J-Lo and Ben Affleck: what makes a Hollywood power couple

J-Lo and Ben Affleck: what makes a Hollywood power couple Alamy The apparent reunion of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez has prompted mass jubilation. Then, in 2004, the pair broke up only a few days before a planned wedding date, and within a year both would be married to other people.. Alamy The amour fou and lavish lifestyles of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton made them catnip for the public Now, come 2021, their relationship is once again being pored over and revelled in, only through new more democratic, social media channels: recently, a snap of a smirking Ben Affleck leaving Lopez's home in the morning was immediately transformed into a meme. The Hollywood power couple is the forging of two distinct star personas, styles and personal baggage into one amorphous media construct – so amorphous that even their names become blended into something goofy-sounding. Alamy Here pictured on their honeymoon, silent movie-era power couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were followed everywhere by the press Then there were shorter-lived pairings that still burn bright in the cultural imagination: Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson were the cool kids of cinematic rebellion in the 70s, while the nattily attired Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand, two of Hollywood's most prominent Jewish stars, also ruled the decade.