BOP Daily News
August 19, 2003
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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Renée Zellweger, already with many women's dream job as a famous
actress, is now adding the proverbial frosting by essentially getting
paid to get fat. According to reports, Zellweger will get a $3.2 million
bonus, on top of her salary, to pack on the pounds for the Bridget Jones
sequel. Film producers have supposedly guaranteed Zellweger - who many
felt went too far the other direction in her quest to lose the
poundage she packed on for Bridget Jones' Diary - $112,000 for every
pound of the target 30 she manages to gain. The bonus was supposedly
offered to help ease Zellweger's anxiety over putting the weight back
on, as statistics all point to the Chicago beauty having a harder time
losing the extra padding this second go-round. During contract
negotiations, Zellweger nixed plans by the studio to have a Ben &
Jerry’s logo tattooed on her forehead in order to raise money for the
weight gain.
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Daryl Hannah, having apparently discovered, as many an actress over 35
before her, that she can't get arrested in Hollywood, much less get a
good movie role, has decided to strip down for Playboy in hopes of
changing that fact. The Splash star is reportedly in the best shape of
her life, thanks to a rigorous training regimen she undertook for her
role as an assassin in the upcoming Kill Bill. We can see how this
would work as a career move, because it worked so well for...um...well,
then there was...uh...hey, we bet Daryl will look great!
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Professional freak Michael Jackson is reportedly so upset about a joke
made about him in the upcoming movie Scary Movie 3, he's reportedly
suing Dimension Films, the studio producing the film. Jackson is
reportedly worked up about a child sex joke that is apparently made near
the end of the film. Jackson's lawyers are currently trying to get both
the trailer and the ending of the film changed to eradicate all
reference to kids or Jackson or both. But most entertainment law experts
think Jackson doesn't stand much chance of succeeding. According to
legal entertainment expert Michael O'Connor, "Parodies and comedies have
a lot more license. If a film is meant to be humorous and that's
understood, then most likely it will not be considered defamatory." Of
course, this doesn’t take into account that nothing in the Scary Movie
franchise has been funny since the trailer for the first film aired.
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Remake fever strikes again with news that MGM has struck a pact with the
Agatha Christie estate to make another film version of Witness for the
Prosecution. Considering the original adaptation was directed by Billy
Wilder, starred Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton and
Elsa Lanchester and was nominated for six Oscars, we're not sure this is
such a great idea, but hey, what do we know? After all, look at the
successful remake of such classic films as...and then there was...hey,
look; Daryl Hannah's gonna pose nude in Playboy!
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Poor Tommy Lee Jones is playing an FBI agent again in the upcoming
action/comedy Cheer Up. This time, his G-Man has to go undercover as an
assistant cheerleading coach in order to protect a bevy of beautiful
college cheerleaders who witnessed a murder. Yes, Jones is going to be
spending a lot of time in the presence of nubile young women in short
skirts, doing splits and cartwheels and otherwise demonstrating how
limber their tight little bodies and tanned limbs are...
We realize it's been pretty miserable recently in most of the country,
and thought a nice mental vacation was in order.
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Well, whoever wins the current bidding war to acquire Universal Pictures
from Vivendi will be smiling with news that the venerable studio set a
new record for domestic summer box office, with three box-office
weekends still remaining in the summer season. Universal already had an
entry in summer box-office history with three consecutive openings of
more than $50 million, a new record for a non-sequel comedy, and a new
June record. Prior to this summer, no studio had even two $50 million
openings in a row. A new attraction is reportedly planned for the
Universal Studios Tour for the fall called $50 Million Openers. You are
not allowed to ride the attraction if you are under 5 feet tall, have a
chest size below 36 or are named Harrison Ford.
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