Scene 3 Matt Damon Paperback Magazine Book 2014

Boston cutie with killer smile seeks sophisticated girl with good sense of humor. Loves Calvin Klein threads, scarfing pizza, and staying out late. If you enjoy intelligent conversation, going to Red Sox games, and don't mind a few dirty dishes in the sink, Matt is the guy for you. Hollywood's golden boy once lived on Spam, scrounged the couch cushions for change, and read only the scripts rejected by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Chris O'Donnell. So what did Matt do when he was down on his luck? Put on a shirt and tie and join the working stiffs? Take a full-time gig as Goofy at Disneyland? Nah. Not this Harvard boy. He got together with his friend Ben Affleck, and the two best buds wrote themselves a movie. Actually, when Matt Damon came up with the first seedling of the idea that would later become the Academy-Award-winning film Good Will Hunting, he was still back east -- a student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And he wasn't thinking about writing a screenplay yet. He was just...doing his homework. It wasn't until five years later that Matt and Ben transformed what had started out as Matt's creative-writing assignment into the sleeper hit of the 1997 Christmas movie season. And suddenly it seemed that Matt shot to stardom in the blink of an eye. But he didn't exactly shoot...he kind of crawled.