BOP Daily News

June 15, 2004

The spirit of BOP News lives on in
This is So Last Week,
our pop culture week-in-review,
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Fahrenheit 9/11 is facing a whole new battle as Lion’s Gate and IFC Films are appealing the R rating the MPAA has labeled the film with. The two studios releasing the film are sending an emergency appeal to MPAA head Jack Valenti. The MPAA gave the film the rating based on “violent and disturbing images and for language”. In other news, the six o’clock local news broadcasts have been banned across the country. This is Talisa Soto. She has nothing to do with Fahrenheit 9/11.



This is Keira Knightley. She has nothing to do with The Prince of Providence. David Mamet, the critically acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright will write a screen adaptation of “The Prince of Providence”. Written by Mike Stanton, another Pulitzer Prize winner, the book told the story of the rise and fall of Vincent “Buddy” Cianci Jr. The former mayor of Providence, Rhode Island is currently in jail serving a 5-year and four-month sentence after being found guilty of a racketeering conspiracy charge. Michael Corrente, whose most famous work is the film Outside Providence, will direct the film. Since this film is officially is a David Mamet film, this will be the second to last time you hear about the project. The last time will be when Roger Ebert mentions it during his review.
A near-record audience watched England’s heartbreaking loss to France at the UEFA Euro championship soccer tournament currently being held in Portugal. A whopping 73% of the entire viewing audience tuned in to see France score a tying then winning goal against a hapless English side that sat back and relied on defensive tactics in an attempt to hold off the tournament favorite French squad. Wait, we failed to mention that these numbers are for British television. Our American readers probably read this piece as blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. This is Michael Owen. He had nothing to do with England's loss. Was he even on the pitch?









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