Matt Damon packed on 30lbs for his role in The Informant and from the early reviews, it sounds like it was worth it.  The film hits theatres today and really resembles Erin Brokovich in a number of ways. The plot is based on the true story of bipolar whistleblower, Mark Whitacre (Damon), who believes he will become a hero when he turns in his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy.
He begins working with the FBI but he begins to believe that his level of importance is greater than it actually is and the agents are left wondering about how much of what …read more

There are three reasons we decided to do this post about Matt Damon participating in a Miami triathlon.
1. First, we like Matt Damon. We don’t like him-like him the way we like Roger Federer, Ralph Fiennes, Joaquin Phoenix, or that guy who plays Dennis from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. But, we like him.
2. We like Miami. Going to South Beach rocks our little suburban central Massachusetts world.
3. We’re in a triathlon frame of mind because a) we hope to do one in 2009 and b) our friend, the same on who misunderstood the severity of the “horrible news” about …read more