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YM 50
1) Please note: Benjamin Affleck's middle name is Geza. Yowza!
2) Ben works the whole Boston vibe, but he was actually born in Berkeley, California.
3) Ben's got only one bro, Casey, and no sisters. They're supertight. Ben's always visiting Casey at school, New York City's Columbia University.
4) The good son: Ben bought his mom, Chris, a car with his dough from Good Will Hunting.
5) Not unlike GWH's MIT janitor, Will, Ben's pop, Timothy, was once a janitor at Harvard University.
6) Ben walked in Matt Damon's shadow for a while, careerwise. But at 6'3", Ben's always physically towered over Matt, who's five inches shorter.
7) Ben comes off as a sweetheart now, but he was a real bad boy - underage drinking, smoking, the works - in high school.
8) Ben dropped out of college before graduating, but he gave two schools a shot the University of Vermont and California's Occidental College.
9) His major? Middle Eastern studies.
10) Ever see The Dark End of the Street? Ben starred in the indie flick at age 8.
11) On the 1984 PBS show The Voyage of the Mimi, little Benny played C.T. Granville.
12) In the book Risky Times: How to Be AlDS-Smart and Stay Healthy, written by Matt's stepmom, Ben reveals how embarrassed he was to buy condoms for the first time.
13) In his pauper days, Ben and his then roommate (not Matt) would fight over change buried under seat cushions to buy $1.29 chicken specials.
14) Alert the cheeseball hall of fame: Ben starred in the Danielle Steel miniseries Daddy in 1991.
15) After he made 60 G's for some TV work when he was 18, Ben spent it all on a car, partying, and some bigger digs.
16) Rent the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ben takes a bite at fame in an uncredited role as Baseball Player #10.
17) Ben directed the gruesomely titled short film I Murdered My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her or a Meat Hook and Now I've Got a Three-Picture Deal with Disney. Hmmm, Ben does have a multi-picture deal with Miramax, which is owned by Disney....
18) Ben thought about putting his Oscar statuette on his car's dashboard - right below his fuzzy dice - but he finally settled for a bookshelf.
19) Mom threatened to hold the statuette hostage until she gets a grandchild.
20) Some of the screenplay for Good Will Hunting was faxed back and forth between Matt, filming in Texas, and Ben, working in L.A.
21) Many of the original ideas for GWH (including evil FBI agents and a threat to world peace) were so reworked by other people that Ben jokes he and Matt are the "Milli Vanilli of screenwriters."
22) To get all babed up for Armageddon, Ben was forced to hit a tanning bed.
23) To prep for the action role, Ben wore a 200-pound, $10 million space suit and floated in a water tank to simulate space travel.
24) For his upcoming period comedy Shakespeare in Love, Ben had to wear tights - what a Say Anything moment!
25) Big fame is starting to take its toll: Ben complains he never gets to see Matt anymore.
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