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Author Topic: "Gigli" Farewell Bash in Boston David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-12-2003 05:05 PM                        Gigli Farewell Bash 'I Survived Gigli' Farewell Bash Planned in Boston BOSTON (Reuters) - A Boston radio station is giving listeners a reason to see the film "Gigli," the box office wreck starring Jennifer Lopez (news) and Ben Affleck (news) that some critics have panned as the worst film of the year. As "Gigli" vanishes from U.S. movie theaters following dismal ticket sales, alternative rock station WBCN is offering to give "I survived Gigli" T-shirts to anyone left in their seats when the lights come up after the final showing at a Boston cinema this Thursday. Chachi Loprete, the station's creative services director, said WBCN is offering free tickets to 130 "lucky" listeners. "We're doing this because the movie's been such a bomb," he told Reuters on Tuesday. Critics have savaged "Gigli." The New York Times dismissed it as a "hopelessly misconceived exercise in celebrity self-worship," while the Washington Post said it was "enervated, torpid, slack, dreary and, oh yes, nasty, brutish and long." The $55 million film brought in less than $6 million during its first 10 days, according to North American box office estimates issued on Sunday. In the film, Lopez, also known as J.Lo, plays a lesbian crook who helps Affleck's dim-witted character in a kidnapping plot.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-12-2003 07:16 PM                       This is funny. I could just smell another "Glitter" in "Giggly". As an aside, that's the station with the most annoying liners I've ever heard! The worst: (In a whisper, a fast loop is created)... "W-B-C...W-B-C...W-B-C...W-B-C...W-B-C...W-B-C...W-B-C...W-B-C...W-B-C-N!" Yeeuck!  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 08-12-2003 07:30 PM                        Actually Tim... WBCN Boston is a well known station in the industry, and has a very long history in the Boston area. This station helped launch the careers of many of todays more famous bands including U2.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-12-2003 07:42 PM                       I know it's a big station, and there are hundreds of others like it, but it doesn't give them license to annoy listeners. Many stations in Boston are big, simply because they're in Boston (e.g., WRKO, WBZ) - that's one of the major radio markets in the country. Any station that pulls numbers in a major market has influence, that's not unique to WBCN.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 08-12-2003 08:15 PM                     So this film is worse than FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY?  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-13-2003 03:31 AM                        WOWO's jingles are the most aggravating. "W O, W O, Whoa, Whoa.."  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 08-13-2003 01:05 PM                     WBCN should have awarded a weekend in Times Square. The AMC Empire will hold over a print of Gigli for a 3rd week. Incidentally, WBCN is more than a famous rock 'n roll radio station -- it's the radio flagship for the New England Patriots of the NFL.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 08-13-2003 01:54 PM                     Well, you do get to hear the retarded kid's rendition of "Baby Got Back" one more time at the very end of the credits. That made it all worthwhile.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stuckey Film Handler Posts: 62 From: Oklahoma City, OK, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 08-13-2003 04:06 PM                     Just wait until Marci X a.k.a. comes out next week. This one stinks from so far away it's not funny. Of course, it won't take much to outgross Gigli.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-13-2003 04:31 PM                     "Marci X" has been on hold for over a year by Paramount. Marci is not that bad of a film, it fluff. I ran it many times over a year ago in different versions.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-18-2003 05:16 PM                        It's amusing to note that there is still a huge "Gigli" billboard next to the Massachusetts Turnpike near Boston, yet no theatre within a 50-mile (at least) radius is playing the film. Tim--be glad that you didn't hear the WFNX promos; they're far worse than the ones on WBCN.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-18-2003 05:18 PM                        |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 08-18-2003 08:27 PM                        Thats nothing Rock 101 (WGIR Manchester) has one thats about 10 minutes long just a some redneck mullethead type guy talkin' 'bout how he likes to listen to Rock 101 cuz they play motley crue or whatever and the boston stations dont. its real bad  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 06-12-2004 12:03 AM                     Ok, I saw Gigli tonight on TV and I liked it, so screw you all!!!  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-13-2004 01:00 AM                       Oooh, Rachel's talkin' dirty!  |  IP: Logged

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