Clooney:
Yes.

Wyle:
But if you were to have a son . . .

Clooney:
Would I name it Noah?

Wyle:
Would you name it Noah?

Clooney:
[Laughing] If I were to have a daughter, I would name it Noah.  A son - any child at all.  In fact, the next stray animal I pick up . . .

Wyle:
And even though you vowed probably never to wed again . . .

Clooney:
Yes.

Wyle:
I'm willing to wager that if you met a woman named Noah . . .

Clooney:
I would marry her right off the bat.

Wyle:
You'd marry her right on the spot.

Clooney:
That's right.

Wyle:
How about Ocean's Eleven, your next movie?  What's happening with that?

Clooney:
We've got a great cast.  We got - we just signed Andy Garcia, so . . .

Wyle:
Now, I'm not in that.

Clooney:
Here's the problem - you were tied up doing your little TV show that, you know, you make $100 million a year on.

Wyle:
Who are some of the hot indie actors, the unknown cast members, that you put in my place?

Clooney:
Well, we wanted the ensemble itself to be sort of the star.  So we got Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt and Matt Damon and Andy Garcia and Alan Arkin and Don Cheadle and Bernie Mac, and just got a couple of other guys, Casey Affleck . . .

Wyle:
A lot of young guys in that cast.

Clooney:
Yeah, they're young.  You know what, Noah?  You know what they don't have that you do have?

Wyle:
A TV Q Rating?

Clooney:
Well, that.  And the jump shot.  The jump hook. The jump-twisting skyhook.  Although Julia can shoot.

Wyle:
I've heard that.  I've got a good question for you.  I was always curious about this: you worked with Salma Hayek.

Clooney:
Yes

Wyle:
And Michele Pfeiffer.

Clooney:
Yes

Wyle:
And Jennifer Lopez.

Clooney:
And Nicole Kidman.

Wyle:
Correct. And I've heard you say that they were all nice and fabulous people to work with, but it's not like tremendous amounts of organic chemistry there.  Do you think that that could be - is that a necessary element in female costars?

Clooney:
What do you mean organic chemistry?

Wyle:
I don't know.

Clooney:
Do you mean onscreen chemistry or off screen?  Because I got along with all of them off screen.

Wyle:
Off screen, yeah.

Clooney:
I though Jennifer and I worked really well together.

Wyle:
You guys were great onscreen.

Clooney:
Michelle and I were pretty good.  You know, I loved working with her.  I loved working with Nicole - she's a great girl.  I don't think there was really a part for us to really make it work.

Wyle:
Any other ladies out there you want to work with?

Clooney:
I get to work with Julia next.

Wyle:
That's pretty fun.

Clooney:
Yeah.  It's too bad, you know, she's struggling in her career.  Can't get a good job, poor girl.

Wyle:
She is Eric Roberts's little sister.

Clooney:
Yeah, that's what they call her.  But, you know, you want her to have a crack at this.  So I'm here to help her.

Wyle:
Are you computer-savvy?  Do you use the Internet at all?

Clooney:
I don't understand it yet.  I still have an IBM Selectric typewriter that I use.  Like when I write all those letters to the editor that I like to do - all on an IBM Selectric.

Wyle:
Do you have a bottle of white-out or does it have a correction button?

Clooney:
It has the correction tape.  It's got its own cartridge.

Wyle:
Nice.

Clooney:
Yeah, thanks.  I spend the big bucks.  You got married on my birthday, right?

Wyle:
I did get married on your birthday.

Clooney:
So you've been married now six months or so.

Wyle:
I've been married, yeah, almost, yeah, about six months.

Clooney:
See, they said it wouldn't last.  You've proven them wrong once again.

Wyle:
But she's got no jump shot.  She's got no game.

Clooney:
I remember when you went away to do The Myth of Fingerprints, and you came back and you were madly in love.

Wyle:
I like being in relationships.  And you, despite your reputation, you've also been in some pretty long-term relationships, especially for a guy who has vowed to never get married again.  You are not commitment-phobic.

Clooney:
No, not at all.  I just haven't really gotten there recently.  But I went there, had about three or four in a row that were, like, three-year runs.  So now whoever I sort of end up with next will probably start to panic right around two years, because it seems like that's a bad time for me.  But it's not a plan.  That's just how it worked out.

Wyle:
Let's see, what else?

Clooney:
I'm a Taurus.  I hate long lines.  I love to laugh.

Wyle:
Turn-ons?

Clooney:
[Laughing] Jump shots.

Wyle:
Turnoffs?

Clooney:
Defense.

Wyle:
There is no such thing as home court advantage.  That myth has been dispelled today by losing 11 straight basketball games.  I'm humbled - humiliated.

Clooney:
And over the years, we've played a lot.  And I would say that that's not a normal outcome for us.  Wouldn't you say?

Wyle:
Well, I think my expectations of myself are a little higher theses days, having not been on cigarettes for six months.  I just sort of feel like my lung capacity, my ability, should be rising steadily, and they seem to have plateaued at a certain level that is not satisfactory to me.

Clooney:
It's not satisfactory.  You're not thrilled with it.

Wyle:
Well, I don't think most people would find losing all day satisfactory.

Clooney:
No, no.  Although I didn't think that it was your lung capacity that was killing you.  I thought it was . . .

Wyle:
My talent capacity.

Clooney:
I'll tell you what.  I envy this house of yours.

Wyle:
Thank you.

Clooney:
I figure all the people who are reading this should come stay with you, because it's good.

Wyle:
We'll open a basketball camp together.

Clooney:
Yeah, that's a good idea.