Ben Affleck

Details editor in chief Dan Peres was caught in a journalistic quandary on Tuesday afternoon, left wondering about misquotes—whether one was made by himself, or by one of his freelancers, Bart Blasengame.  read more »

Gone Baby Gone, written and directed by Ben Affleck, is a bleak but often quite brilliant movie.  read more »

New Yorkers hate the Red Sox. To suggest that New Yorkers also hate Red Sox fans is therefore a bit tautological. But this weekend, New Yorkers—lots of them—defied the national trend and went and saw Gone Baby Gone (#3), which was written and directed by the most famous Sox fan apart from John Kerry—what auspicious company!—Ben Affleck. While it failed to outgross (double entendre alert) vampire flick 30 Days of Night (#1) and that other movie about blood suckers, Michael Clayton (#2), it may be a sign that New Yorkers are maturing, willing to let bygones be bygones. Nah! No idea why people chose to see this movie. Not having Ben star in it couldn’t have hurt …  read more »

Fall is the season for 'quality' movies, the kinds of movies that make good showbiz at the Oscars. But that doesn't mean that fluffier stuff can't break out the box office: witness Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married, the No. 1 film last weekend over Elizabeth: The Golden Age.  read more »

What a terrible weekend for Ben Affleck.

Matt Damon’s The Bourne Ultimatum grossed roughly $71 million over the weekend—grabbing a little under $1 million in Manhattan alone—and Jennifer Lopez’s El Cantante, in which she stars along side her husband Marc Antony, opened in New York City with a $34,342 per screen average, finishing right behind The Simpsons Movie in total gross and nabbing the number 3 slot on our chart. (How’s that sequel of Daredevil coming, Ben? Oh, it’s not?)  read more »

In keeping with the magazine industry's longtime love affair with lists ("Top 5 Things Magazines Love: Lists, Sex Advice, iPods, Eva Longoria, and... Surprises!"), the American Society of Magazine Editors has announced their Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years.

Making the list are some predictable choices: Saul Steinberg's "View of the World from 9th Avenue," in The New Yorker; George Lois' Andy Warhol drowning in Campbell's soup for Esquire, and... surprises!

But less well-publicized was ASME's Worst 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years. Twenty of the selected covers were of the cast of Desperate Housewives in various configurations. The remaining 20 are listed below:

Vanity Fair, September 2005 (Paris Hilton Wearing White Her Way!).

Tie: Rolling Stone, November 27, 2003 (Housewife of the Year: Jessica Simpson); January 17, 1985 (The Secret Life of Hall and Oates).

New York, August 16, 2004 (Defending Joel Steinberg). Spin, September 2000 (Creed Confess Their Sins).

Tie: TIME, July 5, 1999 (Cruise & Kidman Like You've Never Seen Them); January 24, 2000 (The Big Deal: How The AOL-Time Warner Merger Happened).

Esquire, December 1995 (Jim Carrey Feels No Pain). The New Yorker, January 31, 1994 (AKA, 'Anthropomorphic Hassidic Bull with Horns').

Eleven-Way Tie: GQ, February 1998 (Big Ben: Ben Affleck Bellies Up to Stardom); Details, July 1999 (Ben Affleck: Armageddon's Rocket Man); Premiere, August 1999 (Ben Affleck Kicks Asteroid!); Vanity Fair, October 1999 (Ben Affleck: Gwyneth, Girl Talk, And the Whole Matt Thing); Talk, October 2000 (Ben Affleck: "People say I should live like a rock star"); People, February 21, 2000 (The Real Ben Affleck); GQ, May 2001 (Ben Affleck's Journey To Manhood); Details, April 2002 (Ben Affleck's True Hollywood Story); US Weekly, August 12, 2002 (J.Lo & Ben's Hot New Love); People, August 12, 2002 (J.Lo & Ben Affleck's Red-Hot Romance); US Weekly, November 4, 2002 (J.Lo & Ben Wedding on the Way?).  read more »

—Matt Haber

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Affleck's Lousy;(11)O'Toole's Soused Several otherwise serious people disgrace themselves in a stupi  read more »

Gus Van Sant Jr.'s Good Will Hunting , from a screenplay by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, has had more  read more »