BOP Daily News
May 24, 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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Well, on the surface, this certainly seems like a mismatch of talent and material. Sylvester Stallone, he of the Rocky films and TV-reality boxing fame, is set to direct a film about the life of Edgar Allan Poe. The film, cleverly called Poe, was also written by Stallone, but fortunately, Sly has decided not to play the title role. Instead, Stallone would like to see Robert Downey Jr play the master of the macabre whose life was nearly as tragic as one of his own poems. One hopes that Stallone did sufficient research on Poe's life that he will correct some of the long-standing misconceptions about the author's substance abuse and mystifying death. Should the film stick with the prevailing misguided notions about Poe's life, however...hell, you've all likely made your own jokes about Downey being the perfect fit by this point anyway.
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Uh-oh; looks like Johnny Depp is starting to repeat himself. First he agreed to reprise his Oscar-nominated role as Jack Sparrow in the next two Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and now he's signed on to play Hunter S Thompson in a sequel-of-sorts to the 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Depp will play Thompson in The Rum Diary, which is based on Thompson's very first novel. As long as this trend of revisiting roles past doesn't extend to the resurrection of Fred Abberline in From Hell 2, we'll all be happy indeed.
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And speaking of unnecessary sequels...or, in this case, prequels, word comes that a prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is in the works. It will reportedly follow the same formula of nubile young things getting sliced and diced by Leather Face and his boon companion, a chainsaw, after the kids have poked their noses in where they don't belong, upsetting the family of loonies in the ramshackle old house that any sane person would give as wide a berth as possible. The film will reportedly reveal Leather Face's origins. Let us guess: it has something to do with inbreeding and/or being teased as a child, right? Maybe they'll call it Texas Chainsaw Massacre II: The Dr Phil Interview. Although we'd pay good money to see the annoying doctor and the not-scary-in-the-least serial killer in a cage match to the death.
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Oh, my. Yet another party-girl-slash-actress is getting her knickers in a twist because she's not taken "seriously". This time around, it's Lindsay Lohan who's wingeing that the press only focuses on her social life and not her work. The actress is supposedly upset that contemporaries such as Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson are praised for their work and not their partying ways, and feels it's because their fan base is more mature while hers is "younger". And all that partying she's doing has absolutely nothing to do with this perception, we're sure. Lohan is supposedly so desperate to be taken seriously that she's signed up to work with Meryl Streep on the upcoming A Prairie Home Companion film. Lohan is reportedly hoping that Streep will teach her how to put on annoying accents, fake being sincere and produce cryptic characterizations so that critics think you're "deep".
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"Bazooko's Circus is what the world would be doing every Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This was the Sixth Reich."
Previous edition's quote: Austin Powers in Goldmember
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