NEW YORK – Batman star George Clooney has been accused of making hundreds of “childish and annoying phone calls” to the office of Gawker.com, the website that publishes detailed information about celebrity sightings in Manhattan.
According to Gawker.com editor, Jessica Coen, who made the accusation, the calls began last Friday after Mr. Clooney had suggested that celebrities’ publicists flood the website with bogus celebrity sightings in order to destroy its credibility.
“Someone called Friday afternoon and asked if we had Prince Albert in a can,” said Ms. Coen, “then he started giggling and said, ‘Well, you’d better let him out!’
“Two minutes later someone called and asked if our refrigerator was running, then he burst out laughing and said, ‘Well, you’d better catch it!’
“After the fourth call, one of our interns said, ‘That sounds like George Clooney’s Batman voice.’ Of course, most of George Clooney’s voices sound alike.”
Mr. Clooney’s determination to bring down Gawker.com is rooted in his belief that the site puts celebrities at risk by revealing their whereabouts.
“It’s one thing for a website to print that George Clooney was spotted talking to Lindsay Lohan at Decade last night,” said Mr. Clooney, “but quite another to post the information in real time, which allows any whacko who means us harm to know exactly we where are. It’s bad enough we have the government spying on us without our fans joining in the scrum.”
Ms. Coen dismissed Mr. Clooney’s concerns.
“George is just tripping again, the way he did when he went on his anti-paparazzi rant after Princess Di was killed. How ‘dangerous’ is it to report that Scarlett Johansson was spotted with Josh Hartnett at Bubby’s at 118 Hudson Street around 3 p.m.? By the time that information is posted on our site, somebody reads it on a computer, hops in cab, and ‘speeds’ to Hudson Street, Scarlett is long gone and the waitress is posting on CelebrityTippers.com the size of the tip Scarlett left.”
Mr. Clooney’s campaign to make Manhattan safe for celebrities may have made it less safe for him. Gawker.com is currently offering DVD copies of Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve to the first correspondent who sends in a cameraphone shot of Mr. Clooney on the streets of New York.
“If you can get a picture of him giving the finger,” the site said, “we’ll even throw in a copy of Solaris.”
In related news, Gawker.com just reported that Jessica Simpson was spotted near W. 57th and 8th pushing a pram with a baby doll inside. “The baby appeared to be of Mexican descent,” said the tipster, “and Jess was overheard saying to it, ‘Eres mexicano, ¿verdad?’ That means, ‘You are Mexican aren’t you?'”
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