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Ben Affleck Takes On Role Of Alcoholic Has-Been

Friends fear challenging part could spark relapse!

Ben Affleck landed a new ’movie role, and friends told sources for The National ENQUIRER that the part hits too close to home for his friends’ comfort! The booze-challenged “Batman” actor, who just completed his fourth in-patient rehab stint in two years, is playing an alcoholic former highschool basketball star who wrecked his career and marriage — in a movie tentatively and ironically titled “The Has-Been!” “Ben has his heart set on winning another Oscar,” a source snitched. Read on for details of Ben’s rife new big-screen gambit, and click here for more celebrity rehab news ….