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REEL DEALS Maybe when Ben Affleck was caught driving 114 miles per hour last week, he was just auditioning for ''Daredevil.'' He's in talks to star as the blind Marvel Comics superhero, a role recently turned down by Vin Diesel....
In writer-director Todd Haynes' ''Safe,'' Julianne Moore played a well-to-do suburban housewife whose life was thrown into turmoil by illness. She'll play a similar role in Haynes' ''Far From Heaven,'' a drama set in the conformist 1950s. This time, what disrupts her life is the revelation that her husband (Dennis Quaid) is having a gay affair, her discovery of which throws her into the arms of her African-American gardener (Dennis Haysbert). Shooting begins next week in New Jersey....
Selma Blair is joining the cast of ''A Guy Thing,'' a romantic comedy with Julia Stiles and Jason Lee. Joining the cast of ''Goldmember,'' the next Austin Powers film, is an actor who knows a few things about British spy movies, Michael Caine....
Martin Scorsese's ''Gangs of New York,'' with Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz, seemed like surefire Oscar bait a month ago. Now, however, Miramax seems to be having second thoughts about releasing a violent Manhattan epic (albeit one set in the 19th century) in the current climate. The studio has pushed up ''Kate and Leopold,'' starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, to December 21, which was to have been ''Gangs''' release date. Plus, the cut Scorsese has shown to Miramax is reportedly three hours long, and since it's unlikely that studio chief Harvey Weinstein will want to release a movie of that length, there may not be enough time left to edit it for a 2001 release....
