Batman v. Superman star Ben Affleck was photographed with his two daughters – Violet, 9, and Seraphina, 6 – in Los Angeles, Calif. on Wednesday (February 11).

After picking up the girls from school, the Academy Award-winner, 42, took them to karate class. Looking every bit the doting daddy, the actor carried his daughters’ belongings while Violet toted a heart-shaped pillow and Sera skipped alongside.

The day before, we spotted mama Jennifer Garner and lil’ brother Samuel — who is set to celebrate his third birthday later this month.

The father-of-three is set to hit the big screen as The Caped Crusader in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice.

He is currently enjoying some family time in L.A. during a break from his new film, The Accountant, which is being shot in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Here are some photos (the grey suit pics) of Vince Vaughn in character for True Detective’s second season. He plays some kind of sketchy career criminal with an empire built on illegality. Many think that Vaughn could finally be returning to what should have always been his career path: a decent-to-good character actor. He played around with being a leading man and a comedic lead, to varying degrees of success, but he’s always been an underrated character actor.

Anyway, he’s promoting his new film, Unfinished Business, and he gave a lengthy interview to Playboy for the March issue. You can read the full piece here – at first, Vaughn sounds really calm, reflective, interesting and professional. He doesn’t disrespect anyone, he compliments many of the people he met early in his career (like Johnny Depp) and he even says a few words about his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Aniston. Then the interview totally goes off the rails when Vaughn starts talking about politics and racism. WHOA. It’s a good read. Some highlights:

Losing his virginity: “I always had a lot of fun with girls, even before Swingers. It’s interesting; I was a late bloomer and never really found my way with the opposite sex until later in high school. I think I was 17, maybe 19, when I lost my virginity.”

He was never a pick-up artist: “I was never someone who needed to be with a new woman every night. That was never my thing. I always had an easy time joking and getting along with women, and I liked to go out and have fun and talk and joke and meet people and dance. But I was never a pickup artist, per se. I have two older sisters, so I always felt comfortable with women and respected them… Gaming on women has become almost like the dark arts. Like, if you’re not cutting her down or using psychological tricks to make fun of her, you won’t get anywhere. I would argue it’s the opposite. I would suggest that if you take the avenue of putting a woman down or making fun of her so she feels insecure enough to go out with you, you’re ultimately screwing yourself. I mean, let’s face it, if you require coaching and techniques to get a woman, it’ll come out as dishonest and you’ll probably end up unhappy or alone.”

His relationship with Jennifer Aniston: “You know, she’s great. For me personally—and I think most well-known actors who are together feel this way—I never enjoyed the paparazzi side of it. You like someone and you’re spending time with them; that’s separate and that was all fine. But I really spent most of that time finding ways not to be drawn into the attention. I think lying low and not talking about it put me in a good position later, because I just wasn’t part of anything.

He’s a libertarian: “I would use the term libertarian to describe my politics. I like the principles of the Constitution and the republic, which is a form of government built around the law.”

The federal government shouldn’t run things? “Trusting the federal government to know what we need and to run things well feels like a bad idea. You see that in the foreign policy of force, where the United States decides to go into another country to make things turn out a certain way. It doesn’t work. It causes more problems. Just look at any of these undeclared wars. You’re suggesting at gunpoint that you’ll decide how things will go. The results haven’t gone well. I’ve been over to Afghanistan and Iraq. I’ve been with the USO. I’ve gone over with movies and done stuff. I care a lot about all the kids and families in those situations. It can’t be easy. But I don’t agree with a foreign policy that says you can send troops places without declaring a war and without having a plan to win the war.”

Whether he believes in affirmative action: “I’ll answer that with a question. Do you believe that using race as a factor in evaluating a person is a good way to operate?… Then you’re evaluating someone based on race, which is racism. Rights don’t come to you because you’re a man or a woman or African American or European or Jewish. And I certainly don’t think the federal government should be in the business of deciding things or handing out money based on factors like these. It’s the same with same-sex marriage. Who cares what people feel about each other? Let people decide for themselves who they can marry. It’s not the government’s job. It’s between you and your partner and your church or synagogue or whatever you believe in.

[From Playboy]

It’s always nice to hear from a white man who has been given tons of opportunities to succeed – even after failing spectacularly many times – discuss how level the playing field is for minorities. Thank you, Vince Vaughn. Yeah, I have a lot of thoughts about this and his white privilege but I think I’ll just leave it all for you guys in the comments.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Reportedly, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively has chosen a very different name than Violet for their first-born child.

According to E! News, the Hollywood couple went for a moniker close to mom’s when naming their daughter.

Sources say that the couple have named their baby girl James (to match mom’s masculine first name).

It’s been a baby name mystery ever since the couple welcomed their daughter late last year. When asked if his daughter is named Violet, Reynolds recently set the record straight.

“No that’s not the name,” he said. “I don’t want to get into that but I don’t know where that came from.”

In an attempt to discover the baby’s name, David Letterman recently drilled The Voices star.

“I should’ve worn my cup!” Reynolds joked. “I didn’t know I was going to busted this hard.”

After confirming that it is a family name, Reynolds went on to say, “It’s not Elaine,” which is his MIL’s name.

Here are some photos of Kim Kardashian and North West in NYC last night. They were coming back from Kanye’s Adidas show. It seems like poor North was out late, which never fails to piss me off. I’m also bothered by the fact that North is wearing a toddler’s fur coat. Is this MINK? CB and I think it’s possibly mink, although I guess it’s also possible that this is just a really high-quality faux fur. I don’t really see why Kim would put North in faux fur considering the Kardashian-West clan is all about REAL fur. How excessive to get North a baby’s fur coat, something she’ll grow out of in a year. I mean, it’s bad enough to wear fur, but at least when you get a fur coat as an adult, you can wear it forever. This is a coat North will likely not even fit into next winter. As you can imagine, there’s already a backlash about the fur.

What else is going on with Kardashian Klan? Let’s see… you know that Kardashian Beauty event that Kim and Khloe attended two nights ago? Well, as it turns out, they only stayed there for five minutes. Seriously.

Kim and Khloé Kardashian mingled at a party for their hair care line, Kardashian Beauty, Monday for “five minutes of the two-hour-long event,” spies said. But before their brief encounter with guests at Academy Mansion on the Upper East Side, they posed for photos for a half hour.

“It was a human wall of people taking their picture,” said a spy. “They came out, someone asked for a selfie and it just turned into an iPhone shoot.”

Then they headed to a VIP area to hide before their next appearance.

[From Page Six]

Well, that’s not SO bad if they posed for fan photos for 30 minutes before spending all of five minutes at the actual event. Still, it’s pretty bad.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Pacific Coast News.

Been thinking a lot about Charlie Hunnam since seeing Fifty Shades Of Grey last night. And how much better it would have been with him in it. And, sh-t, how much more I would have wanted to see his come face in it. And whether or not, if he was in it, whether or not they would have made the decis…      

Like I’ve been saying for weeks, I went in there hoping for the rubs, hoping to see a movie that would get me off. I think we all were – Cynthia Loyst, Jessica Allen, and I went together, with no expectations but with also with no hate. Rather, we were primed to be horny.

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Mom-of-two Kendra Wilkinson shared an adorable image of her 8-month-old daughter Alijah behind the wheel of a pink and white striped mini car. “I’m ridin around I’m gettin it, It’s mine I spend it…,” the Girls Next Door alum, 29, Instagrammed the pic.

In another photo, Wilkinson posed with husband, former NFL star Hank Baskett, and their 5-year-old son little Hank during a family getaway.

The Kendra on Top star went on to share a series of selfies.

“Tried too hard to get a good selfie today but I failed. This is a snapshot of all the fails. In one I have protein shake on my mouth n of course that was the good one. LOL #imstupidiknow,” she joked.

Continue looking through our gallery to see more selfies of the mom-of-two.

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As you’ve heard, Bruce Jenner was in a tragic and fatal multi-car accident last weekend. Reports vary as to whether Jenner may have caused the accident. Initial reports speculated that Jenner may have been texting at the time of the accident, right before his huge Cadillac Escalade rear-ended a Lexus sedan, sending it into the path of oncoming traffic. The driver of the Lexus perished when her car was hit by a Hummer. Jenner’s rep strongly denied that his client was texting. Additional photos taken at the time show that Jenner was smoking, not texting. He also passed the field sobriety tests and tested negative for drugs and alcohol.

Jenner knows that paparazzi follow him everywhere, which makes it even more colossally stupid that he was recently photographed talking on the phone and holding it to his ear while driving. It’s illegal to use a hand held cellphone while driving in California. Here’s more from The Daily News, which also has the photos of Jenner driving and talking on the phone.

Bruce Jenner was spotted chatting on his cell phone while driving in Thousand Oaks, California Tuesday — three days after he was involved in a fatal Malibu car accident.

Using a phone while driving is illegal in the Golden State. Violators face a $20 fine the first time caught and $50 for each subsequent offense.

The former Olympics champ, who was seen behind the wheel of a compact Ford Fiesta, turned over his cellphone records from the weekend to police after his involvement in the deadly pile-up.

[From The NY Daily News]

I live in a state where it’s still inexplicably legal to use a handheld phone and drive. It’s illegal to text and drive, but I see people doing it all the time. I’ve also seen police officers using cell phones (not their CB radios or whatever they use, regular cellphones) and driving. This angers me, because I lived in New York and Connecticut prior to this, and even 15 years ago it was illegal to drive and use handheld phones in those states. Of course studies show that people are still distracted with hands-free phones, but I do believe that outlawing hand held phones helps somewhat and deters texting. Jenner should know better. The fact that he was caught doing this makes me less sympathetic toward him when it comes to his accident.

The Daily News also reports that the driver of the fourth car involved in the accident, a Prius, was driving illegally on a suspended license. As news of this accident has unfolded, we’ve heard various versions of what happened. Police are still piecing it together as well. First we heard that Jenner rear ended the Lexus, which careened out into traffic. Then we heard that the Prius had unexpectedly stopped in traffic, causing the Lexus directly behind it to stop short and limiting Bruce’s ability to brake in time. Now TMZ has a follow-up claiming that Bruce may have caused the whole pileup. TMZ has photos of the accident progressing, and they theorize that Bruce should have realized that traffic had slowed and should have applied the brakes sooner. It’s unknown whether the Lexus hit the Prius first. Again, police are still figuring out what happened. Plus there are witnesses who say that the Prius had stopped first. I’ll reserve judgment until law enforcement comes out with a statement. I’m still judging Bruce for not using a hands free phone, though. Even that little Ford Fiesta he’s now driving has Bluetooth.

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Duchess Kate is working her fingers to the bone! Poor Kate. All she wants to do is get her hair done and maybe spend a few days on some marathon shopping excursions, but the new press secretary is hellbent on proving that Kate is a charitable workhorse. So Kate was sent out to attend a reception for the 1851 Trust, which is about sailing and getting kids involved in sailing and the America’s Cup. She had to go all the way to Portsmouth and spend time with Sir Ben Ainslie. Poor thing.

Kate is around six to seven months pregnant right now – people keep saying she’s due in April, so the math is right. She’s carrying well, it seems. If anything, I think she looks smaller during this pregnancy than with her first. Maybe that’s just the effect of a decent coat though. This white coat with a belted higher waist is from Max Mara Studio Gilles. It costs £810, or about $1400. I actually like this look a lot, and that’s saying something. Do I wish I could tweak the styling a little bit? Sure. I’m not completely sold on that tiny little belt but I like that she went with navy accents all around (shoes, sapphires and clutch). Very nautical. I also think it’s obvious that this coat was originally very BUTTONY, but she had the buttons taken off – you can still see the indentations. That’s bad.

And here’s a Classic Kate thing: she was spending time with kids painting a mural. So of course she wore a white coat, thus limiting her ability to interact with the paint-covered youth. You can read more about the trip here.

Also: the dress under the coat was just a basic-looking polka-dotted maternity dress.

The Duchess of Cambridge meets members of the local sailing community in the @SpinnakerTower in #Portsmouth pic.twitter.com/rPTvjdOzwl

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) February 12, 2015

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