Georges Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau (September 28, 1841 - November 24, 1929) was a French doctor, journalist and statesman.
He was trained as a doctor, but his republicanism brought him into conflict with the government of Napoleon III, and he went to the United States, where he spent several years as a journalist and a teacher. Returning to France in 1869, he was mayor of Montmartre in Paris after the overthrow (1870) of Napoleon III. His political career, beginning in Revolution, continued to be a stormy one punctuated by verbal and physical duels. As a Socialist, he opposed the moderate Léon Gambetta; drove Jules Ferry from power; and first supported but then bitterly opposed General Boulanger. A member of the chamber of deputies from 1876, he failed to win reelection in 1893 after being implicated in the Panama Canal scandal and then unjustly accused of being in the pay of the British. During the next nine years he devoted himself to journalism, writing a daily article in La Justice and founding (1900) Le Bloc. He was a passionate defender of Alfred Dreyfus in the Dreyfus Affair. In 1902, Clemenceau was elected senator, and in 1906 he became minister of the interior and then premier. During his tenure the first crisis over Morocco was settled and the alliance with Great Britain strengthened. In 1909 his cabinet fell and Aristide Briand became premier. In the next years Clemenceau vigorously attacked Germany and pressed for military preparedness. His newspaper, L'Homme libre (after its suppression in 1914, L'Homme enchâiné), attacked the government for defeatism even after the outbreak of World War I. Succeeding Paul Painlevé as premier in Nov., 1917, Clemenceau formed a coalition cabinet in which he was also minister of war. He renewed the dispirited morale of France, persuaded the allies to agree to a unified command, and pushed the war vigorously until the final victory. Leading the French delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, Clemenceau insisted on Germany's disarmament and was never satisfied with the Versailles Treaty. He was the main antagonist of Woodrow Wilson, whose ideas he viewed as too idealistic. Ironically, he was defeated in the presidential election of 1920 because of what was regarded as his leniency toward Germany. Alexandre Millerand succeeded him as premier. Clemenceau retired to his native Vendée, where he wrote In the Evening of My Thought (tr. 1929) and other works.
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George Clooney
Born: 6 May 1961
Birthplace: Lexington, Kentucky
Best Known As: Dr. Doug Ross on ER
George Clooney spent 10 years as an acting unknown until his role in the hospital drama E.R. made him TV's hottest heartthrob in 1994. He left the show in 1999 to concentrate on film work. His movies have included Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (with Jennifer Lopez, 1998) and The Perfect Storm (with Mark Wahlberg, 2000). In 2001 he re-teamed with Soderbergh for the heist adventure Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960 Frank Sinatra film. Clooney comes from a show business family: he's the nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney and the son of newscaster and chat host Nick Clooney. His other films include O, Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, with Holly Hunter), Solaris (2002) and Ocean's Twelve (2004, with Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle).
Clooney and Jason Alexander both had roles in a 1984 medical sitcom titled, coincidentally, E/R... Clooney's feature directing debut was Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, the 2002 film based on the writings of game show impresario Chuck Barris... Politically outspoken and left-of-center, Clooney has an off-and-on feud with TV personality Bill O'Reilly.
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Gary Cooper
Born: 7 May 1901
Birthplace: Helena, Montana
Death: 13 May 1961 (cancer)
Best Known As: Tall, laconic star of High Noon
Name at birth: Frank James Cooper
Gary Cooper started as an extra in westerns in the 1920s and went on to become one of Hollywood's greatest stars, known for his Oscar-winning roles in Sergeant York (1941) and High Noon (1952). Cooper spent his childhood in Montana and England (his parents were British) and went to college in Iowa. In 1924 he ended up in Los Angeles, looking for work as a newspaper cartoonist. When that didn't pan out he found work as a Hollywood extra and bit player; he had his first substantial role in The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926). Tall and handsome, Cooper had a shy smile and slow speech which made him a the very definition of the stoic hero of the American west, but he was equally successful at romantic comedy, especially in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Meet John Doe (1941, with Barbara Stanwyck). His other films include A Farewell to Arms (1932), The Pride of the Yankees (1942, as Lou Gehrig) and Along Came Jones (1946). When he was given a special Oscar in 1961 his friend and fellow star Jimmy Stewart accepted the award and revealed that Cooper was dying of cancer. Cooper died less than a month later.
Cooper was friends with author Ernest Hemingway and starred in two film adaptations of Hemingway's works, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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