Getting on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine is a time-honored dream of rockers. But as Kentuckians like Johnny Depp have demonstrated, RS also puts its fair share of movie stars on its treasured cover.
The forthcoming issue will boast Kentucky’s own George Clooney, featured in conjunction with his current film The Ides of March and forthcoming The Descendants. Both films have had good notices and appear poised to put Clooney back into the awards-season mix.
In the story, Clooney reportedly says of the Alexander Payne (Sideways) written and directed Descendants, “If it’s not nominated for best picture, I’ll be shocked. It’s that good.” Of Ides, which Clooney wrote, directed and starred in, he says, ”It’s not designed for everybody to see, but I don’t give a —-. I don’t need to be more famous and we shot it for $12 million, so anything we do is nice.”
Stone’s press release also details a few other items from the Lexington-born, Augusta-raised star we can’t repeat here on a family newspaper blog, but if you read the feature on Eddie Murphy in the last Stone, you know they don’t have similar restraints.
Suffice to say, the cover signals what will probably be a steady stream of Clooney coverage the next few months.
