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The Business

Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck stars in Argo and it's his third outing as a director. His 2010 heist movie, The Town , which he also starred in, was a commercial success. That followed his 2007 drama Gone Baby Gone , which didn't generate big box office but did manage to change the conversation about him. As he tells Kim Masters, that was even more important.

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By Kim Masters • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Ben Affleck stars in Argo and it's his third outing as a director. His 2010 heist movie, The Town, which he also starred in, was a commercial success. That followed his 2007 drama Gone Baby Gone, which didn't generate big box office but did manage to change the conversation about him. As he tells Kim Masters, that was even more important. In this archived edition of The Business, they discuss how he managed to bring about a career resurrection following an all time low in 2004 when he'd made a string of flops and was ubiquitous in the tabloids due to his flamboyant relationship with Jennifer Lopez.

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    Kim Masters

    partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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    Producer

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    Ben Affleck

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