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Seeing that pick of Clooney and Swinton, I\u2019m tempted to ask\u2026 what\u2019s the strangest, most unexpected big-screen \u201cbedfellows\u201d you\u2019ve ever seen?<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m afraid of the answers I might get.<\/p>\n

(I must say, seeing Samuel Jackson and Juliette Binoche under the same sheets in that movie about the truth and reconciliation hearings in South Africa nearly traumatized me. Perhaps that\u2019s why I\u2019ve already forgotten the title of the film. No, it had nothing to do with race. It\u2019s just\u2026 their careers, their personalities, their lack of chemistry\u2026 it was just a preposterously bad idea.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"