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Titolo: [English] Clooney is now being seen with Essex-born Lisa Snowdon [lungo]

http://www.express.co.uk/00/12/03/features/f0200.shtml
George is looking for a perfectly ordinary Ms Right. Her only rival is Max
the pig.
BY VIV GROSKOP
Charming, funny, intelligent, extremely good looking. And that is just how
his (jilted) ex-girlfriend describes him. He has been voted People
magazine's Most Eligible Bachelor in America three years running; more than
half of British women would like him in their shower; and 40 per cent of us
would cheat on our partners with him.
Anyone who meets him falls madly in love with him. His charisma is so
powerful that his interviewers - from Fergie to Vanessa Feltz - are always
convinced he feels drawn to them too. ("There was a definite mutual
attraction," said Vanessa). Whether George Clooney, 39, is the best catch in
the world is not in doubt. The question is: how the hell do you pin him
down?
A girl from Welwyn Garden City may well have the answer - or at least for
this month. After a brief flurry of dinner dates in London with television
presenter Mariella Frostrup in September, Clooney is now being seen with
Essex-born Lisa Snowdon, 25, a model best known for her appearance as TV's
Special K girl.
She met George on the set of a Martini ad in Spain last month. When he
returned to Los Angeles, he spent hours logging on to her website. He then
phoned her at her parents' home in Welwyn Garden City, saying: "I have to
see you." She flew out to his home in the Hollywood Hills immediately.
If a girl from Welwyn Garden City can turn his head, then surely any of us
are in with a chance? An author friend, who has interviewed George on
location for most of his films since he first appeared in Tarantino's From
Dusk Till Dawn in 1995, says yes, in theory.
"The last time I saw him a couple of months ago, he said he was yearning for
Ms Right to come along. He thinks that his career has finally got to the
stage where everything is how he wants it, and there is just one thing
missing. He still regrets that he blew it with Celine. She was the woman of
his dreams, and he let her get away because he was working too hard."
Now, the actor is choosing his working projects with greater care than ever
(he said recently he has enough money never to work again), while seeking
his dream woman. Praise the Lord: George is back on the market.
This is a new development. After breaking up with Celine Balitran, now 26,
in September 1999, George went into a period of mourning. Together for three
years, they met when George was working on a film in Paris, in a restaurant
where Celine was a waitress, paying her way through law school. Their
relationship famously survived George's commitment phobia because Celine was
so down to earth (she gave up law to teach in a primary school). But after
she moved to Los Angeles to be with him, George refused to seal their
relationship with marriage. His work meant they were seeing less and less of
each other.
The final decision to split up was mutual. Celine got George's beloved
bulldogs, Bud and Lou, and a £3million settlement. They're still friends. He
blamed the split on his "fear of intimacy". She said: "George was everything
a woman could want. He turned my life upside down." Within six weeks, she
had moved in with a "very good-looking artist" called Christian. As Celine
moved out, George moaned that the most successful relationship in his life
was with his Vietnamese pot-bellied house pig, Max (they have been together
for 12 years). He took to hanging out with "The Boys" full time, a group of
eight mates who have known him for years and who share his passion for
riding motorbikes and eating spaghetti at his Hollywood fishing lodge-style
home.
Then one day George came out to play again. June saw beach frolics with
Brazilian model Gisele (yes, it was for the cameras of US Vogue magazine,
but George certainly looked as if he was enjoying himself). In July, he was
out and about with Charlie's Angel star Lucy Liu. In August, it was romantic
dinner dates with Charlize Theron. Come September: Mariella Frostrup in
Cannes and London. October: motor bike racing in matching his 'n' hers
leathers with Special K Lisa.
Apparently, he moved the pig out for a week when she came to stay. So who
knows what will come next.
Whatever happens, it won't be easy for any woman, says George's writer
friend: "He knows his profession is his worst enemy: he feels like a circus
performer. He's always travelling around, always on show: it's hard to form
a meaningful relationship with someone when you lead that kind of life. He
also thinks that his looks are a curse. They attract the wrong sort of
attention. He is one of the only actors in Hollywood who doesn't wear
make-up, even in films, because he doesn't want to look air brushed. He is
the least vain person you could ever meet."
Actresses Nicole Kidman and Michelle Pfeiffer may yet see a return on their
£6,000 bet that Clooney will be a dad by his 40th birthday (next year). But
chasing George with any long-term aim is still a bit of a gamble. As he has
said: "I'm not made for marriage. I was married once and that'll do it. I
wasn't fond of the experience."
He describes his one and only wedding as "horrifying". This was partly his
own fault, as in 1989 he allowed his bride, Talia Balsam, to talk him into a
ceremony at the Las Vegas Chapel of White Weddings and Promises, which booms
out The Carpenters' song We've Only Just Begun on a continuous loop. Their
union lasted three years. Before then, actress Kelly Preston did not succeed
in getting him to the altar (she later married John Travolta) and throughout
the Nineties Kimberly Russell tried and failed.
Pressure comes at him regularly from another quarter, says George. "My
mother calls me all the time and says, 'When are you going to get married?'
I say, 'Sorry, wrong number,' and hang up."
His close-knit family is from Kentucky. His one older sister Ada is an
accountant.
"The thing to remember about George," says a magazine stylist who has spent
time with him, "is that he comes from a showbiz background. His father, Nick
Clooney, is quite famous in America and hosted his own show when George was
growing up. He first appeared on TV as a leprechaun when he was five.
Rosemary Clooney, the singer, is his aunt. Yes, they are showbiz, but they
are a jobbing showbiz dynasty, second division stars. George is more
impressed with hard work than with celebrities."
It is exactly this attitude that makes him all the more attractive. He
cheerfully "thanks his lucky stars" for hit TV series ER, which was the
break he got in 1994. Before that, he had worked for 12 years on TV pilots
and such films as Return Of The Killer Tomatoes.
"He is the most un-arrogant actor I have ever met," says the writer friend.
"He is very genuine, a man's man: there is no pretence about being a new
man. He can get away with being a bit of a lad."
The stylist rates him as "the most charming person you could ever meet". But
can he really be all that up close? An eyewitness report from Mariella
Frostrup: "A lot of film stars are very disappointing in the flesh. He is
very good looking. If he walked down the street now, we'd think, 'Who's that
handsome guy?'" We know, we know. We will just have to join the queue.
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Explain the night to me explain the stars
explain the way I feel explain the scars
explain the outline of the trees against the sky
explain the tangled words of love we can't untie

Lisa
non staro' anche qui a tediarvi sul perche' questa omonimia sia molto
meno casuale di quanto possiate immaginare, ma anzi profetica e
augurale...:)))

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Ti manca solo il sito Internet e una pubblicità per i corn flakes ;)
MoRgAn/meglio che questa omonima non canti vittoria TROPPO presto...::))

 BY VIV GROSKOP
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Georgetto? No, perché uno *realmente* così non può essere vero! ^____^
Ciao... :))
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handsome guy?'" We know, we know. We will just have to join the queue.
(č un po' che siamo in coda....)
ma non ha nemmeno un difetto?
 insomma cosě č troppo, gli manca l'aureola in testa e poi lo facciamo
santo, via un difettuccio, uno solo cosě sto meglio.
gc66
(per rispondere in e-mail togli scoobydoo)

 Georgetto? No, perché uno *realmente* così non può essere vero! ^____^
*SIGH* è vero è vero...
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 santo, via un difettuccio, uno solo così sto meglio.
La panza?
Ed il maiale....senz'altro uno che vive con un maiale ha qualche
problema!
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