Matt Damon and Wife

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Hilarious! Matt Damon impersonates McBongo on Letterman. Here's a link to the clip on YouTube.

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Hilarious! Matt Damon impersonates McBongo on Letterman. Here's a link to the clip on YouTube.

That clip was good ~ thanks for the link!

 

So he and McBongo use to hang out back when they were both "broke actors"? Why is that not a surprise?

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Hard To Swallow

 

"THE Good Shepherd" had an exemplary story - it was just the casting that wasn't believable. In an interview with Chris Matthews on "Hardball" to air tonight, Matt Damon says his biggest problem with the script is that his character is married to Angelina Jolie - and ignores her because he's obsessed with his job and another woman. Matthews sums it up: "You're married to Angelina Jolie and you've got no time for her, which is kind of hard to believe."

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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Will Reunite

 

 

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon do hope to work with each other again. However, finding the right project has been tough for the best friends.

 

Damon said: "Ben and I found a project to co-direct that we might be able to get off the ground. We're just kind of on the hunt for something good.

 

"Directing feels like a natural extension, having written and then acted for all these years. It just feels like I've got to try it."

 

 

Ben Affleck is better when he's taken in small does onscreen, so a co-directing project with Matt Damon sounds perfect to me.

 

 

 

Damon and Affleck to reunite [Virgin.net]

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MIAMI HEAT

 

Matt Damon is a man in constant motion, hitting the streets of Miami for a jog on Wednesday. Days earlier the Good Shepherd star was spotted hitting the links in the Sunshine State.

 

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NYDN

 

New York Minute

 

Matt Damon and his family were spotted shopping for bedding at ABC Carpet & Home. Gushes a spy: "Their baby girl is beyond adorable, dressed all in pink as Mama bundled her in her winter coat on one of the beds in the department.

Matt was courteous enough to take a photo with the sales ladies that helped them, even taking off his baseball cap so they could get a good face shot."

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CIA expert says Damon is too 'fat' for spy film

 

Mission Implausible: Matt Damon in new film The Good Shepherd

 

An expert on the CIA reveals how Hollywood bungled its chance to tell an astonishing true spy story...'I told Matt Damon he'd be a perfect spy - if he wasn't so short, fat, pretty and white', he reveals

 

It began with a meeting in Chelsea with the film producer Oliver Stone.

 

'I've bought your book on James Jesus Angleton and I'm going to film it,' he said rather pugnaciously.

 

'No you haven't, I replied. 'Yes I have,' he insisted.

 

We worked our way through two bottles of Pinot Noir before it turned out he'd bought a different book about James Jesus Angleton, the former head of counter-intelligence for the CIA, whose biography I had written in 1991.

 

Then last year I took a call from a film director friend who said: 'Can I bring Matt Damon round to your place tomorrow?

 

'He's playing Angleton in the film of your book.'

 

'It's not my book,' I replied wearily, 'but bring him over anyway.'

 

Damon arrived wearing a woollen hat, T-shirt and jeans. We sat in the drawing room, my wife couldn't take her eyes off him and we gossiped for two hours.

 

This week Damon's film The Good Shepherd opened in Britain.

 

It purports to be the story of Angleton, but it is a wholly fictionalised account - and the real, remarkable man has been airbrushed into a Hollywood shape.

 

'Am I right for the part?' Damon had asked me.

 

'Look,' I said, 'you're a very handsome, not unduly tall, blue-eyed, blonde-haired, open-faced Caucasian.

 

Jim Angleton was a 6ft 1in, half-Mexican, sallow-faced, brown-eyed, wide-mouthed, stooping, secretive, ghostly figure who always wore dark clothes and a black homburg.'

 

I didn't add that Damon is to Angleton what Peter Pan would have been to Marlon Brando.

 

The Good Shepherd is watchable if overlong.

 

But why mess with the truth when it is so much more dramatic than Hollywood invention?

 

Angleton joined the CIA in 1948 and formed a deep friendship with Kim Philby. When Philby was unmasked as an MI6 traitor, Angleton never recovered.

 

To be the CIA's chief spy-catcher is a rotten enough job without your best friend betraying you.

 

But Angleton achieved much. He helped buy democracy for Italy and Greece after the war; he understood the true evil of Stalin's regime; he was involved in procuring the top-secret, earth-shaking text of Khrushchev's speech in which Stalin was denounced; he was a one-man praetorian guard for what he perceived were the traditional values of the West.

 

He had a great sense of humour, too, but the secret world eventually attacked his reason.

 

He formed a catastrophic liaison with a deeply-flawed KGB defector, Anatoli Golitsin, who convinced him that all future Soviet defectors to the West would be fake.

 

At home in Washington though, Angleton was a skilled operator, passing on gossip about powerful figures to his bosses in his usual sly and mysterious nose-tapping way.

 

When one of John F. Kennedy's mistresses was murdered in her Washington apartment, Angleton and his men arrived within minutes of the police alert and (illegally) sanitised the property, removing marijuana, letters and photographs.

 

'A secret is not a secret unless it stays secret,' he used to tell his wife Cicely if she asked him about his job.

 

In time, however, alcohol, the influence of Golitsin and post-Philby paranoia began to wreak havoc with Angleton - The Good Shepherd would have worked better if his dark side had been explored on screen.

 

The truth is, Angleton was responsible for the destruction of several innocent people who were fingered as 'spies' by Golitsin or who fell foul of Angleton's prejudices.

 

The most disgraceful case was that of Yuriy Nosenko, which is hinted at in a wholly inaccurate sequence in The Good Shepherd.

 

Just as well - the truth would have left the audience hissing the hero.

 

Lt Col Yuriy Nosenko defected from the KGB to the West in 1964. He brought with him a treasure trove of Soviet secrets, but Angleton and Golitsin agreed he was a fake.

 

The Russian was seized by CIA officers in Washington.

 

Wires were strapped to his head and he was told this was an electroencephalograph, which could read his brain waves - utter nonsense.

 

He was then held in solitary confinement in a 10ft-square attic.

 

 

Endlessly interrogated, he was fed very little food, allowed to wash only once a week and given no radio, television or reading materials.

 

After 1,277 days he was tied up like a parcel, shot down a laundry chute into a station wagon and taken to a custom-made prison cell for the next two years.

 

What Nosenko did not know was that a powerful anti-Angleton faction within the CIA was trying to release him.

 

On March 1, 1969 he was acknowledged to be a genuine defector, formally released and employed by the CIA.

 

When his personal belongings were returned, his most valuable possession, a Sputnik-commemoration watch, was missing.

 

He later saw it on the wrist of a CIA doctor who had examined him.

 

'The handling of Nosenko was a frolic of others,' said a cowardly Angleton as the truth was revealed.

 

He left the CIA, addicted to alcohol and in disgrace - though, to be fair, no real Soviet spy penetrated the CIA on his watch.

 

Perhaps this is material for another film, not one 'based on' true events. This version could be fully documented as an account of the awesome pressures some Cold War warriors had to endure, and the terrible price we must pay for eternal vigilance.

 

Tom Mangold's book Cold Warrior - James Jesus Angleton

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Opening Cannes of 'Blueberry'

 

 

The 60th annual Cannes Film Festival opens tonight with the screening of director Wong Kar-wai's English-language My Blueberry Nights, starring Jude Law, Norah Jones, Natalie Portman, and Rachel Weisz. A bevy of top Hollywood stars are expected to walk the festival's famed red carpet during the upcoming week and a half, including George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Craig, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie. The festival is also scheduled to screen edgy artistic efforts from some of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers. Many critics who have made the trek to Cannes annually have commented that this year's lineup is one of the strongest ever. "Cannes manages to blend glitz and artistic credibility in a way no other film festival does," the Associated Press commented today.

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'Ocean's Thirteen' Cast Bands Together For Darfur

Filed under: Brad Pitt , Don Cheadle , George Clooney , Matt Damon

 

 

It looks like the cast and crew of "Ocean's Thirteen" got together for a little pre-party before the premiere of their new film. It's glad to know that the gang has as much fun off set as they do on set. They are getting their partying out of the way, so they can use the Cannes premiere to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur.

Actors George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle, as well as producer Jerry Weintraub, have agreed to use the premiere of the film to focus on what is happening in Darfur.

 

The group will use their website www.notonourwatchproject.org.

 

Producer Jerry Weintraub told Access Hollywood, "All the guys have been to the Sudan this year. They saw this huge genocide and nobody doing anything about it, Clooney got attention earlier, but it faded. We decided to dedicate ourselves to this. The thing I am most proud of by far is that these events will benefit a cause that is very important to me and my colleagues."

It's definitely well worth the focus. Thanks George!

 

More photos of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle and Matt Damon after the jump.

 

 

Posted by: Jessica Marx

http://socialitelife.com/2007/05/22/oceans..._for_darfur.php

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Clooney & Co gamble by taking Ocean's 13 to Cannes

 

The men of "Ocean's Thirteen" -- Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon and the rest -- rolled into Cannes this week betting its notoriously tough film critics would declare their movie a winner.

 

The follow-up to two previous "Ocean's" capers about a group of con artists led by suave Danny Ocean (Clooney) and Rusty Ryan (Pitt), who swindle money from bad guys, opens at the world's top film festival on Thursday and lands in theatres in June.

 

A Cannes debut represents a risk for a major Hollywood movie like "Ocean's" because reviewers in the French Riviera resort tend to throw their support behind European, Asian and U.S. art house films, and foresake Hollywood studio fare like "Ocean's."

 

But Pitt, Clooney and the gang defended "Ocean's" as a form of pure entertainment that deserved its place alongside films like Cannes opening night movie "My Blueberry Nights" from Chinese director Wong Kar Wai.

 

"There is a fair argument for deep and thought-provoking ... types of films as well as pure, unadulterated entertainment," Pitt told Reuters.

 

Damon, another of the "Ocean's" stars, said: "You still want the bigger movies to be good."

 

But sometimes the critics in Cannes misread the mood of the public when it comes to big-budget Hollywood films.

 

Last year, studio film "The Da Vinci Code" opened the festival with a smattering of boos from Cannes audiences, poor reviews and newspaper headlines that immediately trumpeted the poor reception.

 

Yet "Da Vinci" went on to haul in $232 million in its initial weekend following the Cannes premiere, and it still ranks as No. 4 on the list of all-time worldwide debuts.

 

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT?

 

With years of movie experience behind it, the "Ocean's" crew knows as well as anyone that the marketing muscle of a major Hollywood studio can often guarantee big box office, despite what could be a round of poor reviews at Cannes.

 

With that box office logic in mind, the stars were happy to joke about what awaited them.

 

"It's really not about the film, as much as (winning) the award," Clooney quipped, referring to the coveted Palme d'Or handed out to the best film in Cannes. "Ocean's Thirteen" is not in competition and so does not qualify for the award.

 

"We think we're going to win," joked Damon.

 

In the film, the follow-up to "Ocean's Eleven" and "Ocean's Twelve," Danny reunites the crew that includes intellectual geek Linus Caldwell (Damon) and mechanical whiz Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle) to exact revenge on Vegas casino operator Willy Bank (Al Pacino).

 

Bank has swindled a senior member of Ocean's crew, Reuben Tishkoff (Elliot Gould), out of his share of a new casino Bank is building. The underhanded thievery gives Tishkoff a heart attack and sends him into deep despair.

 

Ocean calls the men together to help rouse the old man back to life, and the way to do it is to hit Bank's new casino on the night of its grand opening.

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'Ocean's Thirteen' Cast Are Some Pretty Good Fundraisers

Filed under: Brad Pitt , Cannes , Charity , Don Cheadle , Ellen Barkin , George Clooney , Matt Damon

 

 

What do ya know. The party that the 'Ocean's' cast threw to help repair Darfur as part of the Not on Our Watch project raised $9.2 million Tuesday night. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and producer Jerry Weintraub appeared on "Good Morning America" to deliver the good news.

"We had a big night last night," Clooney told ABC's Diane Sawyer. "We raised a lot of money. The big surprise for us was Steven Spielberg donated $1 million last night. That really kicked us over the top."

 

Clooney and fellow "Oceans" star Cheadle have been heavily involved in projects to save Darfur. Clooney has gone before the United Nations to ask for more peacekeeping forces in the region; Cheadle has testified before subcommittees.

 

"The $9 million is for the refugee camps," Clooney said. "And we want to immediately effect change and help people survive through the next months."

Nice going guys!

 

 

More photos (George Clooney, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Ellen Barkin) from the "Ocean's Thirteen" photocall in Cannes after the jump.

 

 

 

 

 

Posted by: Jessica Marx

http://socialitelife.com/2007/05/24/oceans...fundraisers.php

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ALOHA REUNION

It's a goodwill gathering! Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck and daughter Violet, 18 months, celebrate Father's Day with pal Matt Damon and his family in Hawaii on Sunday.

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Cute pic of the group!

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Why So Glum?

 

 

I can't STAND Julia Stiles. She always has this rubbery look on her face that is perfect for punching! She should be smiling from ear to effin ear. She's one of the lucky ones. Bitch can't act and she has a face like Gumby's granmama. I don't know who's worse? Julia or Kiki Dunst!

 

Anyway, Julia brought her glum face to the "Bourne Ultimatum" premiere in Hollywood last night. Julia stars with Matt Damon in the third Jason Bourne movie. I will only watch this if Julia's character dies a fiery death.

 

I know...I'm so angry this morning. I haven't had my morning enema.

 

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner also attended, because that's what they do.

 

 

 

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Matt Damon Works Hard for Tha Money

Filed under: Matt Damon

 

 

The opening over the weekend for "The Bourne Ultimatum," was Matt Damon's best yet, and he is currently riding high on both the success of his most recent film, as well as his recent placement atop the Forbes Ultimate Star Payback list. The list takes the stars who have been most successful in earning back the money paid to them for their films. A film's net revenue is calculated and then divided by what the actor was paid for the movie. And so far, (not including the "The Bourne Ultimatum") Matt Damon is the number one celebrity on that list, boasting a $29 per dollar earning for each of his last three movies. However, Forbes is quick to point out that earning power, doesn't necessarily determine an actor's mass appeal.

"The biggest stars in Hollywood are not the actors that deliver the biggest returns," Forbes senior editor Michael Ozanian said in a statement.

Who cares? It's another fun listy-list and you know we all love us some lists! Go Matt Damon! I think I'm going to cash out my 401k and just buy some stock in him. And rocket shoes, of course. It's important to diversify.

 

Photos from the "Bourne Ultimatum" Australian premiere:

 

 

Posted by: Lisa Timmons

http://socialitelife.com/2007/08/07/matt_d...r_tha_money.php

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Matt Damon Calls Out BFF Ben Affleck

 

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon might be good friends, but Matt has no problem pointing out that his good friend might have been his own worst enemy when it came to his career. Damon, who is riding high on the success of his "Bourne" trilogy, talked about how he believes that his buddy went through a time in his life when he was so overexposed, he was having trouble getting moviegoers into seats.

 

"He picked things that in hindsight weren't a good choice.

 

"I also think that if you end up on the cover of gossip magazines you're f**ked.

 

"When people see you all the time there's no mystery about you any more and no-one's going to want to go and see your movies."

 

Now, on the surface, it seems like Matt might be talking some smack about his old friend, but I'm guessing from those LOADS of pictures from their double-date vacation in Hawaii recently, he's just being honest. At the same time, I bet Ben just looks at Matt and says, "Yeah, I made bad choices. But then again, I got to bang JLO during the Latin Explosion. I'm a part of history."

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Guess who's getting animated?

I just received this slightly jarring image of an actor in cartoon form. Guess his identity:

 

Yep, it's Matt Damon. He'll play himself on the Sept. 3 episode of PBS' Arthur, only the Arthur-ized version has him sporting bear ears and a button nose.

 

It seems the show has started a Project Greenlight-esque program where kids can send in videos of themselves. The results are pretty cute -- cuter than what we saw on Project Greenlight, anyway!

 

Photo: 2007 WGBH/Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc.

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Matt Damon is playing down his position as No1 Hollywood actor.

 

Speaking at the premiere of the Bourne Ultimatum, in Leicester Square he said: “It feels a little ridiculous.”

 

The 36-year-old has just been named Hollywood’s most notable actor - above Brad Pitt - in a survey by US business website Forbes.

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“Don’t think I haven’t reminded Brad Pitt of that,” he quipped before getting serious on the matter.

 

“Box office is never to do with the talent. There are a lot of really great actors who are sitting at home and my phone’s ringing right now. But I know it’s not always gonna be that way.

 

“There’s an ebb and flow to the business and I’m in the flow right now. It’s great, I’m enjoying it.”

 

The married father-of-one also revealed he hopes to work with business partner and fellow actor Ben Affleck again soon.

 

The Bourne Ultimatum is the third installment in the Paul Greengrass’ spy series which has taken the box office by storm, both here and in the US.

 

It opens nationwide Friday August 17. To hear more of what Matt had to say and watch Mirror.co.uk's Bourne Ultimatum red carpet interviews go to the video player or play below.

 

DAILY MIRROR

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people.com

 

Matt Damon: Having a Family Changed My Life

TUESDAY AUGUST 21, 2007 02:55 PM EDT

 

By Courtney Rubin

 

 

 

For Matt Damon, being a family man means having less time to work out.

 

The actor and father of 1-year-old Isabella tells the UK's Sunday Express that before his daughter was born all he did was work, exercise and sleep – but now life has more to it.

 

"I really used to have no life outside movies. I'd work all day, go to the gym and go to sleep," says Damon, 36, who married his wife Luciana in December 2005. (She also has a daughter, Alexis, from a previous marriage.) "Now I have a place to be so I come home after work."

 

And Damon says he'd rather be with his family than at the gym. "I've had the same personal trainer on all the Bourne films but once he left this time, that was it for me and working out because I wanted to get home to see my daughter before she went to sleep."

 

There are consequences to dropping his workout schedule that careful viewers may spot during The Bourne Ultimatum. "Towards the end of filming they had to shoot around my belly," Damon jokes. "If you pay close attention you'll see the zipper on my jacket creeping up and up. I had to keep that jacket on."

 

There are on-screen benefits to having Isabella around, though.

 

"Halfway through the movie [director] Paul Greengrass looked at me and said, 'You look terrible,' " says Damon. "I told him, 'I'm sorry. I'm awake all night with the baby,' to which he said, 'No, it's really good. She came along just at the right time – she's really helping your performance,' "

 

In the previous two Bourne films, "I'd have to achieve that same ragged look by staying out all night in Paris," adds Damon.

 

Though The Bourne Ultimatum was shot in at least eight different countries, Damon managed to be apart from his family just once.

 

"The only time they haven't come with me was for the Tangier sequence of this film and as soon as I got there I realized it was a mistake," he says. "Being apart wasn't good for any of us, so now they come everywhere with me."

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Loved the Bourne Ultimatum! If you've seen the first two, you won't be disappointed!

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Loved the Bourne Ultimatum! If you've seen the first two, you won't be disappointed!

me as well.. really great flick. I just love Matt in general. seems like a decent guy... oh please don't let anyone on this board ruin that for me.. please... :ph34r:

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Loved the Bourne Ultimatum! If you've seen the first two, you won't be disappointed!

me as well.. really great flick. I just love Matt in general. seems like a decent guy... oh please don't let anyone on this board ruin that for me.. please... :ph34r:

 

There's no whining in gossip, dear.

 

I don't know anything terribly humiliating or repulsive about him. He may be less happily married than he lets on publicly, but then who isn't?

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Loved the Bourne Ultimatum! If you've seen the first two, you won't be disappointed!

me as well.. really great flick. I just love Matt in general. seems like a decent guy... oh please don't let anyone on this board ruin that for me.. please... :ph34r:

 

I think you can breathe easily. Even Datalounge don't think he's gay.

 

There was a recent BI about a not-very-happily-married A lister, which could have been him, or somebody else. No mention of cheating, just not happy.

 

He stuck to Affleck through the latter's darkest days. Seems like a good friend.

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Loved the Bourne Ultimatum! If you've seen the first two, you won't be disappointed!

me as well.. really great flick. I just love Matt in general. seems like a decent guy... oh please don't let anyone on this board ruin that for me.. please... :ph34r:

 

I think you can breathe easily. Even Datalounge don't think he's gay.

 

 

Not decent = gay?

 

On another note, there is a blind item that has been rumoured to be about him and it does involve cheating and very serious cheating, to the extent of pitter patter but as with all those guesses they could be guessing totally way off with the actual person. I say just enjoy the man as an actor and don't worry about the gossip if it upsets you. You'll always hear gossip about any celebrity, it's inevitable. You need a thick skin to visit any gossip board or be involved with celebrity gossip though. It doesn't mean it's true but it might get talked about. As long as they entertain on film then the rest is all speculation anyway.