But Ben Affleck knows a SNAFU when he sees one and so, presumably, do his superiors. Happily, both filmmaker and studio have done the right thing by Ken and Pat Taylor since the TIFF firestorm. Affleck called Taylor at his home in New York on Sept. 13 to ask for a meeting. Taylor was noncommittal.
Affleck flew Ken and Pat Taylor out to Los Angeles on Sept. 16, and spent the day with them on the Warner Bros. lot. Since the Taylors had not yet seen Argo, he arranged for a private screening. The next day Affleck invited the Taylors to lunch at the studios executive dining room and spent the aft
Ken and Pat Taylor were the guests of honour, warmly embraced by Affleck and his wife, Jennifer Garner, and praised in superlatives by each speech-maker in turn. Surrounded by friends and confreres, mingling amicably with Warner Bros executives and movie stars, the hero of Tehran was as charming and