Here we thought we had Ben Affleck pegged. He's a washed up actor who was effortlessly upstaged by a seven-year-old in Please Stop Making Movies, Kevin Smith (Or was that one called Jersey Girl? We can't remember.) and by a shovel in Surviving Christmas, and in his personal life he tags along carrying little Violet in the Baby Bjorn while his wife calls the shots, and he tries to get away for a ball game or a round of poker when the wife lets go of his balls. All in all rather a boring chap. But today he's just full of surprises.
Shock #1: It turns out that maybe Ben can act after all. Sure, he's playing an "affable, good-looking actor who falls on hard times" in Hollywoodland, so it's not really a stretch, but we thought we'd never live to hear praise for an Affleck performance, unless of course he was cast in a film opposite Al Pacino, Faye Dunaway, and Nicolas Cage and the praise was limited to him being the cast member with the least amount of set dressing in his stomach at the end of the day.
Shock #2: The guy might know how to have a little bit of fun. Watch this here video from 2004 and you'll understand. Trust us, it's worth five minutes of your time. When you see a guy who's capable of burying his face in a female reporter's bosom and proclaiming, "These breasts are very firm. Suspiciously firm I have to say. They are like two giant stones" and all he gets in return is girlish giggles and smiles you definitely want to be his friend and learn all of his secrets so that when you try the same thing you don't get kneed in the gonads. Pretty soon Ben Affleck is going to have more friends than Fred Rogers. Way to turn it around there, O'Bannion.
Thrill to Fleck at MaleStars.com.
