Archive for Matt Damon

The Vanity Fair Cover Gives Us Our Fill Of Insanely Hot Dudes

We realized today that we weren’t doing justice to our end of the gender spectrum. We love keeping you up-to-date with all the hottest magazine covers as and when they release, but the majority of those are of actresses and models. What about the dudes? How about a slice of action for the ladies? We and Vanity Fair are obviously on the same wavelength because they decided to establish a little more gender balance with a triple whammy on their February cover. Behold the Holy Trinity of hotness in all their glory — Daniel Craig, George Clooney and Matt Damon. It’s almost too much to handle! We’re definitely going to pick up the issue for the article titled, “The Proust Smackdown: Clooney vs. Craig vs. Damon,” which features all three actors’ responses to the mag’s signature questionnaire.

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Matt Damon Puts President Obama On Blast For Lack Of “Balls”

It’s only a matter of time before Matt Damon gets into politics, isn’t it? Just give him a few more years to get rid of that baby face and he’s going to go all Alec Baldwin on us, minus that unsettling airplane incident. In the meantime, Damon has been sharpening his claws on President Obama‘s pant leg. Metaphorically-speaking. “I’ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grassroots level. One of them said to me, ‘Never again. I will never be fooled again by a politician,’” Damon gripes in a new interview for Elle Magazine. “You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.” Whoa, Matt! Them’s genital-related fighting words!

Apparently not a fan of the Commander-in-Chief, Damon made similarly critical remarks last March while at a junket for The Adjustment Bureau, saying of Obama, “I think he’s rolled over to Wall Street completely. The economy has huge problems. We still have all these banks that are too big to fail.” Don’t worry, Matt. Soon enough the country will be able to benefit from all the political knowledge you gained from starring in We Bought a Zoo. Soon enough.

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Ben Affleck And Matt Damon Reunite For Mobster Movie

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are teaming up once again, and not just in our dreams where we revert to our inner boy-crazy eighth graders. Reuniting for their first joint venture since Good Will Hunting, Affleck and Damon will partner up for a biopic of recently captured crime boss Whitey Bulger. The two will direct and star, respectively. “Matt and I have been looking for something to do together for some time. We’ve heard about Whitey Bulger since we were kids, and we are excited by the prospect of putting it on screen,” Affleck said, according to Deadline. Based on our Matt Damon And Ben Affleck: BFFs Forever time line, these two were due for a new project to further their fourteen-year professional history together. On top of that, squee!

1997: Matt and Ben clean up at the 1998 Oscars with Good Will Hunting, snagging a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for themselves, a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Robin Williams and seven other nominations for pretty much every other category.
1999: Matt and Ben wreak some havoc as fallen angels in Kevin Smith’s Dogma.
2001 to 2005: Matt and Ben team up with other directors and writers for HBO’s Project Greenlight, a contest and TV series dedicated to producing one film from one first-time filmmaker per season.
2003 and 2004: With the help of Matt, Ben makes it through the release of Gigli and Jersey Girl, as well as the cultural phenomenon that was Bennifer.
2010: Ben presented the award to honoree Matt at last year’s American Cinematheque 24th Annual Award Presentation.

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Michael Douglas: Obviously The Best Liberace

So, Michael Douglas. He was kinda funny in “Romancing the Stone,” we guess. And he had to have had a sense of humor to agree to “The In-Laws” and “Me, You & Dupree” (we can’t even remember what he did in that movie, having successfully erased it from our damaged brains). But there’s really not anything in the man’s filmography to suggest that he’s the perfect man to play the most fabulous piano player of all time, Liberace. Close your eyes and picture Gordon Gekko getting out of a mirrored Rolls. If that’s difficult, we can’t even get to the 200-pound “King Neptune” costume and rhinestone-encrusted Baldwin grand (Liberace Museum, R.I.P.).

But maybe this is all proof of the genius of Steven Soderbergh, who has also cast Matt Damon(!) as the showman’s live-in lover for the HBO film, Behind the Candelabra, according to Deadline. (Surprising casting aside, maybe VH1 deserves some royalties for that name.) We shall see. In the meantime, watch Liberace deliver the best sign off music of all time.

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Three Burning Questions About Scarlett Johansson’s (Alleged) Nude Picture Scandal

It’s been about eight hours or so since nude photos of a young woman that bares a striking resemblance to Scarlett Johansson were leaked online. After seeing the seismic force with which these photos hit the Internet, it’s a wonder that all of the underground tubes through which information flows to the World Wide Web—the Internet is powered by underground tubes, right???—didn’t rupture and burst. Thankfully, Al Gore had the foresight to envision the necessary precautions that needed to be undertaken in case of exactly this sort of incident back when he invented the Information Superhighway™.

We here at TheFABLife have been debating not only the authenticity of these (alleged) ScarJo nudes all day, but also the rationale for them. To that end, here are three burning questions that we demand President Obama answer in a televised address by nightfall (all of which assume that it is actually Miss Johansson who appears in these pics):

1) WHO WAS SCARLETT JOHANSSON SEXTING, ANYWAY?
That is a great question! Alas, only Scarlett, the end recipient, and probably some C.I.A. operatives with high-level security clearance* that gives them the access to wiretap anyone in the United States at will have the answer to that question for sure. However, we DID do some research to help narrow it down. According to the metadata in the pictures, these photographs were “Taken with a BlackBerry Bold 9000 Last Modified Date/Time = 20:25, Oct 12, 2010.” Hmmm, where was ScarJo on October 12 of last year? Well, internet sleuths have already determined that she was in her bedroom. Based on that, the lucky louie that she sent them to be could be: Her husband at the time, Ryan Reynolds (though they would go on to divorce just two months later); her Broadway co-star, Liev Schreiber (the gossip mill seriously churned during A View From The Bridge‘s run); or possibly even one of her We Bought A Zoo co-stars Matt Damon (who is happily married) or Thomas Haden Church (who is happily unmarried). What we DO know is that she almost certainly didn’t send them to Sean Penn, because those two didn’t hook up until March of 2011.

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Matt Damon Vs. Jake Gyllenhaal: Battle of the Bald Badasses

So much is written when actresses chop their locks, but now it’s time to talk about some dudes who went for a dramatic new ‘do. A-List studs Jake Gyllenhaal and Matt Damon have both gone under the razor recently and shaved their domes down to the scalp. It’s not a fashion statement; the men traded in their manes for their roles in upcoming movies. Damon is hard at work filming Elysium in Vancouver, while Jake is donning blues as an LA cop in End Of Watch. It may be a shock, but the shiny-look is sure to keep them cool in the sweltering summer days still to come. Who do you think wears the cueball look the best? Let us know in the poll below!

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Matt Damon Schools Interviewer On Education Policy, Makes Mom Proud

Hurray for this video of Matt Damon from the Million Teacher March last weekend, who drops some serious education policy knowledge on a interviewer as his mom — a teacher — looks on with a smirk. The reporter seems to be saying that, with tenure and unions, teachers have zero motivation to work hard — an opinion that obviously does not sit well with Damon. He then unleashes the knowledge dragon on both the lady and her camera-man, who also gets into the mix. The whole thing is accentuated by Damon’s shaved head, which only makes him look even more bad-ass.

The clip above is NSFW for people who are sensitive to swear words. Yes, Damon cusses to make his point. How about them apples?

(Matt gave the keynote address at the March — clip below the jump.)

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Contagion Trailer Confirms Fear That Gwyneth Paltrow Will Cause Your Death

You always had a lurking suspicion that Gwyneth Paltrow would somehow be the death of you, though before today you assumed it would be the result of terminal eye rolling induced by a DVD of Country Strong, rather an unstoppable outbreak of the bird flu. Either way, now you can see your fear play out in real time in the new Contagion trailer, which has Paltrow turning up the sweaty jaundice as the first victim of a global pandemic that the CDC must race to contain. So basically it looks like Outbreak, but with an Academy Award-winning actress instead of a little escaped monkey.

Costarring Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet and Jude Law, the thriller is currently scheduled for release September 9 of this year. Of course, it’s not fair to place all the blame on a diseased Paltrow. As Jude puts it in the trailer, “No one has to weaponize the bird flu. The birds are doing that.” So really the film seems more like The Happening, but with pigeons instead of tress. We warned you: whatever you do, do not let your eyes start rolling. There’s not telling if they can ever be stopped!

Tobey Maguire Sued Over Illegal High-Stakes Poker Games

Wow, we always sort of pictured Tobey Maguire as a quiet, smiling quasi-wiener of a guy, maybe with some blueberry pie smeared on his face that he doesn’t know about. However, it seems the actor has been dropping that Cider House Rules money when he shouldn’t have, and now Tobey Maguire’s gambling winnings are being called out in a lawsuit that makes Tobey seem shockingly hard-core. Allegedly Maguire frequently takes part in illegal poker games populated by celebrities and millionaires (which fits with what we suspected about famous people). Maguire might have been able to keep his Bond-esque nighttime activities private if he hadn’t won money from Bradley Ruderman, a hedge fund manager who used his clients money in the games, thereby enabling card shark Maguire to buy all the short-sleeved button downs his mild heart could desire.

Ruderman is currently in jail for defrauding investors, and trustees of his bankrupt company are trying to get back the reported $25 million he lost to various high-rollers, including $311,200 currently stuffed in Maguire’s wallet. Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck also took part in the poker games, but aren’t being sued, despite how cool that would make all of them seem right now. Other players such as The Notebook‘s Nick Cassavetes have been named in the lawsuit, meaning that while we were weeping into our sweatshirts over Noah and Allie finally getting together in the rain, Cassavetes was making it rain hundos all over the Hollywood elite.

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Bono Brings Big Names To Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Opening Night

Bono and The Edge may tell the media that Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is only “90% done,” but that didn’t stop them from rolling the red carpet out for the powerful pals at Tuesday’s opening night performance. Among the celebs on hand for the musical’s first “official” performance (following months of notorious “previews”) were former President Bill Clinton, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Jay-Z, Cindy Crawford, Spike Lee and Helena Christiansen. Even original director Julie Taymor, fired after refusing to make changes to the critically maligned, accident-prone show was on hand despite her lawsuit against the producers. It’s been a long decade to this moment for the musical’s makers—will staying on Broadway be even harder?

See photos of the red carpet and curtain call in the gallery below.

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