Clooney boosts earthquake-ravaged Italian city’s morale announcing film plan

October 9th, 2009 LONDON - George Clooney has bought his girlfriend a diamond ring and close friends says this is proof that his romance with Elisabetta Canalis is getting serious. Clooney started dating Italian actress and TV personality this summer and asked her to move into his home in California.

October 2nd, 2009 GEORGE CLOONEY's high-flying drama UP IN THE AIR has been pushed back to its original December (09) release so the film isn't competing for box office bucks with the actor's comedy THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS. Movie executives at Paramount were so pleased with their Clooney film, in which the star plays a ruthless businessman accumulating air miles, they brought the release forward to 13 November (09) - a week after The Men Who Stare At Goats first hits cinemas.

September 13th, 2009 GEORGE CLOONEY has sworn revenge against pal MATT DAMON - after his OCEAN'S ELEVEN co-star joked to a foreign reporter the ageing hunk was set to marry his gay partner. The Bourne Identity actor recently admitted he fuelled gossip Clooney was secretly in love with another man and that the couple planned to marry.

September 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - 'Ocean's Eleven' actor Matt Damon has revealed that he fears he and Brad Pitt may be responsible for a man stripping and propositioning their co-star George Clooney at a recent press conference, after they joked about him being secretly gay. Clooney, 48, was promoting his new comedy 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' on September 8 at Italy's Venice Film Festival, when a stripper posing as a journalist professed his love for the Hollywood star.

September 11th, 2009 MATT DAMON fears he and pal BRAD PITT are responsible for prompting an male fan to strip off and proposition GEORGE CLOONEY at a recent press conference after suggesting their OCEAN'S ELEVEN co-star was secretly gay. Clooney was promoting his new comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats on Tuesday (08Sep09) at Italy's Venice Film Festival when a stripper posing as a journalist professed his love for the Hollywood star.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winning actor George Clooney has introduced his new girlfriend Elizabeth Canalis to his friends at the Venice Film Festival. Dailymail.co.uk reports that the 30-year old Canalis is Italian and a TV presenter.

September 8th, 2009 Fan pokes fun at Clooney in ItalyVENICE, Italy — A fan of actor George Clooney stripped to his boxer shorts in front of the Hollywood star and asked if he could "kiss him, just once." "I am gay, George," the unidentified man said during a news conference at the Venice Film Festival Tuesday. "Take me, choose me George, please.

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - George Clooney may soon walk down the aisle with his Italian girlfriend, c. According to sources, the actor has asked his lover to move into his main home Studio City pad in LA.

August 15th, 2009 LONDON - American actor George Clooney is said to be very taken with his new television presenter girlfriend, as he has taken her on a boating holiday. Clooney, 48, and his Sardinian girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis have been dating for just a month, reports the Mirror.

August 3rd, 2009 LONDON - The latest flame of actor George Clooney is said to have dated football stars before she met him. Elisabetta Canalis, 30, an Italian model and actress, is said to have dated Fiorentina footie legend Christian Vieri, 35, and Parma hitman Reginaldo, 25.

July 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - 'Ocean's Eleven' star George Clooney is said to be back on the dating scene after he was photographed with an Italian TV presenter in Rome. Clooney, 48, has been single ever since he split from long-time girlfriend Sarah Larson last year, and he is once again said to have found love in Elisabetta Canalis, reports Contactmusic.

July 10th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star George Clooney has decided to shoot his next film in the quake-hit Italian city L'Aquila, which is hosting the G8 plus G5 summit, to help the people and "revive the economy". L'Aquila is the capital of the central Italian region of Abruzzo.

June 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Madonna and best pal Gwyneth Paltrow are putting their purses up for auction, to help raise funds for the victims of the deadly earthquake that struck Italy in April. The duo is leading the campaign, for which they have joined forces with celebrities including Demi Moore, Jennifer Aniston and Eva Longoria Parker to sign and donate their Salvatore Ferragamo handbags to community charity GlobalGiving.org.

May 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood hunk George Clooney has reportedly fallen for another cocktail waitress. After his split from Sarah Larson, whom he met while she worked at a Las Vegas club a year back, the Ocean's Eleven star is said to be dating a Florida-based waitress and aspiring model Lucy Wolvert.

May 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood hunk George Clooney has been roped in to play an assassin in a new film titled 'A Very Private Gentleman'. The big screen adaptation of the Martin Booth novel will be directed by Anton Corbijn.