Angel wings for Casey Affleck

Variety and The Hollywood Reporter say that Cambridge’s own Casey Affleck is in negotiations to star as the angel Gabriel in an adaptation of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost’’ opposite Bradley Cooper, who will play Lucifer. In other Affleck news, Ben’s pregnant wife, Jennifer Garner, reports on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show’’ this week that her daughters want to name the couple’s third child “Ralphie, Frankie, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, or Rosemarie.’’ “Daisy Duck Affleck. I can see us going that way,’’ she tells Ellen.