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Fox News
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
George Clooney makes dramatic return to his signature silver fox status at 2025 Tony Awards
George Clooney was back to his silver fox status Sunday for the 2025 Tony Awards. Clooney, 64, showed off his natural gray hair while walking the red carpet with wife Amal Clooney at New York City's Radio City Musical Hall. Nominated for leading actor in a play for his role in "Good Night, and Good Luck," Clooney wrapped the play earlier in the afternoon and subsequently got right back to his roots. During an appearance on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," Clooney admitted the first thing he would do after his final show was fix his "bad" hair. The "Ocean's 11" actor ditched his signature silver hairstyle in favor of a dark brown dyed job for his role in the Tony-nominated play. "It's bad. It's still dark on top, but it's gray at the bottom," he told Meyers while wearing a hat to "hide" the growth. Clooney admitted he hadn't dyed his hair in two months, since the beginning of the production. "So you get that really nice-looking grow-out of gray," he said. Clooney promised Meyers on Monday that his hair would be back to normal by the time of the Tonys, even under a tight deadline. "The last show is Sunday. We do a matinee, and then by the time we go to the Tonys that night, it'll be gone," he said. Meyers joked that it looked like he was "trying to get away with something" as Clooney appeared on the show wearing a hat. "It really looks bad," Clooney said. "It looks like [I'm] going through some horrible midlife crisis. I'm 64 – midlife is a little stretch." While Clooney's role in the performance was the talk of the town Sunday, his family's status in the United States could be in jeopardy under the Trump administration. Amal, 47, reportedly gave legal advice in a war crimes case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza, according to the Financial Times. Trump's executive order claims the court "engaged in illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel. The ICC has, without a legitimate basis, asserted jurisdiction over and opened preliminary investigations concerning personnel of the United States and certain of its allies, including Israel, and has further abused its power by issuing baseless arrest warrants targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. "The United States will impose tangible and significant consequences on those responsible for the ICC's transgressions, some of which may include the blocking of property and assets, as well as the suspension of entry into the United States of ICC officials, employees, and agents, as well as their immediate family members." Amal, born in Lebanon and raised in Britain, practices law in both England and the United States, and has lived all over the world. Clooney proposed to Amal in April 2014, and the couple married five months later in Venice, Italy. Three years later, in 2017, the Clooneys welcomed twins Alexander and Ella.
CBS News
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
In his Broadway debut, George Clooney tells the story of pioneering journalist Edward R. Murrow
This is an updated version of a story first published on March 23, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. Yes, in film, but even more so in theater, a sense of timing is essential. At age 63, George Clooney made his Broadway debut this spring, starring in an adaptation of the 2005 Oscar-nominated movie, "Good Night, and Good Luck." The play broke box office records and it's up for five awards at the Tonys later tonight. Clooney co-wrote both the original screenplay and this play, telling the story of pioneering journalist Edward R. Murrow, who took on strong-arming Sen. Joseph McCarthy, all while withstanding pressure not to make waves at his own news network-this network-CBS. The plot revolves around themes of truth, intimidation, and courage in the face of corporate media. It is set in the 1950s. As we first told you in March, Clooney always meant for the story to echo today. He just didn't realize how loudly it would. Deep February, Winter Garden Theater in the heart of Broadway, the set still under construction — George Clooney arrives in character. Ever the everyman, he doesn't stand on ceremony; he hurdles over it. But now it can be told: Hollywood's famously cool leading man has the jitters. George Clooney: I mean, look at this place. This is proper old Broadway. And it's exciting to be here, you know? Um --look-- let's not kid ourselves. It's nerve-wracking and there's a million reasons why it's dumb to do. Jon Wertheim: What do you mean? George Clooney: Well, it's dumb to do because you're coming out and saying, "Well, let's try to-- get an audience to take this ride with you back to 1954." 60 Minutes The play brings to life the humming CBS newsroom of the 1950s—all typewriters and smoldering cigarettes. Having dyed his hair—upsetting that familiar salt-and-pepper ratio—Clooney plays the protagonist Edward R. Murrow, host of the weekly television news program "See It Now." Jon Wertheim: You wrote the script to the film more than 20 years ago. You played Fred Friendly. George Clooney: Yeah. Jon Wertheim: Murrow's producer. You didn't play Murrow. George Clooney: No. Jon Wertheim: Why did you not want to play him? George Clooney: Murrow had a gravitas to him that at 42 years old I didn't-- I wasn't able to pull off. Murrow earned his gravitas during World War II, with eyewitness radio dispatches from London amid the Blitz. His trademark signoff doubles as the play's title. Clooney wrote the story with his longtime friend and creative partner, Grant Heslov. Jon Wertheim: How does this partnership work? Who's at the keyboard? George Clooney: Oh, you're at the keyboard. (laugh) Grant Heslov: He doesn't know how to use a computer. He can barely-- George Clooney: No, I'm like this. I'm the luddite. They met in LA in the early 80s, when both were struggling actors. Now they run a production company together. (Full disclosure: the three of us collaborated on an unrelated sports documentary out this month.) Clooney and Heslov conceived of the story of "Good Night, and Good Luck" in the early 2000s, when the U.S. went to war in Iraq. George Clooney: You know, I just thought it was a good time to talk about when the press held government to account. A show within a show, the play recreates the historic television face-off between Murrow and Joseph McCarthy, with McCarthy essentially playing himself through archival footage. At the height of the Red Scare, the Wisconsin senator led a crusade to weed out supposed communist infiltration of the U.S. government. Murrow and his team overcame the climate of fear and intimidation to expose and help take down McCarthy with measured, fact-based editorials. Jon Wertheim: Are you guys using McCarthyism as a parable for today? Grant Heslov: Originally it wasn't for today, today. But it's–this is a story that stands the test of time. I think it's a story that you can keep telling over and over. I don't think it will ever-- thematically get old. George Clooney and Grant Heslov speak with Jon Wertheim 60 Minutes At the table read in a downtown Manhattan studio, Clooney met the cast and wasted no time addressing what he sees as the parallels to today. George Clooney: When the other three estates fail, when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us, the fourth estate has to succeed. Has to succeed - as 60 Minutes is here right now on our first day. (laugh) Kidding aside, Clooney made the point: these are chilling times for the news media. George Clooney: ABC has just settled a lawsuit with the Trump administration. And CBS News is in the process … The process he's talking about: President Trump lodged a $20 billion lawsuit against CBS, making the unfounded allegation that 60 Minutes engaged in election interference. CBS filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit and the parties have discussed settlement, all this as the network's parent company, Paramount, is trying to close a merger deal, which requires approval from the Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission. George Clooney: We're seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations -- to make-- journalists smaller. Governments don't like-- the freedom of the press. They never have. And-- that goes for whether you are a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you're on. They don't like the press. Jon Wertheim: What does this play tell us about the media's ability or willingness to withstand this kind of pressure? George Clooney: It's a fight that is for the ages. It will continue. You see it happening at the LA Times. You see it happening at the Washington Post, for god's sake. George Clooney: Journalism and telling truth to power has to be waged like war is waged. It doesn't just happen accidentally. You know, it takes people saying, we're gonna do these stories and you're gonna have to come after us. And that's the way it is. When we dropped in on rehearsals, the mood was as light as the material was heavy. Comedian and producer Ilana Glazer plays CBS news-writer Shirley Wershba. Jon Wertheim: How is George Clooney doing-- leading a troupe of stage actors? Ilana Glazer: It's shaky. It's shaky, Jon. It's tough. No, I'm just kidding. Ilana Glazer, who plays CBS news writer Shirley Wershba, speaks with Jon Wertheim about working with George Clooney. 60 Minutes Ilana Glazer: We're all, like, so focused on this material, and it's serious, and we're trying to make it as honest as possible. So George really, like, will-- let the-- the tension release and break the tension with a joke at the right time. One of Broadway's most in-demand directors, David Cromer, is the man in charge. Jon Wertheim: Your Murrow character is being portrayed by someone with-- considerable star wattage. What challenge does that present to you? David Cromer: It doesn't present a challenge. It helps. Jon Wertheim: Why-- David Cromer: Edward R. Murrow was a star. He was the most-trusted man in America. He had this very serious news show, but he also had this incredibly popular entertainment show, which was on Friday nights. It was called Person to Person… David Cromer: And he went into Liberace's house. And he went into all these people's houses. David Cromer: If he were playing Willy Loman, that would be different, you know what I mean-- Jon Wertheim: A smaller figure than Murrow-- David Cromer: If he were playing-- a little man. If he were playing a little man. He's playing a great man. And he's a great man who's playing a great man. David Cromer 60 Minutes As for the play's setting, Clooney knows his way around a newsroom. His father Nick Clooney was a longtime journalist and anchorman. George Clooney: When I was 12 years old, my dad was working at WKRC in Cincinnati. I would run the teleprompter. In those days, a teleprompter was-- sheets of paper taped end-to-end with a camera pointed down. And you'd feed them like this, underneath the camera. And my dad would be able to read it on the teleprompter. And then at the commercial they'd say, "Okay, cut three minutes out of that story." And you had at the end of it a paper cutter-- Jon Wertheim: Literally cut-- George Clooney: And you'd just go sh-dunk… Grant Heslov: You really are old. George Clooney: I'm old, man. Clooney says he's running for nothing, but he makes no secret of his politics. A lifelong Democrat, he made news last summer, when he wrote a pointed essay calling on Joe Biden not to seek reelection on account of his age. Jon Wertheim: Looking back on that, happy you did it? George Clooney: Yeah. I'll make it kind of easy. I was raised to tell the truth. I had seen-- the president up close for this fundraiser, and I was surprised. And so I feel as if there was-- a lot of profiles in cowardice in my party through all of that. And I was not proud of that. And I also believed I had to tell the truth. Truth: an increasingly elusive concept…Clooney says that for all the parallels between the play and these convulsive times we live in today, disinformation is one critical distinction…. George Clooney: Here's where I would tell you where we differ from what Murrow was doing. Although McCarthy would try to pose things that-- he'd show up a blank piece of paper and say, "I've got a list of names." Okay, so it was-- that was his version of-- of fake news. We now are at a place where we've found that it's harder and harder and harder to dis-- to discern the truth. Facts are now negotiated. Jon Wertheim: You and I can agree or disagree, but if we can't reach a consensus that this chair is brown… George Clooney: Yeah. Jon Wertheim: We're in trouble. George Clooney: That's right. George Clooney 60 Minutes By March, rehearsals had moved into the theater. A big production issue on this day: the prop cigarettes. George Clooney: The hardest part for me is smoking. Jon Wertheim: What do you mean? George Clooney: Well, he smokes a lot. And we smoke a lot in the play. Everybody smokes in the play, so the place is covered in smoke. And smoking in our family's a big, you know, problem. We grew up in Kentucky. A lotta tobacco farmers. And-- almost all of my family members died of-- of lung cancer. My father's-- sister, Rosemary, died of it. She was a wonderful singer, died of it. And my dad's 91 because he didn't smoke. So smoking has always been-- it's a hard thing to do. It's easy to forget, George Clooney has been an A-lister for 30 years now. In 2003, he was a bachelor living with a pet pig when 60 Minutes profiled him. Jon Wertheim: You were in the Sexiest Man of the Year-- phase. George Clooney: Sure, that was a big time for me. I was very-- Jon Wertheim: Not-- not that you're not sexy now. George Clooney: That's okay. I'm not hurt, Jon. He's married now. His wife and their two kids left the home they keep in Europe to spend this spring run with him in New York. Clooney is also in a different phase of his life professionally. George Clooney: Look, I'm 63 years old. I'm not trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men. That's not my job. I'm not doing romantic films anymore. Clooney's turn on Broadway earned him a Tony nomination for best actor, just as it put him a few feet from the audience. Jon Wertheim: They can see you, you-- you can see them too. George Clooney: I'm not looking at them. I'm putting my wife in the very, very, very back. Jon Wertheim: You-- you wish you had done this earlier in your career? George Clooney: I don't know that I could've. I wasn't-- I didn't do the work required to get there. Jon Wertheim: But I saw the smile when you came out here… George Clooney: Oh, yeah. It's cool. Jon Wertheim: and-- looked out here. George Clooney: --Anybody who would deny that would just be a liar. I mean, there isn't a single actor alive that wouldn't have loved to have, you know, been on Broadway. So that's-- that's the fun of it. It's-- it's trickier the older you get. But why not? Produced by Nathalie Sommer and Kaylee Tully. Broadcast associates, Elizabeth Germino and Mimi Lamarre. Edited by Sean Kelly.
Daily Mail
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
George Clooney returns to being a silver fox as he attends 2025 Tony Awards with glam wife Amal after 'awful dye job'
George Clooney 's return to silver fox status is nearly complete, several months after debuting a dye job that was mocked online. The actor, 63, attended the Tony Awards with the majority of his hair in it's familiar shade of grey. George, looking handsome in a slick black tuxedo, attended Broadway's biggest night with his gorgeous wife Amal by his side. Amal stunned in a white beaded dress teamed with a marble clutch and a head full of loose, romantic waves. George dyed his famous salt and pepper locks dark brown back in March for his role as legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow in his Broadway show Good Night And Good Luck. 'I know it's not good,' he previously admitted in a chat with Gayle King.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
George Clooney Is Back in His Silver Fox Era for 2025 Tony Awards Date Night with Wife Amal
George and Amal Clooney appeared at the 2025 Tony Awards in their black tie best — and George showed off his natural silver here George is nominated for his performance in 'Good Night, and Good Luck' The role marks the movie star's Broadway debutIt's a Broadway date night! On Sunday, June 8, George Clooney and Amal Clooney hit New York City's Radio City Musical Hall for the 2025 Tony Awards. At the ceremony, George, 64, is nominated for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in Good Night, and Good Luck. The performance marks the movie star's Broadway debut, For the big night, the couple stepped out in their black tie best — and George officially showed off his natural silver hair again after keeping it dyed dark for his Broadway show. Amal wore a body-hugging beaded white column gown with delicate beading draped over each arm. She carried a matching white clutch and wore her long dark hair down around her shoulders. George kept it classic in a black tux and rocked his natural silver hair with just a bit of leftover dark dye on the top. The new stage production of Good Night, and Good Luck is an adaptation of the hit 2005 political drama of the same name about CBS news journalist Edward R. Murrow's legendary 1954 exposé on Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Clooney and Grant Heslov adapted the film for the stage, and the play is directed by Tony winner David Cromer. The film version was directed by Clooney, who co-wrote the script with Heslov. The play opened at N.Y.C.'s Winter Garden Theatre on Thursday, April 3, and it runs through June 8. The actor, who colored his hair a rich shade of brunette for his Broadway play Good Night, and Good Luck, has been vocal about the major style transformation. During a Monday, June 2, appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, he shared one of the first things he planned to do after his final performance was fix his "bad" hair. "It's bad. It's still dark on top, but it's gray at the bottom," Clooney said, telling Meyers, 51, that it had been about two months since he last dyed his hair. "So you get that really nice-looking grow-out of gray." However, the Ocean's Thirteen actor promised his signature look would soon return. "The last show is Sunday. We do a matinee, and then by the time we go to the Tonys that night, it'll be gone," Clooney continued. The pair joked a bit more, with Meyers saying his guest looked sneaky in his baseball caps, as if he were 'trying to get away with something." "It really looks bad," Clooney replied. "It looks like [I'm] going through some horrible midlife crisis. I'm 64 — midlife is a little stretch." He then confessed that Amal thought his new look was "funny," but admitted she would "be glad when it's gone." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. George and Amal, who tied the knot in 2014, share 7-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella. The Clooney family recently relocated to the Big Apple to support George during his time in the show. "They love being here," the actor said while appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in February. 'I mean, come on, how do you not love this? It's New York City." "Actually, a play is kind of a good schedule because you're working at night," he added. "You get to see the kids during the day, so it's okay." ! During an April appearance on CBS Mornings to promote the play, George shared that he and Amal are "having a really great time in life." Of their twins, he told host Gayle King, "Our kids are 7, about to be 8, which is a pretty great age. They're really curious and funny. Every parent thinks their kids are great — our kids are funny and make us laugh." George then recalled how he told King, 70, in a previous interview that he and Amal had never had an argument. "I remember we were here with you once before, and I remember we said we'd never had an argument. We still haven't," he said. "We're trying to find something to fight about!" "I feel so extraordinarily lucky to have met this incredible woman," added the actor. "I feel as if I hit the jackpot. There isn't a day that goes by where I don't think I'm the luckiest man in the world. So it's great." The 2025 Tony Awards will air on CBS and Paramount+ on Sunday, June 8, at 8 p.m. ET. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How to Watch George Clooney's Broadway play ‘Good Night, and Good Luck' live for free
A Broadway play is coming to your living room live via cable television for the first time ever. This historic moment takes place tonight (Saturday, June 7, 2025) at 7 p.m. ET—just one day before the 78th Tony Awards. Grab some snacks and settle in for Good Night, and Good Luck, co-written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and directed by David Cromer. Supersonic air travel gets green light in U.S. after 50-year ban lifted Airstream's new Frank Lloyd Wright trailer is a match made in midcentury heaven How to Watch George Clooney's Broadway play 'Good Night, and Good Luck' live for free Although this event is being pitched as a TV first, streaming service BroadwayHD was technically the first to livestream a Broadway show, with the musical She Loves Me in 2016—but we digress. Here's what to know about Good Night, and Good Luck, and how to watch it live. Good Night, and Good Luck tells the story of respected CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and his quest to hold Senator Joseph McCarthy accountable for his actions during the 1950s Red Scare. It is based on the 2005 film of the same name. This time around, George Clooney portrays Murrow and is making his Broadway debut. Good Night, and Good Luck received mostly positive reviews. Variety's Frank Rizzo praised its 'seriousness of purpose that is again dramatically stark, solidly documented, and ultimately chilling.' The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney mused that 'the drama at times seems almost as educational as it is theatrical.' Both believe the ending might have been too heavy-handed and wanted more character development for the supporting characters. Time Out's Adam Feldman did not mince words, stating that the play is too similar to the movie. 'It is well designed and full of fine actors doing their jobs. Its subject is timely and its message is on point, and there's no good reason to see it,' he quipped. The American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League, the organizations behind the Tony Awards, honored the production with five nominations. This includes one for Clooney's leading performance. The play is a major commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing play in Broadway history. On the way to that title, it repeatedly grossed more than $4 million in a single week. These numbers are partly because tickets range from $176 for obstructed views to $799 for the best seats. Clooney and Heslov wrote the 2005 screenplay as a response to the United States actions in the Iraq War. Unfortunately, the universal themes of speaking truth to power are more relevant now than ever. 'I think it's a story that you can keep telling over and over,' Heslov told CBS's 60 Minutes. 'I don't think it will ever thematically get old.' They chose to adapt the story for the stage because of the Trump administration's actions to discredit the media. While the president laments so-called 'fake news,' journalists play an important role in educating the public and keeping public officials honest. 'When the other three estates fail, when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us, the fourth estate has to succeed,' Clooney added during the 60 Minutes interview. He went on to say that a recent ABC News settlement with the Trump administration was scary. In a similar vein, CBS is trying to get a $20 billion lawsuit that claims 60 Minutes committed election interference dismissed. Additionally, Trump continues to cherry-pick which outlets get access to him while attempting to defund news organizations such as NPR. 'We're seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine, or use corporations to make journalists smaller,' Clooney explained. Clooney's father, Nick Clooney, was a respected broadcast journalist. The younger Clooney followed in his father's political-party footsteps and is a lifelong Democrat. Because this story is so personal to Clooney, he is doing his part to bring the show's important and timely message to an even wider audience beyond the Big Apple. He partnered with CNN to accomplish this. Thanks to 20 cameras and 14 camera operators, audiences around the world can feel like they are in the room where it happened. 'I can't tell you how exciting it is to do something that's never been done. CNN is the perfect place to bring this story of courage to so many more people than we could have ever hoped. Live TV. No net. Buckle up everyone,' Clooney stated in a press release. Before the metaphorical curtain rises, CNN's Pamela Brown will host a pre-show outside of the Winter Garden Theatre, beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET. The play will begin at 7 p.m. ET and runs an hour and 40 minutes, with no intermission. After the play, CNN's Anderson Cooper will host a special, discussing the current state of journalism. He will be joined by a slew of notable guests including Connie Chung and Marvin Kalb. Traditional cable subscribers can watch the pre-show, play, and post-show discussion on CNN and CNN International. Cord-cutters can stream the theatrical experience on and do not need a cable login. It will also be available on HBO Max at all subscription levels. This post originally appeared at to get the Fast Company newsletter: Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
