Matt Damon

[nuharoo]

Well, from what I've seen men are scared to death of women they know have more education than they do. I know a lot of women who are doctors and can't find any man to date them.

That is so bewildering. What guy doesn't want a doctor as a wife? Could easily cut down on visits to the doctor's office.

[Yossarian]

Not to be snarky but I could never be with a doctor (I'm a woman) because they have NO PERSONAL TIME and are stressed out and frazzled. I could easily see it being the same for a man when choosing a wife, especially when you factor in having-children-or-not issues.

And multiply that a million times in the case of a celebrity. Most stahs are overgrown toddlers who need ego stroking, reassurance and guidance on the most mundane issues. A partner who is a doctor or a lawyer or whatever kind of professional is probably not going to jump at the bit to have both an eighty hour a week job and then go home and play second fiddle to the great man's ego. Also, celebrities travel a lot - someone who is based in an office in New York is not going to be able to pack up and go to Romania for a three month shoot followed by two weeks in Paris and then six months worth of world promotion. Logistically, a celebrity and a normal career-oriented person are going to make for a difficult pairing.

But yeah, *many* men are terrified by intelligent women. Why go for brains when you can choose a woman by her cup size?

[Ginger]

I know it's snobbish, but what happens if his career tanks or he sustains a severe injury that permanently handicaps him? How will Luciana support the family if he's rendered helpless?

Matt got $5.5 million for All The Pretty Horses, $10 Million for the first Bourne Identity, $10 million for The Brothers Grimm, and even more than that for the second Bourne Identity and Ocean's 11/12. He's got tens of millions of dollars--his family doesn't need to worry.

[batmom]

The Rock's wife is a financial professional of some kind. Yet one more reason why I love him. In a purely platonic sense. Uh, Matt Damon is okay, I guess (I had to say something on topic.)

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Lars Ulrich of Metallica married and had two sons with a doctor. (They got divorced not too long ago.) And to bring this full circle, the doctor was Matt Damon's ex-girlfriend! The character Skyler in Good Will Hunting (played by Minnie Driver) was based on her.
Weird, eh?
Apparently Matt was non too pleased when Skyler took up with Lars. A reporter asked him about the real Skyler and he said something like "She married a rock star with his own plane. A bad rock star."

[kostgard]

I like Matt Damon and I like the fact that I've only been vaguely aware of the fact that he's been dating a non-celeb for quite a while and I don't know a lot about it because it isn't constantly in my face.

I really think Hollywood is filled with two kinds of people - those who like acting, think they are pretty good at it and want to make a living at it, and those who want to be famous. I think Matt and his good buddy Ben are prime examples of each kind. Sure, Matt enjoyed the spotlight when he first really surfaced with Good Will Hunting, but then he settled down, lived his life and started choosing more interesting roles. Ben never got over the rush, did crap like Pearl Harbor and dated J-Lo. He seems to have settled down a bit, but I still think he's more interested in being famous than being a serious actor.

I also like Matt for his candid snarkiness. The dig at Lars and his ex above seems a bit catty, but I love that he'll say things like, "Any actor who tells you he does his own stunts (*cough*TOM CRUISE*cough*) is full of it."

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"She married a rock star with his own plane. A bad rock star."

I also like Matt for his candid snarkiness.

It's good to know that he can dish it out, but can he take it? I love him to pieces, but how will he feel if any of his exes start to make cracks like that about ol' Loose Change?

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And to bring this full circle, the doctor was Matt Damon's ex-girlfriend! The character Skyler in Good Will Hunting (played by Minnie Driver) was based on her.

One of my cousins went to Harvard at the same time as MD. They weren't good friends or anything, but they were in the same finals club (apparently Harvard doesn't have a Greek system but their finals clubs kind of fulfill the same purpose) and they played basketball together a lot. The freaky thing is that my cousin looks exactly like MD (and I'm not exaggerating, I mean exactly the same head shape and facial features), except with brown eyes and darker hair, so people were always confusing them. Anyway, my cousin always liked MD and found him to be a really nice guy.

Skylar, however, was an self-entitled stuck-up bitch, according to my cousin's wife, also a Harvard alum. My cousin-in-law played on the girls' water polo team so she interacted with Skylar a lot since Skylar was also a water polo player. Skylar always made a huge stink about how much better a player she was than the other girls and just made everyone else's life miserable with her arrogant demands. I think there might even be a story that she made such a stink about being so good that she was allowed to play on the men's team. From what my cousin's wife says, it sounds like she and Lars deserved each other.

[kostgard]

It's good to know that he can dish it out, but can he take it? I love him to pieces, but how will he feel if any of his exes start to make cracks like that about ol' Loose Change?

I have no idea, but I do know that he found the mentally-challenged marionette version of himself (who could only say "Matt Damon") in "Team America: World Police" funny, so he at least has some sense of humor about himself (some other celebs didn't react nearly as well to their portrayals in that movie).

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Does anyone know what really happened between the two of them? It seemed so caddish of him to announce their breakup on TV like that, but who knows what was going on behind the scenes.

Didn't one of MD's friends come out later and say once that the Oprah break-up announcement wasn't true, that MD had broken up with her in person before that, and that Minnie made it up to get sympathetic PR? Anyone?