BOP Daily News
December 5, 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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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner managed to garner (ha! hah hah hah!) major headlines with the announcement of the birth of their baby girl, named "Violet." Few details have been released, other than the baby was born somewhere in Los Angeles and the entire family is doing fine. Violet is the first child for the happy couple, and casting details for the eventual Elektra remake 25 years from now will be forthcoming.
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Mix tapes at Grateful Dead concerts are like distribution deals at Sundance - everybody's got one, they change hands frequently, and though no one will admit it, everyone suspects the person next to them has a better one. However, transferring the tradition of trading casette tapes in a haze of blissful disjunction from reality onto an Internet-friendly medium has proved problematic.
Archive.org is a website that holds thousands of downloadable tracks from various Dead concerts. Brewster Kahle, founder and director of the website, received a cease-and-desist order from the band asking him to shut down the site. Why the Grateful Dead ever thought this is a good idea is beyond us, and the fans reacted in the expected manner -- threatening boycotts, signing petitions, organizing protests, and forming drum circles. Thankfully, the Dead backed down and announced that they would take no action against Archive.org. The site remains free and open for your browsing (and downloading!) pleasure.
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And the Affleck/Garner Damien Omen project isn't the only Hollywood royalty baby news of the week. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie still have not confirmed they are a couple, but Pitt's latest court matter is rather telling. Mr. Smith has taken legal action to adopt Mrs. Smith's children, Maddox and Zahara. The two tykes should expect their names to legally become Maddox Jolie-Pitt and Zahara Jolie-Pitt as soon as the paperwork is complete. As a rebuttal, Jennifer Aniston promptly seduced Jennifer Garner and talked her into renaming their child Sydney Violet Rachel Green Garner-Aniston. What a mouthful. Still, it beats being an Affleck.
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Finally, we complete Parents Day at BOP News by getting a piece of The Rock. Disney has signed everyone's favorite former WWF champion, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, to star in a genteel family comedy called Daddy's Girl. The project which in no way will ape off the success of recent successes The Pacifier and Are We There Yet? is coincidentally the third recent attempt to take an action hero and turn him into a family man. This time, Sarge from Doom will be a football player who comes to discover he's also got a little girl he didn't know he had fathered. The story of the film presumably involves the girl's shame in discovering that her father's last movie fell about 75% in its second weekend.
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"Men are rats, listen to me, they're fleas on rats, worse than that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats. I mean, they're too low for even the dogs to bite. The only man a girl can depend on is her daddy."
Previous edition's quote: Men in Black
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