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| Daniel Craig recently learned the hard way that being given a license to kill isn’t necessarily all skittles and beer. Casino Royale, barely into its second week of filming and already carrying the drama of a protracted search for a villain and even more protracted search for a Bond Girl, not to mention the granddaddy of all protracted searches, the one for Bond himself, has now wracked up its first causality, 007 himself. Or more specifically, his teeth. During a fight sequence, one of the day players landed a lucky punch, resulting in the leading man losing several teeth. In the grandest tradition of show-business troupers, Craig tried to soldier on, but the blood seeping though the fingers of the hand he quickly clapped to his mouth told a different tale. The leading man’s dentist was flown in from London to the Czech Republic set for an emergency fix-it, and Craig is once more flashing his pearly whites at pretty girls, although he has to don something called gum guards whenever he’s called upon to get into some of that manly brawling. We’re not sure who will be doing the theme song at this point - or if this will also turn into a protracted search - but clearly the front runner is All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth. That, or Dentist, depending on how the rest of the filming goes. |
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Seeing celebrities lend their star power to worthy causes warms the cockles of our hearts. Well, it would, if having them removed wasn’t a condition of employment on the BOP News staff. But sometimes things get a little out of hand, especially when the worthy cause involves the folks at PETA. The latest proverbial bee in PETA’s bonnet is the Kentucky Derby, and they’ve gained the cooperation of Pamela Anderson in calling for a boycott of the first jewel in racing’s Triple Crown. This is the latest attempt by both the radical animal-rights organization and the former Baywatch star to alienate the folks in Kentucky, after losing their fight earlier this year to have a bust of Colonel Harlan Sanders removed from the Kentucky State Capitol Building on the grounds that KFC and Sanders are cruel to chickens. We’re not sure if PETA has only just decided that horseracing is inhumane treatment of thoroughbreds, or if they just needed a new cause to publicize. We suspect a bit of both. Anderson’s involvement is a bit more problematic this time around, however; while she’s never been photographed lugging home a bucket of KFC for the kids, she has been a regular at the Run for the Roses the past several years. The race’s organizers see the loss of a celebrity patron as rather a blow, as they feel the presence of Hollywood stars, even C-list stars, helps raise awareness of the Derby, a stance we find a bit surprising given that even non-horseracing enthusiasts are aware of the Kentucky Derby. Still, if the people behind the Run for the Roses are looking for star power, especially star power that’s readily available - in other words, celebs out of work - may we suggest Pauly Shore? Not only does he have plenty of time on his hands these days, he’s played the horse’s ass a number of times. The perfect fit. |
| For those nostalgic for the days when Hollywood cooked up publicity stunts to promote movies, you’re in luck. The folks over at 20th Century Fox are creating just such a photo opportunity for their upcoming sequel to the surprise animated hit Ice Age, cleverly called Ice Age Two: The Meltdown. The event calls for John Leguizamo, who voiced one of the main characters in the prehistoric comedy, will arrive by dog sled at an ice-carving festival in Fairbanks, Alaska, and will preside over the opening of an amusement park with characters from the film. Leguizamo and Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski will participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony of sorts; the two men will use a blowtorch to cut through an ice ribbon, opening the park. Dick Brickley, chairman of Ice Alaska, which sponsors the annual World Ice Art Championships and also set up the ribbon...um, blowtorching, sounded particularly excited when announcing the event, asking the gathered reporters, “How often does Fairbanks, Alaska, have a Hollywood star coming here in the wintertime?” We’ve got once a century in the office pool, and that’s probably too optimistic. |
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Sometimes these things just write themselves. Samuel L Jackson recently spoke about his decision to sign on as star of an upcoming thriller called Snakes on a Plane without even reading the script because he liked the title so much. Jackson went on to wax ecstatic about the simplicity of the plot, which as one would suspect, is almost entirely revealed by the title. Jackson was quoted as saying, “You have got to love that. That’s exactly what it is.” According to Jackson 500 poisonous snakes are released on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles by an assassin aiming to kill one of the passengers. The star went on to explain that the snakes are set to be released automatically after the plane passes the point of no return, forcing the flight to continue on to LA, which, according to Jackson, is “fun”. If Snakes on a Plane is a success, Jackson may have just opened up a new career for himself, not to mention a new sub-genre of the Animals Eating People film, with titles such as Scorpions on a Plane, Brown Recluse Spiders on a Plane and Africanized Honey Bees on a Plane. |
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