Yay and Nay

Today I'd like to introduce a new feature of the blog that I'll call "Yay and Nay".  In this feature, we'll discuss commonly associated pairs.  Today we'll start off with Matt Damon (Yay) and Ben Affleck (Nay), good friends who came into the business at roughly the same time, and share an Oscar together.

Yay for Matt Damon - I really like him as an actor.  He's always willing to do something different and interesting - whether it's putting on weight to play "The Informant", or wear a false nose in "Ocean's 13", go for sideburns and a lisp in "True Grit", or learn an assassin's tricks in the "Bourne" movies.  He doesn't seem to take himself too seriously, and really seems to become the characters that he plays.

On the other hand, there's Ben Affleck.  Whenever you see him, you can't get past him as a personality.  He's always Ben Affleck, and he's always acting, and worried about how he looks.  No false noses, no weight gain, nothing that really makes him let go and become a character.  Nay!