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. ...

That's the meme that's starting to spread in advance of the fall release of Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's Gone Baby Gone (featuring Morgan Freeman as God Ed Davis). The trailer has some nice nighttime shots of the city:

Kristen can barely contain her glee at the news that Cambridge's own Ben Affleck will narrate a kid's DVD called "Red Sox Baby: Raising Tomorrow's Boston Red Sox Fan Today:"

... I'm sorry, but that is the cutest thing ever. Can you imagine, burly Affleck with the wee little one, going through the Sox yearbook and being all, "Oh, that's Papi. We'll teach you how to genuflect when you say his name." ...

Michael Femia, however, is not feeling the Affleck love:

... Donnie Wahlberg...there's a diehard fan. Every year he's at the Celtics-Clippers game in LA, he often flies up to Sacramento when the C's are there, and he'll join Mike and Tommy in the booth and talk intelligently and knowledgeably about the franchise.

Affleck sits in the front row of Sox-Yankee games with his starlet du jour, and once showed up in the booth and ripped Lou Merloni. ...

Dave Copeland stops just short of calling for an Affleck ban at Sox home games:

... I was just wondering: Has anyone figured out the Red Sox won-loss record when Ben Affleck is at Fenway? I know I've been to two games in the past six or seven years when he's been in attendance, and the Sox lost both of those games. ...

The Girl in Camo hangs with Ben Affleck. Well, gets to the bar when Jennifer Garner's better half is there:

... So yeah, we head down to the Local around 8:45 and as soon as I walk in the door I see him, and I want to yell out, "RE-TAIN-ER! Retainer." Because no one works without a retainer in this town, right? But I was cool, like the time I ran into Tom Guiry at the Pour House. Besides, it looked like all the regulars were kind of harassing him. ...

Mike Mennonno dishes the dirt on rundown Meaney Park and why it's all the ubiquitous actor's fault.