Clooney’s truth-to-power stance takes another step this spring as he makes his Broadway debut, telling the story of legendary reporter Edward R. Murrow.

Clooney and co-writer Grant Heslov originally imagined the film, written in response to condemnation Clooney himself received for criticizing the Iraq War, as a live-TV production. (That idea went out the window,

George Clooney is smoking secretly for his Broadway role as Edward R. Murrow, a chain smoker known for his heavy smoking habit. Clooney's character requires smoking three packets a day ...