Ben Affleck's upcoming trip to the Academy Awards is widely expected to end with the "Argo" director cradling a gold statuette. But as the 40-year-old actor-writer-director nears his presumed moment of glory on the stage of the Dolby Theatre, it's worth remembering that his first trip to the Oscars ended the same way for the then-25-year-old actor-writer. And the audience that saw Affleck's first Oscar triumph 15 years ago was no doubt bigger than the one that will watch "Argo" either win Best Picture or suffer a shocking upset at the hands of some other film. I attended rehearsals from the ... Read More