Peter Hoskin

Bury every copy of Monuments Men in mines across Europe, so George Clooney can try again

Clooney has cast himself, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Hugh Bonneville and Cate Blanchett in a patchy show that tells, not shows

Crack team: Matt Damon and George Clooney in ‘The Monuments Men’ [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 15 February 2014

You know that old quip ‘I’m not just a pretty face’? I always thought it was meant to be said tongue-in-cheek, with an undertone of self-deprecation. Surely it’s not for those literal instances when a really beautiful person does something really, really smart. It’s for when those of us on the middle-to-lower rungs of the loveliness ladder have flashes of minor inspiration.

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