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About This Document: What [George Clooney] has to sell is, simply, maturity in a world of sugar-coated pubertal thrall. Maturity in both taste and priorities, and in the implicit connection to real history. Look at Clooney himself- there's no mistaking him for a cute-teen-idol-turned-baby-faced-semiadult, a Ia the Depps and Pitts of the world. This alone is something remarkable, and its not how it used to be: Going back to the *3os, movie stars always seemed like fully grown, savvy, experienced adults, even when they were in their ios. No one then or now would confuse Clark Gable or Humphrey Bogart for post-teen hunks, and neither would we, come the '6os and '705, wonder when Sean Connery or Charles Bronson were going to start playing believable adults. Things began to change quickly with Star Wars and the Reagan administration, two successive forms of cultural infantilization. Suddenly, movie stars who would resemble teenagers well into their 405 gained eminence.

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Tags: In These Times, Dec 2011, George Clooney: The Man From Yesterday, Atkinson, Michael, Feature, Motion pictures, Actors, Clooney, George

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