Ben Affleck

By Seth · New York architect and Broadway set designer David Rockwell has completely reimagined the Oscar experience as a festive party where literally anything can happen...and will. A curtain made of 92,000-Swarovski-crystals will frame the stage, while the paving of Michelangelo's Piazza d...

By Seth So delighted was Ben Affleck with the Pick-Me-Up™ African Boys' Choir Bouquet thoughtfully sent to him by a handler before the Gone Baby Gone's premiere, the actor sent a similar arrangement to lifelong friend and Oscar-custody-sharer Matt Damon, in honor of the birth of Damon's new ba...

By Douglas Reinhardt Looks like Liv Tyler should've asked her Armageddon co-star Ben Affleck for some tips on how to tip on the DL. While at LAX on Tuesday afternoon, Tyler attempted to slide the tip into the skycap's pocket, but the skycap mistook the gesture for something a bit more forward. Tyler explained tha...

By Molly Friedman Cameron Diaz: One of the co-stars of Kimmel's revenge video in which Ben Affleck managed to keep down a visible need to dry heave while millimeters away from Kimmel's mug, we've noted recently how eager the bed-hopping actress is for action. And so far, no amount of plumber butt crackage, r...

By Molly Friedman Formerly a featured member of the Rapid Downsize club currently bowing down to newly slim star Colin Farrell, Matt Damon has notably chunked up for his role in the true story of an FBI whistleblower in Steven Soderbergh's The Informant. And despite the part's fun-filled requirements tha...

By Douglas Reinhardt So, there I was with my little cart ready to zip off for a business trip and guess who walks into the elevator? None other than Ben Affleck! I couldn't believe it. I've been living out here in LA for a quite few years now and I finally had my first celebrity sighting. It was great. I kept my cool. I want...

By Douglas Reinhardt An employee at Lake Shrine tried to grab a minute of 13 Going On 30 star Jennifer Garner's time on Thursday. The employee had heard a rumor about Garner splitting up with husband Ben Affleck and just wanted to see if things are okay. Garner told the man that everything was just fine with her rela...

By Seth It was only once he explained that he had once been engaged to Jennifer Lopez ("You mean the actress from Money Train?" a young voice intoned) that a wave of recognition washed over the children, with one shyly fishing out a half-finished screenplay—"It's like Cheaper By The Dozen, but wi...

By Molly Friedman 4. Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn: Speaking of desperate, the weeklies' favorite pity princess was still grieving or whatever over the loss of Brad to Angelina, and her are-they-or-aren't-they "relationship" with Vince Vaughn on the set of The Breakup just made her look even more pi...

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By Mark We'd been a little numbed by the seemingly endless "Ben Affleck seeks career redemption behind the camera" pieces over the past few weeks, but you know what? The guy can direct. Also: He's only the second-best actor in his family, but we've suspected that ever since Casey masturbated into...

According to a review in THR, Gone Baby Gone is "going to be remembered as one of the best crime movies of this decade." Yup, the Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck. [THR/Reuters]

By Seth In today's episode: Will Ferrell; Paul Rudd; Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner; Ryan Gosling; Seth Rogen; Christopher Guest and Jamie Lee Curtis; Ron Livingston; Taye Diggs; Christian Slater; David Thewlis; Mena Suvari; Adrian Grenier; Scott Caan; Justin Bartha; Eddie Izzard; Bradl...

By Mark Later today, angel-faced actor Matt Damon, his knees still lightly bruised from his humble reception of the gift of Grauman's immortality, will receive a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, an honor in no way connected to the imminent opening of The Bourne Ultimatum, in theaters August 3r...

By Mark After almost ten years of creative paralysis brought on by wondering when the Academy repo men would arrive to snatch the Good Will Hunting Best Original Screenplay Oscar from his mantel as punishment for every career-sabotaging choice he's made since 2002, Ben Affleck has decided to s...

By Mark If dwelling upon the heartbreaking possibility that the universally beloved actor's metabolism will become a pawn in the chess match between the unions and the studios isn't enough to move you, consider this: Should Damon's ability to earn become impaired by a lengthy work stoppage, h...

By Seth In today's episode: Sean Penn; Mark Wahlberg; Ben Affleck; Ralph Fiennes; James Woods; Jessica Biel; Courtney Love; Randy Johnson; Jessica Simpson and Jewel; Stanley Tucci and Maura Tierney; Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan; Paula Abdul and Tony Schiena; Danny Bonaduce; Scot...

By Seth · TR Knight opened the show. Okay, I get that he was discriminated against and Isaiah should have been fired, but it was a little odd that he got a standing ovation. He was very "shocked" with the ovation, didn't really deliver a very good speech and it just sort of started the night off a little w...

By Seth · Ben Affleck was on hand to present Little Miss Sunshine with the Outstanding Film-Wide Release award, telling the crowd, "It strikes me as unfortunate that we live in a time when it was easier for Matt and I to win an Oscar than it was for us to get married." The audience responded to the comme...

By Seth Ben Affleck's big comeback bid--which was supposed to have culminated in the actor's triumphant return to the Academy Awards dais to accept his second, unshared Oscar for his work in Hollywoodland, thereby blotting out the memory of all Gigliian cinematic transgressions that came be...

By Mark Ken Watanabe, "Letters from Iwo Jima" BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Jack Nicholson, "The Departed" Michael Sheen, "The Queen" Ben Affleck, "Hollywoodland" Adam Beach, "Flags of Our Fathers" Michael Caine, "Children of Men" James McAvoy, "Last King of Scotland" Brad Pitt, "Babel"

By Seth Also worth nothing is their singling out of Ben Affleck for his turn in Hollywoodland--a role that had garnered positive reviews and a Venice film fest award when the movie was released back in early September, but that might have otherwise gotten lost in the awards shuffle--and the lack...

By Seth In today's episode: James Woods; Sharon Stone and Nelly; Jason Davis; Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner; Reese Witherspoon, Greg Kinnear, David Spade, Rebecca Romijn, Jerry O'Connell; Cuba Gooding Jr.; Kevin Nealon; Tom Arnold; Breckin Meyer and Catherine O'Hara; Edward Norton; Dyla...

By Seth Sunday, 11/26 - LAX American Airlines Baggage Claim 4 - none other than Zach Braff coming back from the "Garden State." Had a standard Hollywood small dog in tow but seemed normal, unassuming and nerdy in a skinny jeans, hoodie, baseball cap and glasses. Followed him for a little, but then go...

By Seth In today's episode: Kirstie Alley; Tom Hanks; Ben Affleck; Robert Downey Jr.; Tim Meadows; Star Jones; Keanu Reeves; Robert Wagner; Ryan Seacrest; Reese Witherspoon, Amber Valetta and Kirsty Hume; Sidney Poitier; James Woods; Larry Flynt; Ellen Pompeo and Eric Dane; Justin Chambers...

By Mark This weekend, actor, director, and oft-photographed househusband Ben Affleck took an important step in reclaiming some buzz for a once-promising career stalled by a blow to the head from James Gandolfini's shovel and ill-advised participation in various, doomed J. Lo-centered ende...

Wow, I suddenly find myself being able to tolerate Ben Affleck's existence in life. That was the funniest 'Oh my god, they didn't just...' video EVER. Now if only Ben was drunk the rest of the time... The Gen X Eurotrash Jetsetter Club

did joe francis direct this? holy jeebus. however, this was more interesting than 'Jersey Girl.' el smrtmnky

By Mark This video really isn't going to help us separate the offscreen Affleck from the one creating great art on the screen, as there's no way that we'll be able to sit through Hollywoodland without expecting him to suddenly undermine an emotional moment by breaking character, grabbing a fema...

By Seth While it's unlikely Affleck would have been there in person, it's still sad to picture the once top-of-his-game actor standing behind that mirror, lower-lip trembling as an interviewer asks, "Who thinks we should edit Ben Affleck out of this commercial completely?" and a societal cro...

By Mark Late this afternoon, we are faced with a difficult choice: either stare into the yawning, unblinking void of nothingness that is the pre-Labor Day weekend Hollywood news landscape, or take a moment to soberly contemplate intermittently employed actor Ben Affleck's thoughts on the ch...

By Seth A fatal accident on the set of the Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner movie The Kingdom has claimed the life of Nick Papac, a 25-year-old assistant propmaster. It's a sad, terrible event, which Access Hollywood sensitively handles by bundling it with another nearly averted Kingdom tragedy:...

By Mark Affleck has been in Cambridge for about a month working on his big-budget directorial debut, and the stress may be getting to him. The new husband and dad, whose acting career has been on the skids, badly needs a hit with this movie to propel his career in a new direction.

By Mark Affleck probably knew that he could get away with ditching the premiere and some vague promises about trying to visit South Africa ("we'll try" is Hollywood for "fuck you for putting me on the spot like that") with new Miramax head Daniel Battsek (pictured above at the photo op with Afflec...

By Mark · I was down at the Santa Monica/Venice beach yesterday with seemingly the rest of LA. Out among the commoners on the busy bike pather were Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver who pedaled by right by me, looking exactly like a photo opp sans cameras.

By Mark · Affleck's career gets temporary stay of execution: Ben Affleck is finally successful in begging movie-star buddy Matt Damon to do another movie with him, as Touchstone makes a deal for a film starring the pair as real-life lawyers who exonerated a death row inmate. [Variety]

By Mark With an utter lack of recent cinematic material to scrutinize, we turn once again to Ben Affleck's offscreen life for inspiration. Fortunately, the paparazzi seem to be even more obsessed with the mundane reality of the onetime Daredevil's day-to-day existence than we are, capturing t...

By Mark A kind stranger reaches out a helping hand across the LAT Classifieds to Ben Affleck, whose recent movie career (zero 2005 releases, 2004 output of Surviving Christmas and Jersey Girl), hoping perhaps to save the actor from further bad career choices and a life hawking body spray in Arge...

By Seth We recently posted a reader's blow-by-blow plot analysis of an Argentinian men's fragrance ad starring Ben Affleck, locally oversaturated movie star and director of Violet-burping, hitting the streets of Buenos Aires with a babe-tallying clicker. Today, a helpful reader points us t...

By Mark Affleck's smart to maintain a creative outlet like this, just in case this whole stay-at-home dad gig proves to be insufficiently fulfilling and he starts to get the acting itch again. Annals Of Unauthorized Celebrity Images: Ben Affleck, Rogue Cop [Defamer] Affleck And Garner Enjoy Th...

By Mark Us Weekly has just reported that Jennifer Garner has given birth, an announcement that required no fewer than five exclamation points to adequately communicate the giddy joy of new motherhood: EXCLUSIVE: JENNIFER GARNER GIVES BIRTH!!!!!

By Mark NY Daily News JV gossip Lloyd Grove hears that underemployed celebrity couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's much-photographed love affair with Starbucks™ brand caffeinated beverages might have a sinister, product placement component. Luckily, entertainingly grumpy superfl...

By Mark · "Schuth has said he fantasized about being married to 'Alias' star Jennifer Garner. At his sentencing, he said: 'I apologize to Jennifer Garner and her pool boy Ben Affleck for involving them in my fantasies.'" Amazingly, this is the least troubling part of the story.

By Mark We have no idea why someone's painted Ben Affleck's face on a child-size chair, or why such a moving objet d'art was being removed from Affleck's house. Perhaps the chair was delivered to his residence by his "number one fan," who lit himself on fire on the front lawn once he realized he and Af...

By Mark We expect Endeavor agent Patrick Whitesell to start working the phones and make sure that he gets Affleck into the feature version of Police Sparkling Gun Playset before the part to goes to someone with a little more heat on his career, like Dax Shepard.

By Mark · Friday, 4PM, Chris Kattan, Equinox, West Hollywood. Mini-man Chris Kattan, with blondish actress/bimbo/whatever with bad implants. Chris was actually flexing in the mirror (cut, but tiny), lifting his shirt to