March 15, 2006

Local Clooney coverage goes global

Just remember, you read about it here first! Much to the chagrin of Record online responders demanding "real news," George Clooney's visit to our little Town of Blooming Grove is making headlines, nationally and internationally Page 23 in the March 20th issue of "People" features three Times Herald-Record pictures taken by staff photographer Tom Bushey while Clooney was here filming "Michael Clayton": Clooney with Ines McConnell and her 1 1/2 year-old daughter Julia, a stand-alone of Clooney and a shot of him signing photos of himself at the Blooming Grove Fire House, where he ate lunch one day. The story, "Big Guy In Town," also recaps previously reported tales of Clooney's stay at the Newburgh Ramada Inn and the scene he shot with Jon Stewart for the Oscars. Plus it quotes yours truly. And yesterday, Photo Editor Joan K. Rosen received a call from Hamburg-based weekly magazine Der Spiegel, which, with about a million readers, is the biggest weekly magazine in Europe. What'd they want? Clooney.

Sandy Tomcho

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