BOP Daily News
March 17, 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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Just when you thought the reputation of the Lord of the Rings shoot couldn't get any gayer, producer Kevin Wallace found a way. That's right, nerdlings! Lord of the Rings: the Musical is set to dance its way into Toronto next year. Oddly, the producer promises that there will be "no singing and dancing hobbits". Instead, the songs will be "in a very traditional mold and draw on ethnic traditions." Since the musical tells the story of the entire trilogy, opening night will occur next March and the first show should finish by late summer. Then, a better special edition of it will be available for consumption roughly six months after that. Lord of the Rings fans have to run out of disposable income at some point, don't they?
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Bollywood has had another bombshell explode. Already reeling from the earlier controversy over actress Meera facing death threats due to an onscreen kiss, the industry now faces a scandal. It seems that villainous actor Shakti Kapoor, who has performed in over 300 productions, is facing semi-shocking allegations. The actor is charged with attempting to coerce a fledgling actress into performing sex acts in order to boost her career. The catch is that the woman he pressured was not an actress at all but in fact an undercover journalist. Even worse, she was videotaping their encounters in order to entrap Kapoor in the act of sexual bartering. In a seemingly unrelated note, Harvey Weinstein is currently seeking that special someone to give a three picture deal. Less chaste actresses apply within.
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Missing in action director James Cameron has taken time out from his busy schedule of Old Man and the Sea re-enactments to make a long-awaited announcement. The auteur's financial and critical masterpiece, Titanic, is being given the special edition treatment in time for October release. A two disc as well as a four disc set will be produced in order to cater to both the low end market as well as the more obsessive types with disposable income (i.e. young adult women who used to go to bed at night wistfully sighing at the thought of Leo drowning). As one would expect of such a troubled shoot, the new release offers almost a full hour of deleted scenes as well as an alternate ending. But unless the new finale features Leo *and* Jar Jar drowning, we just don't see how it could have the same effect.
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First-time writers have sold the good people at Columbia Pictures on an unusual pitch. The concept is "This Bill Smith", a story involving the frustrations of a cancer patient. Feeling cut off from his peers and searching for existential answers, Mr. Smith does what any National Lampoon's reader would do. He takes a road trip. But he is not heading to Spring Break. Instead, he seeks out a handful of the other 72,000 Bill Smiths in America to find out if one of his name sharers is living a happier, more robust life than him. A note here that might only interest BOP is that the generic name concept production is written by men named Ben Brandstrader and Jonathan Sadowski.
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"Why Kate, You're not wearing a bustle. How lewd."
Previous edition's quote: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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