BOP Daily News
October 23, 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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Apparently the much-touted ritual of actors researching their roles isn’t really practiced all that much, at least judging if recent quotes from Angelina Jolie are any indication. Jolie, who is portraying Alexander the Great’s mother in Oliver Stone’s upcoming biopic of the legendary Macedonian warrior, seems to be a bit confused over some basic facts of her screen son’s life. In an attempt to deflate concerns that at 28, she’s rather young to be playing mother to 27-year-old Colin Farrell, who plays the eponymous general, Jolie stated, "I play Alexander's mother when he's seven and I age through the movie, though he was quite young when he died, about 19. So it's not like his mother was that old by the end. She's mid-30s." Sorry, Angelina; though Alexander the Great did die young, even for his time, he was 33 at his death. Guess you missed that...year in school. And that part of the script, too.
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Tom Cruise’s production company is developing a biopic about artist Jon Sarkin. The film would be a starring vehicle for the Minority Report actor. Sarkin, who was originally a chiropractor, lapses into a coma after suffering a heart attack and a stroke. After two years, he awakes from the coma, his personality transformed from a very rigid, controlled and cold man to a fun-loving, free-spirited, childlike persona. The screenplay will deal with how Sarkin’s wife and young son react to the change in the paterfamilias. Before discovering the film is being based on the life story of actual person, Mike Nichols’ lawyers were gearing up for battle.
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In what may be a stroke of divine casting inspiration, Jim Carrey has reportedly been signed to star in the long-in-development film adaptation of the popular ‘70s TV series The Six Million Dollar Man. Carrey, who topped the box office charts this past summer with his comedy Bruce Almighty, means the movie, the first of what Dimension hopes will become a franchise, will have a decidedly more comedic spin than did the series. Writer/director Todd Phillips, the creative force behind the hit comedies Road Trip and Old School, will take on the same duties here. If you think we’re going to make the obvious joke about the title needing to be adjusted for inflation...you’d be right, except we figure our readers already got there about four sentences back.
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The Wayans clan is bringing White Chicks to Revolution Studios. The comedy, starring Marlon and Shawn, directed by Keenen Ivory and written by all three Wayans brothers, tells the story of two African-American FBI agents who go undercover in the Hamptons as white debutantes. Oh, my; we can just hear the laughs now. One rumored plotline that was apparently rejected would have seen the men’s cover blown when one of the agents, after eating a substantial meal without running immediately to the ladies’ room, proceeds to profess a profound dislike of Friends.
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Bad-boy extraordinaire Russell Crowe has reportedly banned all Internet reporters from press junkets for his upcoming film Master and Commander because he believes they have been publishing lies bout them. The mercurial Crowe is convinced the reason he has a reputation as a beer-swilling, brawling hell-raiser is because the online media hasn’t been reporting his antics accurately. The actor has even gone so far as to require pre-approval of all journalists included in the press junkets and is requiring all approved reporters to sign an agreement that they will not provide post any sound bites on the Internet. Yep, we’re sure that all the times Crowe was photographed swearing at the media, threatening bodily injury to those who displeased him and drinking himself into a drunken rage before breaking up a local watering-hole contributed not one whit to his “undeserved” reputation.
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