Celebrity Mount Rushmore

The Celebrity Mount Rushmore For October 11–15

What four humans made lots of news this week?

We are starting a new weekly feature here at the Will Leitch Medium Experiment. It is a look back at the events of the week by focusing on five human beings of particular note. It will hopefully be informative and amusing but will likely be neither. Think of it as the Mount Rushmore of this week, if they carved statues on mountains every week, based on short observations on the news. Last week featured Dawn Dorland, Kyrie Irving, Sonya Lawson and Carlos Watson.

Email me your suggestions at williamfleitch@yahoo.com.

Ben Affleck. The website Vulture — which, full disclosure, I write for regularly, though you should know that generally speaking the vulture is my least favorite bird, and that’s accounting for the fact that I’m not a big fan of birds in the first place — has run a series of fantastic pieces about Ben Affleck this week; my favorite is Alison Wilmore’s feature about his best role as an actor ending up being playing himself. Affleck is having another moment right now, thanks to his parts in George…