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Obama’s Celebrity Corps Smaller, Less Enthusiastic This Season

Matt Damon has spoken of his disappointment with Barack Obama, his favorite candidate from 2008, and other famous Obama boosters from the last election cycle are also less willing to lend their names to the president’s cause this time around.

Posted on Feb 28, 2012 READ MORE  |  8 COMMENTS


Matt Damon Defends Teachers From Vexing Libertarians

The actor, standing next to his educator mother, does away with a camera crew from Reason.tv and it retaliates with amusing editing.

Posted on Aug 2, 2011 READ MORE  |  12 COMMENTS


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Damon No Longer an Obama Fan

Matt Damon was apparently paying attention as he narrated “Inside Job,” Charles Ferguson’s Oscar-winning documentary about the architects of the ongoing global economic catastrophe, as he’s broken with the cohort of celebrities who ...

Posted on Mar 8, 2011 READ MORE  |  26 COMMENTS



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‘The Adjustment Bureau’: Fate Accompli

Free will is not a subject that comes up a lot in the movies—not, certainly, as the main topic of dramatic conversation. On the other hand, however, it could be argued that it is the hidden subject of almost every film.

Posted on Mar 4, 2011 READ MORE  |  10 COMMENTS


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Matt Damon Attached to Play RFK in New Biopic

Matt Damon may get a chance to flex his acting chops in a challenging and meaty role—as a Kennedy, no less—if he ends up liking the screenplay for an upcoming biopic about the late Robert F. Kennedy, according to Deadline Hollywood’s Nikki Finke.

Posted on Feb 24, 2010 READ MORE  |  7 COMMENTS


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Damon: Palin Phenom ‘Like a Really Bad Disney Movie’

Thespian and concerned citizen Matt Damon would like some answers about this Sarah Palin person we keep hearing about whose unlikely career arc might just catapult the bouffant-wearing hockey mom from the snowy wilds of Wasilla, Alaska, into an international staring match with tiger-slaying Russian judo master Vladimir Putin.

Posted on Sep 10, 2008 READ MORE  |  27 COMMENTS


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Clooney and Damon Are “Obama Guys”

Sen. Hillary Clinton was gearing up on Thursday for a young Hollywood campaign fund-raiser—and not a moment too soon.  Time magazine reported from the Cannes Film Festival that “Oceans 13” studs George Clooney and Matt Damon are enthusiastic about Barack Obama’s  ‘08 presidential bid.

Posted on May 31, 2007 READ MORE  |  9 COMMENTS


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