• Yep, we saw the Affleck/Garner news in the New York Post today. We’re always a bit worried to post this stuff, especially since no one seems to want to confirm it. So, take it with a grain of salt, but here’s what ran in today’s Page Six:

SECOND time’s the charm for Ben Affleck. The star proposed to his girlfriend of over a year, Jennifer Garner, after her 33rd birthday party Saturday at her Brentwood home, according to Star magazine. Affleck bought Garner a $500,000, 4.5-carat Harry Winston engagement ring – as compared to the 6.1-carat pink diamond ring from Winston which Affleck got for his former fiancée Jennifer Lopez. Affleck’s rep had no comment.

At the moment we remain a bit skeptical, though if it’s indeed true, we’d like to offer much luck and congrats to our boy ben and his lovely bride-to-be. If it gets confirmed (or denied), we’ll let ya’ll know. We just hate this “not confirmed” stuff and almost didn’t even run it. But we’ve had a lot of folks asking us about it, so figured we’d at least comment.

• Seems that Zach Braff is becoming more vocal about being a View Askew fan, these days – Certainly does bode well for him stepping into that Fletch role this Fall. This report just in:

Zach Braff, an alumnus of Northwestern University’s radio-television-film department, came to speak to us today. One of his closing remarks was how when he was an undergrad Kevin Smith came to speak at NU and he went, and one of the things Smith mentioned was not liking and not ever wanting to take the “a film by” credit, because he felt the film was made by lots of people and not just the director. Braff has vowed to be the same way and encouraged us to follow.

• And finally today, some interesting reading for you Star Wars fans — An editorial that discusses the possible update of the Star Tours ride in Disney parks, and also some reasoning behind the possible Star Wars TV series for ABC in 2006-2007. See you next time, and we thank you for your patronage!