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...movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon tells a Harvard student: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.” Please evaluate the validity of this statement...
...This year's show, however, was pretty soundly entertainment-free, ranging from the dutifully tasteful (tributes to John Ritter, Bob Hope and sundry others) to the weirdly tasteless (an old-age joke, directed at Doris Roberts, from Damon Wayans, who will be lucky if anyone is watching him on TV five years from now, let alone fifty). That's where I draw the line: you can give out statuettes to Edie Falco until the end of time, but you'd better make me laugh on the way there. Herewith, a few suggestions for next time...
Maybe it was the flower girl who spilled their secrets. Or that malcontent Matt Damon. In any case, by the middle of last week Hollywood reporters seemed to know every detail of BEN AFFLECK and JENNIFER LOPEZ'S widely anticipated Santa Barbara, Calif., nuptials, from the barbecue rehearsal dinner to the hired decoy brides. And so the celebrity spectacle, a.k.a. Bennifer, felt compelled to issue a statement calling off the wedding. Because of "excessive media attention," it said, "we began to feel that the spirit of what should have been the happiest day of our lives would be compromised." Bennifer...
...only new residents moving in just off the Yard. After years of yuppification in Harvard Square, a Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin Robbins combo store recently bucked the trend by returning to the corner of Bow Street and Mass. Ave. The old shop, known internationally as the storefront where Matt Damon asked if we “liked them apples,” will hopefully do a little to make the Square more student-friendly, battling the encroaching designer bars and diamond-studded watch shops catering to tourists and the middle-aged...
...third explanation is that I wanted to do something rebellious and mildly crazy, would be easily reversible and not get me arrested. I suppose I could have tried an exotic new drug (too risky), gone skydiving (too expensive), or dropped out of Harvard (too Bill Gates/Rivers Cuomo/Matt Damon), but this was just the right balance of cheapness, safety and counter-cultural-ness...