George Clooney is 48 years old. His current girlfriend is 30, the previous was 29....

Yeah, I have to admit, I think less of him because of it.

I'm not saying he has to date that other famous 48year old, Susan Boyle, but I'm disappointed that he doesn't date women in his own age ballpark. That's all I'm saying.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/07/29/2009-07-29_george_clooney_works_his_playboy_moves_on_newest_fling_sardinian_tv_host_elisabe.html

Why would you think less of him? I don't care who he dates, as long as she is legal.

Whether he dates someone who is 20 or 90...it's his life.

bat an eye. But consistently doing so just kind of suggests control issues, etc.

Especially for a guy that is marketed as kind of a thinking kind of guy who is the sensitive type. It just seems out of character.

Jerry Seinfeld was gross in dating teenagers.

Maybe he likes to date younger women, who are brunette, 5'4", size 6, 120 and over IQ.

That is his choice. He can have any pattern he wants.

Just as any woman can date whomever she wants.

Never been a huge George Clooney fan despite the fact he has the classic cinematic look.

Age per se age shouldn't matter. However, when someone specifically seeks romance within an age group vastly different from their own, they ARE esssentially making age a factor. A prerequisite that someone be younger and attractive is self-limiting.

But who is to say, sometimes things are not as they appear. I certainly don't know about the man's motivations (nor do I care to).

:P

A 30 year old is *generally* more mature than someone 5 or 10 years younger. Didn't Jerry Seinfeld have a 16 or 17 year old gf when he hit 40? That's just yucky...

but my roommate is a line producer here in NYC and I have met my share of famous and semi-famous people, more TV than film actors. Few people in the industry, male or female, don't date dramatically-younger if they can get away with it. People dating close to their own age-range is so rare that it turns heads...in a very bad way. (roommate asked me to add "...in a very bad way.")

I don't really think it's fair to single out George Clooney for something that is nearly universal within that social cadre. It's a filthy industry; the PAs are all trying to f%&k a star or starlet because it's the fast-track to career success, the stars are all trying to f%&k a hot 20-year old because they can.

Be glad you don't have to see it. It's a lot like sausage, if you ever saw the process you wouldn't want to partake of the product ever again.

She slept with the writer.


 

If you didn't know, I'm an aspiring screenwriter.

so after a few months if he gets tired of her, she shouldn't be surprised.

than I am.

Do you think less of me?

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Assuming he changes 'em out more than once a year, he'll eventually catch up to his own age group.




Right?

(congratulations, by the way)

 

We've been dating for 6 years- so we are pretty sure this is the right move :) I always laugh because I can never keep up with him and when he is 80 and I am 64, I bet I still will be racing to catch up to him!

I'm going to guess not.

Congratulations!

B) No ( before this relationship I was married right out of HS) and C) thank you !

everything but women, I guess. That's kind of how it looks. Again, if his dating habits weren't focused exclusively on women he's old enough to be their father, then I wouldn't think twice about him going younger occasionally. Not at all.

Many years of happiness to you!

Especially given his politics. I like to think that liberals are inclusive - that we've never adopted the Stepford model, much less moved past it. I agree that it's not unique to George Cloonely, but he seems intellectual and liberal and so, yes, I think we expect more from him.

If that picture is his current girlfriend, boo on you for posting it. How can we possibly determine the intellectual and emotional worth of a person by looking at a picture? What are her politics? What books does she like? What's her life story?

And while we're at it, Eleanor of Aquitaine is nothing but a user and a loser. Pffaw on all of 'em!

Never mind that the comparison ends there - you didn't see either of them with a new piece of eye candy twice a year, and both relationships endured (even though Henry cheated on Eleanor) - but apparently the poster thinks it's an apt analogy.

I would never have guessed there was a 12 year difference between them.

since he explains (according to the article) that he was smitten with her "beauty" - not her intellect, emotions, politics, or life story.

I suspect we wouldn't have quite the same OP if he'd met her working at a political event or some other intellectual pursuit. "I was smitten by her beauty" is a pretty shallow summary of why you are in a relationship with a person, and I think less of him because of that. It's one thing to have that attraction in addition to the things that matter. It's another to boil it down to that, to reduce a woman to eye candy.

Would you really he rather make some calculated decision to date a woman who is 40 or 45 or so because it would be more appropriate in your eyes? How would that feel to be her?

Fine, so say he starts dating Jennifer Aniston (40)... then you complain that he's dating a beautiful movie star, or that he's dating a "skinny b****" or some other complaint.

Also, I don't see anyone around here complaining about Dennis Kucinich (62) having a beautiful 31 year old wife... maybe I should think less of him now.

For some time, I've gotten the notion that anytime we hear about a new Clooney girlfriend, it's for appearance's sake. And you know, that's just fine as long as they're aware of what the score really is, you know?

I'm sure he'd admit that he's dating her because she's beautiful and sexy and probably fun to be with outside the bedroom too, and I'm sure she's aware that it's probably casual and impermanent. I'm sure she'll have her fun, too, along the way.

Maybe she does have high ideals and can hold her own in a conversation on current events, but if she does or doesn't, how does that matter, especially if they're "just dating" ?

Perhaps as important is that she's from that same "world" of entertainment, where constant travel and parties and schmoozing and being fake-intimate with near strangers is part of the job. Most "regular" guys would have a tough time dating a model, as they'd get jealous about the travel, or wonder if photographers or male models and such were hitting on them, or hate having their girlfriend half-naked (or naked) in a magazine or on a website for all the world to see. A guy like Clooney can deal with all that, knowing it's part of the biz, and appreciates that SHE probably won't get weird or jealous if he has a romantic scene in a movie, or when he needs to travel and all that.

Wikipedia says he's twice divorced AND a Catholic, but doesn't mention the ages of the prior spouses or any other girlfriends along the way.

I'm not judging Dennis. Hell, some of my favorite people are on their 3rd marriage...

I guess it just boils down to "Why does George Clooney date beautiful young models? Because he can." Don't be a hater. :)

Current girlfriend + eh .... never mind.

are not interested.

There's a lot more to a person than the image they present to the public. Sometimes that image, tweaked by publicists and agents, is only remotely resemblant of the person.

i like George, but this is kind of ridiculous.

Late. We were eating after a concert. The restaurant went quiet when he sat down with another man--business, I would guess. He was very pleasant to the wait staff--yes, please and no, thank you--and nobody bothered him for an autograph.

And yes, he is just as hot in person as he is on the screen.

who George Clooney dates? And what is so wrong with being attracted to younger women?

:hi:

He's the guy one has fun with and then leaves behind to go on, informed, to the life one wants, married or not. I've had some of those, younger and older, in my life, and I frankly don't care what anyone else thinks about it, as every lover I've ever had except for one ex-husband considers me a friend for life. :hi:

:shrug:

anyone 31 and older is appropriate. 30 is disgusting and lecherous.

it's simply science.

So I think it's a bit more applicable. Also, if your age is an odd number we say "round up for safety round down for fun".

that works.

when you're older, it's a nice way to check whether you're perving. sad to say, if they're under 30, i'm perving. and i do it a lot.

...I think he's gay.

Secondly, he gives a shit about the environment and the Bill of Rights. He might as well wear a feather boa and prance around singing "La Marseillaise" in VW minivan. And final proof: he got his start on "The Facts of Life", which was basically the Gen-Y version of the Weather Girls.

...that's when my gaydar went off...his look at me...or maybe it was his hair???

Besides, he could probably be dating 19 year olds if he wanted to.

older gals are never worthy?

When I was 26, I had a 39 year old girlfriend. She was...well, let's leave it at a gentlemanly level of appreciation.

You should see the list of crushes I have. I guarantee you that upon that list I have more ladies that have more years on me than have fewer. Seriously.

I'm just talking about Clooney, who is to me, pretty one dimensional.

he's upfront and honest about not wanting to be married or have kids; that being said, I've always noticed that the guys who stick to younger gals seem pretty shallow - heck, I noticed that when I WAS a young gal

I've always been attracted to older men - I suppose you'd think less of me for that.

As far as anyone can tell, he's not a liar. He doesn't tell these women they're his One and Only and promise marriage and happily-ever-after and then leave them cold and alone. He's said numerous times he's not the marrying sort - I'm quite sure his female companions are aware of that and are fine with having a good time while it lasts. Who the hell are you to judge any of them? And what's more offensive is that you do so under the pretense of being "liberal" and "enlightened." Enlightened liberals don't sit in judgment of other people's personal choices when there is no evidence that those choices are hurting anyone.

A lot of DUers got upset last year when Fred Thompson was in the presidential race and had a much younger wife...

I doubt it, and that's called hypocrisy. There are plenty of things to dislike about Fred Thompson without being sanctimonious about his personal choices that don't affect anyone else.

I don't count cheating or lying in that category - if George Clooney was out there treating women like shit, I'd be right up there with the OP judging him. But as far as anyone can tell, he doesn't - he's simply made his preferences clear, and his girlfriends must be aware of that. If everyone is on the same page and no one's getting misled or hurt, who is anyone to "disapprove"?

who practically walks on water to many DUers...

I had also mentioned Ted Kennedy & Chris Dodd having much younger wives as well, but got drowned out by the Thompson trophy wife denouncers.

:shrug:

:rofl:

:P

do go for younger women.

doesn't want kids, and I would bet that anyone he dates knows it's for fun with NO future. I don't think any less of him at all. I think he's truly a good guy and just doesn't want attachments. I've seen him interviewed and I'm glad he's on our side. I also think he's a very good actor - Michael Clayton is one of my favorites.

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FWIW, I haven't dated somebody within a decade of my own age in my adult life. Feel free to think less of me too if you want, or is that sort of judgment reserved for men on the theory that the women in their relationships are somehow victims of their behavior?

A 30-year-old is not a child or a "barely-legal" naif. Neither is a 29-year-old. Age differences mean less as you get older. If he were 58 and she were 40 (same span, note) no busybody would even bother.

can get away with it too.

;-)

:eyes:

RL

If he committed a crime or something, then it would matter. However who he dates or marries is really not my business, nor does it change my opinion of him (although to be honest he is just an actor to me so I really don't give him much thought or care all that much about him)

Each person's life is their own quest for happiness.

He can date my duck for all I care.

:)

I don't think less of him, I'm sort of envious.

Prove me wrong.

Everyone has their own tastes in mates. Age difference relationships are no different than wanting a particular type of person or someone with certain characteristics. Heck I should be so lucky that a beautiful 30-something would want to be with me.

Got dumped recently, huh? I feel ya...

Ok.. I amuse myself.

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