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: 1st page six thing was the "jennys tattoo thing we all know about : 2nd was a half page article that is great about Raquel Castro but it is in the onthly tempo (latin) section which isnt online and finnally the following : : 'JERSEY' SWIRL : By LOU LUMENICK : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : : Email Archives : Print Reprint : : : : March 10, 2004 -- HAVING spent the last two years enduring endless questions about Bennifer and "Jersey Girl," director Kevin Smith promises there aren't going to be any women in his next movie. : "You can be damned sure there's going to be an all-male cast in 'Green Hornet,' " he told The Post with a laugh about his current project, based on the '60s TV show. : "Jersey Girl," which finally opens March 26, was supposed to come out in November - but the debut was delayed because of the firestorm of negative publicity surrounding "Gigli," the bomb Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez made just before "Jersey Girl." : Smith says he'd work again with his buddy Affleck - who's been in all of his films except for "Clerks" - "in a heartbeat. But for me, it's problematic casting him as a masked man again [in "The Green Hornet"] after he played one in 'Daredevil.' " : "Jersey Girl" represents a distinct change of pace for Smith - unlike his earlier, rowdy slacker farces, it's a sentimental story about a hard-driving music publicist (Affleck) who reluctantly raises his daughter (newcomer Raquel Castro) after his wife (Lopez) dies in childbirth. : And his usually ubiquitous characters Jay and Silent Bob are nowhere to be found. : "I've had to make people understand it's not a Bennifer flick, it's not Gigli 2," Smith said wearily. : : "They'll see when the movie comes out that, yeah, the two of them are in it, but they're actually good together - and then she's gone real quick and it's about him and the kid for the rest of the movie." : The intensely personal comedy, Smith says, was inspired by the birth of his daughter Harley Quinn, who will be 5 in June - as well as the death last year of his father, a retired postal worker. : "There's a lot of me in Ollie [Affleck's character] and a lot of my dad in Bart [the character's father], who has that moment where he tells Ollie he doesn't want to die alone," says Smith. : "That's a part of the movie that's always played very poignant to me, but now I can't watch it - and I have to leave at that point because of my dad." : But despite all of the aggravation of the Affleck-J.Lo spotlight - "I felt like I was part of the relationship, but I didn't get any nooky," he jokes - Smith insists he has no regrets about casting what was Hollywood's hottest couple in "Jersey Girl." : "I feel Jen is in many ways the linchpin of this movie, because she got this performance out of Ben because they actually were in love - and you feel his sense of loss after she's gone," he says. : "And if we hadn't had Jen, we wouldn't have cast Raquel, who looks like Jen and is one of our best casting decisions ever. : "Maybe in the immediate future, 'Gigli' or Bennifer will have an immediate effect on our box office," he said. : "But I hope it makes a lot of money, because it would be nice to flip the bird to everyone who predicted it was a bomb-in-waiting." : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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