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Rise of the camera phones (Ben Affleck edition)

Published Tuesday, August 08, 2006 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

The glossy mags have realized the importance of camera phones -- just look at all of the photos that got published in the past week for coverage of Mel Gibson's relapse. People mag has a shot inside its pages of several bar patrons in Mexico wielding cell phone cameras earlier this year as Gibson caused a ruckus. I don't have a shot of Gibson. But below, see how close I got to Ben Affleck on Saturday when he held a press conference in Dorchester on his final day of production for Gone, Baby Gone.