May 06, 2005

Bai Ling cut from Revenge of the Sith

Bai Ling, who was set to appear as Senator Bana Breemu in the upcoming "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith," has apparently been cut from the film. Ling … blamed her upcoming spread in Playboy magazine for her ouster. "I posed for Playboy and it may have been doing that which upset George Lucas…"

I really don’t get why Bai Ling appearing in Playboy is a big deal. It was confusing, but only when I thought Bai Ling was the home of “All You Can Eat Pot-Stickers”. Apparently that’s not the case at all. In fact, I looked up a bunch of pictures of her, and I never saw any Pot-Stickers. What I did see was a girl who looks like a cartoon cricket. And a girl who’s naked all the damn time. So I don’t get why Playboy is such a stretch or a shock. It takes 5 seconds to find naked or mostly naked pictures of her online. Hell, just look out your window, she’s probably out there right now, wiggling around and hoping to distract you from noticing that her eyes look way too much like a Hammerhead. So all this really did was prove once again that George Lucas is a greedy prick. He had no problem dressing Natalie Portman and Amy Allen in next to nothing, and Ling describes her Star Wars outfit as “naked with tattoos on my body,” so Playboy was only a big deal because someone other than Lucas was gonna make a dime off of Star Wars. God forbid.

Anyway, here are some pics of Grace Park from Battlestar Gallactica. It probably makes me a horrible racist to jump from one girl to another based on nothing but the fact they’re both Asian, but I’m kind of a dick, and Asian people totally love it when you lump them all together like this, so I don’t foresee a problem. Plus, Grace Park is unbelievably good looking, and I gotta start to make good on some of my casting couch promises.

Update - speaking of Episode III, Variety seems to be the first major with a review, and it's very very positive : "Entertaining from start to finish and even enthralling at times..." You can read it all here.

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