Profiling Ben Affleck

Brooks Barnes has a good profile of Ben Affleck in The New York Times.

Here’s the first paragraph of the piece:

Warning: This is not one of those celebrity profiles that uses a teaspoon of new information to flavor a barrel of ancient history. There is no paragraph where the star and the writer pretend to be pals — gag — while doing an everyday-person activity. What was everyone eating? Who cares. No, you will not get served the obligatory canned quote from Matt Damon.