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Matt Damon's Father Battling Cancer
Originally posted 06/02/2011 03:00PM
Cambridge native Matt Damon flew home to Boston Wednesday night to extend a personal thank you to doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital for treating his father, Kent, who is currently in remission from the rare blood disease multiple myeloma.
"My family is so grateful for the care you've given us,” Damon told the doctors, nurses and researchers honored at the hospital's One Hundred Celebration at the Westin Hotel. "It's deeply humbling to see how many people here are committing their lives to helping others."
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Matt Damon: Kissing Michael Douglas Is Like Kissing Catherine Zeta-Jones
Originally posted 03/27/2011 12:55PM
He's done the math, and Matt Damon sees hidden benefits to kissing Michael Douglas in their upcoming biopic about the late, flamboyant pianist, Liberace.
"I never thought I would get to kiss Michael Douglas," Damon, who will play the boyfriend of Douglas's Liberace, told PEOPLE Tuesday at the premiere of a different film, the documentary His Way, in Los Angeles.
"I kind of think of it in algebra terms, back to my high-school days," added Damon. "It's like the transitive property – by kissing Michael Douglas, I am making out with Catherine."
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Robert Pattinson, Leighton Meester to Present at Golden Globes
Originally posted 01/05/2011 12:10PM
The Golden Globes is always a big party – and now the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has confirmed some of its high-profile guests.
Robert Pattinson, Leighton Meester and Jennifer Lopez are among the first confirmed presenters, according to the Golden Globes's official Twitter account.
Matt Damon will also be on-hand to present the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Robert De Niro during the Jan. 16 telecast.
This year, the King's Speech leads with seven Golden Globe nominations, while The Fighter and The Social Network each have six nods.
The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards, hosted by Ricky Gervais, air live Jan. 16 on NBC at 5 p.m. from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
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Five Things to Know About True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld
Originally posted 12/27/2010 01:00PM
Among a laundry list of seasoned scene-stealers starring in the Coen brothers's latest film, True Grit – Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges – there's a new leading lady ready to make a big name for herself: Hailee Steinfeld.
As her first starring role in a major film, which is the second adaptation of the Charles Portis 1968 novel of the same name, Steinfeld holds her own as Mattie Ross, a fiery teen avenging her father's death in the wild, wild west. Before you catch the film, meet the Thousand Oaks, Calif., native, 14, who isn't afraid to take on hefty costars or a pit of snakes.
1. She got her big break in a Kmart commercial
Just months before she was rubbing shoulders on the dusty plains with Bridges and Damon, Steinfeld was bantering with high school kids in a squeaky-clean "Blingatude" back-to-school commercial for Kmart. She's the girl in the light-blue headband and heart-print top. It was one of Steinfeld's few onscreen roles before being cast in True Grit.
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Matt Damon Only Spanks Kids in the Movies
Originally posted 12/16/2010 07:00AM
Matt Damon isn't the spanking kind of man, even though he plays one in the movies.
In a key scene in the new Coen Brothers Western True Grit, Damon, playing a boastful Texas Ranger, takes his costar Hailee Steinfeld – who turned 14 last week – over his knee and wallops her with a wooden reed. But that's a long way from Damon's real life with his four young daughters.
"I definitely don't spank 'em," the star, 40, told PEOPLE at the movie's New York premiere on Tuesday.
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Matt Damon Takes Wing – and Some Beer – with Pals
Originally posted 12/08/2010 06:00AM
• Hot guy, hot wings! Matt Damon, grabbing some wings at Jake Melnick's in Chicago, where the actor is shooting Contagion. Damon stopped in with some crewmembers and shared appetizers as they watched the New England Patriots play the New York Jets. Damon also sampled some craft brews and left his server a generous tip.
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Caught in the Act!
Originally posted 12/08/2010 06:00AM
• Hot guy, hot wings! Matt Damon, grabbing some wings at Jake Melnick's in Chicago, where the actor is shooting Contagion. Damon stopped in with some crewmembers and shared appetizers as they watched the New England Patriots play the New York Jets. Damon also sampled some craft brews and left his server a generous tip.
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Matt Damon Wants His Daughters to Be 'Strong Women'
Originally posted 10/25/2010 08:00AM
Matt Damon has just welcomed his fourth daughter into the world, and already he has plans for her.
"If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1," Damon, 40, tells Parade.
The actor plays a psychic who communicates with the dead in director Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, which opened wide this weekend, and says he found the material relevant to life as a parent.
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Matt Damon and His Wife Welcome a Baby Girl
Originally posted 10/23/2010 08:00PM
Matt Damon and his wife Luciana have their hands full.
The couple, already raising three children, welcomed a girl, Stella Zavala Damon, who was born on Wednesday in New York.
"Mom and baby are both healthy," Damon's rep tells PEOPLE. "The whole family is thrilled."
Damon, who turned 40 earlier this month, and Luciana, 35, wed in 2005 and have two children together – Isabella, 4, and Gia, 2. Luciana also has a daughter, Alexia, from a previous marriage.
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Matt Damon's 40th Party – 'Nothing Outrageous'
Originally posted 10/11/2010 11:40AM
Matt Damon turned the big 4-0. So how did one of Hollywood's sexiest men celebrate his big day?
"I had a party with my friends and family," Damon tells PEOPLE of the gather Friday. "You know, nothing outrageous."
The actor also clears up speculation that he has signed on to direct a new film written by pals Ben and Casey Affleck.
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