No Hollywood star seems as intrinsically tied to Venice as George Clooney.
Get organized and transform your home with these Insider DealsFILE - George Clooney poses on the red carpet at the premiere of his film"The Ides of March," opening the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy on Aug. 31, 2011.
Though he’s never all that far away from Venice, or the city’s namesake film festival, it might come as a surprise that Clooney hasn’t had a film debut there in seven years. But that clock resets next week as he returns withIt won’t be the first time Clooney and Pitt have graced the festival’s red carpet together, either. In anticipation of his big return, here are some of Clooney’s most memorable Venice moments.
In a profile that fall, while shooting “Ocean's Twelve,” Vanity Fair writer Ned Zeman observed: “That an affable, self-effacing Kentucky-born Hollywood actor is fast becoming the most popular public figure in Italy says a little about Italy and a lot about Clooney, who isn’t Italian, doesn’t speak Italian, and lives here only in summertime.”Clooney's acclaimed black-and-white dramatization of journalist Edward R.
During the trip, he also inspired a cocktail still served at the ritzy Belmond Hotel Cipriani on Giudecca. One night he retreated to the hotel's Gabbiano Bar where his friend, the legendary bar manager Walter Bolzonella, mixed him a drink of lemon, sugar, vodka, cranberry juice, ginger and Angostura bitters and named it Buona Notte in honor of the film.
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