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More photos from the Pembroke Pines football game (featuring Lucy's nephew) are at Splash News Online, Faded Youth blog and Teddy and Moo.
A scan from OK magazine (24 September issue), is below with thanks to Sammie, and a scan from Entertainment Weekly is provided thanks to Julie, with the text below.
 
Character study: Matt Damon
Putting Jason Bourne aside (not that we recommend you try that at home), which roles have been the Oscar winner's favorites?
"Will Hunting is so close to my heart because my best friend [Ben Affleck] and I invented him, he's from Boston, and it was what we knew. The stakes were pretty high with Good Will Hunting and it worked out as best as it can in this business--people saw the movie, it got good reviews, I was happy with the finished product, and they gave us an Oscar. I am also pretty fond of Tom Ripley--playing smart and sinister is just so much fun. I wasn't that fond of his choice of swim trunks, though, so a few points away for that. And John Grady Cole in All the Pretty Horses was good too. The integrity of that character is admirable. Unfortunately, I am the only one who saw that movie, so no one will get that reference."
There's a few references to Matt in Ben's new interview at Details.
A late comment from the Toronto Film Festival at Macleans:
Mr. Nice Guy
While [Joaquin] Phoenix was on the fritz, Matt Damon was uniquely charming and cogent. In interviews he came across as a hockey player, but smarter. With no film in the competition, Damon turned up only to host the One x One benefit and auction. When supermodel Petra Nemcova offered to cook dinner as a bonus prize for a winning bid, Damon immediately offered $85,000, then asked if he could bring his wife along.
There's a reference to Matt's upcoming potential project about Marco Polo, and the source book, here.
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October 2nd, 2007 06:37 pm (UTC)
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Thanks for the updates! It's a really quiet time after these news-filled months, so these are very much welcomed.
Matt looks so happy and relaxed in those photos that he reminds me why I became a fan in the first place: aside from his incredible talent as an actor, he is just a regular, down to earth kind of guy, devoted to his family and the causes he believes in, without pimping them to the media (which is just sooo rare in this business). And he is so funny!
I'm just soo sick of these pregnancy rumors (it seems that every woman wearing a loose dress is pregnanant these days, according to the media...). I just wish people would stop intruding into those private matters...
As for the Marco Polo project, I have never heard of it, but it sound good.(maybe it's Matt Dillon again...).I am however more excited of the Harvey Milk project, I just feel that is is a great character for Matt.
Thaks again for the great job you do with this site, but I just have a small curiosity: which is your favourite Matt film and/or role?
All the best,
Theo
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The same writer wrote a longer piece on his blog a few weeks earlier, which I might as well copy here also.
Brian D Johnson - Macleans
This afternoon, after taking a break from stars to watch U.S. soldiers in Iraq commit atrocities of rape and murder in Brian De Palma's Redacted, I sat down for a half-hour interview with Matt Damon. He was in town for the One X One charity benefit. His eyes didn't seem like anything special. But he's seems like the nicest guy in showbiz—utterly unassuming, ordinary and utterly genuine. He comes across like a Canadian hockey player, but smarter. And the flock of female Media Profile publicists managing One X One were smitten with him. But one was bowled over by Richard Gere, simply because he told her he liked a woman who knew how to look into this eyes and shake his hand at the same time. What a smoothie, that old Buddhist.
Later that day, I attended the One X One benefit dinner at the new Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, which Damon hosted. He ran a live auction with his pal Ben Affleck, a Mutt and Jeff tag team who gave the crowd a run for their money. Damon kept cranking up the bids by throwing his own money on the line. Fergie, Duchess of York, was in the house. And Richard Gere. And supermodel Petra Nemcova. As the crowd bid on a trip to Texas and a bike ride with Lance Armstrong, Petra fattened a prize by offering to cook dinner for the winner. Damon perked up and offered $85,000, then asked if he could bring his wife, who was also present. Petra offered to bake strudel. Some guy called Tommy said he would throw in 10,000 pairs of crocs. Wycliff Jean, who would perform later that evening, jumped up to the podium and offered to give the winning bidder a private acoustic concert in his or her home. The price went up to $150,000. Damon ended up bidding someone to a tie, and they agreed to share the prize.
It was all more than a bit bizarre. And when this folks who had paid $2,500 a plate were asked to bid on a luxury vacation package to South Africa—to save African children from starvation and malaria—it was enough to make you wonder: what's wrong with this picture?
Wycliff Jean and Shakira performed after dinner. But Matt and Ben were gone by then—they zoomed off in a limo to the airport, where they would board a plane to Africa. A private jet.
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