Article: CLOONEY FILM BIO OF CHUCK BARRIS CREATES BUZZ.(Timeout)

Byline: Compiled from staff and wire reports

Expect George Clooney to take chances. The result being a wide variety of successful career moves (television's "ER," movies such as "The Perfect Storm" and "O Brother! Where Art Thou?") and some clunkers (remember "Return of the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"?).

His latest film is no exception. It's getting mixed reviews, but everyone's talking about it.

And why wouldn't they be?

It's the film version of "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," a book written in 1982 by TV host Chuck Barris (of "The Gong Show"), who claims he has murdered 33 people as a CIA assassin by night.

"It was ...

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