Leatherheads costars George Clooney and Renée Zellweger are on the cover of W’s December issue.

George tells the mag, which hits stands nationwide on November 23, that he didn’t know what prostitutes were until he cruised around in a Porsche with his cousin, actor Miguel Ferrer, when he first moved to California: “I didn’t know what hookers were. We pulled up at the stoplight, and all of these girls came over, and they were like, ‘Hey, do you want to party?’ I looked at Miguel and I said, ‘Chicks love me, man! I’m on fire here!’”

George on backing Barack Obama in the next presidential election: “I spoke to him two days ago for a half hour. I think that he’s in that sort of doldrums, that midelection run, where you’re still trying to define what it is that you want to be.”

George on borrowing shots from directors he admires: “I sent apology letters to Mike Nichols and Sidney Lumet after Confessions because I just directly stole shots. But then I told Joel and Ethan that I’ve stolen shots from them, and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we stole that shot from Capra.’”

George on rewriting the script of Leatherheads to accomodate his age: “You can’t try to hide your age and you can’t try to pretend it isn’t there. You have to use it as a tool.”

George on Renée’s role in the upcoming film Leatherheads: “In movies, so often the guy gets to be the one with all the answers. In this one, she’s the smart one. Which was incredible acting on her part.”

George on directing Renée: “She’s my friend, so I can be really direct. I can say, ‘That’s not a good angle,’ and not try to manipulate her, saying, ‘Well, maybe you’d be looking off over there because the moon is shining.’”

George on encouraging gawker readers to post fake sightings of him: “They had 6,000 locations for me in the first day.”

George on working with master directors like Joel and Ethan Cohen and Steven Soderbergh: “[They] taught me everything I know. If you plan it out and work really hard, then it’s much easier to make films.”

Renée on her fear of letting George down in Leatherheads: “…He doesn’t even know how important his opinion has been to me over the years. I don’t want to disappoint him.”

Renée on George’s direction in Leatherheads: “I just get so proud that my head pops off. George is such a confident director, and he has no idea. And he’s a nice person. It gets boring hearing that, but it’s true. Every once in a while you get the real good guy. You’ve got your Jimmy Stewart. You’ve got your Paul Newman. Now you’ve got your George Clooney.”

Renée on gawker encouraging readers to post stars’ precise whereabouts: “Oh, I log on every day to see where George is. Oh my God, get your things! He’s at Barneys!…The problem with that is with his schedule these days, the sightings were all true. He was in all 6,000 places that morning—before lunch.”

Renee Zellweger at the premiere of “Bee Movie” in New York, 10/25.

Renee Zellweger treated a stranger to a pair of designer shoes.

The “Bridget Jones” star met Bobbi Brown make-up artist Wendy Faracino in the shoe department of the Southampton branch of Saks Fifth Avenue while they were both admiring a pair of Manolo Blahniks last week.

A source told the New York Post newspaper, “Wendy was on her lunch break and was standing gazing longingly at the pair of Manolos when Renee strolled up to her and the pair began chatting about the shoes.

“A few minutes after she went back to work, the shoe department manager brought Wendy a gift-wrapped box and told her ‘These are compliments of Renee Zellweger. She wanted you to have them.’ It was the Manolos.”

Renee is not the only star to indulge in spontaneous generosity.

Colin Farrell took a homeless man on a $10,000 shopping spree earlier this month. The “Miami Vice” star bumped into Toronto tramp Stress, who he had met before, and whisked him away to the city’s Europe Bound Travel Outfitters store to kit him out in new clothes and street essentials.

The Irish actor strolled into the shop and demanded: “Get him anything he wants.” Store manager Dave Mott said, “It was like they were best buddies. The homeless guy was going around grabbing stuff.”

The total bill came to a whopping $2,100, but Colin’s generosity did not end there. The 31-year-old star then took Stress to a cashpoint, where he drew out a wad of $20 bills for him. He also arranged to get Stress off the streets and pay the rent on a room for him for a year.

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