BOP Daily News

December 14, 2005


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For struggling A-list actor Colin Farrell, life has imitated art recently. In his best known starring role, Phone Booth, the Irish actor portrayed a successful man whose life came undone due to his proclivity for embracing all the seven deadly sins. Now news has been released that Farrell has had to cancel several scheduled appearances because he has checked into rehab. Farrell’s publicist has revealed that he became addicted to painkillers while seeking treatment for a back injury. This news comes right on the heels of Playboy Playmate Nicole Narain’s very public dispute with him over the release of a videotaped sexual encounter the aspiring auteurs filmed awhile ago. Is BOP the only organization that realizes that a Russell Crowe/Colin Farrell reality series would be the greatest program in the history of television? I want *you* to smoke dope with me!





Don't ask me if that NOOOOOOOOOOOO! was heartfelt again. Luke might use the Force, but Anakin isn’t above trying to put his foot in somebody’s ass. Hayden Christensen. The actor who has nowhere to go but down from now on with Star Wars fresh out of prequels found himself getting heckled while on the set of his latest project, Awake. A casual onlooker loudly notified Christensen of his suckage. The exact quote as reported by New York Post was, "You ruined the 'Star Wars' movies!" Rather than turn the other cheek and ignore the (correct) passerby, Christensen showed off his historically high mitochlorian count by attempting to bum-rush the opinionated stranger. Onlookers noted that this was a much more passionate performance than he had ever given in his career to date.
Disney has backtracked on their corporate theory for the past 70 years by acknowledging that the world is not in fact as small as they have previously sing-sung it to be. The movie studio is undertaking its first ever production in China. The project in question is a Chinese language film called The Magic of the Secret Gourd, an adaptation of the Zhang Tianyi children’s novel of the same name. The move comes at a time when Disney has also been rumored to be building a theme park in Shanghai. When asked for an explanation about the company’s sudden interest in China, a Disney spokesman stated, “We just figured out where Jackie Chan has been filming his movies. It seems nice there.” Has this little display ever *not* been creepy?









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