Despite a commanding early lead, when the national media began to report on the electoral contest ( due to his famous son George Clooney ), the local and regional press began to use the phrase " Heartland vs. Hollywood " to describe the race.

Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 until they divorced in 1993.

Clooney has also dated actresses Kelly Preston ( 1987 – 1989 ), Renée Zellweger ( 2001 ) and Krista Allen ( 2002 – 2008 ) as well as French reality TV personality Céline Balitran ( 1996 – 1999 ).

Clooney and Max in 1989

In 1989, Boone released her Christmas album, Home For Christmas, which boasted a duet with her mother-in-law, Rosemary Clooney, of Clooney's signature White Christmas.

Balsam was married to actor George Clooney from 1989 to 1993.

Making good on his Schizopolis-inspired " artistic wake-up call ", his commercial slump ended in 1998 with Out of Sight, a stylized adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel, written by Scott Frank and starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.

Following up Full Frontal stylistically was Soderbergh next project, K Street ( 2003 ), a ten-part political HBO series he co-produced with Clooney.

Steven Soderbergh was attached to direct an adaptation of the television series with George Clooney set to star but had to back out due to health issues.

According to a June 2009 report in Variety, Zoë Green had been hired to write the series, with George Clooney and Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions as executive producers on the project.

Her sister Betty sang in a duo with Clooney for much of her early career.

Clooney continued working with the Pastor band until 1949, making her last recording with the band in May of that year and her first as a solo artist a month later, still for Columbia.

Clooney recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in the early 1950s on Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town series on CBS.

In later years, Clooney would often appear with Bing Crosby on television, such as in the 1957 special The Edsel Show, and the two friends made a concert tour of Ireland together.

Upon her recovery from a nervous breakdown in 1968, Clooney signed with United Artists Records in 1976 for two albums.

Clooney sang a duet with Wild Man Fischer on " It's a Hard Business " in 1986, and in 1994 she sang a duet of Green Eyes with Barry Manilow in his 1994 album, Singin ' with the Big Bands.

During this time she wrote her first autobiography, This for Remembrance: the Autobiography of Rosemary Clooney, an Irish-American Singer, written in collaboration with Raymond Strait and published by Playboy Press in 1977.

In 1999 Clooney published her second autobiography, Girl Singer: An Autobiography describing her battles with addiction to prescription drugs for depression, and how she lost and then regained a fortune.

A long-time smoker, Clooney was diagnosed with lung cancer at the end of 2001.

In March 2012, Sheen was featured with George Clooney in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, ' 8 ' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as attorney Theodore Olson.

* Rosemary Clooney ( 1964 – 1967 ): Ferrer and Clooney remarried on November 22, 1964 in Los Angeles ; however, the marriage again crumbled while Ferrer was carrying on an affair with the woman who would become his last wife, Stella Magee.

Out Of Sight with Jenifer Lopez and George Clooney was filmed at a private residence in Bloomfield Hills.

Also that year, she voiced Marina in the animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas opposite Brad Pitt, as well as starring as serial divorcee Marilyn Rexroth in the black comedy Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney.

Clooney's first major role came in 1984 in the short-lived sitcom E / R ( not to be confused with ER, the better-known hospital drama, on which Clooney also co-starred a decade later ).

Clooney was then cast as Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin, which was a moderate box office success, but a critical failure ( with Clooney himself calling the film " a waste of money ").

Clooney suffered an accident on the set of Syriana, which resulted in a brain injury with complications arising from a punctured dura.

ABC broadcast The Money Maze at 4: 00 PM Eastern ( 3: 00 Central ), opposite Tattletales on CBS and Somerset on NBC ; Money Maze did not perform well against either series in the ratings, and host Clooney claimed in a 1998 Cincinnati Post column that fewer than half of ABC's affiliates carried the show.

In 1945, the Clooney sisters won a spot on Cincinnati, Ohio's radio station WLW as singers.

* Nick Clooney, a Cincinnati journalist and former newsanchor, and his wife Nina live in Augusta.

Lucas heavily recruited Cincinnati television personality Nick Clooney to run against Davis in his stead in 2004, but Davis defeated Clooney 55 % to 45 %.

He returned again to WKRC-TV in the late 1980s, but by that time, NBC affiliate WLWT was number one in the late newscast with former Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer as its main anchor ; Clooney was not able to lead WKRC back to ratings leadership it enjoyed in the past.

On March 16, 2007, following a Darfur rally, Clooney was awarded an honorary Class of 1952 diploma from St. Xavier High School, the high school he attended in Cincinnati before moving to California.

On October 11, 2007, Clooney visited Turpin High School in Cincinnati to talk to students about Darfur.

Clooney was the commencement speaker for the University of Cincinnati on June 8, 2012 and was awarded an honorary degree the following day.

Clooney hosted Money Maze concurrently with his local daily talk show, The Nick Clooney Show, on then-ABC affiliate WKRC-TV in Cincinnati ( now a CBS affiliate ).

Clooney and John Prendergast co-wrote a Washington Post op-ed piece in May 2011, titled " Dancing with a dictator in Sudan ", arguing that: President Omar al-Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide, is escalating bombing and food aid obstruction in Darfur, and he now threatens the entire north-south peace process ... the evidence shows that incentives alone are insufficient to change Khartoum's calculations.

Local appearances by the show's producer, actor George Clooney ( director Steven Soderbergh was also involved in the project ), caused considerable stir with frequent mentions in the " Style " section of The Washington Post.

Clooney left Columbia Records in 1958, doing a number of recordings for MGM Records and then some for Coral Records.

Clooney then directed his third film, Leatherheads ( 2008 ), in which he also starred.

The same year, Clooney starred in Up in the Air, which was initially given limited release, and then wide-released on December 25, 2009.

The driver of the car reported that Clooney attempted to pass him on the right, while Clooney said that the driver signaled left and then decided to make an abrupt right turn and clipped his motorcycle.

Clooney then approached the director, telling him to " knock it off ".

Clooney recalls: " We were trying to get a shot and then he went berserk.

The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.

But it was Visnjic's break-out role as Risto, the Bosnian driver in Welcome to Sarajevo that led then-producer Jack Orman to offer him the role of the then unnamed doctor who would replace the departing George Clooney on ER.

The program welcomed guests ranging from political figures, such as the then Prime Minister of the UK, Tony Blair, and Senator John McCain, to celebrities, such as George Clooney and Annette Bening.

Clooney had a five-year stint in the 1960s as a news anchor at WKYT-TV in Lexington, Kentucky, then went to Ohio to host his own TV show, the " Nick Clooney Show ", first in Columbus, Ohio, for WLWC television in 1968, then for Cincinnati's WCPO-TV in 1969, and finally with its greatest degree of success for crosstown rival WKRC-TV through the early 1970s.

Since then, " Tenderly " has been recorded by many artists, but perhaps the best-known version was by Rosemary Clooney.