. She said that they hadn’t been together for 3 months but I saw them together all of the time just prior. My girlfriend had seen them together regularly too, but she would relay bullshit like that to me from Sarah. “Well, she says they haven’t been together for 3 months.” Whatever. That’s a random things that some women decide. Don’t guess when you started dating ever! You started dating the minute that they decided that they wanted to in their own heads. Same thing when you break up. If they had decided at some point that they should break up with you and then find someone that they would rather fuck, it’s over and they “already told you“. It helps if they cut you off for a week or so first. That way they can always say that you knew about it. The logic is more than flawed, sure, but I can’t even say that she didn’t believe it. My girlfriend eventually went batshit psycho crazy and disappeared from our home one day. I should have seen it coming she used that same logic on me eventually. Another thing that they both did have in common as friends was that they were a little flighty. They hardcore believed in fairies and wanted to do shit like, “paint magic in the woods” or whatever other mystical bullshit they could think of. My ex-girlfriend once told me that she had actually left milk out for those fucking fairies and Sarah would tell me about transcending her physical body and travelling in spirit form around her house. Maybe they believe that they didn’t cheat on anyone. I don’t know maybe they didn’t. Maybe we don’t have the “magic potions” to see reality. Maybe, but I took the same “magic potions” that they did and probably more of it.
This was all around 2001. From a psychological standpoint, I would say the following. Sarah had been in a 6 year relationship and wanted to move out of it into something “new”. Tommy had the same issues, this was their only really serious relationship. The problems were that she didn’t have the integrity or sense to handle it correctly, from what I saw, and he was allowing it to continue and to be disrepected out of fear of the unknown without her. That’s what happens. It’s your first serious relationship. I got fucked over myself, it’s logical. Sometimes people actually don’t know how to hurt someone to theri face and make young, foolish decisions. Sarah‘s rude awakening happened when she thought that she could pull the same shit on the new guy and it didn’t fly. I know that she had lashed out and tried to strike him in the past too. He blocked it once and she hurt her self. She wasn’t always out punching everyone and being violent, but she was definitely known to trip and act a fool. She had become accustomed to having someone take whatever abuse she chose to dish out, and so she vented in that manner. He kicked her to the curb. The two guy’s became friends again and I saw Sarah out of default, until my girlfriend cooked us up lives as transient mental basketcases.
Last time that I saw Sarah was right after she hooked up with some goon named Dan Randolph. I met him twice, I think. I believe that they came into the Rang Dong once which, in it’s heyday, was the greatest Vietnamese Karaoke bar of all time. He didn’t seem to be very interesting or fitting. They moved to Vegas. Next I hear, she’s on Fear Factor shortly after. She actually wins after that guy basically carries her. Here’s where some debate comes into play. The Fear Factor site labels Sarah Larson as a “Go-Go dancer“. Pizza T‘s letter denies this claim, but it’s just wishful thinking. How would he know? Sorry but it’s true. If you don’t want to hear that and you believe that everything you’ve read on the internet is true, you can stop now. I died of AIDS 2 years ago, so who gives a shit about what I’m about to type anyway? A source I know who worked at the production company for Fear Factor told me that she was scouted Go-Go dancing. I was informed that they actually had to call her down off of a pole to offer her a spot on the show. The problem with tabloids and media is that it’s like the game of telephone. Go-go dancer can be changed very easily into a stripper when skewed. From there, that get’s morphed into hooker and eventually you are a crack whore murderer running a child-porn ring. Apparently, Cocktail waitress gets morphed into Actress/Model fairly easily too, because as far as anyone I know is informed, that’s a load of bullshit too. That’s why nobody can find anything on her, because they are typing in “actress/model” on their search engines, instead of “Random Chicks From Kent“.
With questions like, “Does she want to hide her background?” being asked by Hollywood, she’s becoming an enigma. I don’t know if she is trying to hide anything. I do know that she doesn’t look that comfortable in the pictures that I’ve seen. It’s got to be an overwhelming experience to have to absorb for someone. Maybe nobody has asked her anything. Last I heard she was supposed to marry that guy she was on Fear Factor with, but that obviously didn’t happen. She got a B.S. degree from Evergreen and then up and moved to Vegas. I’m not trying to attack or hurt anyone, but I’m not ashamed of my background and I’ve been in a mental health unit. Then again, I’m not trying to be a politician or a Hollywood darling. She’s just a girl who had occasionally displayed some selfish tendancies and became clearly too high maintenance for the crowd she was involved with. Maybe she felt that she wanted to get “somewhere” even if she didn’t know where that place was. Maybe all that she knew was that her current environments weren’t gong to nurture that. Most likely, she didn’t really piece it together all that in depth, but rather just reacted. She didn’t have a severe drug addiction, or drown a baby. It’s not that interesting. What’s interesting to me is that she went from E to E!, from Patchouli to Prada, from Orisi to Go-go….actually, her Orisi always had quite a bit of Go-Go in it. I say, “Good luck in the game?” I personally would represent where I came from and maybe she will. If I was in her position, I wouldn’t be worrying about how mysterious I might appear to the public. At this point, especially with such drastic transitions, I would be wondering about if I was still a mystery to myself. Your background only has an effect of you if you want something specific to happen. If you are a gangster rapper, the public finding out that you haven’t offed anyone can actually fuck up your career, but, like the slogan for the new Clooney film Michael Clayton states “The Truth Can Be Adjusted“. If anyone knows that, it’s the media.
–Dead C
@Shadow – as much as I’ll agree that George probably has not spoken to MF about Sarah I think she knows him better than you’ve stated. Because based on part of the interview conversation (and past comments George has made) I got the impression that there will be a lot of discussion about it come this summer.
She mentioned that she and her husband spend time with George in Como every summer. That to me is someone he considers a good friend so I’ll bet with all this uproar that I’m sure she’s aware of – she might try to make this a topic of conversation. At least if I had a friend who was getting trashed as much as he has recently I’d say something to him about it.
@Charlene – I agree with many of your comments but George wasn’t always a rich guy. There were stints in trailer parks when he was growing up, depending on whether his dad was working or not. His aunt was rich and famous but that wasn’t the case with his immediate family.
My biggest disappointment in all of this i.e. finding that George is sleazier and more manipulative than I would have imagined, is that he did have an upbringing that made me believe (as you stated) that he was one of us, who worked hard and made it big. And for a long time I thought he was someone who didn’t let it affect him. That he didn’t let it go to his head and that he still stayed true to his upbringing.
But it seems now that he’s famous and rich he has become corrupted. What I mean by that is that the money, the fame and the power that comes with it have given him license to believe he can do anything he wants with no one batting an eye and no one being offended by it. I think that’s where he’s wrong and I think that plays into why so many of his fans are angry and lashing out.
Also, we all seem to want the good guys to win and we want to root for the good guy becoming successful because there are so many who are rich but are total assholes. George didn’t seem like that but now I guess he’s like all the rest.
Frankly, I don’t think our not going to his films will affect him especially if he was smart enough to diversify his investments. And given that’s he’s in some business deals with Randy Gerber I’m sure he’ll be fine financially.
But with guys like George I don’t think it’s just about the money. I think it’s about the need for attention and adulation and the power of his fame. That’s probably the only thing that kept him from being so open with his sleaziness in the past. Maybe it just doesn’t matter to him anymore.
Oh please, you guys are reading too much into what I wrote with regard to ‘Diamond Age’. I was referring to a previous post were Shelly thought that the word ‘Diamond’ was some sort of clue to some big mystery. Jeez, I was just saying, if his reputed best friend referred to her as an actress and he never corrected her, in his delusionary mind and also that of his sycophantic friend’s mind, they’ve frigging convinced themselves she’s an actress…god forbid, he may go as far as to cast her in one of his projects.. It obviously was in jest and a sneer to him. They’ve gone this far to whitewash her past, so why not add insult to injury and give her a real acting job. She could put that Pre-Med degree to some use pretending to be a scientist! At this rate, nothing would surprise me!
I never stated that Mariella was not a friend of GC’s. I’m very well aware of their history. However, I do think there is an impression that she is a much closer friend to him than she actually is. She may or may not be at Como every summer as she states. She has been photographed there once. Every other year they were invisible or it is perhaps not every single year that they are there as she makes out to be. Either way is irrelevant when you consider just how many people visit Como every year. He has an open door policy. It is hardly a small or select group of people.
Mariella is far too ignorant of SL for this to be a close friendship. Sorry. There will be no discussion of SL when Mariella is in Como this summer if she and her family go (GC is also friends with her husband, Jason). Mariella is not some shoulder to cry on friend of his. That’s media hype. Friends yes, but someone who is going to address the SL fiasco with him, no. That would require her to have her facts straight first. She doesn’t know what SL does/did for a living or how long they’ve been dating. She’s not following this thing at all, let alone does she have any special inside knowledge.
Yes they’re friends, but GC has legions of friends. His Como summers are booked back to back will the tons of friends he has there every year. People mistakenly think Mariella is a closer friendship than it is. Friendship is one thing, but the kind of friendship where GC is confiding in her about relationships — in Mariella’s dreams perhaps. If she is in Como this summer, she will leave just as much in the dark as everyone else. If the topic of SL comes up at all.
Someone once described GC as “a man with a thousand friends but few intimates. He’s friends with all, but close to few.” I think that’s accurate. I think Mariella is one of those one thousand friends, but not in that small handful of intimates. That’s “the Boys”, the friends so close to him they’re considered family. Those are the people he confides in. If they’re not talking to him about SL, no one will.
On the Harper’ article;
Kudos to Stan. This is the best bs yet. It addresses why a college grad becomes a vegas”cocktail waitress” and casualy mentions she was a pole dancer, but makes it sound more like Cirque de Soleil, than Vegas Stripper pole dancer, and also states that she only did that very briefly. It plays the sympathy card, by stating she even only moved to Vegas to be near her ill father. Finally, actually acknowledging truths that everyone already knew and spinning it favorably. Then, making it sound like she was already a actress/ model. The bracelet was a nice touch, as was the well rehearsed “george is a walking contradiction” line that went with it. Much better than SL answers :that her dress was heavy, it was hot, or it takes a long time to get ready. (No mention of her additional skillsets which includes lifting up her skirt, showing off her “undercarriage” and of course, her wonderful abilities in licking things)
To Harper’s… SL? we all know she is not an it girl. You are insulting your readers by putting her in your magazine and especially by implying that they are jealous of her. Have you forgotten who your demographic is? Here’s a hint: they are mostly grown women of a certain age, that (get this) ACTUALLY READ. Magazines and on the internet as well. You really lost total credibility with this one. We know that you know ALL about SL’s background and have seen all the photos. You should have refused Stan this favor. Buy your magazine? I don’t even want to flip through it in my dentist’s office.
P.S. I actually liked his last girlfriend Lisa Snowden, so this is not jealousy, it’s just lunacy on GC’s part.
@ Shadow your final comments were helpful:
“Someone once described GC as “a man with a thousand friends but few intimates. He’s friends with all, but close to few…
…“the Boys”, the friends so close to him they’re considered family. Those are the people he confides in. If they’re not talking to him about SL, no one will.”
I doubt they have or ever will discuss her – just figure she’ll eventually be old news like all the other gals.
From what has been discussed over the last 8 months here and what I’ve seen and read – all I think now is that George is not someone I could respect. He’s moved into the realm of those celebrities that we look at and shake our heads in disgust at. There is no excuse and no secret reason for what has happened. George is just a sleaze who doesn’t care who knows it.
Thanks for all who made me laugh and who gave insightful commentary here – it’s been a process to reach the conclusion I have – I’ve been terribly disappointed by someone who I thought was a different type of person and I’m now chagrined that I wasted time & money in the past supporting his work.
Oh, Charlene, I read what you wrote and that made sense (so much sense, really, but then I read the rebuttals and THOSE too made so much sense, and then I thought to myself, what do I really think about George Clooney, and the answer came to me. “I DO NOT KNOW.”
In short, this conundrum as to who GC and SL REALLY are, is, in fact, fucking unknowable.
As the comic Paul Tompkins said in one of his skits: I turn to celebrities (who are my betters) to tell me what to feel and think.
Well if there is one thing I KNOW, it’s that I don’t do that.
Ahem, though I like the sound of driving a black porsche.
So, what is driving this board. That we want what they have (or perceive to have)?
Fess up.
J.
GC has hundreds of friends and many of them frequent his homes in Italy and Los Angeles. His open door policy with all his many friends was one of the things that destroyed his marriage to Talia. There is a wide net of people that enjoy this kind of relationship with him, and GC has been like this since before he became famous.
GC has ADAMANTLY denied that SL wants to be an actress and so has SL, herself. If it was in MF’s original question he would have corrected her (as well as the mistaken dating timeline, given that it is well known he was dating someone else last winter and spring).
It’s very likely that MF’s original question was with regard to whether or not GC would consider marriage again based on her marriage with Jason, and you could tell there was a mutual joke and some sarcasm there. When the article went to print, MF included the part about SL as background information for the reader (this is common practice, btw). She used early and false UK press reports and that’s why she got SL’s profession and how long she had been dating GC so wrong. Could I, myself, be wrong? Of course I could be wrong. I’m wrong all the time. I’m just guessing here like everybody else. But I will bet you anything that was the scenario.
Some may look at Mariella and see a close friendship and someone who may have the inside track on SL. Perhaps they’re right!
I look at Mariella and see a friend, one of many, and an entertainment reporter (in other words, a professionally beneficial friendship for them both, among other things – when GC wants a guaranteed positive story about himself, he knows who to call). But I don’t see an intimate. Mariella wouldn’t have screwed up the most basic facts about his girlfriend if they were close. I’m sure they talk about the entertainment business and I’m sure they talk about geopolitics very passionately (it’s something her husband is heavily invested in), but I doubt MF is an emotional confidant on intimate matters. From everything I’ve seen and read, that is a privilege granted to very, very few. GC’s friendship (and access to his homes), however, he gives to many. That isn’t to minimize the authenticity of the friendship by any means, only to qualify it.
quedice: Please tell me you sent that post in to Harper’s. What a great response to their article!
Julie: Would I want GC’s money, privilege, and the opportunity to meet amazing people and do extraordinary things? You bet!!
However, I would not sacrifice my most beloved sense of morals and ethics in order to do it. I was a working actress before I went back to grad school. I could have gone SL’s sleaze route with “cocktailing” and “crotch spokes modeling” no problem. I have already turned away from money and opportunity because there were certain lines of personal integrity and self-respect that I would not cross.
Would I like to have GC’s life? Yes I would. But I don’t want it if it means I have to become the kind of person he now appears to be.
Julie
You know, I’ve asked myself that question a lot: Why do I keep coming back? I’ve already (as have most of you) touched on the anger and disappointment we feel over someone we respected. Another reason is that this board gets the news first, digests it and either swallows it, spits it out or adds it to the growing pile of speculation. I’d take you guys over People, Star, E!, Time and Whatever, any day of the week.
And yet another reason is that one day I’ll come onto this board and there will be the Definitive Explanation. My favorite would be blackmail. I’d like to find out that she has some huge fucking Master DVD collectors set that would totally ruin every aspect of his life and perhaps even get his ass thrown in jail. And you know what? That’s terrible because I would rather see this man having his soul sucked dry by this vampire than actually be a midlife crisis pussy being led around by the nose like a whipped dog by a grasping whore. Or worse, to discover that he really is the lowest common denominator after all and has always been so.
And one more thing, I’m pretty sure they both check this board out – GC because he’s an insecure Narcissist and that’s what they do – 99 people say you rule and 1 says you suck. Who do you think he’s going to obsess about? SL because so much of this is about her, her, her.
You know, if you love someone and standing by their side makes them look bad (or in this case, like some sick fuck), you either go away or maintain a low profile, keep under the radar. And if you love someone and their standing by your side makes them a target, you defend them and stand tall. So I guess we can all put the “Love” theory to rest.
The Porsche is GC’s.
Do we (I) want what she has? Interesting question, travelling the world meeting dignitaries and flying here to there on private? Yes.
Having my uterus, vulva and clitoris become famous prior to anyone knowing my name? Not so much. Having my ass in the air shot become my calling card? Nope.
My spiders on SL have died down to a slow slow crawl so perhaps her days are truly numbered. We’ll see if she shows up at Como or “models” at Milan, she couldn’t do commercials that high pitched whine would shatter the lenses, she has no personality to sell anything, she defines herself via the man (men) in her life. As does GC define himself via the “ladies” in his life.
With Smokehouse getting indie financing via a “first look” development deal from Bollywood and GC’s new project regarding an excellent book regarding a CIA project GC is moving back toward his face-time via career and not face-time via promoting SL.
SL got what she wanted though, if this were a contest I’d declare her a winner. She got GC right where she wanted him, remember the first leak to the Aussie paper way way back when? About him liking costumes in the bedroom? She put GC in a place where it behooved him to cooperate rather than cause a scene. No doubt he’s seen her claws and temper – it may well have been a pay her off rather than piss her off scenario.
SL has a shot at a career but she would well remember or add to her reading list the interview that his previous GF did, Lisa said her modeling work dried up after she and George parted ways. Lisa is stunning compared to SL and if she can’t get a post-GC break what are the odds SL can?
SL will move onto the next rich and famous guy, if she’s smart she’s compiled a little black book and will keep those numbers on speed dial. There’s always the next sucker – GC’s cast off? No problem, by the time the next one has her what’s left to find out?
This one WILL NOT go quietly, she’ll be the one that does the I’m wonderful, he dumped me here are the details article or book. No matter what GC thinks, SL is a slut, whore, bimbo, escort whatever your thesarus shows when you look up the word Larson, she is not a stupid girl. She can play the system and she can win.
I didn’t say marriage, I didn’t say diamonds, I didn’t say long-term. I said win.
By the way if you haven’t read Diamond Age, it is an excellent book. Stephenson writes amazing sci-fi more in the genre of Gibson.
Happy Monday all.
1.”Crazy diamond” was a reference to the orange and white diamonds in the little box next to my name. We have little boxes with graphics in them now. Nothing more, nothing less.
2. The “ONE”, in my opinion, there’s no the “ONE”. She’s a MYTH or URBAN LEGEND, here to bring a romantic side to this nonsense. I like to investigate everyone’s theories here. :)
3. The diamond earrings, yes, they were part of the story. She did not wear them on Valentine’s Day or any days she was photographed in Las Vegas hanging with friends , they just magically appeared. You can tell by the picture I supplied she wanted people to see them. I thought the whole article was contrived. Why list her designer duds then go into a paragraph about her being socially conscious (sp), then driving off in a Porsche. It made no sense, what was the point of interviewing her. By the way, while George Clooney was in Europe promoting “Leatherheads” he attended a party hosted by Harper’s Bazaar. I guess one hand washes the other. He had to make an appearance at their party in order to get his GF an interview. He must owe People big time, he must owe them pictures of his firstborn, the second the child is born.
4. Mariella Frostup, an old sex partner, nothing more nothing less. She’s only been to Lake Como, once with her husband and children. She is as close to Clooney as we are. ;)
5. I see signs of Clooney limiting Larson riding his coattails. The no interview statement, came from Camp Clooney, they had to know people would be outraged by her appearing in two major magazines and tv show unwarranted. You are right, For What It’s Worth, but when they realize they just need to cut off her media exposure this mess will be over shortly afterwards. Keep her out of the spotlight and people won’t go off. Plain and simple.
6. Clooney doesn’t plan on fading out, as stated in #5 he’s going to all but cut her off from feeding off his name. He’sShe’ll have to do things on her own now.
7. Can Sarah Larson redeem herself, become a model and finally get good press on her own. Yes, she can, but I’m not going to give her free advice there’s a way to fix as aoppose to white wash her… If she wants to know what to do contact DeadC get my email address and we can chat. I’m thinking about becoming a publicists after watching this fiasco.
8. Was this ever true love, no just a buddy trying to help another buddy out. I called this back on day one. She was to into the cameras and not him. This puttered along because of the outrage and free publicity for her.
9. Are George Clooney fans upset because he won’t get married, no. I ‘d rather for him to live his life the way he chooses. As we can see from the forced romance, he doesn’t seem to shine when he’s unhappy. Just don’t try to pull this nonsense off again. If he doesn’t want to get married that is not going to stop me from seeing his movies, or other work. I get a good chuckle reading about his dalliances, his personal life is quite entertaining!!!
10. Hopefully this mess won’t drag on through the summer. I am writing a screenplay, hopefully I can sell it, I’ll try Clooney first, see how he like it! :) You’ll be seeing us on the news” Clooney chases out of his Hollyowood offices”.
Just checking to see if the diamonds went back to orange when I use the email address, I always use.
Larson my fee is cheap, since I am an up coming publicist.
This started as friends with benefits, the motorcycle crashed, he said those words , she milked her owie, he fell for the damsel in distress, she started to talk, I mean her friends did, he got pissed, she cried (supposedly), he fell for the damsel in distress, she walked all over him with whatever jungle sex games he likes, hell I don’t care if he has a sex swing, jungle jim and an iron maiden in his bedroom, he was happy, she got a career, he got upset her friend say engagement, she cried, he fell for damsel in distress, she got a career, he got pissed, she said fuck you, he wonders where the damsel in distress went, they all leave him yes they do they always leave why me oh why me?
The end.
(the real) new kid :
I loved your damsel in distress story. It is my opionion that she had someone call George on his cell phone with that threat to dump her so she could get sympothy for him, as well. Remember the saying “she is the kind of girl you want to date, but not bring home to meet mom and dad.”
I hope this site stays up even after Sarah is out of the picture. I have very little time for much else, but I always find time to read the comments almost everyday. I’m sure George will find another bimbo to parade in front of us…or maybe he will take a step back look at the mess his life is in and start to realize that the same people who made him what he is today can turn on him just as fast. It’s time George gets brought down to earth.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if Sarah is Wiccan? This could explain many things. Awhile back it was mentioned by her ex about magical oils she used to use. If there is indeed a possiblity of this and she is using it on George, it can be blocked. jmo
Whatcha doing with that hand, SL? go to ‘theseductionbible.com’ and search for larson. they have a full page of skanky photos, some I had not seen before. In one, she appears to be feeling up a guy’s crotch. in another, she is mugging for the camera and looking simply classless. quite a set of choppers showing in that one. tried posting link but it was ‘discarded’.
Do you know that GC is standing in de Spanish Hello with Isabel Preysler?
http://www.hola.com
btw in Holland we don’t like Sarah Larson too?
I came late to this story so i guess i missed the “leak” to the Aussie paper way back when about GC liking costumes in the bedroom. Can anyone fill me in?
I admit that the Sarah Larson thing was interesting in an f’ed unbelievable sort of way in the beginning. But seriously at this point who cares …. with her being in People and Harper’s Bazaar the whole situation has just veered into the realm of Bizarre. She hasn’t done anything other than blow Clooney. Is she really that good? Is the sex good enough to keep Clooney interested for this long? Seriously… I don’t buy the whole LOVE thing. She’s just a cocktail waitress she can’t be interesting enough to keep him interested on anything other than a sexual level. Are we really supposed to buy her being in these magazines? They aren’t interested in her. They just want to find out about Clooney or Clooney set up the interviews as publicity for himself. Are we really supposed to buy the BS about her being a model? She’s pushing 30. Is she going to be the new cover girl for AARP mag? At her age, that’s about her only choice. Does his PR guy seriously think this relationship is working for Clooney and his career? It’s all so strange. Like Willa Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or too much acid. Clooney is going to turn into Tom Cruise if they don’t watch out. Another aging movie star who’s wacked out of his mind.
I’ve got it !!!!
The sudden death of his pig Max two Decembers, has caused Clooney to lose his mind!!! His relationship with Max was the longest relationship aside from relatives and friends that he ever had. He was devasted and has been running out of control since then.
Does this work?
GC is standing in the Spanish Hello with Isabel Preysler.
http://www.hola.com
in holland we don’t like sl.
SL looks really young in those photos at the NYC Armani event, which makes it seem more and more as though GC is dating his daughter. It’s pretty disgusting, if you ask me. I noted too that Julia Roberts wasn’t making much (any?) contact with SL during the Met event. At least that is what the photos said to me. I think as his women friends mature (and GC doesn’t) that they will have less and less tolerance for these kinds of shennanigans. Someone else here said it better than me, but Lisa Snowden was a better match. She’s prettier, hasn’t aired her coochie out in public (ok, there are racy pics, but they are actual (real) modeling-work-related pics, i.e, for calendars, magazines, etc.) and she just seems more mature. I doubt you could find her humping in public and/or with her hand on some guy’s crotch. So I just dont get this guy. Maybe he is what all guys would be like if they had the wherewithall to do so? Guys? Is GC living your dream? Fess up.
Katie’s pretty much on the mark with her synopsis of “the one” or “the mystery girl” in George‘s life. But, to paraphrase a statement by the creator of this blog, she really is no mystery. Anyone who has known George in the last twenty years knows about her, their times together, and the role she has played in his life. She lives in Boston and travels to Europe quite often. She’s beautiful, classy, smart, cultured, passionate and exuberant about life. She’s had her pick of successful men, from blue-blooded multimillionaires to classical conductors. And frankly, George just doesn’t compare. He’s an aging actor with a penchant for the skanky, who has received more notoriety for his “sexiest man alive” titles than his acting skills. With the choices he has made over the years, HE has become the “SL” in HER life — okay to have around as an occasional playmate, but certainly not relationship material. It was no surprise (to everyone but George) that she passed on a relationship with him when she became available. George’s fans aren’t the only ones who are disappointed with the choices that he’s made.
I came here to post a quote from a book I’ve been reading – yes I actually do read books! :-) And I’ll post it in a minute but I found “As I See It’s” post interesting.
Now we have two posters talking about the one that got away. Fascinating to me is how he & she were able to keep their friendship/relationship so well hidden. I’ve only been following his career for about 5 years so I doubt I would have much insight to that.
But regardless – if George truly was heartbroken then he sure has picked an odd way of expressing it.
And if she truly were the one for him – I don’t think his choices would have been so awful thru the years. What – he’s nursing a broken heart or an unfulfilled longing by (for the most part) dating skanks? Well that certainly wouldn’t be something a man in love would do.
If he truly hoped to get together with her – perhaps some day – do you think he’d be dating women who most likely have or had the potential to give him STDs? Seems such a strange thing to bring to the “one.”
I still think we’re just seeing the George that has been spawned by too much money, too much fame and a highly developed sense of entitlement that has come from years of adulation from fans and press alike.
Yes he’s had his detractors but after awhile, I guess they all start to believe their press.
As to the quote I was going to post…
I’ve been reading Randy Pausch’s book “The Last Lecture.” I’m posting this excerpt because it may spur some to go out and buy the book. I see it as a way to help his family. I won’t go into detail about him here. If you’re interested google him.
He speaks about playing football and having a coach named Jim Graham. During one practice in particular the coach didn’t let up on him and was yelling at him constantly. After practice the assistant coach came up to Randy and mentioned that the coach had been hard on him that day.
Here’s the snippet of conversation – I think maybe it’s the reason I was here for so long but now just check in once in awhile…
Asst: “Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn’t he?” he said.
RP: I could barely muster a “yeah.”
Asst: “That’s a good thing,” the assistant told me. “When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, means that they’ve given up on you.”
RP: “That lesson has stuck with me my whole life. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still …care about you and want to make you better.”
It’s a lesson we can all learn from I think – and it seems it would apply to George in particular.
As to the one that got away – the only East Coast gals I’ve ever heard of were the restaurant owner and the shoe gal. And I’m not even sure the shoe gal was for real.
Anyway that’s all I’ve got to say – I’m one of those who has given up on George.
Gotta get back to the book – am finding his lessons on life very enlightening and uplifting. Check Randy out – his story is very poignant and sad, yet how he’s handling all that is going on in his life is something that I hope I can emulate should I ever be faced with such extreme challenges.
ManhattanMaven: Pay no attention to the Aussie stories of GC’s sexual escapades. It was absolute tabloid bullshit. The entire thing was unsubstantiated. “Apparently” SL told a friend of hers who told an Aussie rag (why would SL’s friend speak to, and ONLY speak to, an Aussie media source?) that GC likes to dress up in outfits and play outrageous and kinky sex games. It was all unnamed “sources”. At the time I looked at other stories the publication was printing and noticed they had a penchant for printing celebrity stories that I knew for a fact were untrue, so that gives you a sense of the credibility of their stories.
Dumbledorf: I don’t even think they’re together just for the sex anymore. Ever since mid-December they spend a month or more a part, a very short time together for public events, and then a month or more apart again. They have been following this pattern a few times in a row now. If was still all about sex, those separations wouldn’t be so long, and it wouldn’t happen repeatedly.
I’ll buy that in the beginning this was about sex and publicity. From all the time they’ve been separated since December, I think most of the sex has dried up. This is primarily a professional arrangement now. They are together for GC’s public events, or SL will show up in L.A. when she’s got a modeling assignment or commercial casting through her L.A. agent (I’m sure she crashes at GC’s place when her agent needs her in L.A.). Same with Como. At one of her fashion runway gigs, SL stated that she’s going to Como with an eye on Milan, so I think her trips there will be “working holidays”, i.e. she’ll be establishing modeling contacts in Milan while she’s hanging in Como with GC and his friends.
I think they’re friends with benefits now. When they happen to be in the same place at the same time and they’re drunk enough, I wouldn’t be surprised if they mess around, but that’s about it. They simply have too little desire to be physically in each other’s presence for sex to be the primary reason they’re together anymore.
I’ve said this before — SL gives GC a public companion and the appearance of sustaining a relationship. He did a lot of bed-hopping over the last few years and it really was looking unseemly. I saw him get riled up and a little irritated and defensive in some interviews when they mentioned his playboy lifestyle and you could tell that reputation was making him self-conscious. His friends around him were in serious and substantive relationships. In comparison, GC’s lifestyle was looking inappropriate from a public relations stand point for a man of his age and public standing.
GC knew he couldn’t do marriage, and he couldn’t do a live-in girlfriend again (not after Celine soaked him for 4 million in cash and a 2 million dollar house). I bet GC thought it would be good for his public image to at least be in one consistent relationship for awhile. He probably knew he couldn’t do that either, so he at least went for the APPEARANCE of a steady girlfriend. He and SL see each other for professional engagements (maybe play a little slap and tickle when they do) and then the rest of the time GC is alone and free to dedicate himself to his work and likely has a good time with some willing and discrete lovers. I wouldn’t be surprised if SL has a sexual partner in Vegas as well. She gets friendship with benefits (the benefits being lots of fun and good times when they’re together and major career perks). So they’re both happy. It’s a win-win.
GC gets to have his cake and eat it to. Publicly, he looks like a boyfriend capable of sustaining a relationship, and privately he continues with his single lifestyle.
That’s why GC is so reluctant to give this arrangement up. It’s the PERFECT arrangement for what he needs at this stage in his life. He’s going to keep trying to find ways of getting the public to accept SL for as long as he can because this is an ideal professional/personal situation for a workaholic who has no time or desire for commitment right now (he will much later in life, I suspect, and I think he knows that). He knows this is the phase of his life for a 100% focus on work and some commitment-free companionship. Later, when work eases a little, he knows he’ll be ready for a commitment-worthy relationship with a commitment-worthy woman.
So no love between them, little sex (if any at all), but a friendly and mutually beneficial arrangement professionally and personally, if only the damn public would cooperate. Trouble is the public has rejected SL. This is GC’s dilemma. The agreement between GC and SL works (they BOTH like the arrangement), so he just needs to find a way to get the public on side. I don’t think they ever will, but he may keep trying for awhile longer before he reaches the same conclusion.
These comments are fascinating but I sort of feel like tearing my hair out. George Clooney is an actor. Actors are traditionally not from the upper classes and yet many of you are carrying on as if he’s JFK Jr. and is tragically demeaning himself with Sarah Lawson. But he’s chosen a profession and field — like hers, in fact — ENTERTAINMENT — that is teaming (on all ends) with sleaze and skanks and always has been. Is it just because there’s now so much money in his case? Like he could now buy his way into knighthood or politics or something and instead he’s running around with a young woman who has up to this point been frittering her life away in the lower levels of the entertainment world? Like he’s the Great White Hope? Ha. I don’t think he’s actually misled anyone about who he is in spite of the fact that as an actor, it’s his job to fulfill your fantasies.
And I think her looks have been underrated here. She is really quite beautiful, just seems a little immature or unprepared with the change in her public status. Some people are late bloomers — maybe her old friends should cut her a break.
http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/b/newidea/8267/georges-bedroom-antics
December 10, 2007
Sarah Larson has infuriated her famous boyfriend George Clooney by sharing his deepest secrets – including his exotic tastes for kinky sex games.
The 28-year-old was working as cocktail waitress and go-go dancer in Las Vegas before she started dating George, and it seems her time in the City of Sin has left her with a carefree attitude about sex.
‘She isn’t shy about discussing sex or what she and George get up to in the bedroom,’ one of Sarah’s friends says. ‘She says he’s the best lover she’s ever had but also the kinkiest!
‘The first time I spoke to her about it I guess I was curious to know what George Clooney was like in bed, but I was shocked by the answers. She said he is really into role playing and loves outrageous games.
‘She also said he encourages her to be a bad girl for him – he loves the naughty side to her personality!’
But 46-year-old George was furious to discover Sarah has been openly discussing their love-life and risking alienating his more straitlaced fans with details of his secret fetishes.
‘The next time I spoke to her about it I was teasing her about our last conversation and how wild their love-life was, but she took it as an invitation to share even more personal stuff,’ the friend says. ‘The other stuff was crazy to the point where
I wished I’d never asked about it in the first place!’
Ironically, Sarah’s indiscreet revelations about her sex life with George could cost her the chance to remain the object of his affections. He’s extremely private, especially where his love-life is concerned.
‘George would hate the fact Sarah has been talking about his most personal desires,’ one of his friends says. ‘If he finds out about this I wouldn’t be surprised to see him put her on the first plane back to Las Vegas.
‘George has a tremendous image both with the public and in the industry and he can’t have the whole world knowing the most intimate details of his love-life!’
But it’s not just sexual secrets Sarah is sharing. The small-town girl has also told those closest to her that she ‘knows she and George won’t end up happily ever after’ and ‘he tells me all the time we’ll never marry.’
Marriage always looked a long shot, but now he’s been left red-faced by her loose tongue, those close to the actor say she’ll be lucky to still be on his arm at Christmas!
As I See It –
Who is she?
Considering you are hidding behind an Alias, no problem then stating who she is…
@ As I See It. . .wow, your post is very intriguing, while remaining very “Blind Vice”. It’s nice to think that GC saw himself as having a “One”-someone he thought he could have a long-term, committed relationship w/. Your post and Katie’s post describe the type of woman most of his fans want to see him with, and one that would match the image he projected of being the classy, old Hollywood star.
Your statement “He has become the ‘SL’ in Her Life” is especially intriguing. Most of us here wonder why or flat out bash on him for not choosing a woman of substance-someone w/ her own identity, career, and a strong sense of self, but as your remark illuminates those women may no longer be an option for him. SL may be the best he can do right now.
A woman w/ her own life and career, who doesn’t need a man for fame, money, or sense of self, will see GC as someone nice to rebound w/ or perhaps a short, hot torrid affair, but not anyone to invest emotional time or commitment in. Why spend time working on a relationship w/ a man known for being a player/whore/playboy, who puts his work first, his guy friends second, and the whole world knows isn’t interested in marriage or children?
According to what Katie and you have stated, the “One” had her marriage and children, but she probably still wants someone who can be committed to her and be there for her. Also, if he doesn’t want kids, will he be able to handle or be in a relationship where his partner does have children?
It seems like GC isn’t willing to work on himself or his relationships enough to attract or keep the type of woman he could be w/ long term. It also sounds like he might not currently have the level of self-awareness to do this since the only person surprised by her passing on a relationship w/ him, was GC himself.
Also, it seems most of his girlfriends, even those whose life choices fans might not agree w/, eventually realize they deserve more and better, and move on. It appears as though SL is more accepting of and/or more willing to live w/ his relationship shortcomings, and I still wouldn’t be surprised if they do get married.
oh come on ‘as it see it’. we want the name. so we can look up her photo. cheers, j.
ahhh, The One (sigh)..sounds like someone’s writing a script.. aging hunk pines for perfect love by making a fool of himself with a conniving bimbo. Not even sure Lifetime would buy that. And what classy woman would want to be the follow up to the oh so skanky SL? Have to clear out all those sleazy Vegas clothes and magic potions, clear Rock of Love off the DVR, insist he get a lot of blood tests..and explain to people what you see in a guy who would give SL the time of day.
Had a bit of time today and managed to catch up on the posts I missed.
I must say that having a go at Charlie for being French is pathetic, she’s entitled to her opinions and Dead C is right it makes the posters look pig ignorant. Just because you don’t agree with her doesn’t mean you have to attack her racially or claim she’s lying about being French.
I think what’s needed is a collective deep breath.
Now please, Geri Halliwell (aka Ginger Spice) is possibly one of the most talentless, publicity seeking morons that ever forced entry into the hallways of celebrity-dom, Dead C is also dead right here, don’t hold her up in a favourable light against SL because she doesn’t deserve it. She got lucky when the UN chose her to act as their ambassador for Women or whatever the hell she was called and that was only because they wanted to reach young girls – and that was only because of the shocking rise in teenage pregnancies across Europe. Other than that she’s bloody awful.
I don’t think we can say why someone should or shouldn’t love anyone, sometimes it makes no sense as to why two people fall for each other, it’s certainly not something an outsider could ever rationalise.
I don’t like the route SL has taken to her new found fame any more than the next person but now she’s there I’m willing to give her a chance and see what she does with it.
The photos of her in Vegas are truly awful but they say more to me about her lack of self-esteem. She obviously felt at the time that all she had to offer was her tush/looks/sexuality and a lot of women fall into that way of thinking, make fast money and eventually find their way out of it/or not. Financial independence is a tough thing to achieve as a woman, even in this day and age and we know that SL has had to support herself for some time. At least she did that rather than sponge off the government. I’m more interested in what she does with the opportunities she now has by virtue of being with George. Maybe she’ll do something really interesting. She’s certainly getting the work while she can and I don’t resent her for that, what does it take to be a model anyway? No body-fat, long legs and a lucky break as far as I can tell, it’s a totally over-rated profession. If she’s nothing more than a face, he’ll tire of her pretty soon as will everyone else.
Lisa Snowdon actually said that her career suffered as a result of being with Clooney as people saw her as his girlfriend first and a model second. Her career revived after she and George split and she was viewed as her own person again. Maybe GC is aware of this and is trying to make sure that SL is seen as a working model and not just as his significant other.
Saying all that I do think the negative response to her is putting the Clooney PR machine in a spin, which is kind of uncharacteristic and not pleasant to see. The Frostrup interview was awfully sycophantic, she did everything but blow George all the way through it and it was embarrassing but she was probably given the nod to go easy on him, what with all the negative stuff about his girlfriend, or maybe she’s still harboring her own little crush on him….. I mean I’ve yet to watch George be interviewed by a woman who isn’t palpitating with lust, it kind of makes me feel a bit ill. At first it was funny to watch but now I think it’s just really sad. Where have all the professional female interviewers gone? You get to a point where you think, surely you can talk to the guy without making it blatantly obvious that you’d get down on all fours and do him?? It makes me feel ashamed to be a woman and it’s pretty much the case every time some woman interviews him these days.
I also don’t buy this crap about “the one”. George is a self-actualised guy and if he wanted someone, he’d go get her, no matter who she was and if it wasn’t happening, he’d move on.
Bottom line is, SL is his woman and the public should respect that if not her. George doesn’t like to be forced into a commitment, nor would any man so he’s just taking his time and seeing where this takes them both, I doubt there’s any deeper controversy than that.
Right now I expect they’re kicking back in Como, trying to have a peaceful time together away from the madding crowd. They screwed up trying to make her out to be something she wasn’t but maybe that was a studio decision. I really find it hard to hate her though, she’s just a girl trying to get somewhere after all.
It is disappointing to think that this is all George wants from a woman, from her past she doesn’t sound like the nicest person either but perhaps that’s what you have to be like to survive in Hollywood and maybe she has hidden depths… or maybe he’s just looking for a bit of fun and she’s pretty uninhibited, which suits him right now. He’s very protective of her, I think that’s obvious, he’s also by his own admission, no angel and pretty liberal so I doubt he’d take issue with her past.
It’s just going to play out either way, so it’s best not to be spiteful about her, it makes us all look like dick-heads. She can irritate the hell out of people I know but it’s better to look at the situation rather than personally attack her or other posters for their views.
I find this site really interesting but you’ve gotta resist the racial slurs and personal attacks. The Hollywood bubble will burst at some point but in the meantime we don’t have to demean ourselves.
Shelly, you’ve got it !!! You’re the best.
“She lives in Boston and travels to Europe quite often. She’s beautiful, classy, smart, cultured, passionate and exuberant about life. She’s had her pick of successful men, from blue-blooded multimillionaires to classical conductors. ”
Yeah, she’s so “cultured” and above it all, that her “friends” have to hang out at George Clooney’s sleazy girlfriend’s old schoolmate’s blog to discuss how “classy, beautiful and intellegent” she is and why she’s soooo much better than Clooney. And of course, it’s their mission in life to let us all know about how she dumped him for some other guy because she’s so above him socially.
Just out of curiosity, why exactly do we need to know about the “One” who got away, again? Does it make her feel superior to Sarah to have her friends write about their private relationship, the one that she’s so ashamed of and tried so hard to hide, on an anonymous blog?
I thought at first that the couple of posts from Katie sounded suspiciously like she was speaking from direct knowledge (read them substituting I for her/she), which could indicate that she’s this “One” and wondered why she felt compelled to tell the world at large about a relationship they weren’t aware of and didn’t really need to know about, if she was truly NOT INTERESTED.
Why let everyone know about her now? Is she hoping this news will reach George’s ears? Is she trying to rub his face in her constant rejection? Is that what you think is so classy? What exactly are you trying to accomplish by telling these secrets, assuming there is any secret relationship to tell about of course. Or do you just like to blow smoke up everyone’s ass?
@As I See It…
I can buy he loved someone and was rejected by that person, hence why all of this nonsense is going on. It is completely logical, boy gets dumped and pulls another girl out to make the dumper jealous. A younger woman to really piss her off, but it backfired, because from the sounds of the ONE she probably doesn’t care . People don’t see the love, so he tries harder to make them appear in love hence, why the media keeps building Larson up to be the one.( Well Clooney’s paying the media to build up this relationship) Their relationship is exaggarated by the press, only to look ridiculous to his true fans and those who had interest in his career.
I really don’t see the love between Larson and Clooney at all. I searched the Internet yesterday and found pictures of him with other loves and compared them to Larson photos, love is just not there between them. Sweet pictures of him and Kelly, Kimberly and his wife.
Sarah Larson was promised a career, so this is what they are working on now. They tried to whitewash her, so he didn’t look stupid for dating such a (insert favorite Larson adjective).
What I can’t buy and you and Katie seem to support this with your posts, is that she is waiting for him, waiting for this mess to be over and they live happily ever after! I can’t see a woman sitting around waiting for Clooney as he embarasses the hell out of himself, then hooking up with to ride off in the sunset, now that I can’t buy! Sorry CGH.
One question:
Last August on the yatch where George was linked to some model, there were actually two women he was photographed with. The one with the glasses and red flower who was on the smaller boat and she was hugging him and he looked uncomfortable.
Then there was one in a white bikini, a little more slender, shorter hair wearing bracelets. The one in the white bikini is actually photographed kissing him. Now Katie said they were almost caught, is the woman in the white bikini the “ONE”?
It cracks me up that all of a sudden Clooney’s so-called fans approve of Lisa Snowdon, when all most of you did, when they dated, was insult and disapprove of her. Amnesia anyone?
If only you people knew what Snowdon tried to do to Clooney.
There is no ONE from Boston or anywhere. That’s total b/s.
@George Clooney’s Ass Hairs
You’re funny, probably old Clooney himself.
Now you know you can’t come here and leave us hanging. What did Lisa try to do, did she poke holes in the condom? I know she wanted his baby and he wasn’t trying to be her baby’s daddy.
@George Clooney’s Asshair
I think Lisa had a diary and she tried to sell the details of her relationship with George, no ?
Oh, and I don’t think there is a “One”.
The last laugh!!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
;)
I never heard of Lisa Snowdon before this year, but I’d bet anything if she really had a ‘diary’, she could’ve sold it easily. I don’t think she got a payoff or house, and I don’t see any reason to pick on her..she didn’t give up her panties or dignity for the big bucks…and she didn’t ‘become’ a ‘somebody’ by sleeping with someone famous. I don’t believe she was re-invented by GC’s pr folks, and passed off as someone so special, no one dare question GC’s judgment. And, oh yeah, she’s gorgeous…makes SL look like a boy.
Seems pretty convincing to me that GC had his teeth done. Maybe he and SL did it together?
Just stopping by to see what’s been going on. Wow, I see I’ve missed a lot.
@New Kid – glad to see that you are back!
@Shelly – the theorist – you mentioned earlier this month about SL’s public appearances once a month – haven’t seen her publicly since the MET on5/5. You may be really on to something. What’ going on in June? When is that ‘Milano’ date supposed to be?
Now I’m going to go back an catch up on what I’ve missed.
With all this complementary talk about his ex Lisa Snowden it would be funny if got another girlfriend worse than Sarah Larson and everybody start reminiscing about how great and classy Sarah was in relation to his new girlfriend.
http://models.com/feed/?p=389
Nous Model Management’s new “It Girl” Sarah Larson shines in People Magazine’s 50 most beautiful people issue shot by Brian Bowen Smith. Andrew Macpherson also captures this beauty in the June issue of Harper’s Bazaar Magazine on news stands now.
There’s a place for comments, perhaps leaving comments there so that other casting agencies can see the public reaction to the child? I wonder if they’d have the guts to post them.
(going away again, I’m not going to sit through more hen eggs being born cracked.)
http://www.tmz.com/2008/05/22/oceans-six-pack/
Just when you thought George Clooney couldn’t get any hotter — he takes off his shirt.
With Sarah Larson nowhere in sight, the 47-year-old and his boy friends hung out in Puerto Vallarta on Thursday.
gc was photo’d in puerta vallarta today, with his buddies, in his swimming trunks. looks as though he his in better shape than the saggy skin belly i saw when he was photo’d last year (?) on lake como. go to tmz.com and scroll down. he’s there, and i believe that is grant heslov sitting on the ledge. it’s the ‘guy’ vacation that he does off and on. i think it’s a nice tradition among friends. no SL in sight according to tmz.
suchahandygirl: I found “The Seduction Bible” link. I hadn’t seen some of those pictures either. In the picture on the far right, top row, SL is on her knees trying to feel up a guy’s crotch (and all the while he’s the one taking the picture).
To make things even classier, the guy whose crotch she seems to be after is wearing a long sleeve black shirt. The guy she’s dry humping against the wall is wearing a long sleeve white shirt. SL, on the other hand, is in the same dress with both men. So she was making sexual overtures and being photographed going at it with two different guy’s that night.
http://www.theseductionbible.com/2008/03/31/george-clooneys-girlfriend-sara-larson-is-sorority-girl-goodness/
I was under the impression that the guy SL was humping up against the wall was supposed to be her boyfriend (which is what made it okay, I guess). So is the guy whose crotch she also liked that night also her boyfriend? And these were taken in July 2007, after SL started dating Clooney, so I guess that means she had THREE boyfriends!
“cornish game hen (12:27:54) :
The last laugh!!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! ”
Gee Corny, did it take you all this time to think of that snappy retort? ROTFLMAO
Magician on a vacation or something? No pearls of wisdom to throw our way about the nonexistent damsel in distress, in the tower waiting to be rescued?
You and Katie need to get your stories straight or you’ll never get anyone to believe in your fairy tales.
This is how a guy who “loves” his girlfriend reacts to girls gone wild type of pictures…
He gave her the rose and an engagement ring, and she surprised him with a photo spread in Girls Gone Wild magazine. But Bachelor star Matt Grant says he has no problem with fiancée Shayne Lamas’s revealing pictures.
“As we English say, I really feel it was ‘a storm in a teacup,’ ” Grant tells PEOPLE. “I believe it was blown out of all proportion. I stand by Shayne 110 percent.”
There was a flurry of media appearances after Grant got down on one knee to propose to Lamas on the season finale of The Bachelor: London Calling, but silence after the announcement of the GGW photo spread on the following Tuesday. The pictures in the issue out June 3 show no nudity, but in one shot Lamas is shown wearing little more than a smile and a wedding veil.
Grant says the couple are also brushing off media speculation that they’re having problems in their relationship.
“We sit down together and just laugh off all the ridiculous stories that get thrown our way,” Grant says. “All things considered we are doing really well.”
The two are living in Lamas’ Studio City condominium and Grant says they are working out their new life. “We have the normal pressures of any couple, but then we have even more added pressures being that we are a reality TV couple, and that I’m leaving my life, friends and family in England to be with her.”
He adds: “It’s been a bit of a whirlwind.” –Bryan Alexander
Note to G. Clooney: eh nevermind who the fuck cares anymore.