Ben Affleck Totally Typecast As Harried Perfumier [Short Ends]

· Ben Affleck will star in Mike Judge's Extract, about the trials and tribulations of "a flower extract factory owner." We know the punchline is "Ow My Essence of Citrus Blossom!" We're just not sure how the rest goes. [Variety]
· The Zurich Film Festival will bestow their highest honor, The Golden Herring, upon the franchise-defibrillating achievements of aging action mercenary, Sylvester Stallone. [Variety]
· NBC Universal has acquired U.K.'s Carnival Film & Television, the first step in their ruddily cherubic child-king's seven-year plan towards world domination. [THR]
· The House Bunny and Legally Blonde writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith have sold ABC Studios a script for a potential series based on their "champagne-and-therapy-fueled" creative process. Working title: Set-Ups and the City. (Now who wants a show about our malt-beverage-and-hackery-fueled creative process?) [THR]
· Lifetime ordered six episodes of Blonde Charity Mafia, a documentary series about young fundraising socialites in D.C. Couldn't they have squeezed the word "Sluts" in the title somewhere? That would have really sold it. [Variety]

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• MSNBC Celeb News Affleck tours refugee camps in war-torn Congo Nov 20
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• Foxnews.com FOXLIFE Ben Affleck Tours Refugee Camps in War-Torn Congo Nov 20
• X17 Online Ben Affleck Visits Refugee Camps in Congo Nov 20
• Yahoo Entertainment (AP) Affleck Still Leading the Congo Line (E! Online) Nov 20
• PerezHilton Ben Affleck Do-Gooding in Congo, Africa Nov 20
• Entertainment Tonight Ben Affleck's Latest African Mission Nov 20