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Liv on Benji

Actress and rock-star daughter Liv Tyler didn’t know quite what to make of the clamor on the set of “Jersey Girl.” Hundreds of fans and paparazzi were there every morning for the phenomenon that was Ben Affleck.

“I was like, ‘Benji, you’re like the Beatles. This is crazy. I didn’t know you were so famous,’” she told Associated Press. “He just went out in this sea of people and shook hands. He’s like a politician almost.”

Miss Tyler wants little to do with that beast of celebrity.

“You just have to ride that and not let it get too deeply into your soul because the important things are your family,” she said. “The things I do have control over are the kind of wife I am, the kind of family member I am, the kind of person I am.”

French ‘Passion’

“The Passion of the Christ” just cleared a hurdle on its way to the French public.

A Paris court rejected a request by three Jewish brothers to ban the movie on the grounds it would foment anti-Semitism in France.

Ruling against the Benlolo brothers — Patrick, Gerard and Jean-Marc — the court said the movie would not threaten public order.

“To make the death of Jesus into the major motivation of anti-Semitism that leads to secular persecutions against Jews would stem from a narrow view of Mel Gibson’s film,” Judge Florence Lagemi wrote in his decision.

“The Passion” opens in France tomorrow.

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