BOP Daily News
July 15, 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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Following the quantity versus quality mantra, Hollywood is scheduled to produce another film about legendary Macedonian king Alexander the Great. Baz Luhrmann, the Aussie director of Moulin Rouge, is going ahead with his own Alexander project with Leonardo Di Caprio and Nicole Kidman attached to star. At the one time, the project competed with Oliver Stone’s upcoming epic starring Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins and Val Kilmer. Luhrmann’s production will reportedly be different from Stone’s because “…Alexander won’t have silly bleached blonde hair. He’ll have silly natural blonde hair.”
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Ben Affleck has opted out of the Disney film Glory Road due to scheduling conflicts. Set to replace Affleck in the film about the true story of a coach who changed basketball history when his all black team won an NCAA basketball championship in 1966, is Josh Lucas who is best known for his role in Hulk. Affleck’s representatives wouldn’t confirm if Affleck wanted that time off to see his Red Sox in the playoffs. His reps. didn’t detect the sarcasm within the question.
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Good news: we get to see Jessica Alba is tight spandex next Summer. Bad news: it’ll be in Fantastic Four. Worse news: she’ll be playing Invisible Woman. Holy hell, why couldn’t they cast Roseanne or Kathy Griffin as Invisible Woman?
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Because sequels to Vin Deisel movie seem to do boffo box office, Revolution Studios will soon start production on XXX: State of the Union. Much like the sequel to The Fast and the Furious, XXX2 will not star Vin Deisel in favor of a generic African American replacement this time in the form of Ice Cube, who has been around so long he must be at least 73 years old by now. Either way, Samuel L. Jackson will reprise his role from the first film which started off with a bang at the box office but slowly died away. The film is slated to open on May 13th, 2005. Coincidentally, we’re washing our hair that weekend…yeah, that’s it, washing our hair…all of us at BOP, yeah.
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"Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others."
Previous edition's quote: Big Trouble in Little China
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