For the record: Affleck not from Dot
The Gray Lady goes on a tour of Southie and Dot with Ben Affleck, in which he does display some regret at forsaking verisimilitude in "Gone Baby Gone" by setting a climactic scene in a Southie bar:
"It's sort of a cheat," he said. "Because there's no real reason a guy from Dorchester would come all the way to Southie to find a bar. But we liked the way this one looked."
Howeva, Miss. Von Schtoop says the paper leaves the impression Affleck is a Dot rat or something:
... He's nawt.
He was born in California and raised in the People's Republic of Cambridge.
According to IMDB his real name is Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt.
My gawd! The horrah!
And let me tell you, everyone on THIS side of the rivah know just what exactly is in that watah oveh THEYAH. ...
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Get your neighborhoods straight
I won't complain too much about any article that has a slide show of Dot Ave, but the author of the article should at least get things strait. Canaloni's is not in S.Boston, its in Uphams Corner in Dorchester. Some of the pictures in there allegedly of Dot Ave are also dubious.
The author did a pretty good Job for not being from around here.
"In nearby Uphams Corner he got out and went into Cataloni’s, a bar where a sign saying..."
If you mean Dennis Lehane
who wrote the book, he was born in Dorchester.Affleck "wrote" the screenplay from the book.