BOP Daily News
December 6, 2004
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George Lucas is reportedly looking to have his first Star Wars sequel banned from ever being shown again. Sadly for fans, he's not referring to The Phantom Menace, but a little thing he cooked up for CBS back in 1978 called The Star Wars Holiday Special. The two-hour show focused on Chewbacca's journey to his home world to celebrate Life Day with his family, accompanied by the rest of the Star Wars gang. According to those who have witnessed this cinematic tragedy, at one point in the special, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia brings Harrison Ford's Han Solo and Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker to tears with a song, although whether that id due to its beauty or the quality of her singing is unclear. A source at Lucasfilm says that the Holiday Special " was the biggest f***-up ever. The Force was definitely not with Mr. Lucas the day that doozy was born." Many people would strongly agree the same could be said of the last two Star Wars films.
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And in a sort-of related story, Natalie "Queen Amidala" Portman has no problem with the fact that pics of her nude from the new film, Closer, will be showing up on the Internet. Portman attributes this to the fact that she feels she's "got to a point in [her] life where everything [she does] is active rather than reactive." She also denies rumors that she took the sexy role because it would abolish her child-star reputation. Portman states, "I'm not doing things to prove anything. That makes me comfortable with whatever people walk away with. I can still carry on my own life without being hurt." Portman fans and Star Wars freaks everywhere are very, very grateful for Portman's new-found confidence.
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Hugh Grant is reportedly so appalled by the appearance of his wax double at the famous Madame Tussaud's in London that he's requested the figure be moved from the celebrity gallery into the Chamber of Horrors. Grant, who was first approached to be immortalized in wax back in 1994, says he took pains to make sure his double would be presentable, even agreeing to have the waxwork artists measure "every inch" of his body rather than work strictly from photos. But having seen the result, Grant was quoted as saying, " They ought to put my figure into the chamber of horrors alongside the mass murderers. I look like Julie Andrews on heroin." Strangely, Madame Tussaud's has received complaints for years from patrons who say the wax figure of Julie Andrews looks like Hugh Grant with boobs.
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The consortium of Greek lawyers that threatened to sue Warner Bros and Oliver Stone if a disclaimer was not appended to the end of Stone's recently-released Alexander proclaiming the homosexual angle to Alexander the Great's life was complete fiction has now withdrawn their suit. Yannis Varnakos, spokesman for the lawyers, has stated that the issue was never one of homosexuality, but that the lawyers didn't want "a distortion of historical facts" and would have reacted in the same manner regarding any famous Greek figure. No word on why the lawsuit was withdrawn, but we figure once the consortium saw how awful the film was, they figured why bother since so few would see the film anyway.
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"I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all t"
Previous edition's quote: Batman Returns
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