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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. A $30 million musical version of King Kong that’s currently in the works in Australia might be heading to Broadway, perhaps as soon as 2014. In case any part of you thinks that this sounds like a good idea, producers are reportedly eying the space currently occupied by Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. [via… Read More

Television

Watch Rider Strong Spoof Every USA Procedural in ‘Hooker Lawyer’

By Judy Berman on

We’re already on record as pro-Rider Strong, the actor and independent filmmaker better known as Boy Meets World’s Shawn Hunter to everyone who grew up on ABC’s ’90s TGIF lineup. But our admiration has only grown stronger (sorry for that) with the release of Above Average’s spot-on USA spoof, where he stars as a “playboy attorney” who exclusively serves working girls in a procedural called Hooker Lawyer. While this alone would be excellent satire, Strong’s segment is only one of three new faux USA shows all titled Hooker Lawyer and scheduled to air in a three-hour block. Yup, sounds about right to us. Watch the video below, don’t miss the epic crotch-grab, and don’t be surprised if you find yourself wishing his parody series would actually get made. … Read More

Film

Watch Rider Strong in the Short Film “Your Lucky Day”

By Judy Berman on

Looking for some lunch-hour viewing? You could certainly do worse than “Your Lucky Day,” directed by Dan Brown — no, not the mediocre best-selling author, the Seattle filmmaker who has worked with Nike and did the credits for House. The 15-minute short, set almost entirely in a convenience store, is a cross between an action thriller, a Shakespearean tragedy, and that Lost subplot about Hurley’s lottery curse. But, most importantly, it stars Rider Strong, of Boy Meets World renown and now a filmmaker in his own right, as the kind of man Shawn Hunter might have grown up to become, had he never met the Matthews family. … Read More