Ben Affleck

There are some relationships that can survive the rocky road of Hollywood stardom. Just look at best buds Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Here they are sharing family vacations in Hawaii. Ben and wife Jennifer Garner are enjoying the sun and surf with too cute for words daughter Violet. Matt’s wife and daughter are also on the island, but it must be naptime. And check out the pics below…Matt and Ben doing grocery duty. Though it kind of looks like Ben is asking Matt, “Dude, can you introduce me to George Clooney?”

Just when you thought the world was nothing but spoiled heiresses, drunk actresses and bald pop stars, I am happy to bring a little bite of adorableness (it’s a word) to restore your faith in mankind…or at least in the denizens of Hollywood Land.

Here are Ben Affleck and his ridiculously cute daughter Violet out spreading sunshine and wildflowers. They are so sweet I was really expecting to see butterflies and dancing bunnies following them around.

Best buds Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are hoping to work together again. The two may have their eyes on a directing project.

Damon said: “Ben and I found a project to co-direct that we might be able to get off the ground. We’re just kind of on the hunt for something good.

“Directing feels like a natural extension, having written and then acted for all these years. It just feels like I’ve got to try it.”

Do you think that when these guys get together over beers, Ben ever looks at Matt and thinks…I could have had his career if I hadn’t chosen such stupid ass films and dated Jennifer Lopez and make a fool out of myself in the tabloids. Matt works with George Clooney and Angelina Jolie. Ben was in Gigli. I don’t think Ben is going to be making many of the directing choices on this project.

Ben Affleck feels up an interviewer .

Embarrassing footage of a seemingly inebriated Ben Affleck molesting an interviewer around the time the film Jersey Girl was released has recently surfaced and making its way around.

In the interview, Affleck, who is currently married to Alias star Jennifer Garner but was then dating Jennifer Lopez, pulls the reporter, Montreal’s Anne-Marie Losique, onto his lap and proceeds to nuzzle into her neck and cleavage.He then proceeds to rock her back and forth on his lap while making bawdy remarks about her breasts and suggests she do the interview topless. All the while, Losique seems to do nothing but giggle.

The most sad offensive part is when Affleck attempts an impression of someone with cerebral palsy, in which he changed his already slurring voice and proceeded to do hand gestures.

34 year old actor Ben Affleck has admitted regretting some of his career choices, even the ones that were certifiable blockbusters.

"I’ve been in movies that earned a lot of money that… I wish I wasn’t in honestly. I was a little cavalier before, but having a child makes me think about things differently. I have to prove myself all over again, but I don’t mind that. Once I realized where things were going, I just said, ‘OK, let me make sure I’m in a place where I don’t have to worry about being on "Family Feud" for dough in five years and then I’ll just do what I can be proud of.’"

I’m sure he’s talking about his role in Elektra. Personally I liked the movie, but I have to admit that it was under his category.

Below some stills from the movie Hollywoodland:

It’s got to be a shock for anybody to win a Best Actor award without expecting it, actually even without knowing that they were handing out awards at all. So it is understandable that Ben Affleck is surprised by getting said award at the Venice Film Festival.

The actor (excuse me: the Best Actor) had left the festival early to beat the traffic and missed out on his own nomination and award for his role as TV Superman George Reeves in the film Hollywoodland.

He explains, "If I thought for a second that there were going to be awards for anybody, I would have stayed!"

Ben Affleck is a guy who loves to take things into hand. Like this TV host’s boobs, for instance. This video, that dates from when he was promoting Jersey Girl, but that has just been surfaced, shows a side of Affleck that is not too well known. But after the scandal with that stripper a few years ago, and now this video, we are getting a pretty good idea of what this guy is really like. I’m starting to feel sorry for his wife.

The Boston Herald tells us today that Ben Affleck is coming back with a vengeance. The Pearl Harbour actor seems to have shaken his bad streak (which lasted the length of his relationship with JLo), and has the critics buzzing over his performance in the new movie "Hollywoodland".

From the Boston Herald article:

Ben Affleck will have no trouble making the trip from the front of the cameras to behind them, and will be a first-rate director. So says Allen Coulter - and he should know: He directed the Cambridge homey in the upcoming film noir “Hollywoodland.”
“I told Ben I thought he’d be excellent,” Coulter told the Track. “He knows so much about acting and he’s very, very intelligent. He sees the big picture and has the kind of intellect that will be satisfied by the complexities of directing. I told him I thought he’d take to it very well.”

Affleck, who just wrapped up work on “Gone, Baby, Gone,” a made-in-Boston thriller that will be his big-screen directorial debut, plays washed-up TV Superman George Reeves in Coulter’s “Hollywoodland.”
The pre-release buzz on Ben’s performance has been Super, with many critics predicting that the role will reestablish Affleck’s acting chops, which have been under siege since the unfortunate “Gigli.”
“He’s fabulous,” declares Coulter. “This is an extraordinary performance, really exceptional. He really disappears into the role of George Reeves.”
Perhaps Ben identified with Reeves’ career struggles. The faux superhero couldn’t get work because he was too closely identified with his TV alter ego. Not to mention he was involved in a long affair with a woman, played by Diane Lane, who was the wife of a vindictive studio boss.
“I have a sort of rule I follow with actors,” Coulter said. “I never probe into what their source is for finding a character, and I didn’t this time.”
But, he added, Affleck worked “extremely hard” on his portrayal of the doomed Reeves, “endlessly listening to a CD” of Reeves’ voice and watching every one of the 112 episodes of the “Superman” show.
“I think it will show in how fine he is in the role,” he said. “He’s superb.”
The flick examines the controversy surrounding Reeves’ apparent suicide in 1959. Oscar winner Adrien Brody plays detective Louis Simo, who is hired by Reeves’ mother to prove that her son didn’t take his own life, but was, in fact, murdered.
So what does Coulter think really happened to TV’s first Man of Steel?
“Let’s just say I came to the same conclusion as Louis Simo,” he said.
You’ll have to wait until Sept. 8 when the flick hits the theaters to find out what that is.