What a bummer year for

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What a bummer year for George Clooney...seriously. I was thinking about this from time to time last weekend. Head pain, thoughts of suicide, short-term memory loss, and then his dog was killed by a rattlesnake...Jesus. It started with Clooney filming a scene in Syriana (Warner Bros., 11.23) in which he "was taped to a chair and getting beaten up and we did quite a few takes. The chair was kicked over and I hit my head. I tore my dura, which is the wrap around my spine which holds in spinal fluid. But it's not my back, it's my brain. I basically bruised my brain. It's bouncing around my head because it's not supported by the spinal fluid." The scene in which Clooney's chair is kicked over will presumably be in Stephen Gaghan's film. (Jeffrey Hunter's eye was damaged from flying sand during the filming of an Omaha Beach combat scene in The Longest Day, and the moment of injury stayed in the film.) Hey, shouldn't WB be showing Syriana now? It's less than four weeks away.