I did hear about and look up a quote from an interview where he called movies like Goodnite and Good Luck, Syriana and (are you ready for this as bravery) Brokeback Mountain. He bragged about how true bravery resided on the coasts and not in flyover country (like the Dakotas).
Bravery my foot. You want bravery, look at some of the blogs of men and women doing the duty of patriots and shedding their own blood doing it in Iraq and Afghanistan. Clooney doesn’t and never will have a brave bone in his body. Big talk.
Take a look at his pronouncements:
George himself used the word "brave" in an interview he did with Entertainment Weekly. He was talking about what he calls all the "political" films coming out of Hollywood, which for him is a pretty broad category including the gay western Brokeback Mountain and, very specifically, his own two films: Good Night, And Good Luck and Syriana. Clooney sees a new epoch in which Hollywood films and people actually talk about the big issues like the war in Iraq.
OK Georgie boy, I got one for you. Make a movie about Mohammed lusting after another man. Hollywood already did something similar with Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ (It was a woman however). Or, how about a tender sensitive love story about two male Muslim jihadists doing what homosexuals do on film. Brokeback Jihad, maybe.
Then I recommend you release it in the Netherlands or Belgium. Or maybe in Kandahar, Afghanistan. I understand they like movies there since the Taliban left. That would be brave. Or, brave George, go ahead and drop a few thousand DVD’s out of a plane over Saudi Arabia with little parachutes on them and a gift note signed by you. That’d be brave. Then when they invite you to that press briefing in the house of Saud you can buy your one way ticket (you won’t be needing a round trip) and let them thank you properly.
Brave indeed.