BOP Daily News
October 21, 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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Whoa. The Hollywood Wax Museum is removing their figures of Matrix stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss because they’re no longer considered current. The wax museum’s management feels that there is no guarantee that the third installment of the science-fiction franchise, being released November 5th, will be a hit, judging from the lukewarm reception the second installment received when it was released this summer. The museum is currently looking at replacement figures. You know your next film is in for a bad run when your wax figure is getting melted down for candles.
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As if we don’t get enough of Jennifer Lopez, word now comes she's producing a new daytime TV show on which she’ll occasionally appear as a co-host. Although the show is intended as a vehicle for J-Lo’s sister, Linda, the program will feature a total of four hosts, much like the current ABC daytime entry, The View. J-Lo will appear during sweeps periods and possibly at together times, but won’t be a daily presence. Of course, if her movie career continues its spectacular crash-and-burn, we may yet have the ineffable experience of a daily dose of Jenny from the Block on our TVs.
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Vince Vaughn, who is also becoming quite the busy little beaver in films, will be starring in and producing The Break-Up for Revolution Studios. The comedy will follow the misadventures of a couple going through a divorce who are forced to live in the same house together during the proceedings. And hilarity, the creative team hopes, ensues. One plot line, which would have had Vaughn’s character turning the house into a retirement hotel for wayward, single women who’ve embezzled money and like to take showers, was rejected for having been done too many times.
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Carmen Electra has been cast in the upcoming MTV original movie Monster Island. The film, a satire of classic monster flicks, will have Carmen playing herself as the host of an MTV beach concert. Quite the acting stretch there. At any rate, the concert is disrupted when a giant creature swoops onto the scene and proceeds to fly away with the lovely host in its beak. The teens at the concert decide to mount a rescue mission, aided and abetted by a mad scientist, played by Adam West. No word on whether Burt Ward, Alan Napier, or a certain souped-up Ford Galaxie will also be making appearances.
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Regency has acquired the rights to the fantasy script Bagloria, described as a sort of cross between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and the Harry Potter series. The tale follows the adventures of a group of youngsters who find a portal to the eponymous fantasy world in their classroom closet. When their teacher is accidentally pulled into the world, the tykes must brave the strange inhabitants of Bagloria in order to rescue their teacher and save their school. And to think all we ever found in school closets were scratchy wool coats and smelly galoshes.
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"How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building?"
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