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6:11AM Brian Moylan | [Ben Affleck takes a swing at an unoriginal extra while filming outside of Fenway Park in Boston yesterday. Image via Bauer-Griffin]
Told You To Drop The Gigli Jokes
6:11AM Brian Moylan | [Ben Affleck takes a swing at an unoriginal extra while filming outside of Fenway Park in Boston yesterday. Image via Bauer-Griffin] 
Flotsam & Jetsam
Jon Hamm And Ben Affleck To Get Romantic
12:44AM Richard Lawson | Lots of writers all over Hollywood get deals. There are remakes and reimaginings, adaptations and homages. And there is love. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Robert Pattinson Hates New York And Its Women
9:52PM the cajun boy | Robert Pattinson thinks New York women are crazy, Lady Gaga gets naked in a London club, Michael Bay puts Megan Fox in the corner, Josh Duhamel is an arse man, Russell Crowe throws another public hissy-fit and Rihanna’s boob falls out. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Here Comes The Leighton Meester Sex Tape You’ve Been Waiting For
10:21PM the cajun boy | Someone is shopping a tape of Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester boning an ex-boyfriend, Robert Pattinson gets hit by a cab, Jennifer Garner tries to breakup Ben Affleck and Kevin Smith, Susan Boyle goes bonkers again and Beyonce screws over a club owner. More »
People
Ben Affleck Unwittingly Paparazzi’d By Spy Pen
7:26AM Richard Lawson | Ben Affleck was nice enough to give a stranger his autograph in some random store, unaware that he was being secretly filmed with a spy pen. Worse still, Affleck complimented the pen! I mean, I don’t endorse celebrity stalking in any way, but this seems especially cheap. More »
‘LAT’ In Jeopardy Of Becoming Twice-Monthly ‘Parade’ Insert
7:37AM Seth | If you hadn’t yet heard, Tribune has filed Chapter 11, putting the LAT in serious jeopardy. You know, it just occurred to us—if the LAT folds, we’re Los Angeles’s #1 news source. Happy to serve you, Southland! [Variety] Miramax is developing Arizona, based on the 1976 car-bomb killing of an Arizona Republic reporter snooping into mob ties to state government, as a project for Ben Affleck to direct. Ben—start using the remote ignition. Terrible, we know, but we just feel better having said that. [Variety] ABC has ordered a pilot based on DC Comics’s Fables, about various fairy tale characters living in New York. “[They'll] keep some of their trademark characteristics. For instance, Prince Charming will be handsome, while Big Bad Wolf will have to shave a four-day shadow from growing back every day.” And that’s just on his back! [THR] After the jump: Jeff Zucker unveils NBC’s new fail-safe plot to produce fewer primetime turkeys. More »
Is Ben Affleck’s ‘Countdown’ Reason Enough to Prolong Election Season?
8:36AM STV | We look forward to that time less than 48 hours from now, when we can finally frame the entirety of the 2008 election season in our smudged rearview mirror and watch it shrink as we head toward the country’s other essential round of cutthroat campaigning. But for all the misbegotten PSA’s, infomercial filibusters and other punishing effluvia, we admit we’ll miss the bits of election-related freakery that arrive with oxygen just in time to save us. And of course, the more unexpected, the better — like Ben Affleck bellowing about his cat after the jump. More »
Bruce Willis to Put Shyamalan Lessons To Use in Directorial Debut
4:05AM STV | Returning to his Blind Date/Hudson Hawk roots as a sensitive, almost Bergmanesque observer of angst and insecurity, Bruce Willis will make his directorial debut and star in the “indie psychological drama” Three Stories About Joan. And if you still harbor doubt about the film’s chamber-drama cred, 10,000 B.C. star Camilla Belle is attached to star. [Variety] Lifetime outbid six other networks for the rerun rights to How I Met Your Mother, which execs are reportedly considering spinning off with the Lifetime original series How I Survived Your Father Knocking Me Up at 15. [THR] After the jump: Ben Affleck loses his job, Billy Crystal reclaims his own, and the world contemplates another Star Wars movie. More »
Ben Affleck Loves His African Boys’ Choir So Much, He Bought One For Matt Damon
7:30AM 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 honour of the birth of Damon’s new baby daughter, Gia. Each colorfully adorned singer is hand-picked, last up to two full weeks, and is sure to brighten any room of the house. More »
