BOP Daily News
May 26, 2004
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This is So Last Week,
our pop culture week-in-review,
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The on-again/off-again collaboration between the current Bond and the producers of the film franchise seems to be on again, at least according to sources close to the production team. The participation of Pierce Brosnan in the next Bond film has been called into question recently when the star criticized the current regime for being indecisive about the direction the films should take. Brosnan was especially disdainful of the path the production company was leaning towards, which would see more and bigger stunts at the expense of character development, the path Brosnan preferred. So contentious was the disagreement that many believed Brosnan had played Bond for the last time, and a number of names were floated as possible replacements, with speculation as to likely candidates becoming something of a cottage industry. But Barbara Broccoli, daughter of Cubby and current head of the company that produces the Bond films, has now reportedly gone on record as saying Brosnan is still their choice to play Bond, and has reportedly told colleagues that the public dust-up with Pierce is nothing compared to the problems her late father had with original Bond Sean Connery. We'd like to report to you Connery's reply when reached for comment on this issue, but unfortunately our Web site is only rated PG-13.
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Poor J-Lo. Apparently she's so caught up in her latest romance...we mean, current project, that she forgot to attend the launch party for her new line of lingerie. Her people indicated she was "busy" and so could not make the party thrown for her at a restaurant in Manhattan, but several of her "friends" did manage to show up, including actress Jordana Brewster and the butler of one of J-Lo's other love casualties, P-Diddy. I guess the remainder of the A-list crowd that we're sure were scheduled to attend were also extremely busy, because if your publicists are down to listing the hired help of famous people as celebrities, you know they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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Here's a little item for all you folks wondering about Lindsay Lohan's breasts. Apparently the star has been hearing rumors of late that she's had her cleavage surgically enhanced after some noticed that Lohan seems more bodacious than before. Lohan brands the rumors as "perverted" and reminds people that she's only 17, although she also has no objection about things being written to bring "attention to (her) chest". Lohan goes on to insist her curves are all natural and, after all, she is only 17. We're not sure if Lohan kept repeating her age because she thought we would forget or she would, but then she is only 17. In case anyone's forgotten.
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And speaking of girls who are only 17, Mary-Kate Olsen, one-half of the Olsen twins, had a bit of a fender-bender recently that left her uninjured but severely shaken. Seems the young miss - who is also only 17 - suddenly slammed on her brakes due to heavy traffic on a Los Angeles freeway, and was rear-ended by her bodyguard, who was traveling in a car behind her and was unable to stop in time. Mary-Kate apparently needed a Diet Dr Pepper after the crash in order to calm her nerves. We're thinking maybe that contract with Satan might not be that far from being called in after all.
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Kate Hudson, who isn't 17, has proclaimed herself ready to quit making films and concentrate on being a wife and mother if she's ever forced to make a choice. Hudson gave birth to her first child earlier this year and feels she's happiest at home, saying she'd build a stage at her house and do Tennessee Williams plays if Hollywood ever gave her an ultimatum. Ordinarily this would seem like a strange thing to hear from an actress with a new film about to open, but perhaps Kate has seen that proverbial writing on the wall. Or in this case, maybe the advance reviews of Raising Helen.
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