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| ****THIS JUST IN FROM
E! ONLINE NEWS**** Don't Show George Clooney the Money by E! Online
News Staff Jun 17 1999 9:00AM George Clooney ain't in it for the
bank. The studio behind Clooney's old ER home is busying debunking
a widely reported People magazine item that said the actor would
be back in "several" episodes next season--at an eye-opening
$2 million a pop. "Completely fabricated," Warner Bros.
Television said in a statement. There's no deal, no agreement
and certainly no $2 million-a-show salary pact, it added. Producers
of the top-rated NBC medical drama seem particularly determined
to portray Clooney as a near-altruist. "Throughout his five-year
tenure on the show, and now, following completion of his contract,
salary issues never played a factor--as evidenced by his decision
to never ask to renegotiate his original contract," the Warner
statement read. Clooney departed ER last February after five years
of donning the scrubs of maverick doc Doug Ross. It's always been
assumed that Ross eventually would return to the Chicago hospital,
if only for a couple of stories. Today's New York Daily News,
while steering clear of speculation about the size of his paycheck,
briefly notes that Clooney is a lock to be an extra-special guest
next season. But a Warner Bros. spokesman again said that just
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