The Matt Damon Column

Updated 10/28/2003

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10/28/2003
  • The East Coast premiere of Stuck on you will be held in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, as a charity benefit on 11 December. No word yet on who will attend from the film. Details available from the Woonsocket Call.

  • The Brothers Grimm is currently scheduled to finish production on 14 November and Bourne Supremacy is scheduled to begin on 24 November. Both dates are likely to change.

  • Here's a quote from the Brazil article written by Christophe Goffette. This is the final sentence which concludes the piece, describing the script the author just received:

    The film begins as a fairytale: a grand-daughter of twelve years goes into a wood, two crows caw to all around, the sharp green glint of a hidden wolf in the shadows, an unspeakable fear...

  • British actress Samantha Morton discussed her almost-Grimm experience in a Sunday Herald interview:

    SAMANTHA MORTON: I've never been bitter about any role I didn't get until Terry Gilliam wanted me for the Brothers Grimm movie he's shooting at the moment. Terry wanted me. Matt Damon wanted me. Then all of a sudden Bob Weinstein didn't want me. There were phonecalls. Bob said: "She'll win an Oscar one day, and it will be in one of my films, but it won't be in this one". Terry pressed them, and they told him the tops of my arms are too big! This is what's happening in films today: the films are supporting stars. For me that's the wrong way round. The most important thing has to be the film.

10/27/2003
  • Thanks to the wonderful generosity of Nicole, I have just received a copy of the French magazine Brazil which has a long article detailing a set visit to The Brothers Grimm in late August. It describes numerous scenes with Matt, Heath Ledger and Peter Stormare, and includes an interview with Terry Gilliam.

    There are no pictures of the actors or sets, but one (or possibly two) diagrams by Gilliam are featured and are included here. The title graphic is uncredited, but Gilliam is stated as the designer of the illustration, which features a common Gilliam motif - the cage (in which there appears to be many snails surrounding the captive's face).

    A few notes from the article (as understood by my translation): Newton Thomas Sigel appears to be the director of photography and not Nicola Pecorini as previously stated; and Gilliam calls the combination of Matt and Heath Ledger on screen wonderful. More details from the article, once translated, will be available soon.

  • In further Grimm news, actor Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean and The Office) talked about his role to the Daily Record.

    In The Brothers Grimm he plays two parts: a witch and a henchman.

    Mackenzie laughed dryly: ``Yes, it's me in drag again. I'm in a dress but with a zombie-rotting corpse look."

  • Cher discussed Stuck on you in this interview with the Toronto Sun:

    In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Cher explained that the first thing up for mass consumption is the Farrelly Brothers' conjoined twins comedy Stuck On You, starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear, which hits theatres in December.

    "I play myself and I play a character in the movie. And I play myself as this horrible, mean, awful bitch," she said with relish, down the line from her California home, of her first big film role since 1999. They (the twins) come to Hollywood because one of them wants to be an actor and that's how we meet."

    Turns out the twins are cast on a TV show starring Cher and it becomes a huge hit.

    The singer-actress, who was touring at the same time as she was filming, said it was a fun, if exhausting, experience. "First we were in Los Angeles, then we were in Florida. So, for me, it was very gruelling because I didn't have any days off. I would just go from the movie back to the stage back to the movie back to the show -- so it was hard for me. But I did have a good time with (the Farrellys). I mean, they're really hysterical."

10/23/2003
  • A Prague sighting from Ted Casablanca's column at eonline.

    Matt Damon, doing the din-din thang at Le Cafe Colonial. Ya know, in Prague, my latest satellite Awful Truth locale. Matt, of course, was in town filming The Brothers Grimm. Joined by an Industry type, M.D. was dressed actor-down in the requisite jeans and tee, with a ski cap over his locks. Seated at a semi-secluded table, Mr. D. went unnoticed by most of the other patrons, that is until he was spied by Miss Slovakia. As Matt-hon tried to slip out unnoticed, the beauty queen grabbed his arm and made a gushy introduction. Hmmm...new love connection for Matty-poo? Nah, he jetted.

  • As confirmation (again) that Matt and Eva Mendes are not dating, this is a summary of a report from the entertainment show Extra on Wednesday. Eva attended the event with her boyfriend:

    The intrepid reporters from Extra managed to catch up with Eva Mendes at the GQ awards and asked her if it's true that she's dating Matt Damon. She laughed. She said she hasn't seen him at all. She said she loves him and he's an amazing guy, but you have to laugh at those stories. Not true at all.

  • As an example of poor reporting, here's the break-up story from People online, although it is similar to many other published reports. My corrections follow the story.

    A Split for Matt Damon
    After two years and engagement rumors, the actor and girlfriend Odessa Whitmire call it quits.
    By JULIE JORDAN
    After two years of dating and numerous rumors of engagement, Matt Damon and girlfriend Odessa Whitmire have called it quits, according to a source. The actor, 33, first met Whitmire, 28, in 2001, when she was working as a personal assistant to his pal Ben Affleck. Damon has squired a string of leading ladies, including Winona Ryder and Minnie Driver, but his attention centered on Whitmire when the couple began dating. Though no reason was given for the breakup, Damon's schedule often put them thousands of miles apart. Since this summer, Damon has spent a considerable amount of time in the Czech Republic filming The Brothers Grimm. "Being split from (your girlfriend) is the tough part" of filming, he said last year.

    My response to the above story:

    1. Matt met Odessa while they were both working on the set of All The Pretty Horses in 1999. Odessa was then Billy Bob Thornton's driver and later became his assistant. She became part of Matt's circle of friends in LA, which included Ben Affleck. When Ben was looking for an assistant in 2001, she volunteered.

    2. Matt and Odessa attended the 2001 Oscars after-party together, so they have been dating since early 2001, not late 2001 (when the relationship became public).

    3. Matt said that being separated from family and friends was the tough part of filming, and would never specifically have referred to his girlfriend as mentioned above.

    4. The separation is not recent.

10/22/2003
  • From the Boston Herald's Inside Track column.

    No fairy tale: Damon and longtime galpal split
    By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa, Wednesday, October 22, 2003

    The Grimm news out of Prague is that Cambridge homeboy Matt Damon and his longtime galpal, Odessa Whitmire, have split - apparently due to Damon's long stint in the Czech Republic filming "The Brothers Grimm."

    "Matt has no plans to come home for more than a day in the next six months," a pal of Damon's told the New York Post. "He is basically going to be traveling all over Europe until mid-next year."

    And Odessa reportedly couldn't fit Matt's globetrotting into her schedule - she's opening a store in NYC. Spies on the Grimm set say Whitmire, who was the personal assistant to Matt's best bud, Ben Affleck, before she hooked up with Damon, hasn't been out to Prague to visit her boyfriend since he started filming six months ago. Well, we can't say that the break-up comes as a complete shock. Last winter, Matt went out of his way to deny reports the two were engaged. At the time, his dad said the Hollywood hunk was "too busy" to tie the knot. Guess so! Coincidentally - or not - Matt's co-star, Heath Ledger, and his galpal, Naomi Watts, announced they were no longer an item earlier this month.

    Another Grimm casualty!
    The Hollywood heartthrobs play real-life fairy-tale spinners Will and Jacob Grimm, in the flick. "They're con artists, going from town to town trying to fool people into thinking they're ridding the town of the local witch or bridge troll," said Damon. "We've got forest fires and people trying to kill us. It's all that kind of swashbuckling stuff."

    Directed by "12 Monkeys" Terry Gilliam, "The Brothers Grimm" will hit the theaters in the fall of 2004. But if you need a Damon fix before then, head on over to the Children's Trust Fund's annual gala at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Saturday. Damon donated a signed "Good Will Hunting" script to be auctioned off.

  • Casey Affleck.net very generously made some screencaps of the Brothers Grimm preview on ET.

  • From the Marilyn Beck/Stacy Jenel Smith column here:

    MOVIE INSIDER: Damon Goes Globetrotting
    There'll be no rest and no stay at home for Matt Damon, who's been in Prague, Czech Republic making "The Brothers Grimm" with Heath Ledger, Monica Belucci and Jonathan Pryce for filmmaker Terry Gilliam.

    That picture isn't due to wrap until mid-November -- and yet, production is set to begin on the sequel to his "Bourne Identity" flick, "The Bourne Supremacy," today (Oct. 21), with Matt back as star. Locations are planned for Moscow, Berlin and India.

    He'll also be attempting to do whatever tubthumping he can on behalf of the Dec. 12 opening Farrelly Bros. Comedy "Stuck on You," in which he plays the conjoined twin of Greg Kinnear. Of course, "Stuck on You," with its potentially controversial theme, not to mention its parade of star appearances -- Cher, Jack Nicholson, Jay Leno and Meryl Streep play themselves -- probably doesn't need much help from Matt to get moviegoers' attention.

    With all this going on, those unconfirmed reports of Matt and girlfriend Odessa Whitmire planning to tie the knot seem pretty far away, to say the least.

  • The final Stuck on you poster is at Latino Review.

  • A media release about the Bourne Supremacy schedule from last month has just been posted at the Studio Babelsberg site here.

    Preparations for THE BOURNE SUPREMACY have begun in Studio Babelsberg

    Potsdam/Babelsberg, 24 September 2003 - "We can confirm the report by 'Blickpunkt Film' about the shooting of THE BOURNE SUPREMACY in Babelsberg", says Henning Molfenter, head of production at Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures GmbH.

    Director Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday) is currently preparing the sequel of the internationally successful action thriller The Bourne Identity at Studio Babelsberg . Apart from Matt Damon, Brian Cox and Julia Stiles the German actress Franka Potente will also be part of the lineup before the camera again. The producers are Patrick Crowley (Charlie's Angels, Sleepless in Seattle), Frank Marshall (Seabiscuit, The Sixth Sense, Indiana Jones) and Paul Sandberg (Picking up Pieces). The screenplay was written by Tony Gilroy (Armageddon), who also wrote The Bourne Identity. Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures is charged with the production service for the complete production. The shoot will travel to India and Russia apart from locations in Potsdam/Babelsberg and Berlin. The German distributor is UIP.

    "The beginning of shooting will be in Russia", according to Henning Molfenter, who will manage the production service for THE BOURNE SUPREMACY in his function as Associate Producer. "After that, principal photography is planned in Germany until February 2004. Further details will be made known at the beginning of the shoot in Germany in late autumn."

    "The mixture of German and international projects at the studios is just right at the moment", says Thierry Potok, managing director of Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures GmbH. "We are proud that the American production company Universal Pictures is trusting in the production service of Studio Babelsberg for this spectacular production. This will support our efforts for strengthening the studio and the location in the medium term as well."

  • In very sad news singer/songwriter Elliott Smith, who was nominated for the Best Song Oscar for Miss Misery from Good Will Hunting, and contributed many songs to the soundtrack, has died of an apparent suicide. Author George Plimpton, who played a psychiatrist in GWH, also died recently, as did Rounders poker consultant Jim Albrecht. GWH and Rounders cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier also died in April of this year.

10/21/2003
  • From the NY Post Page Six column. [Note: Matt does have an apartment in NY as of three months ago and he is not involved with Eva Mendes.]

    GRIMM DAYS FOR ACTORS
    October 21, 2003 -- CALL it the curse of "The Brothers Grimm." Just two weeks after "Grimm" star Heath Ledger announced his split from Naomi Watts comes word that Matt Damon has split from his longtime sweetheart, Odessa Whitmire. "The two haven't seen each other in forever," spies said. "Matt has been away filming in Prague, and Odessa is trying to open a clothing store in New York. Matt doesn't even own a place in New York." Although some in Los Angeles pinned the couple's problems on "money issues," friends say it was simply distance that drove them apart. "Matt has no plans to come home for more than a day in the next six months," a pal of Damon's said. "He is basically going to be traveling all over Europe until mid-next year." While Damon hasn't seen any of Whitmire, he had been seeing a lot of his "Stuck On You" co-star, the sultry Eva Mendes. A rep for Damon said, "I don't know."
  • The Brothers Grimm footage aired on ET was quite different from the interview now available at their website, which focused on the film. Referring to Heath, Matt said: "If you put us in a room together and have us talk about each other it's going to get real weird real fast". A few lines were also added to the summary on the ET website:

    Matt explained the general idea: "They're con artists, going from town to town trying to fool people into thinking they're ridding the town of the local witch or bridge troll. We've got forest fires ... running and people trying to kill us! It's all that kind of swashbuckling stuff!"

    Heath and Matt clearly hit it off working together, as the hot Aussie joked with ET: "Matt has affected my performance. I've never had a brother ... and I don't need one!"

    Here's a summary of the televised footage:

    It wasn't that long, but it was mostly Matt and not too much Heath. They started by talking about the Red Sox. Matt commented on the fact that they lose every year, and it's hard to root for a team that hasn't won in 85 years. They said that they have been filming in Prague for almost six months. Matt said the baseball games come on at 2 AM, so it's probably good for his health that the Sox didn't make the World Series. He talked about playing the con artist brothers who try and hoodwink villagers into believing they are ridding the town of the mill witch or the bridge troll.

    Matt said you will see fairy tale characters like Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel. Heath said it's hard to be away from home and family and friends for so such a long time, but everyone in the industry is a gypsy so it's a comfort. Then Matt piped in and said the gypsy thing is only fun for a few months and then it's hard.
  • A photo of Matt leaving Prague restaurant Barock earlier this month is posted at the website of Spy magazine.













10/20/2003
  • The ET preview for Monday's Brothers Grimm set visit is now on their website, but includes no related footage or photos at this stage. (For Australian readers, the cricket finished early so the preview was shown on Monday afternoon, and the show will air as normal Tuesday.)

    Matt & Heath Get 'Grimm'!
    October 20, 2003
    Ultra-handsome duo MATT DAMON and HEATH LEDGER have joined forces to make 'The Brothers Grimm,' and only ET has the exclusive look at their new fantasy flick, straight from the Czech Republic!

    The Hollywood heartthrobs are bringing the tale of real-life fairy-tale spinners, brothers Will and Jacob "Jake" Grimm, to life (in a loose interpretation of their story). Set in the early 1800s, the imaginative Will (Damon) and Jake (Ledger)'s claim to fame is their proclaimed ability to rid townfolk of "mysterious creatures."

    The inventive brothers make a living going from village to village with this ruse -- until NAPOLEON's government calls them in to investigate a potentially real-life villainess (played by MONICA BELLUCCI), who may be responsible for taking the blood from innocent, young girls.

    Directed by '12 Monkeys'' TERRY GILLIAM, 'The Brothers Grimm' will venture into theaters in the fall of 2004.

  • An In Touch magazine item this week is virtually identical to part of the Czech story linked on 26 September about an incident a few weeks or months previous.

    A paragraph next to a photo of Matt and Odessa recounted the incident at the M1 nightclub at Prague in which Matt supposedly flirted with Mandy Moore. It said that although Matt is [was] secretly believed to be engaged to Odessa he was very flirtatious with the women at the Prague nightclub. Then when Mandy Moore came in, he winked at her and only had eyes for her after that (Andy Roddick was nowhere in sight).

    Barbara (thanks!) found another story referencing the M1 club in "Celebrity Spy" magazine.

    Celebrating the end of a day on the set of The Brothers Grimm in Prague, Matt was drinking in the city's hot spot, M1, when a woman collapsed. "Matt rushed from the other side of the bar and shouted for someone to get a paramedic", said an onlooker. "He put the woman in the recovery position and sat by her side, stroking her hair until she came around".

10/18/2003
  • TV Alert: Entertainment Tonight previewed on Friday's program a Brothers Grimm set visit "world exclusive", to air on Monday's show. For Australian readers, due to planned coverage of the Test cricket match v Zimbabwe, the show will air on Wednesday morning at 5.30am. Thanks to Waverly for the advance notice. Here's a summary of the preview by a reader:

    The entire preview was narrated with one of the ET hosts doing voiceover and we didn't hear anything from Matt or Heath. They said they will show the on set visit, so it won't just be clips. They showed Matt in costume, then Matt talking to someone who I believe was Terry Gilliam (he was behind the camera) They showed Matt and Heath in costume sliding down a staircase on their bottoms into what looked like a cellar.

    Then they are in some type of cellar/basement (of a castle most likely) There is a huge barrel on its side, looking like a big wine vat or perhaps water. Then there is shot of Heath standing up on some type of platform with a gauze bandage on his forehead. He looks like he's talking to a crowd, though you don't see them in the shot. There is a shot of men riding horses (couldn't really tell who was on them). They said they will have all the news on Monday from the set of this fantasy adventure. It was a quick promo. The costumes and scenery looked great and really set the tone.

  • A new poster for Stuck on you can be viewed at a few ebay postings, including this one.

  • A reader provided a summary of Ted Casablanca's comments on E! Thursday.

    Ted Casablanca did his live version of the column and he covered the Matt item. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, he did not mention the issue of missing money. He said that friends are confirming that the relationship has fizzled and they have split, blaming it on too much time spent apart.

10/16/2003
  • A gossip item from Ted Casablanca at eonline claims the relationship between Matt and Odessa Whitmire has ended, and further alleges a potential lawsuit involving misappropriation of funds by Odessa. The story is available here.

  • Additional photos from Suzanne in the Czech Republic show the Brothers Grimm village set at Barrandov, which has been sited next to an imported forest of 700 German trees.

10/11/2003
  • Two positive test screening reviews of Stuck on you are available at filmrot.com and aint-it-cool.com. Both reviews contain spoilers.

  • Suzanne in the Czech Republic was able to visit Brothers Grimm's German village set at the Barrandov backlot, and very kindly sent in these pictures.

10/10/2003
  • From the latest issue of People magazine, with thanks to A Loyal Fan:

    BRIEF ENCOUNTER
    News flash: Matt Damon caught with a male stripper! On Oct. 4, Damon was celebrating his 33rd birthday at a club in Prague, where he's shooting The Brothers Grimm, when a guy in a sailor suit started to shed his clothes for costar Lena Headey (it was her birthday too). When the stripper got down to a pair of pink briefs, Headey called on Damon to help the entertainer finish the job. To much hooting, Damon pulled down the guy's undies. For the record, the star averted his eyes.

10/08/2003
  • Happy Birthday to Matt who turns 33 today.
  • An interview with Terry Gilliam in the UK Telegraph, focusing mainly on Monty Python memories, also mentions Grimm:

    As for Gilliam himself, his post-Python life is so busy that it takes some doing to catch up with him. He rarely gives interviews, but I've managed to corner him for a few hours at the back of a dimly lit restaurant in the old town of Prague, where he is shooting his latest film, The Brothers Grimm, with Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as the stars.

    It's been a long and exhausting day for the director. "Why do I make films?" he asks, in a tone of mock lament. "It's an awful thing to do with your life. Everything is always going wrong. Today, I feel like Job being punished for his sins.''

    For an ordinary director, a bad day on location is an excuse for screaming at the actors and throwing things at the crew. But Gilliam buries his troubles with laughter. As he describes his travails on the set, he is constantly giggling. In his manic take on life, the more that things go wrong, the funnier they get - like the giant foot smashing one hapless pedestrian after another in his Python animations.

    With a look of glee in his hawk-like eyes, he notes that the weather in Prague will soon turn cold and make his work even more difficult. "It can be brutal here in winter," he says, rubbing his hands merrily.

  • Birthe reports that Stuck on you, to be titled Unzertrennlich in Germany, will open there on 1 January 2004.

10/07/2003
  • Actor Karl Urban may joining the Bourne Supremacy cast. From the Hollywood Reporter:

    Urban playing nemesis in next 'Bourne' movie
    Karl Urban is moving from Middle Earth to the middle of a spy game. The actor, best known as Eomer in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," is in negotiations to play Matt Damon's nemesis in Universal Pictures' "The Bourne Supremacy," sources have confirmed. The sequel to the hit 2002 film "The Bourne Identity" is expected to begin filming at year's end. British helmer Paul Greengrass is directing, with Frank Marshall, Paul L. Sandberg and Patrick Crowley producing. Tony Gilroy adapted the sequel, which is inspired by Robert Ludlum's second novel in the "Bourne" series. Gilroy also adapted the first installment. Universal executives Ally Brecker-Shearmur and Matt Jackson are overseeing the project. New Zealand-born Urban, repped by CAA, Brad Schenck of Thruline Entertainment and Colden McKuin Frankel, next stars in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and the "Pitch Black" sequel, "The Chronicles of Riddick." (Borys Kit)

10/06/2003
  • A Stuck on you update from the Boston Herald:

    Word is, the fab Farrelly boys are planning a December premiere in Providence for ``Stuck on You,'' the Matt Damon-Greg Kinnear comedy about Siamese twins. No word yet if the staaahs will put in an appearance since Matt's a mighty busy boy, unlike some other Cambridge homeboys we know. But we digress. Back in August, Peter and Bobby screened the comedy, which filmed in Miami, La-La and Rockport, for family and friends at the Castle Theatre in Providence. Rave reviews all around. Of course.

  • More positive comments by Eva Mendes about Matt in the Calgary Sun:

    In Stuck on You, the slapstick farce from Bobby and Peter Farrelly, she plays Matt Damon's girlfriend. It's a complicated affair because he's a Siamese twin joined at the hip to his brother, played by Greg Kinnear.

    "Matt is one of the most incredible people I've ever met. He is so genuine and so innocent about his status in the industry.

    "So few people in the entertainment industry remain as uncorrupted by fame as Matt," says Mendes, who balks at the rumors she and Damon had a brief fling while filming Out of Time.

    "That's nonsense. Matt and I were never anything more than friends and co-stars. We're both in committed relationships.

    "My boyfriend and I manage a band called The Tigers. Some of the band's songs will be in Stuck on You."

  • A Casey Affleck update from Roger Friedman at Fox News:

    At the after-party at the new Maritime Hotel, the group mingled with Helena Christensen, Macaulay Culkin, Bebe Buell and Casey Affleck among others. Yeah, I asked Casey about Ben and J-Lo but he knows as much as you do about what's going to happen next. What about Casey himself? He's going to make "Ocean's 12" (he was very, very good in "Ocean's 11") and try to stay out of US Weekly. How does his brother deal with tabloid reporters following him into hardware stores? (Last week we learned that Ben bought a piece of wood. This week: Probably breakfast cereal and dental floss!)

    "It's like being on EdTV," Casey quipped, referring to the underrated Ron Howard movie.

10/05/2003
  • More information about Brothers Grimm from an interview with Bob McCabe at the Daily Llama, an official Python news source:

    In your "spare time" you've been hanging out with Terry Gilliam in Prague. What kind of project are you currently working on? How is Terry's film going?

    Terry G is currently shooting The Brothers Grimm out in Prague with Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as the titular brothers. It's a big $80 million film, with some simply amazing sets (he's already built two forests and an entire fairy tale town) and as such is proving to be a long and difficult shoot (Prague weather is not to relied on). I'm often out there compling a book on the movie which will be part diary of this, and in part a look of how Gilliam got to this point, i.e. the last five years and the movies that didn't make it. The film is due for Nov 2004, the book sometimes around then.

  • From an interview with Grimm actor Peter Stormare in Nordic News, where he is also pictured in costume (PDF file):

    "My character is very interesting, because he has both a light and a dark side to his personality. In the beginning, he is quite evil, but then he develops into a good guy. One might even say that the character is raving mad, but remember - this film is directed by Terry Gilliam, so he operates in an area ranging from John Cleese to the completely demonic."

    Is "The Brothers Grimm" an important step in your career?
    All the male actors I know have one dream - to play in a film directed by Terry Gilliam. He is both cult and king! Maybe he wasn't the mastermind behind Monty Python, but he was the one that kept the members together, he was the director, and he also created those incredible cartoons. So to me, acting in a film by Gilliam is a dream come true.

    You are playing opposite Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. Have you worked with them before?
    I know Matt through our mutual pal Ben Affleck, and I also know Lena Headey, who plays another main role. Besides that, when you're shooting a film there is always a lot of waiting, so we have plenty of time to chat and get acquainted. But after everything's wrapped up, I never socialise with the other actors. We are working all day - when we were shooting outside Kutna Hora, I rose at five in the morning and returned to my apartment at 11 - so you just don't have the strength.

  • The French magazine Brazil has a cover story this month featuring Terry Gilliam and a Brothers Grimm set visit. Can anybody access the magazine?

  • The release date for Stuck on you in Australia has been delayed from 26 December to 15 January 2004.

10/04/2003
  • New photos from Stuck on you are available at the mysan.de website, including this one at right (note: there may be some spoilers). Originally linked by Dark Horizons.

  • A Newsday story on the behaviour of actors on film sets includes this mention of Matt:

    Not all big stars behave badly - in fact, many enjoy and actually participate in the camaraderie of a film set.

    A long-standing Hollywood tradition is the end-of-the-week lottery, in which each crew member throws a $5 bill into a pot. Each bill is signed with the crew member's name, and a bill is selected at random. Most stars happily participate, and some - including Matt Damon and Dustin Hoffman - will kick in far more than the entry fee. The pot, consequently, can grow to many hundreds of dollars. According to a Los Angeles magazine story on the ritual, Schwarzenegger never plays.

  • Thanks to Catherine for this item:

    I just happened to be watching that new show "I'm With Her" about the movie star who dates the high school teacher. Matt was mentioned twice. Once the movie stars sister said they were busy Friday because they were going to a party at Matt Damon's and I can't exactly remember the other one, but it was something about Matt and Ben.

General links

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www.mattdamonfanpage.com: Kelly's great site about Matt, which includes articles, photos and interviews.
www.mattdamonforum.com: A community website and message board for fans of Matt, moderated by Kelly.
www.damonweb.net: Ryan's beautifully designed site which includes a photo gallery, news items and a guestbook.
Elise's site has a comprehensive photo gallery.

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