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Tuesday, September 2, 2003
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George Clooney
It's arrivederci to Hollywood. Signore George is living la dolce vita this week in Venice and all summer long on Italy's Lake Como.
Vanity Fair's Ned Zeman had the tough task of traveling to the ritzy resort town in the Italian Alps to interview Clooney for the October cover story, which includes a revealing photo spread by Annie Liebowitz.
Ned says Clooney’s life in Italy is certainly one to admire. "He gets up, goes on his boat, plans lunch, goes swimming, eats dinner, and repeats. He could run for president of that town and possibly Italy and win. He is that popular there."
Clooney fell in love with Lake Como two years ago while biking through Europe with his buddies. He bought a spectacular bachelor pad right on the lake. Ned says, "There are 15 bedrooms, a screening room, private access to the lake. It’s sort of an Italian paradise."
And he's had some famous houseguests, such as Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones. But sometimes the mobs of fans and the paparazzi can make the American star a prisoner in paradise. George says, "To the European press, I'm fresh meat."
Ned adds, "They really do hound him in a way that they wouldn't in New York or Los Angeles." But practical jokester George knows how to get even with the media. Ned says, "I’d go to the bathroom and he'd talk into my tape recorder."
George also tells Vanity Fair about once dating an Italian woman, and why things didn't work out. Ned says regarding the incident, "She didn’t speak English and he didn't speak Italian, so the conversation basically entailed 'Oh George' and 'Oh you' and then they would break up."
George's Italian summer is on stands September 9th.
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