Happy Bennifer To All Who Celebrate

The Friday Post.

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I’ve heard it said — by me, to me — that this is a “Ben Affleck obsessed” newsletter. Or it’s a “Jennifer Lopez obsessed newsletter.” Exhibit A: “Normalize Dumping A-Rod.” Exhibit B: “What Will Fill the Affleck-de Armas-Sized Hole in My Heart?” Exhibit C: “Gone Girl But Ben Affleck is Defended by Ray Liotta in Marriage Story.” Isn’t anyone else doing anything? Shouldn’t I get back to writing about movies, and not writing about these two specific people? I think to myself. Ultimately I have no qualms about this — I am a single issue voter when it comes to celebrities, and that voting issue is: drama. (And also an Oscar for Annette Bening and blank check powers for Nia DaCosta.) 

Through some glitch in the matrix, J.Lo and Ben Affleck are the only…