What if the internet could make Casey Affleck the last Casey Affleck?

If you buy into the current hype around this year’s Academy Awards, Casey Affleck is the current front-runner for Best Actor. He’s already won preliminary accolades from critics’ associations and major film festivals, and his publicity firm, ID PR, is doing a full-court-press campaigning on his behalf. The attention is for his role in Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea, in which he plays a Boston janitor navigating several different kinds of grief, and coming to ter