Luciana Barroso and Matt Damon
Indicating that he and his Good Will Hunting writing partner, Ben Affleck, are still working off of the same script, Matt Damon exchanged vows with his fiancée, Luciana Barroso, in a brief New York City Hall ceremony held the day after it was revealed that the couple are expecting their first child, US Weekly reports. Can't these two do anything on their own?
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Sources tell the Hollywood Reporter that Jennifer Lopez's production company is in talks with MTV to develop a music-based reality series chronicling the lives of dancers hoping to follow in J.Lo's footsteps — questionable romance with Ben Affleck excluded, of course.
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Kevin Smith
Director Kevin Smith always gives his fans a bit more than they expected (OK, and sometimes wanted) with his fully loaded DVD releases. His ’95 flick Mallrats (out today on DVD) has Smith showing his indie spirit by presenting a brand-new cut of the comedy. Here the sly director relaxes with TVGuide.com to riff about the 'rats, a new Clerks and why he’s not buzzing around The Green Hornet.
TVGuide.com: Mallrats didn’t set the box office on fire when it came out in theaters. Why do this extended DVD?Kevin Smith: I thought after Mallrats came out and wasn’t well received that no one would ever talk about it again, other than in film class as, "Never do this!" At the time it came out I felt like I was hav
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Perhaps inspired by best bud Ben Affleck's recent union with Jennifer Garner, Bourne Identity star Matt Damon reportedly popped the question to girlfriend Luciana Barroso just before Labor Day, says US Weekly. This would be the first marriage for Damon, who in the past has been romantically linked to Minnie Driver and the preshoplifting Winona Ryder.
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Michael Vartan
Following weeks of very strong — yet never, ever officially validated — buzz, ABC has all but confirmed that Michael Vartan's character of Michael Vaughn is being killed off on Alias. In response to a New York Post article about scurrilous rumors being spread online by Vartan's more militant fans — including the allegation that the name of Jennifer Garner's onetime beau can never be uttered on set! — a rep for the spy series says, "[This] is so not true! Of course people say [his] name. He was loved very much on the set, and [cast mates] remember him fondly. All this misinformation is being put out by fans who are angry about what happened with [Vaughn]." OK, Mr. Affleck, slowly step away from your keyboard....
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How does Alias creator J.J. Abrams plan to work around the pregnancy of series lead Jennifer Garner, who is due to deliver her first child (by new husband Ben Affleck) in December? By not working around it. When the spy saga returns for its fifth season this fall, Sydney will be expecting a child with longtime beau/coworker Vaughn. (And boy, can that baby kick!) For more on this and other Alias spoilage, check out Michael Ausiello's Television Critics Association press tour diary.
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Off-screen, Lord of the Rings' elfin enchantress, Liv Tyler, is deliriously happy with her hubby of nearly a year, Spacehog front man Royston Langdon. But in her reel life, her heart belongs to Armageddon leading man Ben Affleck, whom she reunites with in Kevin Smith's romantic comedy Jersey Girl (opening March 26).
"Out of all the actors I've ever worked with, I feel particularly comfortable with Ben," Tyler tells TV Guide Online. "We have some sort of special chemistry. I don't even know what chemistry means or where it comes from, but it feels very natural for us to be back together."
Affleck sums up their professional relationship in a slightly different way: "I was talking to Liv and she was like, 'It's weird, but I think we do have good chemistry together'," he recalls. "I think what she wanted to say was that it's weird to have good chemistry with someone that you are not
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Life in the spotlight isn't easy for Ben Affleck, who vents his frustration with the press in Jersey Girl (opening March 26). He plays a music-industry publicity flack frustrated by balancing fatherhood with work who breaks down during a press conference, telling off a room full of music reporters. Firing back at the press felt cathartic for the 31-year-old Oscar winner, whose breakup with J.Lo has sold lots of tabloid rags this year.
"It wasn't too tough to film," Affleck laughs. "When we were shooting, it was at the pinnacle — actually [what] I thought was the pinnacle — of the madness. I felt like I had the inside track on the character.
"For the most part, in my experience, people in the press happen to be bright, interesting, smart, thoughtful, professional people with standards," he adds diplomatically. "It is a few-bad-apples th
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