Sit seven rows from the stage at "Good Night, and Good Luck" on Broadway, and you're bound to catch a whiff of prop cigarette smoke. Cigarettes — and the fading pulse of the Fourth Estate — took top billing during Thursday night's premiere at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York.

Clooney made his Broadway debut in a new production of "Good Night, and Good Luck," which the actor adapted from his 2005 film of the same name.

George Clooney's friends across Hollywood came out to support him on Thursday night for the opening night of his play, "Good Night, and Good Luck."