Director Knows He's Not Required To Kiss Absent Ben Affleck's Ass
Stay-at-home dad Ben Affleck was apparently too busy with diaper-changing responsibilities to make the trip to Santa Barbara for the festival premiere of a film he's in, and Page Six reports that his director realizes that ass-kissing is mandatory only if your fading star actually shows his face at the screening:
BEN Affleck took some affable jabs from director Mike Binger at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival the other night for skipping the premiere of "Man About Town." Binger, a comic-turned-moviemaker, had the audience in stitches over his star's absence. "[Bleep] Ben Affleck for not being here," said Binger, whose picture about Hollywood agents also stars Gina Gershon, Bai Ling, John Cleese and Rebecca Romijn. "But if he'd shown up, I'd be kissing his ass."
This morning, however, poor "Binger" is probably too busy calling his agent (Endeavor's Ari Emanuel, if you must know, who also coincidentally reps Sixie Paula Froelich) to complain about how his name was incorrectly spelled three times in the span of three sentences, thus diluting the self-promotional value of any good-natured zinger he might've made at buddy Affleck's expense.
