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December 17th @ 7:43 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Betty Mathias, Andrew Conover, Skeletor 911, Jim

  • Looks like Affleck’s got a great honor for the biggest NASCAR race in 2004:
Actor, director and writer Ben Affleck, who captured the 1997 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting and has starred in blockbuster films such as Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, will serve as Grand Marshal for the 46th annual Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 15 — “The Great American Race.”
Affleck, who stars in the upcoming Paycheck, which will be released Dec. 25, will give the command “Drivers, start your engines” in NASCAR’s biggest, richest and most prestigious stock car race in the world.

Read all about it HERE.

  • Catch Jeff Anderson in a cameo role (as a convenience store clerk, no less) in a newly released rental called “Stealing Time”, with Peter Facinelli and Ethan Embry. Anderson’s clerk gets held up with a cap gun, later to find out and attack the patrons with a bat. The film is listed over in the IMDB as “Rennie’s Landing”. Anderson is credited.
  • And finally today, if you’d like to do a bit of a primer before seeing Jersey Girl this Spring, you may want to listen to the upcoming live broadcast of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” tomorrow night on BBC3 radio. This great production won raves in Chicago last year and is the favorite of a character or two in “Jersey Girl” from what we recall. You can listen live via RealPlayer at this link tomorrow around 5:25 PM EST. Happy listening! Catch ya next time, and thanks for stopping by today.

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