Matt Damon to play Liberace’s gay lover in new flick

October 10th, 2009 LONDON - Genealogy experts have discovered that good friends actor-director Ben Affleck and Hollywood star Matt Damon are 10th cousins. The actors are childhood friends from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, and found fame together starring alongside each other in a number of movies, and winning an Oscar each for their 1997 screenplay Good Will Hunting.

September 25th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Matt Damon likes actor George Clooney because he has a great house and loves to spend on his pals. "George has this beautiful place in Italy where he brings all of his friends and he is an amazingly generous person as well, askmen.com quoted Damon as saying.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Matt Damon is using his popularity to help provide clean water to people living in poverty-stricken Haiti. This is an initiative by the actor as part of his non-profit company water.org, which he launched earlier this year.

September 19th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winning actor George Clooney wants to direct Matt Damon in a new movie called Hamdan v Rumsfeld, about Osama bin Laden's former chauffeur. The actor has singled out Matt, with whom he previously starred in Syriana, to star in the film, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Actor Matt Damon has lashed out at "lazy" journalists for propagating a "silly" story that he had died. According to Contactmusic, the 38-year-old star used the Toronto Film Festival press conference to slam the journalists who reported that he had had a fatal fall off the cliffs during a mountain hike in California.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - American actor George Clooney has vowed to take revenge against his 'Ocean's Eleven' co-star Matt Damon for joking to a foreign reporter that the former is set to marry his gay partner. Damon, 38, had recently admitted to having fuelled rumours that Clooney, 48, is gay, leading to a reporter stripping off his clothes and then propositioning him during an interview.

September 12th, 2009 LONDON - Matt Damon appeared on US TV ending rumors on the net that he is dead. The actor made an appearance at The Late Show with David Letterman after reports came that he had slipped and fallen off the Palos Verdes mountains.

September 11th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Matt Damon has denied reports that he had plunged to his death from the mountains of California. Rumours surfaced online Thursday that the "Ocean's Eleven" actor had slipped and fallen off the Palos Verdes mountains but Damon showed fans he was alive and well during an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" and laughed off the bogus claim, reports contactmusic.com.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Matt Damon says he had fun while working on "The Informant" because he could binge on food as well as skip his workout sessions. "It was very, very easy to gain weight.

August 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Matt Damon may soon get to play the role of real-life alien expert Bob Lazar, for which he was signed almost four years back. Earlier, the plan of movie executives at New Line to chronicle the life story and Lazar's recollections of working at S4, a secret military base located at Papoose Lake in Nevada, into a movie, was foiled.

August 15th, 2009 LONDON - While a whole lot of celebrities across the world are getting hooked onto Twitter, Hollywood actor Matt Damon fears joining the popular social networking site. The Bourne Identity star is scared to join the website in case he is swamped by strange messages from obsessed fans, reports contactmusic.com.

August 15th, 2009 LONDON - Matt Damon has confessed that he enjoyed gaining weight for his new film 'The Informant!' as he was allowed to chew on anything he desired. "I definitely got doughy.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Matt Damon has launched a new charity drive to provide millions of impoverished people with clean drinking water. The Bourne Ultimatum actor has co-founded Water.org in collaboration with humanitarian Gary White.

July 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Matt Damon has launched a new charity campaign to provide millions of impoverished people with clean drinking water. The 'Bourne Ultimatum' star is the co-founder of Water.org alongside humanitarian Gary White.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - Actors and close friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck played poker at an event in Las Vegas to raise money for charity. The Oscar winners joined event host Don Cheadle and actors Brad Garrett and Danny Masterson and retired boxing champ Mike Tyson Thursday night for the charity event, reported femalefirst.co.uk.