BOP Daily News
June 8, 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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Cameron Diaz is fighting back. BOP News previously discussed her recent run-ins with the National Enquirer. The actress has decided that their allegations involving her affair with a married man are so scandalous that she won't take them lying down...so to speak. Diaz is suing the rag for a cool $10 million dollars (picture Dr. Evil with his pinky finger in his mouth). The interesting news here is that the man Diaz is accused of tongue jousting, Shane Nickerson, is also a plaintiff in the suit. When the magazine eventually settles out of court (ETA 93 days from now), Nickerson and his mother-in-law, the third litigant, stand to receive a significant portion of the cash, meaning that the good guys will win for a change. Since their second quarter libel budget is squandered, The National Enquirer will be forced over the next few issues to stick to out-of-focus photographs of Sasquatch and aliens who for legal purposes look nothing like Alf or the Great Gazoo.
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From the celebrity misanthropes department, Russell Crowe is about more than just throwing phones at people these days. He’s also about feuding with his co-stars. It seems that Crowe gets along Craig Bierko even less than he does with complete strangers at bars. Fightin' Russ disliked the way Bierko performed as German box Max Baer in Cinderella Man, so much so that he derided the actor for not being prepared for his role. For his part, Bierko stated the following about Crowe: "There was literally not a single moment where I felt like we were actually bonding, or having a conversation." On the plus side, at least he's not hitting you in the face with telephony, Mr. Bierko.
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At least Halle Berry is honest. The actress met Playboy photography editor Marilyn Grabowski several years ago about doing a potentially lucrative spread for the magazine. Rather than beat around the bush, Berry reportedly acknowledged that Playboy is a great way to re-attain heat when a celebrity starlet’s star is fading. As such, Berry informed the publication that she would only pose nude at such a time as her is fading. If Berry passes on X3, BOP also puts this ETA at 93 days from now.
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There is one other story we missed while on vacation last week. Jack Nicholson wannabe Christian Slater allegedly failed to take the advice of the Georgia Satellites, refusing to keep his hands to himself. Slater was arrested on charges of "forcible touching and third-degree sexual abuse", fancy legal terms for playing grab-ass with an unwilling party. The good news for Slater is that the kindly strippers at Scores have his back so to speak. Worried that their sugar daddy might be forced to go upstate for up to a year, New York City's finest strippers promise to testify in Slater's defense. According to them, he always behaves like "a perfect gentleman" whenever he hangs out at Scores. Mr. Slater, we don't mean to sound all A-List about this, but if you have strippers that welcome a game of grab-ass with you, why are you hanging out at a different bar where the asses are less enthusiastic about their grabbing?
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"If you shoot me, you're liable to lose a lot of those humanitarian awards."
Previous edition's quote: X-Men
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