Brace yourself. Visit your church or synagogue. Go into intense prayer, and if you are an atheist just make a wish that this event does not take place. Make sure you are nowhere where it can impact you. And make sure your kids never see it:
Ben Affleck is about to direct.
Is there no mercy in the universe?
It’s been so long since the words “Ben Affleck” and “hit” have appeared in the same sentence that the actor has decided to take matters into his own hands.Affleck, who won a screenwriting Oscar for co-writing 1997’s “Good Will Hunting,” willwrite and direct a movie called “Gone, Baby, Gone” in his native Boston in the fall, according to the Boston Herald.
No, it isn’t an autobiography about his movie career:
After a string of overhyped, underwhelming acting gigs in movies like “Gigli” and “Jersey Girl,” Affleck has tapped some Oscar-worthy source material for his directorial debut. The movie will be adapted from a novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, the author behind the 2003 Oscar nominee “Mystic River.”The story centers on two blue collar Boston private detectives hired to find a missing 4-year-old girl. Though Affleck originally thought about playing the lead character, Patrick Kenzie — with his ex, Jennifer Lopez, eyed as partner/girlfriend, Angie Gennaro, according to the Herald — he is not expected to act in the film. No word yet on casting for the movie.
Will it make Hiroshima seem like a cap gun?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.