BOP Daily News
August 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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Johnny Depp seems to be the front-runner to star in Tim Burton's upcoming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, after a third meeting between star and director purportedly went very well. If a deal can be worked out, the Warner Bros. adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic could begin filming early next year. Of course, the two could just be swapping super-model girlfriends. But seriously, not even a supermodel is dumb enough to leave Depp for Burton.
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The '80s continue to haunt Hollywood like a bad burrito repeating on a diner patron. Reports have Warner Bros greenlighting a film entitled Jelly Beans, which is described as a music-oriented feature set in an Atlanta roller-skating rink. What the difference is between a "music-oriented feature" and an actual musical we'd love to know. We know this much: "music-oriented" probably won't mean "profit-oriented."
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Shawn "Iceman" Ashmore will next star in The Underclassman, a tale about a detective whose youthful appearance lands him an undercover gig at an exclusive private school. His investigation leads to him to uncover an international stolen-car ring being run by one of his fellow students, played by Ashmore. The case becomes even more surprising when the detective the identity of the person manipulating the students to steal. Reports that Jay Leno had a cameo in the film could not be confirmed at press time.
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An interesting side-show to the ongoing Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez circus is the furor over a story run in the National Enquirer, alleging Ben and Christian Slater had partied with some exotic dancers in Canada. One of the strippers is now suing the tabloid, claiming she was libeled by the assertion in the article that she had sex with Affleck. The lawsuit also alleges that the reporter, who the Enquirer touted as having passed a lie detector test, thus validating the truthfulness of the tale to their satisfaction, may have taken an anti-anxiety drug in order to pass the polygraph test. Of course, the "reporter" could have merely had his fingers crossed while taking the test.
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