"Sometimes you can tell in seconds that a performer has no talent -- think Sean Combs, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck."
Ouch. So what, are these people incredibly attractive? I've never seen a movie with any of them in it, but I believe that Lopez and Affleck are big-name actors. They're so famous that I, culturally disconnected citizen, recognize their names.
Ouch. So what, are these people incredibly attractive? I've never seen a movie with any of them in it, but I believe that Lopez and Affleck are big-name actors. They're so famous that I, culturally disconnected citizen, recognize their names.
Jennifer Lopez's fans will tell you that she is beautiful, and probably punch your lights out if you disagree, but I worked in The Bronx, and I had lots of Dominican students who were much prettier than her. I think she's just been playing the ethnic card. IOW, she's an affirmative action baby. And nasty! Her abuses of the "little people," like hotel clerks, are legendary.
Sean Combs isn't a bad-looking fellow, but Denzel Washington, he ain't. I think he came along at the right time, and was able to combine his middle-class background, ruthlessness (he caused the deaths of several young people at City College about 16 years ago, when he vastly oversold a performance he produced in a small venue, and people were trampled to death), and the desire of so many black folks to give their money to other blacks, regardless of the latter's talent.
But that leaves Ben Affleck. For him, you're going to need a Delphic Oracle, because his success is one of the great mysteries of the age. He ain't pretty, he doesn't claim to be gay, and I don't think he's that political. The only thing that comes to mind, is that he was friends with Matt Damon (who if you ask me, is a pretty homely cuss) when Damon had his breakthrough, with Good Will Hunting, and may have co-written the Academy Award-winning orginal screenplay to Will with him.
Matt Damon