If you look up "smitten" in the dictionary, you might find these photos of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. The former couple, whose divorce is still up in the air, certainly appeared to be on good terms on Sunday while leaving church with their children, Violet, Seraphina, and Sam. As they made their way to their car, the Justice League actor looked like he was cracking Jennifer up with laughter. Maybe if that whole Batman thing doesn't work out, he can consider a career in stand-up? Either way, the pair definitely has something to smile about; Ben announced that he successfully "completed treatment for alcohol addiction" earlier this month. He opened up about his stint in rehab on Facebook, citing his kids and estranged wife as reasons for getting sober. "I want to live life to the fullest and be the best father I can be," he wrote. "I want...
- 3/27/2017
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the release of A Busy Day, a half-reeler in which Charlie Chaplin plays an angry suffragette (an alternate title was actually A Militant Suffragette) who becomes jealous of her husband during a parade of some kind. It probably isn’t the first instance of a man playing a woman in cinema (there’s no way it took 20 years), but it is the first film that’s really known as the original precursor to something like Tyler Perry‘s Madea character and others like it. Note that this isn’t the same as a Tootsie or Mrs. Doubtfire type, though Chaplin would do parts of that sort, playing a man who dresses as a woman, later on. Interestingly enough, he’s much prettier in one of those parts, that of The Masquerader (100 years old this August), than he is in A Busy Day. When I claim in the headline above that Chaplin...
- 5/6/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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