Oh, thank god. After being sickened by a virus viral clip, wise-cracking George Clooney has recovered enough to bite the hand that feeds. [Er, or waters, in this case.]
In ''Leatherheads,'' which opens April 4, Clooney plays an aging player on the Duluth Bulldogs in 1925, while Zellweger plays a feisty Chicago newspaper reporter.
Clooney said filmmakers wanted to call the team the Eskimos, but since there is drinking in the movie, the National Football League would not allow the name to be used.
''Oh, they don't drink in the NFL,'' the new voice of Budweiser commercials said. ''I was shocked to hear. I couldn't believe it. I was watching a Bud commercial at the time, I think.''
