BOP Daily News
June 23, 2004
The spirit of BOP News lives on in
This is So Last Week,
our pop culture week-in-review,
presented in a pleasing quiz form.
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Recovering Bennifer co-founder Ben Affleck impressed dozens of professional poker players over the weekend on his way to winning the Commerce Casino's California State Poker Championship. In addition to his prize winnings of $356,400, Affleck earned guaranteed entry into next April's World Poker Tour Championship, a prize worth $25,000 on its own. Affleck's opponents were obviously disarmed by his showing up in full Daredevil regalia, but an even better move by Affleck would have been to spend all of 2002 and 2003 playing poker instead of being introduced to Jennifer Lopez.
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Liv Tyler is passing on monstrous lips to a new generation of Tylers. The Lord of the Rings elf princess (believe it or not, there were a couple of women in the movie) and husband Royston Langdon of rock band Spacehog expect Steven Tyler's grandchild to arrive in the winter. In a perfect world, the innocent will get neither its mother's acting ability nor either of its male scions' singing voice.
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MPAA guru Jack Valenti must be a closet The Rundown fan. In order to get to interact more with his favorite bounty hunter, Valenti's organization has boldly announced plans to place up to a $500 bounty on the heads of movie pirates. The Anti-Camcording Rewards Program announced on Monday that it will financially reward any movie-goer willing to narc on people sneaking camcorders into movie theaters. The plan is scheduled to backfire when 38,000 people turn in Seymour Butts.
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In the ultimate example of life imitating art, Tom Hanks has been Cast Away this summer. The Wilson-loving actor and wife Rita Wilson have chosen the obscure Greek island of Antiparos as their summer vacation spot. The tiny Aegean Sea sanctuary hosts only 800 residents throughout the year, but it does get its fair share of celebrities. The anonymity of the island may also prove alluring to Harrison Ford, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, all of whom are rumored to be vacationing there soon. The joke's on Hanks; the island is only half a square mile in size.
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"Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker."
Previous edition's quote: 28 Days Later
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