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Coach Clooney
Watch out, Mel and Clint: there’s a new actor/director in town.
By Fred Topel
Movie: Leatherheads
Directed By: George Clooney
Starring: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski
Network: Universal Pictures

Directing is traditionally the job of anti-social types. Almost as though to create great art, one must be reclusive like George Lucas, or tyrannical like James Cameron.

George Clooney defies that type. An undeniably handsome actor, Clooney also charms with his self-deprecating humor, and is well liked by all (even his exes). His third directing gig is Leatherheads, a period comedy set in the world of 1925 football, the last year before the suits saddled the game with all their rules and contracts. Characters speak in the style of Golden Age movie banter. It may be more fun than McCarthyism, but Clooney is still bringing back the history of Hollywood. ...

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An Inconvenient Trough

Can Al Gore’s Current Media make it for the long haul?

San Francisco’s Current Media has everything in the world going for it: an Emmy Award for Best Interactive Television Service, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning former-Vice President of the United States for a co-founder, and, best of all, a winningpremise – it’s a cable television network and website aimed at youth,featuring news and documentary programs created by its own audience. (A portion of Current TV’s programming consists of three-to-seven-minute pods created by viewers and submitted via www.current.com.)

Current’s cutting-edge, interactive approach serves company founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt’s intent to present information on current events and politics to a young, hip audience that’s largely dissatisfied or disinterested in what mainstream news outlets have to offer. So far, it appears to be working – Current TV reaches approximately 51 million homes throughout America and the UK, and as of spring of this year, it will also be available via SKY Italia
digital satellite TV.

For all its assets, though, Current Media is lacking one very crucial component: cash. The company has lost buckets of money since its launch in 2005, racking up a debt of $36.5 million by the end of 2007, with last year’s losses alone totaling $9.9 million. In the interest of getting out of the red, Current has decided to file for an initial public offering. By making stock available to the public, the company hopes to raise as much as $100 million.

While a $36.5 million debt might sound pretty dire, it doesn’t necessarily spell doom for the company. After all, while other cable networks lost loads of money in their early years, many of them, including CNN and FOX News Channel, are thriving in – ahem – current times.

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