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Ben Affleck to become an acting teacher. I'll try to keep an open mind about this.

• In baseball, sometimes the worst hitters made the best hitting teachers. Charlie Lau couldn't hit shit. From 1958 to 1961, Lau hit .147, .167, .189, and .194. He was the Affleck of hitting. But Lau was one of the greatest hitting teachers of all time, and his star pupil, George Brett, was a batting wizard who hit as high as .390. Even Lau himself, whose lifetime average was .181 after the 1961 season, managed to creep up to .255 by the time he retired, so you might say he got a .250 average out of .180 talent.
• And the great acting teacher, Lee Strasberg, was nothing special as an actor, from what I saw of him.
• So Affleck's acting ability doesn't necessarily predict his ability to teach acting.
• Now that I've spouted all those measured and fair disclaimers, let me say that I'm still a little skeptical about Ben Affleck Acting School. Sounds to me about as promising as Paul Giamatti's Golf Academy