BOP Daily News
February 9, 2005
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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Eva Mendes isn't satisfied with simply being Hitched. The star of such memorable films as 2 Fast 2 Furious and Stuck On You has signed on to join Nicolas Cage. The project is yet another comic book adaptation, this time the Marvel staple Ghost Rider. That's right: Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider. Folks, if you ever try to pinpoint the moment when comic book movies officially scratched the bottom of the barrel, this is it.
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The line between Hollywood and the videogame industry continues to blur. Scribe J.T. Petty has been given writer/director duties on a Lions Gate release called The Burrowers. The project is rather incongruously described as "Alien meets The Searchers", making this a juxtaposition of
science fiction, horror, and westerns. Petty is perhaps best known as the writer of the popular X-Box title, Splinter Cell, and his next project is also a videogame/movie meld. He handles the upcoming Electronic Arts title, Batman Begins. BOP may only wonder how guys like him get newly created projects that have nothing to do with videogames
while game neophyte Andrzej Bartkowial is off ruining the movie version of Doom. The scorched earth impact of Uwe Boll is destroying this industry.
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The title of the week award goes to BOP fave/relative unknown Jamie Babitt (she has directed Gilmore Girls...that is plenty enough to make her a BOP fave). The first time writer/director has signed up porn star next door Elisha Cuthbert to star in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee. Cuthbert will play the lead role in the film about a high school student who finds empowerment and purpose thanks to her friendly neighborhood radical feminist organization. Here's hoping that a liberal dose of sexual experimentation is included in the package. Even if it isn't, the Vivid parody is an automatic for a film title like this.
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Hilary Duff has finally put the days of Lizzie McGuire and sugary pop music behind her. The seemingly trapped in middle school forever Disney Channel icon has followed up a string of middling films by matriculating at the Ivy League's answer to the University of Phoenix, Harvard. The trick is that she never has leave the convenience of her Malibu (Barbie) home. Duff has enrolled for online courses, allowing her to argue existential theorems while wearing her PJs and bunny slippers. As Duff says, "The teachers film their lectures then link it to the web and I can watch them teach and take notes from my computer." We at BOP look forward to her valedictory address, in which she rails at poor Lindsay Lohan's meager B+ average at Yale.
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"Fine, I'll do the crappy Kids Choice Awards, but I'm not presenting with Hilary [expletive] Duff."
Previous edition's quote: Grosse Point Blank
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