In “ Jay Kelly ,” George Clooney plays a movie star very much like George Clooney. By that, I don’t simply mean that the outlines of Clooney’s career and that of the character sync up just so (though they do). As the movie is conceived, Jay Kelly, a popular and prestigious Hollywood actor for more than three decades, with an array of crowd-pleasing dramas, high-end action hits, and robust awards films behind him, is a character who has been constructed around the very DNA of George Clooney’s personality. He’s got that same brash feel-good charm, that effortless smooth quickness of mind, and more than that he’s got that quality of finely honed grinning sincerity — the ability to talk to anyone and make them feel like he’s really listening, that he’s eager to connect, not because he’s

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