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George Clooney’s ex Sarah Larson is enjoying the single life, reports People magazine.

“It’s working for me,” she told the entertainment magazine.

Larson split from Clooney in May after dating for about a year. The model is spending most of her time working in Los Angeles and is not ready to jump into a relationship.

“I’m staying single,” said Larson. “I’m not dating anyone right now.”

Larson also denies that she is dating actor Jason Statham after the two were spotted having dinner in Las Vegas last month.

“It was a large group of people and I didn’t even know he was at the table,” she said. “We talked for a little bit but it was nothing.”

Two of Hollywood’s leading men are collaborating on a political thriller loosely based on Howard Dean’s failed 2004 U.S. presidential election campaign.

George Clooney is in negotiations to direct and appear in ‘Farragut North,’ in which Leonardo DiCaprio would play an idealistic communications director working for an unorthodox presidential candidate.

The two actors, known for their political activism, would also produce the Warner Bros. film.

The film will be adapted from an upcoming Broadway play written by Beau Willimon, a former Dean staffer. The play is named for the Washington Metro station located near many lobbyists’ offices, and follows a presidential hopeful’s candidacy as its promising beginnings are ultimately undone by more experienced politicos, who engage in dirty political tricks and backstabbing.

The play, to be directed by Mike Nichols, is scheduled to open in fall 2008, just before the presidential election.

No start date has been set for the film version.

Movie star GEORGE CLOONEY admits he feels sorry for young Hollywood stars today, admitting he couldn’t handle the pressure they face.

The Out Of Sight actor admits he’s sympathetic to troubled stars Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan because he can’t believe the amount of attention they receive from the media.

He says, “If I were as famous as some of those kids who are on the magazines right now at 21 years old, I’d be shooting crack under my eyeball.

“We are always going to be that society that slows down to look at the car wreck on the side of the road. I think we’re just in one of those places right now, and it seems to be focused on younger kids Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan and people like that.

“They’ll get through it, but I wouldn’t want to be growing up around that.”

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STEVEN SODERBERG and GEORGE CLOONEY have each other to thank for their Hollywood success, because they were nowhere until they met – the director claims.

The pair’s collaboration on 1998 movie OUT OF SIGHT propelled them both to Tinseltown superstardom – and they have since worked together on six movies.

But Soderberg insists things could have been so different.

He says, “We found each other at the right time. We needed each other. We were both looked at as people with potential who hadn’t delivered. It was a trick of the mind for George and me to show up on set each day and be creatively free when we both knew what the stakes were. If we didn’t pull it off – if he didn’t prove he was a movie star, if I didn’t make something
audiences could enjoy – we were in big trouble.”

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GEORGE CLOONEY and PAMELA ANDERSON have become Hollywood’s most unlikely couple after the pair was spotted frolicking together on a romantic, fun dinner date.

The Oscar winner booked a private room at Sherman Oaks, California restaurant the Valley Inn, and entertained the former BAYWATCH babe there on January 7, according to reports.

And since that evening, which ended with Anderson sitting on her date’s lap, the odd couple has been spotted out and about, enjoying dog walks together.

A pal says, “George and Pam have been determined to keep this one quiet.”

Bachelor Clooney has dated a string of beauties; Anderson split from husband KID ROCK last year after a brief three month marriage. She was formerly married to rocker TOMMY LEE.

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Looks like two-time People sexiest man of the year wants to have a dabble at taking different directions in show-biz.

George Clooney has an artistic reflection about life as a director.

“Directing is the key to filmmaking. Everything else is just paint,” he said.

Clooney was nominated for an Oscar directing “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

He won an Oscar for for Syrina. His latest flick, “The Good German,” co-stars Kate Blanchett and hits theatres Dec. 22.

The 45 year-old actor has been a long-standing bachelor in the scene of Hollywood.

Mega Star George Clooney is mourning the loss of his beloved potbelly pet pig, Max.

The actor’s publicist, Stan Rosenfield, said Max, 19, died in Clooney’s Hollywood home peacefully of natural causes.

“Max, like any pet, became a member of the family,” Rosenfield said. “He was a big pig, as pigs go. I can’t tell you how much he weighed.”

Clooney wasn’t able to be with Max during his final hours as he was out of town promoting his new film, “The Good German.”

In an interview last February, Clooney told 60 Minutes the two shared the same bed.

“Usually, he sleeps on the foot of my bed, but he’s gotten so fat in the last year.”

Clooney and Max spent the last 18 years together and is reportedly Clooney’s longest relationship.

George Clooney and his business associates are scrapping their $3 billion “vintage Vegas” resort complex idea.

According to E! Online, Clooney and associates sold the land they were planning to build on for $202 million on Monday.

“I’ll donate my profits from the sale to the African Debt Relief Project,” Clooney says.

The reasons for scrapping the plans for the new resort included rising construction costs and slow residential sales.

Despite not building in Vegas, Clooney will be in the Sin City beginning July 21 to film ?Ocean?s 13.?

Recent Oscar winners George Clooney and Reese Witherspoon have made Time magazine?s list of the year’s 100 most influential people, reports AP.

The list, in the issue on newsstands Monday, places Clooney and Witherspoon among other newsmakers including world leaders Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Ehud Olmert of Israel, director Ang Lee and entertainers Daddy Yankee, Ellen DeGeneres and Meryl Streep.

There are 104 names on the list, with MySpace founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, and former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush sharing spots.

The list is made up of 79 men and 25 women from 29 countries, including Bhutan, Liberia and Luxembourg.

George Clooney has made Darfur his business.

Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, the actor urged people at attend rallies being held across the U.S. on Sunday. The rallies have been set up to “pressure Khartoum to stop what Washington says amounts to genocide in Darfur,” reports Reuters.

Clooney acknowledged that he was using his star power in an effort to stop the genocide occurring in Sudan’s Darfur region.

“What we cannot do is turn our heads and look away and hope that this will somehow disappear,” Clooney said, surrounded by Republican Senator Sam Brownback and Senator Barack Obama, a Democrat. “It’s the first genocide of the 21st century.”