BOP Daily News
May 18, 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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From the "BOP Wishes Can Come True" department, John Cleese has joined forces with Aardman Animations. The legendary comedian will be writing a script for a claymation project from the creators of Chicken Run. The pedigree of this 2008 release is further enhanced by its creators. Executive producers Peter Lord and David Sproxton, the co-founders of Aardman, were the people who came up with the premise for this story. The setting will be in prehistoric times, and the characters will be cavemen who have yet to conquer fire but have mastered the art of the witty rejoinder. We know what you're thinking right now. This puts the cavemen one step ahead of BOP. It's not true, though. We've mastered fire, so it's a tie!
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Actress and occasional pop singer Hilary Duff has signed up for another outing of Cheaper by the Dozen. While a seemingly innocuous news item, it's important to note without Duff, the production would have been numerically incorrect. This would have forced one of those "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" title inaccuracies. Cheaper by Almost a Dozen just doesn't have the same ring to it as last December's hit. BOP yet holds out hope that someone else will be added to the production. This would lead to the logically inferred title of Cheaper by the Baker's Dozen. The tie-ins with the Food Network would be a natural if they went this route. Ain't modern cinema synergistic?
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Believe it or not, someone out there wants to be Robin Williams. Even sadder, the guy is taking the inconceivable dream and trying to make it real. In a situation eerily reminiscent of Gallagher and his brother a couple of years ago, a man named Michael Clayton has started passing himself off as Robin Williams. The man and his agent (?), Michael Pool, even tricked a charity and a writer for the Minnesota Star-Tribune into believing he was the comedian. I'm sure you're all wondering how this is possible, but just think it through for a minute. All it would take is a jaw-dropping amount of chest and back hair and a severe bout of syphilis.
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BOP had been operating under the assumption that no one in the world had ever wanted a Dick Tracy sequel. To our surprise, news has been released which refutes this supposition. Warren Beatty is suing Tribune Media Services. The family man/retired lothario claims that there was in agreement in place in 1985 for Tribune to reclaim rights to the comic book sleuth from Disney and Beatty. As a result of this complicated agreement, Disney garnered the short terms rights, allowing the film to be made in 1990. In 2002, the Tribune group exercised their option to have the rights returned to them, but Disney noted that Tribune ignored several of the required stipulations in the contract. Due to this, they gave the rights back to Beatty, who now wants to make another money. Tribune's claim prevents this from happening. Despite having rougly 30 attorneys on staff, BOP understands little of this legal mumbo jumbo. All we know is that if Tribune is the group preventing another movie co-starring Madonna from being made, they are our hero and everything we want to be.
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"You get behind me, we all profit; you challenge me, we all go down! There was one Napoleon, one Washington, one me! "
Previous edition's quote: Clerks
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