Friday, September 06, 2002
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COLUMN: Norm!
Clooney's latest Vegas shoot starts with road test of new Porsche
George Clooney had a personal reason for not flying to Las Vegas for a
week of filming his new movie "Intolerable Cruelty."
It had nothing to do with fear of flying since 9-11.
Let's just say jaws were dropping and heads were spinning along
Interstate 15 as Clooney road tested his new Porsche.
Production wrapped up Thursday, after Clooney and co-star Catherine
Zeta-Jones spent most of week filming at Caesars Palace.
Most of the filming was set in the Forum Casino, drawing a crowd one
day of 700.
One scene shows the characters of Clooney and Zeta-Jones honeymooning
in
suite 8316, the same suite used in 1987 during the filming of "Rain
Man," when Tom Cruise's character Charlie Babbitt taught Dustin Hoffman
(Raymond Babbitt) how to dance.
In another scene, every gambler's dream is realized when Clooney walks
through Caesars' casino and in quick succession plays many slot
machines at once. Almost simultaneously, all the machines he played hit
jackpots. Caesars slot technicians worked with the prop master to make
the machines all pay out on cue.
Caesars closed the Terrazza restaurant one day so a romantic scene of
Clooney and Zeta-Jones could be shot.
Clooney plays Miles Massey, a wealthy Los Angeles divorce attorney.
Massey bumps into much-divorced Marilyn Rexroth (Zeta-Jones), who is
described as "a hard-headed woman pursuing financial independence
through serial matrimony."