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| | Santa Monica Mirror: On The Stage: A Very Fresh Look At Matt & Ben |
 | | In Matt and Ben, Matt is uptight, controlling and goal-oriented, while Ben is laid back, not-so-bright and spends his free time “chillaxing”—a hybrid of chilling and relaxing which Ben, linguistic pioneer that he is, has introduced into the lexicon. |
 | | Using Salinger and Catcher in the play is an interesting touch, and even though Matt and Ben is anything but subtle, there is the subtle irony that the two are trying to “adapt” a book by an author whose career, in an odd way, parallels their own. |
 | | It may be unfair, or even blasphemous, to compare Salinger with Matt and Ben, but when the patriarch of one-hit-wonders comes and visits Affleck in a pseudo-dream sequence to offer him advice, it is hard not to draw the comparison. |
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