- We have had at least 50 e-mails regarding the media runaway story that’s entailing Ben Affleck having words to say against Kevin’s
merchandising tactics. First, let’s give you this clip that the press is having a field day exploiting:
Ben Affleck has made an astonishing swipe at long-term pal, director Kevin Smith – accusing him of exploiting teenage fans of his cult films. Affleck has appeared in five of Smith’s films, starting with 1995’s Mallrats and most recently this year’s Jersey Girl. But Smith was reportedly upset Affleck snubbed the DVD launch of Jersey Girl – and Affleck has hit back while publicizing new movie Surviving Christmas. He told The Scoop, “It wasn’t enough that I went to Vegas to play in his lame charity poker tournament for the DVD launch of Jersey Girl, but I also had to go out to his f***ing store where he’s opening a st! ore where all he’s doing is selling more T-shirts of him and his jacka** friend (Jason Mewes) and he’s roped in an entire generation of kids into thinking it’s worth spending $30 on and $50 if he signs it. I mean the whole thing is a complete travesty and he wanted me to participate in it and I won’t do that.”
Let’s just set the record straight from our point of view here. We all know how sarcastic Kev and Affleck get, and reading something is a lot different
than hearing it said. And those of us who’ve watched the Jersey Girl DVD extras have seen this very exchange done, in live video, with sarcastic smiles
from both sides as the jabs took place. Oh wait, in fact, you wanna see it? Read on.
This article seems to completely leave out the relationship between the two that we all know and love — including its (at times) heavily sarcastic
nature. The press must have just needed a story that day.
So, that being said, Kevin himself has this to say about the entire thing (which originated, by the way, via a press agency called “The Scoop”):
First off, the dude didn’t tell “The Scoop” shit (because, really – who the fuck ever talks to “The Scoop”). “The Scoop” simply dug quotes out of a transcript from a Ben interview posted over at Dark Horizons (columnists cribbing from other writer’s articles; crackling, hard-hitting journalism at its finest) and presented them as Ben attacking me. It’s been picked up in a number of places, and I keep getting email asking “Are you and Ben in a fight?”
So for all the Jeanette Walls’ of the world, who don’t understand the subtlety of humor…
Click on Me for Actual Footage from the Feud
(The above is an mp4 file. PC people: right click and save file as… Mac and other more evolved people hold down option key and click link.)
Click on Me for Mov file Footage from the Feud
Write about that, dumb-asses.
Fucking Jeanette Walls. The broad would misquote Christ’s Sermon on the Mount.
My Fake (yet eerily close to plausible) Version of Jeanette Walls wrote:
What Would Jesus Do? He’d Do Low Carb!
The ever-sassy King of the Jews is the lastest celebrity convert to Atkins-advocacy, as the Son of Man has apparently jumped with both sandal-clad feet onto the Hollywood diet craze. Sources tell me Jazzy J was heard shouting ‘Blessed are the meats!’ at a hillside gathering this weekend, where thousands flocked for a phase-one party of Biblical proportions, casting out sugars and starches like so many leper-plaguing demons. But someone should tell this self-styled Messiah that, while fish is okay for low-carbers, multiple loaves are not.
And there ya have it. Oh, and for the record, sure, Macs are cool, but we still love our PC’s!
