The 'Cool Girl' Is Not Fiction, But a Phase

Recently a friend ran into a woman we all knew in our twenties as a so-called "Cool Girl." She braced herself for the typical performance-art femininity—"dude in a hot girl's body" ready to party with suspicious, irritating gusto—and was startled to find herself speaking to a grownup who seemed pretty together. Down…
Ben Affleck to Play the Asshole Husband in the Gone Girl Movie
David Fincher — director of Fight Club, Seven, The Social Network — is helming the big-screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel Gone Girl, and Ben Affleck has just been cast to star as Nick Dunne, the unemployed husband who becomes a suspect in the disappearance of his wife.

