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Clooney Mixes Drinks with DeVito

Danny DeVito wasn't the only one knocking back the Limoncello the other night. 

And that's as much as George Clooney remembers. 

In an interview scheduled to air Monday on the Today show, the Syriana Oscar winner tried to pinpoint just how much alcohol was consumed the night before DeVito's slur-heavy appearance on The View Wednesday.

"A lot," Clooney offered when Matt Lauer asked him how much of the sweet Italian liqueur he and his little buddy ingested.  

"I got to the point where I was dumping the shots into—ah, you know—a plant next to me and um, I don't think…I don't think Danny saw me do that," People's reigning Sexiest Man Alive said Friday, draped in a sash denoting his latest title and wearing a little crown, both presented to him by Lauer.

(Two-time Sexiest Man Alive Brad Pitt is currently wondering why he didn't try pouring alcohol into nearby plants this year.) 

"Well, the funniest thing was, it was—ah, you know—we were just at a restaurant. It wasn't like we were out drinking," Clooney said laughing. "I was in bed by 11:30 at night and I woke up at, you know, 7:00—and I was still drunk. It was a brutal night." 

DeVito exhibited the full effects of the ravages of the previous evening when he arrived for his sit-down with Barbara Walters & Co. at The View.  

At one point perching himself on Rosie O'Donnell's lap, DeVito proceeded to use a choice expletive to refer to the current U.S. president and then waxed nostalgic about the days of the Clinton administration—namely, how he and wife Rhea Perlman made good use of the White House's Lincoln Bedroom. 

The Deck the Halls star attributed "the last seven Limoncellos" for his screwy behavior. He has since called Walters to "apologize for anything that could be construed as unfortunate," according to DeVito's (and Clooney's) publicist, Stan Rosenfeld.  

That apparently was enough for the veteran ABC newswoman, who said on Thursday's show that they would be happy to have him back, "better sober than not." 

Meanwhile, Clooney was off the hook until later in the day Wednesday, when he appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to promote his latest film, The Good German, set in the 1940s and filmed in black and white, using that era's moviemaking technology.  

Steven Soderbergh directed Clooney as Jake Geismar, a former AP war correspondent who finds that Berlin is a shell of its former self after World War II; Cate Blanchett as Jake's former employee and lover, who has since found work as a prostitute; and Tobey Maguire as the black market-connected U.S. Army soldier assigned to be Jake's driver.  

Clooney's real-life driver in New York, however, wasn't able to whisk him away from his midtown hotel on Thursday in time to avoid the paparazzi 's questions about his future partying plans. The literally dashing actor answered with his usual good-natured aplomb as he stepped into his waiting SUV. 

When asked whether he'd be hitting the town with Britney Spears and her new BFF, Paris Hilton, when he returned to Los Angeles, Clooney good-naturedly said, "I guess not." A photog responded with, "Maybe you can get Danny to go with you," to which Clooney said, "I tell ya, Danny apparently can't drink with me, that's the problem."

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