George Clooney

One of the conspiracy theories going around in the wake of 'Star Wars - Episode 7' news was that Brad Bird was secretly working on it already and that the Damon Lindeloff-penned script for '1952' was actually the new 'Star Wars.' This seems untrue at this point, and unless this is the greatest hoax of all time, it seems all the more unlikely as George Clooney is now in talks to play the lead in '1

George Clooney and several others were arrested in Washington, DC on Friday while protesting the Sudanese government.

In the unlikely event you find yourself in a soiree full of Hollywood celebs this New Year’s Eve, which A-lister would you start sidling up to around 11:58 in hopes of stealing a kiss when 2011 becomes 2012? Turns out that–wait for it–a lot of women want to lay a tipsy smooch on the lips of George Clooney while men want to “make friends” under the mistletoe with Jennifer Aniston.

I can't say for sure whether the movie made the soundtrack a hit, or was it that the soundtrack made the movie a silver screen sensation? Nonetheless, I went out and bought them both, what seems like just a couple of years ago.  Now a decade later O Brother, Where Art Thou? the soundtrack, will be re-released with 17 additional hypnotic tunes.