BOX OFFICE POISON: Another Massive Flop for ‘Movie Star’ George Clooney. “We live in a world where the entertainment media pumps up the politically-divisive Clooney up as an actual movie star — as the next Cary Grant, when he is nothing of the kind. Because his politics are correct, people in Hollywood and the Hollywood media love him,” John Nolte writes at Big Hollywood. “Out here in the real world, he’s just another big-mouthed, left-wing actor.”