The movie star shared his tactic for tackling hecklers from all political persuasions during "Good Night, And Good Luck."

Clooney, who directed the 2005 film version, plays journalist Edward R. Murrow in the play, his Broadway debut

If he was going to come back to television, he might as well do something different." That's not my lede; that intro belongs to Hilary De Vries. She wrote it for The New York Times in April 2000 when Clooney first returned to television.