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LITTLE ROCK — Jennifer Lopez said that when her former fiance Ben Affleck won best director at the Golden GlobeAwards for his Iran hostage thriller, Argo, she gave him a standing ovation. “I am so happy for him,” she said. Lopez and Affleck, who were known as “Bennifer,” broke off their engagement 10 years ago. The couple was always in the tabloids and became a source of derision, and the two’s movie together, Gigli, bombed, hurting their careers. It’s part of the reason Lopez said she was so happy to see Affleck, now married to Jennifer Garner,win big at the Golden Globe Awards. (Argo also won for best drama.) “You know we went through a really rough time in the press and things like that back in the day. So I really felt like, ‘Wow this is a great moment,”’ she said in an interview this week. “I am so glad for him. He deserves it. He made a great movie. He has made a couple of great movies.” Lopez, 43, has a new film herself. Parker, starring Jason Statham, is due out Jan. 25. She plays a woman who has split from her husband, something the singer-actress can identify with. While she was working on the movie, she also was dealing with the end of her marriage to Marc Anthony, and it hit home. “I had just gone through that. Literally, a month or two before [shooting started], that had happened. I felt like my whole life had fallen apart. My family had fallen apart. I was very, very sad and depressed when we were doing this film, in a sense,” she said. Lopez added, “So I really understood this character in a way I wouldn’t have six months or a year before. Yeah, it was perfect timing, let’s just put it that way.”

Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard has been named the 2013 Harvard University Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Woman of the Year. The 37-year-old French actress, who won the 2007 best-actress Oscar for her role in La Vie En Rose, will be honored with a parade and roast, and given her ceremonial pudding pot, at Harvard on Jan. 31. Cotillard has appeared more recently in Inception, Contagion and The DarkKnight Rises. The man of the year will be announced at a later date and honored on Feb. 8. Hasty Pudding Theatricals is the nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe. The awards are presented annually to performers who have made a lasting and impressive contribution to entertainment.