Actor and filmmaker George Clooney marries actress Talia Balsam in Las Vegas in 1989.
George Clooney and Talia Balsam, an actor and infamous prankster, were married from 1989 until 1993. The divorce took 25 months, which was 5 months longer than the marriage. There was some bickering and a custody dispute over a pig. Max, the pot-bellied pig, was the culprit. George was victorious. George Clooney was striving to break out of the D-list in the late 1980s. Consider the film The Return of the Killer Tomatoes from 1988. It was a terrible movie about, you guessed it, tomatoes that murdered. Sure, George Clooney's father was a journalist and news anchorman, as well as the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney. The Clooneys, however, were no match for Talia Balsam's connections. Talia was born into a well-know
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