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chance to question the witness. that does it for this special edition. thanks for watching. >> he hit the top at 25. >> and the oscar goes to -- >> winning an oscar. >> i may not see this for a while, you know what i mean? >> only to stumble hard, a career in tatters. >> he was in actor jail for a couple of years. >> singed by fame. >> i think he became over-exposed, causing me to kind of turn around and question. >> ben affleck's long journey. >> i got to a point in my life where i was really down. really confused. >> argo. >> but he fought his way back. >> you have to work harder than you think you possibly can. >> hi, i'm ben affleck. >> how did the boy from humble tv beginnings remake himself into a hollywood heavyweight. >> all that matters is that

you've got to get up. >> tontd, a story of redemption crowned by oscar. >> "ben affleck back on top." i'm nichele turner outside the dolby theater in hollywood. one man became the biggest story of them all. it's a story that not long ago, no one would have written 15 years ago, he reached the summit at the oscars and then crashed hard. from a career in shambles, he rebuilt himself into hollywood's darling once again. tonight, the story of the bean town boy who hit rock bottom and then remade himself. here's ben affleck, back on top. "goodwill hunting" wins an oscar.

two twenty somethings share the glory. they fly their mothers to bean town to be their dates. what appears to be an overnight success is actually years in the making. long before movie audiences would ever hear of him, tv watchers meet a kid on the pbs educational series, the voyage of the mimi. cast mate remembers a kid who's already sure of himself. >> he was a little cocky. >> the deaf actress recalls him as a jokester with mischief on his mind. >> and very clearly, he said what's the sign for genius and stupid. >> sensing what he's up to, judy switches the signs. the joke is on ben. and ben thought that's what he was signing.

but he was actually signing you're a genius, i'm stupid. >> he shoots that series on the water. but home is just outside of boston. a stone's throw away lives his best friend, matt damon. >> so they're sort of brothers from a different mother. and these kids stuck by each other since they were little. >> ben and matt lived about two blocks from each other in a working-class neighborhood here in cambridge, massachusetts. besides being friends, they had something else in common. divorce. both were raised by single mothers. their fame is here, too, or at least making an impact in the neighborhood. >> my boyfriend's son was their best friend. so it was ben and casey, his brother, matt and ethan were the four buddies that ran around all of the time. played their games, rode their bikes and had a good time. >> the four take acting school in drama class in local productions.

>> hello? >> hi, is this burger king? >> um, yeah, yeah, this is burger king chlgt. >> can you make a chef salad? >> for you, absolutely. >> smaller jobs like this 1989 burger king ad lead to bigger things. >> look, we've got three of the effects here, right? you guys got to handle this. >> affleck gets a role in the 1993 hit, "school ties." he crashes on ben's floor in california and asks him to help with a script he'd been working on at school. that script? "good will hunting." meanwhile, ben is still struggling to breakthrough taking whatever acting jobs he can find, like the flick "dazed and confused."

and then affleck takes another role in a small film, "mall rats." >> they're vulnerable and much more need of sol lis. >> writer director kevin smith sees something special in the young actor. >> kevin had cast him in all of his big films. and that really put ben on the map. >> smith has an idea for his next future and writes it specifically for ben. >> you are the epitome of everything i've ever looked for in a human being. and i know that you think of me as just a friend and crossing that line is the furthest thing you would ever consider. but i had to say it. >> by now, ben and matt have sold their good-will hunting script to castle rock. >> there it was. their dream was finally coming true. but they want today be attached to the picture. and they wanted to star with it. and for that little fact, their

deal started slipping through their fingers. and "good will" hunting could have never been made. >> smith takes the script to harvey weinstein at miramax and they're on their way. >> every day, i come by your house and i pick you up. we go out, we get a few drinks and laughs and it's great. you know what the best part of my day is? for about ten seconds when i pull up to the curb and get to your door. i think maybe i'll get up to the door, i'll knock on it and you woechbt be there. >> affleck becomes the youngest oscar screen writer. it seem there is's nowhere to go but up. when we come back, ben affle affle affleck soars and then stumbles. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle.

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at 25, ben affleck became an oscar winner and a toast of hollywood. after "good will hunting" his career took off. literally. "armagedd "armageddon" is affleck's first block buster leading role. the actor is becoming one of the industry's most wanted. affleck, certified a list. >> he was confident, cocky, sexy. all things hollywood knows what to do with? >> what is the play?

and what is my part? >> a smaller role in the oscar winning "shakespeare and love follows kwt. and he ignites with the winning lady, gwyneth paltrow. its's an on-again, off-again affair seized by the tabloids. for ben, his connection is just the first in a pattern of high-profile relationships being played out in the press. >> it's really the first time he stepped into the spotlight publically with a female. it wasn't any female, it was a young, glamorous, hollywood beauty. >> ben's friendship with matt damon remains intact. they starred together in "dogma" and debut "project screen wright" and they take different paths.

>> matt damon wanted to be an actor, but ben affleck wanted to be a star. >> with "ocean's 11" and "the bourn yiet," after lek is making some questionable career choices like the forgettable ""reindeer gam games." at 28, affleck's personal demons seem to be getting the best of him. after a hard-partying, heavy gambling trip to las vegas in the summer of 2001, he checks himself into rehab. according to people magazine, charlie sheen is the one who actually drives him there. >> ben is a smart guy. it was great that he realized he did need help. he was abusing alcohol and he needed to take a step back and really address that in his life.

>> i'm sorry, i've got to ask. do we know each other? >> not yet. >> within the year, ach fleffle signs onto star as a hitman in "jile" opposite jennifer low pez. >> it was sort of the dapper ben affleck dating jenny from the block. >> the two are engaged in november, 2002. and the media frenzy that would later become known as benifer unleashes. >> we cared about what they wore, how much spray fan ben affleck was getting. it was a really intense point in his life. and he sort of started to morph into something that wasn't the ben that we knew. >> the two go from simply new

couple alert to massive over-exposure. meanwhile, his professional career was sputtering. not only is the film title tricky to pronounce, it proves even more difficult to get audiences to actually see it. the movie doesn't just flop, it bombs. >> what do you want me to do? >> and it's just one in a series of movies between 2003 and 2004 that affleck would probably like to forget. >> what happened? >> "paycheck," "jersey girl" and "surviving christmas" all fail to give him the hit that he desperately needs. >> someone who was hollywood's golden boy, their next big movie star, seemed to be just fizzling away. >> affleck is becoming the butt of countless jokes. the actor makes light of one of them on "larry king live" after receiving a razzing, an award that receives the worst in

movies. >> this is the razzing. >> we swept. we swept for jile and "pearl harbor." >> one bright spot during this stretch, the action hero flick, "daredevil." >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> it co-stars jennifer garner, a lady who later plays a pivotal role in the personal redemption. at the same time, trouble is brewing on the front. the couple cancels their fall, 2003 wedding. affleck spoke to larry king about the split. >> sometimes it's as simple as one person breaking up with somebody es. sometimes, it's more complicated than that. >> it was a massive, personal thing that really blew up in hollywood and really blew up in ben's face. >> after misfires, both professional and personal, that's where ben affleck found himself, faced with the tall task of rebuilding both his

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in 7 years, ben affleck had gone to rising star to cautionary tale. he had risen fast and fallen hard. to rise again, he would need a different role and a different companion. >> you're holding back. >> yes. >> don't. >> in 2003, affleck co-stars in "daredevil" with another jennifer, jennifer garner. >> and that was the beginning of a blossoming, wonderful relationship with them. the two really connected on an amazing level. >> after his split from lopez in 2004, things move quickly. >> they got engaged and, of course, they secretly went. >> garner asked her friend to officiate. >> you married them? >> i did marry them. she wanted me to do it.

it was obviously a great match. they're very good for each other and she's a rock. >> they really weren't interested in engaging the gossip sphere. they go off and start a family. i think he wanted to settle down. he was a little beaten up and tired. >> majorly demand roles are demanding affleck. but in 2006, he secures a part in the 1950s tv superman whose life unravelled. >> what do you want from life? >> i don't know. i'd settle for clark gable's career. >> take the job. >> a lot of critics saw similarities between ben and his character, george, he was playing. they had struggled. he had been through a lot. >> i think hollywood language is ben's first step in ben affleck,

the public figure. >> but ben recognizes to truly get back on top, he needs to make a bold move. >> to step behind the camera. it was something he always wanted to try. >> exactly like i planned it. >> he hasn't exactly shown promise. >> think for one second about how that made me look? >> despite his lack of credentials, he lobbies to make a drama, "gon baby, gone." film executive who ran miramax gives ben the green light. >> looking back, you see it was a risk. >> yeah, it definitely felt like a risk. maybe that was wishful thinking.

but i really felt confident he could do it. >> affleck came home, here, to boston. hollywood may have cooled on him, but his hometown still had his back. >> he's back on his native ground and keeping his baby close casting his baby brother in the lead role. >> what do you think it meant to him to shoot with his younger brother, casey. >> i think that was great. i think that meant a lot to him. >> they obviously really loved each other and respected each other. >> do you think people were surprised that he was that good of a director. >> yeah, for a first film, it's kind of accomplished.

what's fascinating is he goes back to his roots. he goes back to boston. >> ben was on a hot streak at this point. everyone was waiting to see what he did next. >> around the block, there's nothing. >> for his directing follow up, he needs a leading man. he finds one. there was a lot riding on affleck to starring the town. >> it's one of the varying speeds, right? >> yes. >> your family took me and my father went away. >> the town confirms gone baby, gone, is not a fluke. >> bit by bit, he's winning people back. he's shown that he could make a good movie, a tight, solid, smart movie.

>> he loves his family. he's an amazing father. he's very attentive. and he's there. >> i heard him say that he took his daughter to a spelling bee, which she won. >> yeah, she won. >> i love that. at 38, affleck is reaching for his next challenge. turns out george clooney has got a project. >> the script is called "argo," the true story of a daring rescue of diplomats caught in a revolution. >> i'm responsible. i'm taking them through. >> we had a couple meetings with ben. and his take, automatically, it was just so good. >> you want to come to hollywood and act like a big shot without doing anything? >> yeah. >> you'll fit right in. >> the film is greeted with stellar box office and

spectacular reviews. suddenly, for the first time in years, affleck is back on oscar's radar. >> ben affleck was a new guy. he was the guy that we always knew he could be. "argo" scores a best picture nomination. when the nominees are announced, affleck's name? missing. >> the film is so top secret, that the film's director is unknown to the academy. >> i do think he's been passed over, created a further, almost wave of sympathy. oh, poor ben. it's a good movie. we like him now. >> first, the golden globe.

and the broadcast film critics all named affleck best director. i had this very early success for a young man. i became over-exposed. itted me to question what do i do in this industry? do i have anything to offer? >> he had a period in his life where he made some dumb career decisions, which we all had. he was very young when he did it. now, he's sort of directed his way out of all of that. >> but oscar night comes with no guarantees. the suspense builds and finally, it's time to reveal first best picture. >> i was here 15 years ago or

something. and, you know, i had no idea what i was doing. sit out here in front of you all. i was really just a kid. and i went out, you know, and i never thought that i would be back here. >> here, on the oscar stage, sharing life-lessons about what it takes to congresswoman back. it doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life. it's going to happen. >> from there, it's onto a night of celebrations from the boy from bean town who had fallen and gotten back up. the freshly-engraved oscar leaves, no doubt, ben affleck, back on top. down. ah. 4g, huh? verizon 4g lte. 700 megahertz spectrum, end-to-end, pure lte build. the most consistent speeds indoors or out.

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she wowed the world with an explosive performance that quieted controversy. >> there's nobody else that's singing like she is. there's nobody else that's giving the energy that she is on stage. >> a path to superstardom that started with a shy little girl. >> she was really a quiet kid kind of to herself. >> whose father launched her career.

>> beyonce really stood out. everybody would say that. fashion icon and now a new role. mother. >> but i, barack hussein obama do solemnly swear. >> and, now, a new inauguration day for barack obama with beyonce singing the national anthem. ♪ who's brought stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ >> it was a moving moment. >> every time i look at her, you know, singing for the president and performing worldwide and then i think, you know, that was my baby. >> darla johnson was beyonce's

childhood dance teacher. >> i know that she's beyonce. i know that she's worldwide and everybody knows and everybody scream and touch her, but even when i see her, she's still my beyonce. a proud moment that didn't last long. >> beon say and her lip sync stutter. >> did she or didn't she? and does it even matter? this was beyonce's response posted to instagram. online and on air. >> i'm saying leave beyonce alone. >> she became a hot topic of conversation. >> i'm not surprised that she did lip sync. >> i still don't think she did,

though. >> i just think people think that there still has to be something else bhiempbd wehind is. that no one is really that nice. no one is really that gracious. and maybe that's why people attack so hard at the whole inauguration, lip synced. >> it turned out beyonce had used a pre-recorded track. but at a press conference 10 days later, ♪ oh say can you see ♪ by the dawn's early light >> beyonce silenced her kritsices. >> any questions? >> matthew knowells is beyonce's father and for decades, managed her career.

>> you don't quite have the maturity to accept criticism. >> now she's a grown woman. >> beyonce feels this is her time. >> i feel 30 is the ideal age. you're mature enough to know who you are and to have your boundaries and your standards and to not be too polite but you're young enough to be a young woman. i feel great. for beyonce's knowless carter, back in the summer of 2011,there

was a tummy rub at the video music awards. by the next january, the singer, dancer, actor, film maker and fashion icon was also mom. >> i think that's jailed with her and having blue eye. next thing, it's super bowl. it's just one, two, three, let's go. >> beyonce emerged from a four-month break ready for reinvention. june ambrose is a study to jay-z. >> always work woing to be relet and not compromising who you are as a person.

>> the crowd's reaction when she step out on stage, now the real show is going to start. unmatched energy and an eye-popping look. >> beyonce has evolved into this being that you expect greatness from to the point where you expect greatness isn't even good enough anymore. >> there's nobody else doing what she's doing and doing it both well at the same time. there's nobody who's doing it. >> for 14 minutes, singing live and backed completely by a female artist, beon say lived out one of her dreams. >> i definitely feel that it is my job to empower women.

>> i remember having this dream that my band was all fe mails ch. and i remember saying, i'm sorry, guys, but you're not women. >> a perfect metaphor for the light's out performance. >> how do you think she did? >> how about exceptional? you've got to be on in a world, i think 140 million people watched her. >> does it get any better than that? >> i would have been just as proud with 10 people. >> beyonce is ready for the next big thing. >> in 2013, what's new anymore? you've got to say hats off to her just as an artist just raelly trying to thrive for what is next.

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before she was the diva, before she was the queen bee. she was just beyonce, a little

girl in suburban houston. >> beyonce was a quiet kid. hoping to get beyonce to come out of her shell, they sent her to darla johnson's dance studio. >> when you first saw her, did you even notice her? >> she was very shy. you would ask her, what's your snam? can you say your name again? >> but on the dance floor, beyonce would dance so hard, she would lose her costume pieces. she was fierce. >> when she got to the states, she became a different person. >> but no one knew beyonce had a

secret. >> i hummed a song and she finished it and it blew me away. and i stopped. and i told her to sing it again. she, once again, very quiet, very shy. and i promised her a dollar. and she sung it again. and i was just floored. when her parents came to pick her up, i said she can sing, she can really sing. a multi-milliion dollar star was born. >> i remember telling her, you're going to be so big. i remember, she was looking up at me. i said you watch. >> a local talent pageants, she quickly made a name for herself. >> before beyonce's name was even cold, the whole audience was rocking her name, singing her name, beyonce, beyonce, beyonce. ♪ everybody looks up to me ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah .

>> he always won the competitions. we may have had 500 plus junon competitions. and she always stood out. >> are these all the trophies that she won. >> >> beyonce already faced the ugly side of pain. >> in school, there was some jealousy because she began to be a local star. so there was some jealousy of girls. and they said some mean things to her. >> but the bullying didn't stop her. fame came knocking at the door of her mother's salon. >> they said, you know, we'd like to form a younger version.

>> beyonce teamed up with a group of six girls, including her cousin. >> i call her the energizer bunny because she keep going and going and going. >> from the local spotlight to the national stage. >> these girls ended up going to star search. ended up competing against some 40-year-olds. and they lose and they're crying their hearts out. i say mr. mcmahon, i'm a dad. what do i do? i said, look, those who lose, they go back, rededicate, refocus. >> and that's what matthew knowles had them do.

>> i could bt look them in the eye and say give it your all if i wasn't going to. >> all they wanted was a major record deal. and that meant lots of hard work. >> beyonce automatically stood out. everybody would say that because she simply was a very focused young lady. >> that focus paid off with a big record contract. michael maltin was an executive at columbia records. >> we could tell she had pipes. they were young pipes.

>> the group settled on a name, "destiny's child" and the hits started coming like, "no, no, no." destiny's child was on an express road to the top. >> that was tough for beyonce because her father is manager. >> beyonce was the one who got the black eye for i. very, very unjustly. >> beyonce became public enemy number one with fans and the press. even being called a blood-sucking diva. but, now, 10 years older, beyonce was stronger.

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let's go, give it here. big energy. dance like a star. >> listen carefully. >> harder, harder. >> darla johnson's girls, the one she calls the next generation of beyonces, are dancing to crazy in love. >> it's the first single of beyonce's very first solo album, dangerously in love. it's the first major album of the super star and leads to the end of destiny's child.

>> the solo career begins with jay-z. he's in her solo hit and in her personal life from their dating, to their wedding to baby blue, the public doesn't learn a single detail until beyonce is ready to spill it. an approach that she learned from her father. >> i'm not going to talk about beyonce, the mom and -- >> what about papag? the grand dad? what do you reich to do? >> well, i'm not going to talk about that. you get nothing. you get nothing. >> it's a philosophy that beyonce would go onto apply to both her professional and private lives.

>> that first solo album debuted at number one and went onto sell 11 million copies. >> the album did really well and what am i thinking? tour? studio, tour, more singles now. >> normally, when the album does very well, you do a tour. >> there's a small tour, beyonce's first as a solo artist. followed by three more solo albums and a total of five solo number one hits, including 2008's single lady. >> movieings? a fashion line. >> my mother would make all of these beautiful clothes. and after so many years, my fans

were, like, okay, we have to buy these clothes somewhere. >> and numerous items that would fund some of her creative projects. >> i think it's a huge deal. i think it says a lot about her as a brand, her about her music and that pepsi would do something like that. do something like that for a black female music artist. that's tremendous. >> it's a deal that demonstrates she's as good a businesswoman as she is a performer. >> my father was such an incredible entrepreneur and any and everything he said he would have, he worked until he had it. he taught me there's no such thing as no. my personal thing is she watched her dad. she watched her mom. a lot of creative types, they're

one side. >> those two sides of beyonce are more important than ever. she's now on her own. two years ago, she announced her father would no locker be her manager. >> i woond r wonder where can she go from here? >> i think that's a question you have to ask beyonce. i think she has the ability, passion, talent, fans that she can, quite frankly, go where ever she'd like to go. >> where she's going next is the documentary world. she is the director of the story of her life that aired rast month on hbo. >> i was not given to you. you're playing a part in a much bigger show. that's what life is. >> we learned more about the personal details she usually withholds, such as the miscarriage she suffered prior

to "blue ivy." but even before the documentary aired, she was becoming a little freer with personal information, thanks to a large, inactive tumbler site. >> so if they're posting it, you're supposed to know it. if you're not posting it, you ain't supposed to know it. what they have in common is after the concert. there's a world tour. mrs. carter? that's beyonce clarifying four years later that she's marry and details on the next item? writer producer neo says whatever she pushes in the future will push the edges creatively. >> she's not afraid to take a risk. she's not afraid to take a shot. if you hit, you hit. if you don't, you don't. >> aside to admitting to some

recording sessions from beyonce, he wouldn't say even more. >> you about going to get me in trouble, no, sir. >> nobody has the patience to wait for the greatness. if you actually take the time to wait for it, it just makes it that much better when you actually get it. >> wait for it, world. the tour is coming. her web site is promoting it. the rest, she'll tell you when she's good and ready. [ male announcer ] this is the opposite of subliminal advertising... there's no subtext... just tacos. yeah, it's our job to make you want it. but honestly... it's not that hard. old el paso. when you gotta have mexican. executor of efficiency. you can spot an amateur from a mile away... while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds.