12 Interesting Facts About the Handsome Director-Actor Ben Affleck
7. Joining the ranks of many successful people who have dropped out and not completed their years of formal education is this charming actor. He had enrolled in the University of Vermont for a semester only and then took admission at the Occidental College in Los Angeles where he dropped out after a year.
8. Mr. Affleck owns production company called LivePlanet.com which he co founded with fellow Hollywood actor Matt Damon.
9. The breakup of his engagement with pop diva Jennifer Lopez has largely been attributed to too much paparazzi frenzy. When they were engaged from 2002 to 2004, the media had tagged them as ‘Bennifer’. Well the media thereafter dared not call him and his current wife, also a Jennifer, with that name.
10. Like many infatuated and impulsive youngsters, Ben had also tattooed the name of his high school sweetheart which he later covered up with a dolphin tattoo.
11. His movie with then lover Jennifer Lopez, ‘Gigli’, has gone down as one of the worst movies Hollywood has ever produced. Critical condemnations and panning aside, the Oscar-winning screenwriter was handed the defamatory Golden Razzies for the Worst Actor and Worst Screen Couple (with Jennifer Lopez) for Gigli.
12. His full name is a rather traditional sounding Benjamin Geza Affleck and his passions besides acting, writing and producing include driving Bentleys and collecting old Ms. Pac-Man and Millipede arcade games.
