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"&lt;img alt=\"0228-ben-affleck-akm-gsi\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/02/28/0228-ben-affleck-akm-gsi-3.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ben Affleck&lt;/strong&gt;'s smooth mug surfaced Thursday ... the first time since shaving his career-defining beard Sunday night at an Oscars after-party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With some scruff starting to grow back, the 40-year-old rocked a 5 o'clock shadow as he arrived for a TED conference in Long Beach on Thursday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2013/02/25/ben-affleck-shave-beard-oscar-argo-craigs-after-party/\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TMZ broke the story&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; --- one of the first things Ben did after \"Argo\" won Best Picture was take a razor to his critically-acclaimed beard in the bathroom hallway at Craig's restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now he really is as slick as everybody says.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/photos/2011/07/08/3741-celebrity-beards-scruff-or-no-scruff/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0228_scruff_smooth_footer\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/02/28/0228-scruff-smooth-footer-1.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- relatedlinks --&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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