BOP Daily News
June 24, 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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Academy Awards red carpet watchers across the world rejoice! E! has announced that Joan Rivers and her even more useless daughter Melissa have been poached by the TV Guide Channel. Starting with next year’s event, Rivers will no longer be the surgically altered face of the red carpet, meaning that E! now has the option to hire someone with an ounce of talent to host the proceedings. What’s most shocking to BOP, though, is the monumental overpay TV Guide offered Rivers to get her to switch. She goes from earning $800K a year for telling grossly outdated jokes on E! to taking home $8 million a year for sucking on the TV Guide Channel. The real winner in all of this is the Rivers family’s plastic surgeon. She can now afford to upgrade to the Michael Jackson look.
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Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore’s newest and heavily hyped documentary, has opened to record-breaking business in New York. The record breaking happened at 2 theatres in Manhattan, the Loews Village 7 and Loews Lincoln Plaza as announced by Tom Ortenberg and Jonathan Sehring, the heads of Lions Gate Films Releasing and IFC Films respectively. The Village 7 record was previously held by Men in Black while the Lincoln Plaza record was previously held by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This represents a fantastic start for the anti-Bush documentary which is a box office powder keg waiting to explode. With the film appropriately beginning its release at the location which was the scene of the film’s title, Fahrenheit 9/11 should shortly become the most successful documentary of all time. No, Mel, your movie doesn’t count as a documentary.
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“Over the Rainbow” has been named by the American Film Institute as the Best Movie Song Ever. Sung by a young Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, the song finished first just ahead of “As Time Goes By” from another classic, Casablanca. Some shocking exclusions from the list incluzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….
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Jennifer Lopez’s next film has been delayed. Though it sounds a run-of-the-mill Hollywood happening, Lopez’s publicist has felt it necessary to state that this does not necessarily mean that his client is pregnant. It seems J.Lo shares the same publicist as the White House.
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In unrelated news, Colin Farrell has seen his first full frontal scene scrapped from his latest film. A Home at the End of the World was set to feature Farrell as nature intended him though it seems nature’s generosity to the Irish actor has made it necessary to cut the scene from the film. The alleged reason for the cutting of the scene is the reaction of test audiences to Farrell’s gigantic manhood. While the men were reportedly left uncomfortable, the women in the test audience were apparently over-excited. This also marks the first ever time that a Colin Farrell film has ever been the cause of excitement.
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"I got a feeling that behind those jeans is something wonderful just waiting to get out."
Previous edition's quote: Rounders
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