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This Week's Guest:
George Clooney
Sunday 23 February
Repeated
Friday 28 February | | |  |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the actor, George Clooney.
George was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1961, the son of Nick Clooney, a TV newscaster. From the age of 5 George spent time pottering round his father's sets, joining in where possible, shouting out the temperature during the weather report.
After an initial plan to follow his father into broadcasting, then studying for a short while at Northern Kentucky University, George failed to join the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. But then he got a part in a small film through his uncle, the actor Jose Ferrer. The film was never released, but it had persuaded George of his vocation.
Now decided on a career in acting, George moved to L.A. in 1982 and for a year tried to get a role while he slept in a friend's closet. His first film, in which he starred with Charlie Sheen, stayed unreleased, but got him the producers' attention for later contracts. He got parts in sit-coms such as The Facts Of Life, and Roseanne, and earned decent money, although fame so far eluded him.
Then came a part as Doug Ross in TV drama ER. It was to be a huge success and made George’s name around the world. Film parts soon flooded in and today he is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, featuring in many Hollywood blockbusters such as From Dusk til Dawn, One Fine Day, The Peacemaker, Out of Sight, O Brother, where art thou? and Ocean’s Eleven.
After numerous Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, in 2001 George was awarded a Golden Globe for best leading actor in a comedy for O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
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1.‘I'm so lonesome I could cry’
Performer: Hank Williams
Composer: Williams
Publisher: Acuff-Rose Music Ltd.
CD Title: Q Country 30 Legendary tracks
Track: CD2 T8
Label: HIT LABEL
Rec No:AHLCD 16/A&B
2.‘Brick in the Wall’
Performer: Pink Floyd
Composer: Pink Floyd
Publisher: EMI
CD Title: The Wall
Track: CD1 T5
Label: EMI
Rec No: CDEMD 1071/A&B
3.‘Destination Moon’
Performer: Dinah Washington
Composer: Alfred/Fisher
Publisher: Columbia
CD Title: Dinah ‘62
Track: S1 T2
Label: Columbia
Rec No: SX 1453
4.‘Nice and Easy’
Performer: Frank Sinatra
Composer: Spence/Bergman/Keith
Publisher: Lew Spence Music/ Threesome Music (ASCAP)
CD Title: Classic Sinatra
Track: 20
Label: Capitol
Rec No: 523502
5.‘Artificial Flowers’
Performer: Bobby Darin
Composer: Bock/Harnick
Publisher: Warner Special Products
CD Title: The Ultimate Bobby Darin
Track: 15
Label: Warner
Rec No: 9 27606-2
6.‘Who is he (and what is he to you)?’
Performer: Bill Withers
Composer: Withers
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
CD Title: Still Bill
Track: 3
Label: Columbia
Rec No: 982948-2
7.‘Moondance’
Performer: Van Morrison
Composer: Morrison
Publisher: Warner
CD Title: Moondance
Track: 2
Label: WB Records
Rec No: 7599-27326-2
8.‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’
Performer: William Shatner
Composer: Lennon/McCartney
Publisher: Northern Songs
CD Title: Spaced Out
Track: 13
Label: UNIVERSAL
Rec No: MCLD 19361
Record: ‘Destination Moon’
Book: War and Peace
Luxury: an anchored yacht
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