BOP Daily News
October 1, 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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The next project up for Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions will be a
comedy for Paramount titled Take Me to Your Leader. The flick, which is
currently not slated to star the ever-popular Sandler, will tell the tale of
a NASA janitor who accidentally launches himself into space, then is taken
for an alien when he falls back to Earth in Iowa. Of course, that's a giant leap of faith the producers would be asking the audience to make since, in real life, an Alien would be indistinguishable from an Iowanian.
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Another comic book adaptation is headed for the big screen, this one a
combination live-action/CGI film based on Green Monkeys, a series that
features the eponymous primates who think they are human. Paramount and
Nickelodeon Movies, which are jointly producing the venture, are hoping the
initial Green Monkeys film will be successful enough to spawn a franchise.
The deal between Paramount and the lead monkey’s agent, who is now the envy of his hometown zoo, was allegedly signed over a plate of green eggs and ham.
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Proving that, in Hollywood at least, if you wait long enough everything
comes back into style is a report that Lost in Space, the mediocre camp '60s
TV series that was turned into a took-itself-too-seriously mediocre movie in
1998, will again become a TV series. Several networks are reportedly
interested in the project, which would purportedly focus on the family drama
aspects of the tale of a family of settlers who, as the title suggests, lose
their way in outer space and travel around looking for a hospitable planet
to call home, getting into various scrapes along the way. The new series
will apparently be set about 100 years in the future, but the family itself
will be familiar to contemporary viewers. We'd do a "Danger, Will Robinson,
danger!" joke here about how badly this series will suck, but you've
probably already gone there yourselves.
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Seems it's not just the studios in Hollywood who take a successful idea and
make carbon copies. Kelsey Grammer, whose Seattle-based show Frasier is enetering it’s final season, recently dropped hints that he might
follow in Ahnuld's footsteps and seek a political career after he hangs up
his Frasier mantle. Grammer has reportedly set
his sights on Congress, possibly the Senate, and explains his political
aspirations as his way of "giving back" to his country for some of the good
fortune he has received, and reportedly stated, "I would like to try to rid
the country of the idea that it's the rich against the poor." One of the
boards in Grammer's platform will reportedly be the creation of a low-cost
cappuccino plan.
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"That's my brother, Niles. He's a little... how would you describe Niles, Dad?"
"I usually just change the subject."
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