BOP Daily News
November 11, 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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Vin Diesel’s traveling the world with his mommy. Actually, the action star took his mum with him to Scotland to scout locations for an independent project he’s planning. His reasoning behind taking his mother is that she’s part Scottish; according to Diesel, “She’s a Sinclair,” which is supposed to be a common Scottish surname. No details were made available on the project, other than it is called The Abbey Project and is self-funded. There were reports, however, of several cases in Scottish emergency rooms of black eyes and broken noses, rumored to have happened to people who called Diesel a momma’s boy.
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Meatloaf is set to co-star in the upcoming Extreme Dating. The film, billed as an action comedy, tells the story of four friends who think the best way to the hearts of their true loves is to put themselves in jeopardy. But as usually happens in films such as this, the plan goes awry when the faux kidnappers turn out to be real ex-cons who mess up the pretend abduction with a real scheme of their own. Rumors that Frank Sinatra, Jr would be hired as a technical consultant could not be confirmed at press time.
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Orlando Bloom is co-producing and starring in Haven, a film about the on-the-lam Mecca that is the Cayman Islands. The movie’s action would cover the events of a single weekend, and would follow two underhanded businessmen who flee to the tropical paradise to avoid federal prosecution. Their escape, however, sets in motion a chain of events that leads a British native to a criminal act that alters the Caymans. More details surrounding the proposed plot were unavailable, but with Bloom producing, we’re pretty sure his character will be all about the ladies.
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Olivia Williams, who plays Mrs Darling in the upcoming children’s film Peter Pan, admits to taking hallucinogenic drugs on the set. Williams was instructed to play her character as someone who went to Neverland and only half her brain came back, and decided that taking LSD during filming would help her get into character. The actress reportedly didn’t want to play Mrs Darling as though she’d had a lobotomy, and is quoted, “So I just tripped acid whenever I was shooting.” Williams goes on to say, “Oh, if Universal Pictures could hear me now, telling you that!" News flash for you, Olivia: When you tell the press things, studios tend to hear.
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Seems the cat’s out of the bag now. Britney Spears is reportedly furious with Colin Farrell after receiving a package from him containing a T-shirt emblazoned, “I slept with Colin Farrell and all I got was this lousy T-shirt” and a bumper sticker which read, “Honk if you’ve slept with Colin Farrell”. Apparently the saucy slogan-wear was the British bad boy’s response to Britney’s denial that they’d been intimate earlier this year. According to a pal of Farrell’s, Colin thought it would be a lark, but Britney was less than amused, expecting a more conventional gift when the package arrived. According to this friend, "She didn't see the funny side and screamed at him on the phone. He was laughing so much she hung up; they haven't spoken since." We’re thinking if Farrell gifts all his intimate companions with similar items, buying shares in a T-shirt printing company would be a shrewd investment right now.
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