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George Clooney put on 30 pounds to play a CIA operative in "Syriana," but the weight that matters is in the movie itself -- a premium-octane thriller about a world that has become insidiously ...

Syriana is a caring 15 year old girl of Dominican/Puerto Rican descent. Syriana describes herself as pretty, awesome and a talented artist. Those that know Syriana would describe her as a nice girl ...

Clooney didn’t have much time to gain a reported 30-plus pounds for his role as Bob Barnes in Syriana. A ccording to the Irish Examiner, the father of two stepped up to play the role after another ...

Writer-director Stephen Gaghan has a full tank of ideas in “Syriana,” a tale of oil-industry corruption and conspiracy whose story is almost too dense and taxing for the average guy at the pumps. The ...

The oil business. Government policy. Terrorism. These elements all come together in the fascinating “Syriana” (Warner, $29.98). Written for the screen and directed by Stephen Gaghan (he wrote the ...

“SYRIANA” is a film of paradoxes, contradictions and complications. It’s a political thriller that thrives on misdirection, on hiding information just as it hides glamorous George Clooney behind a ...

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