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That clever George Clooney has confounded us once again! If your long-term memory isn't yet fried, you'll recall that back in March, Clooney (or "his publicist") sent an email out to his illustrious circle of contacts, urging them to sabotage our Gawker Stalker Map by flooding the site with fake sightings and rendering our tool of dangerous stalking useless (we didn't have the heart to tell him that Gawker Stalker had been useless since its inception). But Clooney's diabolical plan continues, extending beyond Gawker and to the evil paparazzi. In the November issue of Vanity Fair, Clooney reveals his clever scheme:

Here is my theory on debunking photographs in magazines, you know, the paparazzi photographs. I want to spend every single night for three months going out with a different famous actress. You know, Halle Berry one night, Salma Hayek the next, and then walk on the beach holding hands with Leonardo DiCaprio.

People would still buy the magazines, they'd still buy the pictures, but they would always go, 'I don't know if these guys were putting us on or not.'

Curses! We'd always believed everything we saw in celebrity magazines, but not now! Clooney's wily and smart and always one step ahead, foiling the celebrity media complex yet again. But we'll get you next time, Gadget.

Clooney Plan: Date Many, Mess With Photogs [AP]