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Jennifer Garner, John Miller's Fun Date After Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez Split
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Jennifer Garner‘s certainly putting any Ben Affleck reunion rumors to bed … looking totally thrilled on a date with beau John Miller after news of her ex’s divorce broke.
The happy couple left an L.A. restaurant together Friday night … and, check out the smiles on their faces — clearly, these two lovebirds are crazy about one another.
The two dressed casually for their evening out … Jennifer in a comfy blue sweater while John’s rocking a t-shirt and flannel — smiles galore while the valet runs to get their car.
Of course, we knew the pair were still crazy about each other … remember, we recently told you Garner had no plans to get back together with Ben Affleck after Jennifer Lopez filed to divorce him earlier this week.
Sources close to the situation told us they weren’t on a break as some had reported, and their relationship hadn’t changed one bit despite the divorce.
We’re told BA and JG are rocking the co-parenting game … and, that’s really all the closeness they have — with no desire to try again after their shocking divorce became final in 2018.
J Lo filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences this week … and, there are a ton of guys who are the betting favorites to land with the triple-threat — including Eminem who’s currently out in front.
As for betting odds on Garner and Affleck getting back together … we’d put them at pretty damn slim.
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'Wait Wait' for August 24, 2024: With Not My Job guest Diane Lane
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US actress Diane Lane attends the For Your Consideration (FYC) event for FX’s “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles on May 29, 2024. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
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This week’s show was recorded in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guest Diane Lane and panelists Adam Felber, Adam Burke, and Dulcé Sloan. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.
Who’s Bill This Time
A Political Party Parties; Stranded By Starliner; Good News For Supernerds
Panel Questions
A New Issue for Divorce Lawyers
Bluff The Listener
Our panelists tell three stories about something crazy happening at Roman’s Pizzeria in Florida, only one of which is true.
Not My Job: We quiz Emmy-nominee Diane Lane on Swans
Actor Diane Lane, star of Feud: Capote vs The Swans plays our game called, “Swan Vs Swan.” Three questions about swans, the birds.
Panel Questions
Uh, Canada?; The True Cost of True Love
Limericks
Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Eau du Rold Gold; One Last Chance for Glam; Tough Times for Ohio
Lightning Fill In The Blank
All the news we couldn’t fit anywhere else
Predictions
Our panelists predict what the janitors will find when they start cleaning up after the Democrats at the DNC.
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'Interpretations of Love' is debut novel for 82-year-old author
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Jane Campbell made a splash with her first book, Cat Brushing, a collection of provocative stories about older women still very much in touch with the sensual side of life. It was published two years ago, when she was 80.
Her follow-up, a first novel called Interpretations of Love, is a decidedly less sumptuous book involving a long-buried family secret and moral conundrum that dates back to WWII. At its heart are several characters trying to come to terms with the holes in their lives.
Malcolm Miller’s life seems to have shriveled prematurely. In 1946, as a 20-year-old, he promised to mail a letter for his vivacious older sister. Sophy had written to Joseph Bradshaw — the young doctor with whom she spent a passionate night while sheltering from the Blitz — because she believes he might be the father of her four-year-old daughter, Agnes. Shortly after entrusting Malcolm with the letter, both Sophy and her kind husband Kurt, whom she had married soon after her “dramatic encounter” with Joe, die in a car accident. On her deathbed, Sophy asks her brother whether he’s delivered her letter. Wanting to reassure her, Malcolm lies and says yes. Agnes is raised by her emotionally distant grandparents, with occasional visits from “Uncle Mally.”
Some 50 years later, Malcolm, emeritus professor of Old Testament Studies at Oxford, still has the letter. ( I’ll leave the “why” for you to discover in reading.) In fact, he held onto it even when Joe, in an unlikely twist, had unwittingly become an important figure in Agnes’ life during a crisis in her marriage. Malcolm is consumed with remorse over his dereliction of duty, and hopes to settle the matter and ease his conscience before he dies.
Self-excoriating to a fault, Malcolm is a hard character to love. Part of the generation shaped by the strictures of war and tight social mores, he is a self-declared “crusty old bachelor with a dicky heart” who lives “in a sort of tepid slurry of dissatisfaction with myself and my life.”
Campbell, who studied at Oxford and worked as a group psychoanalyst for 40 years, weaves a dilly of a plot that brings her characters together for a wedding, a christening, and a funeral. Many of the guests at each event are related by marriage or love affairs. The narration alternates between stodgy Malcolm, troubled Agnes, and Joe, a psychotherapist who claims to be more of a scoundrel than we ever see. Along the way, there’s plenty of soul-searching, confessionals, and picking apart of the proceedings. The ramifications of Sophy’s letter are analyzed from multiple angles, teasing out Malcolm’s sad reasons for having withheld it. But because the narrators’ points of view are not distinct enough, the book feels repetitive.
At its best, Interpretations of Love recalls the work of 20th century British writer Mary Wesley. Beginning in her 70s, Wesley brilliantly channeled the social liberation catalyzed by the war years in lusty novels such as The Camomile Lawn and Not That Sort of Girl.
Interpretations of Love is a heavier, more constrained affair, weighted by loss, haunting memories, and a sense of missed opportunities. Gorgeous descriptions of Agnes’ rich ex-husband’s garden alternate with flat lines like “Agnes grew up to be as clever as anything and went off to university.”
One of the hazards of book reviewing is that you can’t help but trip over familiar plots. Just this past spring, Valerie Perrin’s Forgotten on Sunday, for example, involved a young French girl who lost both her parents in a car accident, was raised by her dour grandparents, and as an adult, finally learned the truth about what really happened.
Of course it’s what a writer does to make these classic stories their own that matters. In Interpretations of Love, Campbell brings her analytic background to bear on an extended exploration of ambiguity — in love, in questions about free will, and in the unfathomability of both past and future.
Towards the end of the novel, Agnes reminds herself — and readers – that “You will have to wait to see what the uncertain future brings…Accept the uncertainty. Do not yet try to resolve it. The dynamics of the provisional. The end is written into the beginning.” It’s quite a lead-in to the novel’s disturbing climax, which certainly commands our attention — and upends any sunnier views of this family’s future we might have been harboring.
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Eminem Betting Favorite To Date Jennifer Lopez After Ben Affleck Divorce
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Could Jennifer Lopez bounce from Batman to Superman?? That’s what the oddsmakers are thinking … ’cause Eminem is the betting favorite to be J Lo’s next man after her divorce from Ben Affleck.
Fresh off the bombshell breakup news, the peeps at BetOnline wasted no time coming up with a batch of A-listers Ben and Jen could date next … and in all honesty, some aren’t all that farfetched.
Starting with J. Lo, Slim Shady has the best odds at +800 … with fellow musician, The Weeknd, right behind him at +1000.
Her former fiance, Alex Rodriguez, has the same odds as Abel … although he’s pretty boo’d up at the moment. Affleck’s bestie, Matt Damon, is in the middle of the pack at +5000.
There are some silly possibilities, too … including Kamala Harris‘ running mate, Tim Walz, Travis Kelce, Bill Belichick (all at +10000) and even Ellen DeGeneres (+15000).
The worst odds?? None other than former President Donald Trump and Diddy, who sit at a whopping +25000.
Over on Affleck’s side, the oddsmakers like the chances of him getting back with Jennifer Garner (+400), while his “Gone Girl” costar Emily Ratajkowski ain’t too far off with +500 odds.
Kim and Kourtney Kardashian are both +1000 … and Khloe (+1200) trails her sisters. Kendall Jenner rounds out all the KarJenners at +1600.
There are plenty more — Tom Brady‘s ex-wife, Gisele Bundchen, Cara Delevingne and Olivia Rodrigo (all +1200), Sandra Bullock (+1600), and Kate Beckinsale (+2000).
A number of his former flings made the cut as well — Ana De Armas (+2000), Shauna Sexton (+2500) and even Jenny from the Block … with a round three of romance getting +3300 odds.
The silly candidates include Neil Patrick Harris (+3300), Lana Rhoades (+6600), Taylor Swift (+10000) and Jenna Jameson (+10000).
TMZ broke the story — Jennifer officially filed her divorce papers earlier this week … officially calling off their marriage of two years.
So if ya don’t mind cashing in on other people’s heartbreak … throw down some money!!
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