Matt Damon

Morning Memo: Lindsay Lohan's New 'Partying' Method; 'Gay Gay' Clooney Pops the Question?


Did George Clooney pop the question? [Marie Claire UK]

All this while he avows that he is "gay, gay" (and not "gay, gay, gay"): "That third 'gay' was pushing it."[People]

Matt Damon's rep confirms he and his wife Luciana are expecting. [People]  read more »

Matt Damon: 'Sexiest Man Alive'

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Joining the lofty ranks of Hollywood dreamboats like George Clooney and Brad Pitt, Matt Damon has been named People magazine’s newest “sexiest man alive.” No longer the boyish beefcake he was in Mystic Pizza or even Good Will Hunting, Mr. Damon, 37, told the magazine: “You gave an aging suburban dad the ego boost of a lifetime … My 9-year-old stepdaughter now thinks I’m cool—well, cooler.”

The Margaret star—who is also the father of a one-year-old daughter with his wife, Luciana Bozan—also flexed his funny muscle in his letter to People. “Unfortunately, after all those years out on the trail, the meet and greets, the fundraiser, the stump speeches, I’ve finally come to terms with the fact that this is a mantle I wasn’t meant to hold,” he wrote. The “sexiest man alive” issue will hit newsstands on Friday.

Damon named People’s ‘sexiest man alive’ [AP via Yahoo]

Bourne, Again! Damon Dodges Sequel-Slump, Leaps Rooftops, Seduces Ms. Stiles in Style

Lone ranger: Damon as Bourne
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Lone ranger: Damon as Bourne

Underlings get blown up! Broads bat eyes! Free of doltish buddy Ben, the deceptively bland Matt Damon spans the globe!  read more »

What About Ben? Damon and Lopez Hit Paydirt

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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 »

Matt Damon, That Hard-Working Beaver, Ends Bourne Trilogy With a Bang

Vroom, vroom! Matt in action.
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Vroom, vroom! Matt in action.

Who needs Bond, anyway? This franchise has bigger thrills, splashier spills, cagier villains—and that classy dame, Joan Allen!  read more »

Soderbergh’s Soggy Casino Caper Could Use a Few More Dames

Inside jokers: Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and George Clooney in <i>Ocean’s 13</i>.
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Inside jokers: Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and George Clooney in Ocean’s 13.

Clooney is skinny and Pitt is pulchritudinous! But they bring too much man-love to the unnecessary Ocean’s three-quel.  read more »

Terror-Porn Rampage, From Sleeper Cell To New Spielberg

<i>Sleeper Cell</i>
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Sleeper Cell

Can we say goodbye now to terror porn?  read more »

Mistaken Identity

Astoundingly, Matt Damon finds the time to write, produce, raise money to develop new screenplays by  read more »

You've Got Millions … Caddy-Schlock: Paging Bill Murray!

You've Got MillionsAfter his Battlefield Earth fiasco, John Travolta needs a new supply of cinematic  read more »

It Feels Good to Hate Gwyneth And Matt!

The Matt-Gwyneth BacklashIn Manhattan, everyone's a movie critic.  read more »

Bill Clinton, Rainmaker, and Other Scary Ideas

Between Christmas and New Year's, I found myself wandering the streets of Manhattan in a black funk.  read more »

To Ripley, With Love ... Not Mooning Over Kaufman

The 10 Best Films of 19991. American Beauty.

2. The Talented Mr. Ripley.  read more »

3. The Hurricane.

Hunting Oscars: Matt Damon, Part II; Hollywood Comes Late to Sarajevo

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