BOP Daily News
October 11, 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, the identity of the next James Bond may still be uncertain, but we know who the next Bond villain will be. Bollywood star Gulshan Grover has told the Times of India that he's been inked to play the principal nemesis of the British super-spy in Casino Royale. According to Grover, the film will start shooting in the Czech Republic in January, but the Indian star says he hasn't any more clue as to who will play 007 than anyone else. Including, possibly, the Bond producers. In addition to breaking the news of his own casting, Grover also added a new name to the Bond Portrayer Sweepstakes: Australian actor Julian McMahon. Best known on these shores for his role on the acclaimed TV drama Nip/Tuck, McMahon joins an increasingly-long list of actors rumored to have been offered the plum role of Ian Fleming's most famous creation, including such well-known names as Hugh Jackman, Colin Ferrell, Ewan McGregor and Clive Owen, as well as lesser-known actors Ioan Gruffudd, Daniel Craig, and Goran Visnjic, another recent entrant. Add to this the persistent tidbit that Pierce Brosnan will portray the suave secret agent for one more film, and you've got quite the betting pool available. Rumors that Barbara Broccoli plans on putting all the names into a hat and deciding on the next Bond in that manner could not be confirmed at press time. Although we do hear Rock, Paper, Scissors is a strong possibility.
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Apparently Tom Cruise is not content with just torpedoing his own career. Katie Holmes, former fabled last virgin over the age of majority in Hollywood and current pregnant fianc'e to the raving Scientologist, has reportedly fired her long-time publicist and hired Cruise's sister, Lee Anne DeVette. Hollywood watchers will recall that Cruise's erratic behavior during recent PR tours has been ascribed to having put his inexperienced sister in charge of his PR earlier this year, dumping his long-time publicist in the process. Holmes has now dumped her management company, her agents, her publicist and, according to several published reports, her religion, all since she and Cruise began their controversial relationship just six months ago. We can hardly wait for the couple to appear on Oprah and describe in breathless detail and with much jumping about the exact moment when the bun was placed in the oven.
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You can really tell how far the mighty have fallen by who takes potshots at them. The redoubtable Tony Danza, late of Taxi and currently one of the 7,264 talk show hosts on the airwaves, has taken a rather dim view of the recently announced impending parenthood of Tom Cruise. Danza finds Cruise to be somewhat hypocritical, given the Scientologist's now-infamous meltdown on the Today Show, when he took his so-called "good friend" Brooke Shields to task for taking medication to treat her postpartum depression. Danza has been quoted as being "upset" with the Mission: Impossible star's apparent double standard, given Cruise's questionable morality in his own life. Says Danza, "Here's a guy out there lecturing people about drugs, but out of wedlock births don't seem to bother him." Acknowledging that his show is a bit too low on the totem pole for Cruise to appear on, Danza proclaims himself "happy" for Cruise and Holmes, but that he plans to "send them to Maury Povich's show for a DNA test". In a related story, Brooke Shields has reportedly booked a ringside seat in the delivery room so she can witness just how much Holmes enjoys the Scientology tenet of "silent birth", which prohibits exclamations of pain from the woman during labor. Given the Scientology stance on drugs, we think that's Poetic Justice a-knockin' at the door.
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Freddie Prinze Jr, best known as Mr Sarah Michelle Gellar - or for playing Fred in Scooby-Doo; take your pick - awoke one morning recently in a great deal of pain. Prinze, who was in New York promoting his upcoming sit-com - cleverly titled Freddie - was quoted as saying he "woke up and (he) just couldn't breathe." Turns out Prinze had a cracked rib, an injury that he reportedly has no idea how he acquired. Huh. So those subliminal suggestion tapes played while one sleeps do work.
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"Is the dried-out, washed-up has-been having a moment?"
Previous edition's quote: 2003 MTV Movie Awards
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