March 14, 2004
Ben Affleck In Rolling Stone
Affleck says he doesn't know why their union caused such a hostile reaction. "Hopefully I can get far enough away from it in time to be able to get a better sense of it," he says, although he suspects the hostility "had something to do with race and class. That pushed a button. This is a country that flew into a gigantic uproar about Janet Jackson's breast. There's still a heavy-duty puritan influence going on, and we still hold ourselves to a pretty chaste ideal, which includes, buried within it, the tradition of people being with people like them. We were thought of as two different kinds of people, not just racially but culturally." Perhaps that's why the tabloids have gone easier on Lopez dating singer Marc Anthony. Affleck lights another of his menthol Marlboro Lights. "Basically, it just came down to, 'Wow, I never thought those two would get together.'"
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Maybe the hostile reaction had more to do with the fact that they're both insufferable and uninteresting people who had a number of well-publicized relationships and seemed terrifically unlikely to stay together, yet felt the need to constantly berate the public for its lack of faith in their relationship, all the while continuing to produce astonishingly bad crap, both separately and together? Playing the race card is inappropriate. Hollywood is like high school, only lamer.
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Sure forks, but that's pretty much a description of many celebrity relationships that people don't get angry about.
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Boo hoo. Ben Affleck is in Himbo Hell.
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It's okay to date Puff Daddy. It's okay to date Ben Affleck. But if you date Puff Daddy AND Ben Affleck... then you just like dating famous people.
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forks, ditto...totally.
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Agreed, Forky tells it true.
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Amen, forks. Personally, I can't stand the body of output from Benifer, or Ben, or Jennifer. I've never considered for a moment that race was part of this.
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Guardian Donning an anti-war totem is also popular. Among the actors who have said that they will wear anti-war badges are nominees Day-Lewis, Adrien Brody, Pedro Almod
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*cackles*
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Kevin Smith is a very smart man, and he respects both Afflect and Lopez as actors and as people. So who am I, who has never met them, to judge their characters? All I know is that Afflect has been very good in those few movies I have seen (I am looking forward to Jersey Girl), and is decidely more articulate than the average movie actor. I think the bit about schadenfreude summed it up. And what right do we have to scrutinise so heavily any relationship, save for those of ourselves and our loved ones? When I'm dictator of the world, I think I will outlaw celebrityness - all magasines about actors will have to be discussing theatrical and film theory only :) Actually, they would probably be all the more interesting for it.