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Jason might direct George (atHome Top Story)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:30:00 GMT

George Clooney is in talks to star as a corporate downsizer consumed with collecting air miles in Up in the Air , an adaptation of the 2001 Walter Kirn novel, with Jason Reitman ( Juno ) behind the camera.

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CLOONEY SET FOR AIR MILES MOVIE (PR-Inside.com Entertainment News)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:03:40 GMT

GEORGE CLOONEY is collecting air miles after showing interest in taking the lead in JUNO director JASON REITMAN’s new film about a businessman obsessed with free trips. Clooney is in talks to star in Up in the Air, Reitman’s adaptation of Walter Kirn’s novel. The director has been reworking the script for five years. Upon completion, Clooney [...]

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George Clooney “Up In the Air” (http://www.availableimages.com/feed)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:41:16 GMT

George Clooney will star in Jason Reitman’s next film, “Up In the Air”, an adaptation of the 2001 Walter Kirn novel. Clooney will play an unapologetic corporate downsizer whose untethered life is consumed by collecting air miles. Reitman has been working on his adaptation of Kirn’s book over the past five years.

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George Clooney Joins “Up in the Air” (FilmoFilia)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:15:42 GMT

Jason Reitman (Juno) plans to direct “Up in the Air” with the hopes that George Clooney will star in an adaptation of the 2001 Walter Kirn novel, which Reitman adapted. Clooney will play...

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George Clooney’s Career Finally Takes Off (Vulture)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:00:34 GMT

Photo: WireImage The Air Up There: People magazine's Sexiest Guy Who Cares About Political Issues, George Clooney , is in talks to star in Up in the Air , an adaptation of Walter Kirn 's novel written and directed by Juno 's Jason Reitman . Story follows a corporate downsizer, an unapologetic wise guy à la Aaron Eckhart in Reitman's Thank You for Smoking , whose life revolves around...

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A Clooney comedy--Up in the Air; A Facebook movie, Robert Downey gets colorful; No End in Sight comes to Youtube (Orlando Sentinel)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:24:00 GMT

George Clooney is eyeing a Walter Kirn novel, Up in the Air, as a star-vehicle. It's about a corporate hatchet-man, a downsizer, whose life becomes consumed with the idea of accumululating more and more frequent flier miles. Jason "Juno" Reitman...

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George Clooney Takes To "Air" (Entertainment - The Post Chronicle)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:21:24 GMT

George Clooney is in talks to star in "Up in the Air," an adaptation of the 2001 Walter Kirn novel,......

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George Clooney up for 'Air' (dapx)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:44:31 GMT

George Clooney is in talks to star in "Up in the Air," an adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel that Jason Reitman adapted and will direct for DreamWorks.

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George Clooney takes to "Air" (Reuters)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:53 GMT

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - George Clooney is in talks to star in "Up in the Air," an adaptation of the 2001 Walter Kirn novel, with Oscar-nominated "Juno" director Jason Reitman behind the camera.

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George Clooney takes to "Air" (Reuters UK)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:31:51 GMT

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Clooney Boards Reitman's Up in the Air (ComingSoon.net)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:53:35 GMT

George Clooney is in talks to star in Up in the Air , an adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel that Jason Reitman adapted and will direct for DreamWorks, says Variety .

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George ‘Air’ Clooney (Backseat Cuddler)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:04:19 GMT

George Clooney is in talks to play the lead in a new film called Up in the Air. The film is an adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel that Jason Reitman adapted and will direct for DreamWorks. Clooney will play an unapologetic corporate downsizer whose untethered life is consumed by collecting air miles. Source: Variety

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Clooney ‘Up in the Air’ (Screenhead)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:42:59 GMT

Jason Reitman plans to direct Dreamworks’ Up in the Airwith the hopes that George Clooney will star in an adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel, which Reitman adapted. Clooney is talking about playing an unapologetic corporate downsizer whose unfettered life is obsessed with collecting air-miles. Apparently Kirn’s novel experienced quite a journey to production that started around...

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JUNO Director Jason Reitman To Team With George Clooney For Walter Kirn’s Frequent-Flyer Saga UP IN THE AIR?? (Ain't it Cool News)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:46:07 GMT

Clooney will play a ruthless human resources exec who becomes fixated on notching his millionth frequent flyer mile. It's a Pyrrhic victory, considering that his time away from home has left him with no life.

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George Clooney Goes Up in the Air (Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:42:59 GMT

He will star in Jason Reitman's adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel.

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George Clooney up for 'Air' (Variety.com)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:17:59 GMT

Film News: Actor in talks to star in Reitman adaptation -- George Clooney is in talks to star in "Up in the Air," an adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel that Jason Reitman adapted and will direct for DreamWorks.

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Multitasking (Heartcrossings)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:06:00 GMT

Read this somewhat long ramble in The Atlantic Monthly by Walter Kirn on why multi-tasking is not for humans and will almost always result in multi-quitting . He makes some good points : This is the great irony of multitasking—that its overall goal, getting more done in less time, turns out to be chimerical. In reality, multitasking slows our thinking. It forces us to chop competing tasks...

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Literature as Scientific Endeavor (Neuroethics & Law Blog)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:26:18 GMT

In the Sunday New York Times Book Review, Walter Kirn reviews James Wood's new book How Fiction Works. According to Kirn, Wood views literature as a scientific endeavor to credibly capture human nature. It seems to me that there is...

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A good line from the NYT review of James Woods' How Fiction Works (Kathryn Cramer)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:56:08 GMT

From "A Not So Common Reader" by Walter Kirn: The grosser elements of fiction — story, plot and setting, as well as the powerful drive of certain authors to expand or alter perception by exalting the vernacular, absorbing the anarchic...

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Oh Waiter, This Tea is Weak. (INSTAPUTZ)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:23:00 GMT

From Walter Kirn's review of James Wood's How Fiction Works : In the second of two short prefaces to “How Fiction Works,” an old-fashioned primer on literature that also functions as a timely primer on the art of modest self-marketing, the esteemed critic James Wood reaches out to assure “the common reader” (that good fellow from the club who tries to keep up with all things cultural...

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