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Article: George Clooney: Good Night, and Good Luck; This actor/director discusses posting his Oscar-nominated film.(DIRECTOR'S CHAIR)
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HOLLYWOOD -- George Clooney didn't take the easy way out when it came to directing his second film, Good Night, and Good Luck, the Oscarnominated follow-up to his well-received 2002 effort Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. A literate, politically-conscious film with a low budget--and shot in B & W--it examines in depth a particularly critical period during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950's America when famed television newsman Edward R. Murrow and other members of the CBS newsroom decided to stand up to the bullying tactics of the feared Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee in their single-minded hunt for communists and ...