If he's so worried about being famous, why does he keep appearing in public with J.Lo? Why does he go on Celebrity Poker Showdown? Why does he appear on Fox Sports Net in another poker tournament? The hypocrisy is sickening. If you don't want to be famous, don't make movies. Don't go out in public with your famous girlfriend. As for the statment that, [Ben] certainly never courted [celebrity]," that's just stupid. So he didn't want to make money with Good Will Hunting? He didn't move to Los Angeles to be an actor unless he wanted to be famous. Wah wah...I have millions of dollars, can do whatever I want, go out with whomever I like, but I don't want to be famous. Cry me a friggen river.

URL: Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com

Saved Article: "Hollywood star Matt Damon claims his pal Ben Affleck never wants to see his face on a magazine again - because the publicity he's attracted this year has made him 'sick of himself'. The Daredevil star's axed wedding to Jennifer Lopez in September and the subsequent press investigation into the state of their relationship has taken its toll on Affleck, and he sympathizes with movie fans across the world who are bored with reading about him. His Good Will Hunting co-star Damon says, 'Ben told me he doesn't want to see his picture on the cover of another magazine. He said all this recent publicity is making him sick of himself. Ben understands why some people are sick of seeing so much being written and photographed about him and that's really frustrating for him.' And Damon refutes accusations Affleck used his romance with J.Lo to raise his profile. He adds, 'Ben didn't go into the relationship saying, 'This will get me a lot of coverage.' Ben was already getting plenty of work as an actor. He didn't need this kind of celebrity and he certainly never courted it.'"

It's just kind of sad that the leader of the Atlantic conference has a record under 0.500. Philly leads the conference with a record of 9-10 and then there's Orlando - loser of 16 in a row, sporting a magnificent record of 1-16. Way to win that first one guys.

URL: ESPN.com - NBA - NBA Standings

I'm a huge fan of poker - I've been playing it since as long as I can remember with my parents and grandparents. We always played the standard games, 7 card stud, 5 card draw, nothing too outlandish, none of that 3's and 5's are wild, Q's redeal, etc. Just good ol' poker. Since I love playing the game, I've always watched the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on ESPN - it was the only poker you could find on TV and since it really is the most revered tournament in the world, it was easily the best tournament to watch on TV. At first, it was just an hour or two long, but last year, it went to six hours - which is all fine and well since there's a lot of tournament to cover.

Apparently, the WSOP has been getting bigger and bigger ratings, and last year, the Travel Channel rolled out the World Poker Tour (WPT). It travels from city to city, country to country, staging tournaments for huge cash prizes and in the end, the winners of all the stages advance to the final showdown. It was fun to watch, but each city was condensed to one hour and you really couldn't see all that happened - you just got the best showdowns, the best hands. I enjoyed the WPT, but it was no WSOP (though the WPT was weekly while the WSOP was yearly).

From what I can gather, the WPT was a huge hit for the Travel Channel because the WPT keeps gaining steam and, just last week (Thanksgiving to be exact), there was a six hour tournament from the Sands in Atlantic City on Fox Sports Net. I recorded it and watched it all in one sitting - it was amazing. That was the kind of poker I liked to watch - it was filled with true poker players - the biggest of the big - the real poker players - not those like the ones featured on Bravo tonight.

Following the success of the WSOP, the WPT & various other poker shows on television, Bravo tonight rolled out the Celebrity Poker Showdown - a glitzed up poker tourney (if you want to call it that) with five celebrity players, the winner advancing to the final table in 5 weeks. There's a celebrity announcer, the token "poker expert" and then a live studio audience cheering the celebrities on. And while I love to watch poker on television - this isn't poker. It's a bunch of rich celebrities trying to show off (though they are competing for charities) in some weak tournament that, even though I really hate watching, I'll probably watch every week since we don't have another WSOP for quite a while.

As a fan of poker, I play online in freerolls (no money tournaments) and it's been lots of fun to watch poker take off as it has the past year, but I really hope that somehow the game doesn't get diluted by a bunch of wannabes who might have watched one WPT show or the Celebrity Poker Showdown and think they know how to play poker.

URL: BRAVO > Celebrity Poker Showdown