FACT: A Roundtable Interview with the 2005 Best Director Oscar nominees
ANSEN: So many of your movies this year moved audiences to tears. Do you cry easily in movies?

CLOONEY I cried at the premiere of "Batman and Robin." [Laughter] I cried for a week.

—Newsweek, 6 February 2006.

FICTION: The Commentary Track to Batman & Robin
SCHUMACHER: Yeah, yeah, It really is seamless. George, I think you had a funny story about this scene, when you...

CLOONEY: ...When I saw this scene in the dailies, absolutely. Yes.

SCHUMACHER: What was it you said? That you could almost...I can't remember. What did you say again?

CLOONEY: Well, we were watching the dailies, and you had this scene at the beginning, of us putting on our batsuits...it was originally much longer, if I recall...

SCHUMACHER: Oh, yes, the ass scene originally took almost forty minutes.

CLOONEY: ...And I just sort of buried my face in my hands and started weeping... I said, "I can almost hear the sound of my integrity as it slowly seeps into the dirt, along with my hopes and dreams of being taken seriously as an actor."

SCHUMACHER: Ha ha! That's a great story.

—Gail Simone, You'll All Be Sorry, 23 January 2001.

Thanks to Matt Fraction for the pointer to the article.

In the winter of 1999, just days before the infamous Y2KNYE (Which would make a good ironic vanity license plate, come to think of it), a very inebriated and very insistent friend convinced me to cut off my hair, saying that it would "change my life". Last year an equally fervent teacher I have gallons of respect for extolled the virtues of the Apple iPod, using the exact phrase to endorse it.

So, here I sit, with short hair and an iPod. I'm beginning to think that change actually does come from within. Huhn.