Top Reads Ben Affleck’s big brother hug Ben Affleck was very emotional last night when Casey Affleck won the Oscar. He kissed and hugged his little brother. He was teary-eyed in the audience during Casey’s acceptance speech. Ben Affleck gives his brother Casey Affleck a big hug and a kiss for winning Best Actor at the By Lainey • Feb 27, 2017 04:25 pm
Break Ups A year since the “ashes” It’s been exactly a year since Jennifer Garner covered Vanity Fair and gave the magazine one of the best celebrity magazine interviews of 2016, if not THE best celebrity magazine interview of 2016. One of the best celebrity magazine interviews in years. I just re-read it. And since it’ By Lainey • Feb 17, 2017 01:39 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Beyoncé’s blessing, Ben's admission, and the mothers of superheroes Duana and I had always intended for this week’s episode of Show Your Work to be about Beyoncé, because this weekend was the one year anniversary of Formation. Then, well, Beyoncé released the Beyoncé Pregnancy Package and so, obviously, we had to discuss the rollout of the announcement, and By Lainey • Feb 06, 2017 03:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck sheds some Bat-responsibility Continuing the “something is rotten in the state of Denmark” trend, Ben Affleck released a statement last night that he will not, after all, direct The Batman, the stand-alone Bat-movie he’s been developing. There were already questions about what is actually going on with this movie, and now it By Sarah • Jan 31, 2017 09:31 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Ben Affleck’s tarnished glow A few days ago Lainey wrote about the luck forecast for Rats this year, and she name-checked Ben Affleck as a Rat who could have a lucky year, if only he can maintain his focus. And he’s going to need to maintain his focus to channel his luck this By Sarah • Jan 27, 2017 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck in Live By Night Unlike The Accountant, which is dumb in a coked-up Eighties action movie way, Live By Night is dumb in a self-important Oscar bait kind of way. Ben Affleck tries to make a movie that both pays homage to classic gangster films—The Godfather but for the Irish mob except that By Sarah • Jan 16, 2017 03:02 pm
BFFs Ben Affleck’s “Tom Brady secrets” Ben Affleck was on Jimmy Kimmel last night. Kimmel teased him about not being thanked by Casey Affleck at the Golden Globes when Casey won Best Actor in a Drama. Ben thanked Casey when he won his first Oscar. Somehow the conversation ended up at Tom Brady. And then this By Lainey • Jan 10, 2017 04:40 pm
Assy Style Ben Affleck, Zoe Saldana, and Sienna Miller: the Globes threesome It’s an obvious title. But I like the obviousness as it relates to Ben Affleck and, you know, the assumed and presumed temptations of Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck was there to promote Live By Night. He kept a pretty low profile all evening. I guess it was his way By Lainey • Jan 09, 2017 03:46 am
Ben Affleck Ben Affleck’s blonde “date” Many of you have emailed today about the new photos of Ben Affleck in the Daily Mail. Apparently he was out yesterday with an unidentified blonde woman for most of the day. There are some disputes about when this actually happened though because of the date on the sign in By Lainey • Jan 06, 2017 01:27 pm
Ben Affleck Batfleck hedges on Batman Ever since Ben Affleck signed on as Batman, it’s been assumed he would make a solo Batman movie for the Justice League era. The movie, as of now titled The Batman and penciled in for a late 2018 release, was assumed to begin production in the spring. A few By Sarah • Jan 05, 2017 08:49 am
Relationship Assumption Lopizzy at the casino If you weren’t keeping up on gossip during the holidays (how DARE you?), here’s why I call them Lopizzy. As expected, Lopizzy celebrated New Year’s Eve in Vegas where Drake was paid to perform at Hakkasan. JLO was supposed to get paid to perform in Miami but By Lainey • Jan 03, 2017 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for January 3, 2017 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! Hope your holiday was restful. Because we are right back into it. Golden Globes on Sunday. Awards every weekend. And Hollywood divorce court all month too. Ready? Ben Affleck’s Live By Night opened in limited release at Christmas but will go wide a week By Lainey • Jan 03, 2017 08:08 am
Ben Affleck Lopizzy at the prom Holy sh-t, is it actually possible that 2016 has finally decided to stop being a f-cking asshole and close out on something awesome? Last night there was some kind of prom-themed party in LA. Jennifer Lopez was there. With Drake. And, OBVIOUSLY, they were crowned prom queen and king. And By Lainey • Dec 30, 2016 11:32 am
Siblings Morning Ben Ben Affleck was in New York last night for the premiere of Live By Night. Then he had to be up early this morning for The Today Show and an interview with Matt Lauer. I don’t think Ben’s able to handle those late nights as well as he By Lainey • Dec 14, 2016 12:30 pm
TV Updates Matt & Ben’s great timing Good Will Hunting came out 19 years ago this week. That was the beginning of Matt and Ben. Damon and Affleck. And all the hysteria that followed and now the nostalgia that’s replaced it. Will there be some kind of 20 year anniversary celebration next year? Matt and Ben By Lainey • Nov 30, 2016 12:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck is fine Critical status update report—Casey Affleck, actor and Oscar hopeful, continues to be absolutely, totally, 100% okay despite serious allegations of sexual harassment. The latest pit stop on the Casey Affleck Is Doing Just Fine Tour is the National Board of Review, where he won Best Actor for his performance By Sarah • Nov 30, 2016 12:06 pm
