Michael Keaton steadfastly refused and was replaced by Val Kilmer in "Batman Forever" (1995). Keaton remained active during the 1990s, appearing in a wide range of films, including "Pacific Heights", "One Good Cop", "My Life" and the star-studded Shakespearean story "Much Ado About Nothing". He starred in "The Paper" and "Multiplicity", and twice in the same role, that of Elmore Leonard character Agent Ray Nicolette, in the films "Jackie Brown" and "Out of Sight". He made the family holiday movie "Jack Frost" and the thriller "Desperate Measures". Keaton starred as a political candidate's speechwriter in 1994's "Speechless". In the early 2000s, Keaton
George Clooney "South Park" episode "Smug Alert!", which mocks his acceptance speech at the 78th Academy Awards. However, Clooney has also lent his voice to "South Park" as Sparky the Dog in "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" and as the emergency room doctor in "". Clooney was caricatured in the "American Dad!" episode "Tears of a Clooney", in which Francine Smith plans to destroy him. Director Alexander Cartio made his debut feature film, "Convincing Clooney", about a Los Angeles artist who, faced with rejection as an actor and screenwriter, arrives at a master plan trying to get Clooney to star