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08/30/2010 11:00 PM
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Ben Affleck, Filmmaker-Star, Rides Again in ‘The Town’
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 “The Town” gives Ben Affleck another chance to shine as writer, director and star.
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09/03/2009 11:00 PM
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Working in the Salt Mines: The Boss’s View
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 Mike Judge returns to the workplace with the comedy “Extract.”
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05/06/2009 11:00 PM
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The Curious Friendship of Weiner and Affleck
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 Representative Anthony D. Weiner of New York was Ben Affleck’s research subject as the actor prepared to play a young, overtly ambitious politician in “State of Play.”
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04/16/2009 11:00 PM
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The News on Paper, and Other Artifacts
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 The chance to explore the swiftly changing culture of Web-age journalism is one of several intriguing possibilities that “State of Play” squanders.
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01/31/2009 11:00 PM
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Keeping Things Human Size, Despite the Stars
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 Ken Kwapis’s multiple-character romantic comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You” fits into the director’s gentle niche.
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03/16/2008 11:00 PM
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Generation Obama? Perhaps Not.
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In Barack Obama’s political career, there is the calculation of ambition, and the construction of artifice, mixed in with a dash of deceit.
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02/26/2008 11:00 PM
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Late-Night TV Satires Become Online Hits
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 A satiric video in which Jimmy Kimmel talks enthusiastically jokingly, we are led to believe about his sexual relationship with Ben Affleck, has been a huge hit online.
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12/22/2007 11:00 PM
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One for the Money, One for the Art
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 In a year of surprises, some unknowns soared, and some big names plummeted.
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10/29/2007 11:00 PM
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Red Sox the New Yankees? Them’s Fighting Words
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 For a city that has long been known as the land of perpetual runners-up, winning has been quite a change for Boston.
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10/21/2007 11:00 PM
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Sure, He Can Direct Hit Movies, but Can He Do Commercials?
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While Hollywood’s top directors have been creating commercials for decades, they are now finding a new reason for ad work: to keep up in a multimedia world.
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10/18/2007 11:00 PM
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Human Frailty and Pain on Boston’s Mean Streets
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 With “Gone Baby Gone,” Ben Affleck has taken a satisfyingly tough look into conscience, to those dark places where some men also go astray.
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10/13/2007 11:00 PM
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Redemption Hunting
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 Ben Affleck, director, sets his film as well as his hopes back home in Boston.
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09/13/2007 11:00 PM
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ARTS, BRIEFLY; Vanished Child Case Delays Film Premiere
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Arts, Briefly column; British release and London Film Festival screening of Ben Affleck film Gone Baby Gone is delayed because of parallels to case of Madeleine McCann, British child who vanished in Portugal in May
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09/08/2007 11:00 PM
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AMY RYAN GONE BABY GONE
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Article discusses Amy Ryan's performance in new film Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck; photo
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01/25/2007 11:00 PM
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Sometimes Pulp Fiction Emphasizes Pulp Over Fiction
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 “Smokin’ Aces” is a Viagra suppository for compulsive action fetishists and a movie that may not only be dumb in itself, but also the cause of dumbness in others.
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