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Article: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and a Little Bit of Bloodletting
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- The Village Voice
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- August 13, 2003
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Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and a Little Bit of Bloodletting
MATT AND BEN
By Mindy Kaling and
Brenda Withers
P.S. 122, 150 First Avenue
212.477.5288
Close friendships are brutal. Add intense collaboration and somebody's nose is likely to get broken. This very misfortune befell Brenda Withers last Friday during the 7:30 performance of Matt and Ben, a hit from last year's Fringe Festival in which two female writer-actors, jaunty Withers and charismatic Mindy Kaling, imagine the process that resulted in Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Good Will Hunting. Here, that "process" involves a script literally falling from the ceiling into the hands of the boys, who abandon adapting Catcher in the Rye to ...