Jersey Girl NewsBites™

March 16th, 2004 @ 10:33 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Cheryl Faye Schwartz, Trey Yeatts, Alonso Duralde, Bill Knutson

  • You knew it was building up to this — Antony Teofilo’s big interview with Jersey Girl star Ben Affleck is now available over at Movie Poop Shoot. Antony covers all kinds of topics, from Push, Nevada, to Daredevil, to working with Damon. It’s a nice little piece, and recommended!
  • It sounds like Aint It Cool’s own Harry Knowles dug Jersey Girl from this small mention of the film at his site today :
“Between this film (“Hellboy”) — watching Kevin Smith’s JERSEY GIRL and LOVE ME IF YOU DARE… well… I’ve had a great 24 hours of film. I’ll get into it when I get the time …”

Well, he said it was great. That’s gotta count for something.

We’ll keep watch for his review.

  • The Village Voice’s Michael Musto chimes in on Jersey Girl today. Here’s what his column had to say (spoilers ahead):
Jersey Girl definitely has gossip value, seeing as BEN AFFLECK’s character learns to live again after his relationship with JENNIFER LOPEZ ends sadly. And trendwise, it’s of interest because it’s the second recent flick (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen being the other) about a move from NYC to New Jersey, though in this one, the Garden State provides revivification, not spiritual death. Otherwise, it’s pretty synthetic stuff, with lots of characters walking in at just the wrong moment and people rejecting life in the fast lane the way no one within a mile of this project would ever imagine doing. Still, anything that climaxes with a six-year-old doing a musical number from Sweeney Todd deserves some respect.

At the premiere, director KEVIN SMITH said he’s desperate to change the film’s title to The Passion of the Jersey Christ. When he also cracked that they would hold the screening until J.Lo got there, Affleck squirmed, then laughed and said, “Thanks. Friends like these, folks!” Most fascinatingly of all, Affleck groveled before HARVEY WEINSTEIN, who in turn compared the Smith-Affleck team to SCORSESE and DE NIRO. But the mogul also helpfully described his boys’ complex relationship. (“Say the lines the way I wrote them.” “Of course, I won the Oscar for Good Will Hunting.”) And then I grabbed the gift bag and headed back home to Rahway. Kidding. M.M.

  • In E! Online’s “Clip of the Day”, Affleck dishes on Jersey Girl and Jennifer. You can access the clip from their front page.
  • Entertainment Tonight has another column today with Affleck discussing his desire to go “back to basics” with Jersey Girl:
“It’s really a far cry from ‘Armageddon,'” he says. “There’s no giant rock hurtling toward the earth, no sticking animal crackers down [Liv’s] pants. This was a more developed story in terms of my relationship with her character. We’ve known each other for a long, long time, so it was very easy and comforting. There was no awkwardness.”

  • And finally in the JG newsbites today, another great review from 2 local San Francisco papers. Click the scan above to give it a look.

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