BOP Daily News
August 20, 2003
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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Val Kilmer, who seemed almost to have disappeared from movie screens for
a while, has apparently decided to make up for lost time. In addition to
having half-a-dozen films in the release chute, Kilmer's name is being
attached to a variety of upcoming projects. The latest possibility would
have the actor, who supposedly puts the mental in tempremental, joining
Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx in Collateral, as a detective tracking
Cruise's hired killer character. This would also mark the first screen
pairing for Cruise and Kilmer since '86's Top Gun.Of course, if they set
the film in New York city then the pressure their characters face will
far outweigh those experienced by their characters in Top Gun.
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Helen Hunt will play a seductress who steals the husband of a much
younger woman in her next film, A Good Woman. The film, which will be
shot in Italy, is "inspired" by the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windermere's
Fan. Unfortunately, the studio has cast Leelee Sobieski in the role of
the younger woman and early test audiences are reportedly very confused.
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The Nightmare on Elm Street prequel got another boost recently as Robert
Englund provided more details in an interview with the Chicago
Sun-Times. The film will apparently follow the crimes that caused the
neighbors to incinerate Freddy Krueger in the first place, and will
explore the motivations behind Krueger's horrific killing spree. Englund
is also reportedly delighted at the chance to play Krueger without
spending hours in the make-up chair. Unfortunately, Robert Englund still
looks like Robert Englund.
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If they made it into a film, no one would believe it. Fox News Channel
is seeking a preliminary injunction against Al Franken's latest book,
Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the
Right, because of claims the violates Fox's trademarked franchise on the
words "fair and balanced." Besides the ridiculous idea that a company
can trademark words in common usage, Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly
Factor, added to the comedy aspects of the affair by defending the
lawsuit and attacking Franken, writing at one point, "It makes me sick
to see intellectually dishonest individuals hide behind the First
Amendment to spread propaganda, libel and slander." O'Reilly's irony
detector is apparently in the shop for repairs.
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