George Clooney - Tribute

Cast: George Clooney, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, Chuck Barris(himself)

Director: George Clooney

Writers: Chuck Barris (book), Charlie Kaufman (Screenplay)

Chuck Barris’ sole purpose in life through his teenage years in Philadelphia only concerns promiscuity, but he is unsuccessful. Inspired by a television advertisement he moves to Manhattan to become a tour guide at NBC. He dreams of becoming famous in television, but is eventually fired from his job. Chuck moves back to Philadelphia and is able to become Dick Clark’s personal assistant on American Bandstand in 1961.

There, he writes the successful “Palisades Park” song with Freddy Cannon and falls in love with a woman named Penny Pacino. Banking Ach Chuck is given permission to pitch the concept for The Dating Game at the American Broadcasting Company (ABC); he receives $7,500 to create a television pilot for the studio. However, ABC abandons The Dating Game in favor of Hootenanny. Chuck then struggles with his life and succumbs to unsuccessful bar fights. He is noticed by a man named Jim Byrd, a CIA agent who recruits Chuck as an assassin.

Returning from a mission in Mexico, Chuck finds that Penny has conformed to the hippie movement. ABC decides to greenlight The Dating Game, and by 1967 the TV show is a phenomenon. Chuck takes another mission for the CIA in Helsinki, Finland, where he meets gorgeous agent operative Patricia Watson.

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