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Bruno’s First Big Lawsuit Dropping Assault And Battery Claims
4:29AM Foster Kamer | During the release of Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen and Fox faced a bunch of lawsuits, most of them claiming the film’s irreversible damage to reputations, none of which were even moderately successful. Now, Bruno’s first litigation failures have arrived. More »
Sacha Baron Cohen Apparently Unaware of Dutch ‘Borat’ Spin-Off Premiering Next Week
6:40PM STV | An ad currently running on Variety is promoting something called Carmen Meets Borat, a documentary about a Romanian girl whose life is thrown into upheaval when Sacha Baron Cohen and co. substitute her village for the title character’s Kazakh hometown in Borat. We use the term “promoting” loosely, however, unless you consider “inviting a lawsuit by alerting Cohen to your existence” is promoting: More »
Meet Abu Dhabi’s $1 Billion Media Man: ‘We Won’t Be Making ‘Borat 2”
10:25AM STV | The inflow of foreign cash to Hollywood may look stalled with the DreamWorks/Reliance deal held up in all these fashionable new bank implosions, but as discovered earlier this month, the oil barons of Abu Dhabi have enough stashed under their mattresses to greenlight some $1 billion worth of film projects over the next five years. The guy the emirate brought in to spend it, ex-Disney overlord Edward Borgerding, has hinted at a few of his more modest goals in recent weeks — “[Abu Dhabi Media Company] is fulfilling its ambition to become a global player in the media industry,” he told the Financial Times — but only finally spelled out his real plot for world conquest in a new interview with Sharon Waxman: More »
7:00AM STV | Borat Walks Free: A judge in New York threw out a trio of lawsuits accusing Sacha Baron Cohen, director Larry Charles and the rest of the sadistic Borat braintrust of duping interview subjects into infamous levels of stupidity while making the 2006 hit film. “Judge Loretta Preska said all three accepted money and signed agreements releasing the filmmakers from liability,” reports the AP. “She noted in a Sept. 3 ruling the agreements said the plaintiffs consented to appear in a ‘documentary-style’ movie.” Of course you saw it coming, but hey. The plaintiffs — including Borat’s driving instructor and his feces-scandalized etiquette coach — could not be reached for comment, but are said to plan handwritten thank-you cards for Her Honor’s consideration and an armed vigilante drive-by not to exceed 25 miles per hour. [THR] More »
Isla Fisher Chooses Stardom Over Judaism, But All The Other Converted Actresses? Some Fine Lookin’ Jews
10:55AM Molly Friedman | When choosing between months of intensive studies spent hunched over a Torah preparing for your kiddushin (that’s betrothal for you goyum, which are non-Jews for you…non-Jews), and becoming a big star, it seems Isla Fisher has decided to go with the latter. As the Daily Mail reports, the potential redheaded successor to Lucille Ball’s slapstick throne has put off the conversion process in order to complete filming Confessions Of A Shopaholic. And fiance Sacha Baron Cohen’s ultra-religious parents just don’t see what all this movie stardom fuss is all about. The wedding date has reportedly been postponed, Cohen’s gone back to making Israelis cry as Bruno, and the wee Cohen baby is presumably in the hands of the only au pair they could find who hasn’t seen Borat. But Fisher isn’t the first actress to undergo conversion to Judaism for a guy — from Liz Taylor to Connie Chung, a diverse handful of stars became Jews in the name of love, though not every shattered chuppah led to a happy ending… More »
Bruno Wondering How And Why A Delicious Chickpea Spread Would Call For The Annihilation Of Israel
4:20AM Seth | Can’t wait until May 15, 2009 to learn what Sacha Baron Cohen has cooked up for Bruno, only the latest swarthy foreigner from the comedian’s repertoire to star in a feature-length film? The internet is teeming with sightings detailing the fictional Austrian TV personality’s exploiten and vëreabouts. Some you may have spotted in our very own PrivacyWatch; but the latest comes to us via The Jewish Daily Forward, where recent dupee Yossi Alpher—an Israeli political blogger—describes his run in with Eurofashion greatness in Jerusalem:
Top Five Most Cringeworthy Facial Hair Moments In Cinematic History
8:15AM Molly Friedman | We didn’t think it was possible, but the insanely dateable John Krasinski is not looking so hot these days. Due to an upcoming role in the Sam Mendes-directed Farlanders, John is sporting a nasty beard that resembles something one of the Geico cavemen would wear. And while we’d never judge an actor for tossing out their razors for months for the sake of their craft, this terrible beard inspired us to take a look back at the most cringeworthy facial hair in cinematic history. From one actor’s frizzy salt-and-pepper rat’s nest to one mustache’s journey inside another man’s taint, our top five lie after the jump: More »
Remember Stonie, the gay porn star whose …
8:22AM Seth | Remember Stonie, the gay porn star whose jail-baity looks were capitalized upon by the makers of Borat, casting him as the Kazakh journeyman’s naked teenage son in a series of sexually suggestive Polaroids? No? Then the fact that he just got a sex change (but will continue to pursue a career in the adult entertainment field) will probably do nothing for you. Still, makers of Bruno: He’s She’s one featured role away from earning a SAG card. Think about it. Link NSFW. [WOW Report] More »
Book: Sacha Baron Cohen Rendered Involuntarily Aroused By Ken Davitian’s Fetid Taint
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Sometimes–particularly when we find ourselves creating topic tags like “Sacha Baron Cohen’s Junk”–we are prone to having minor lightbulb moments, such as the one just moments ago in which it suddenly occurred to us that the Sweeney Todd star might be inordinately preoccupied with his own manhood. It having already been revealed that it was his idea to outfit his Adolfo Pirelli character with certain below-the-belt costuming enhancements, the NY Daily News delves even deeper into the British comedian’s priapic self-fascination, discovering, among other Cohen-bone bits, the reason behind that strategically placed black bar in the Borat movie’s climactic naked wrestling scene: Kathleen Tracy reports in her new bio, “Sacha Baron Cohen: From Cambridge to Kazakhstan,” that “the apparent adrenaline rush to survive under Davitian’s ample weight” caused an awkward surge of blood toward one of Cohen’s extremities. The film was spared an NC-17 rating by that long, rectangular fig leaf. At least we were spared a scene in which Borat visits a plastic surgeon to have a reverse circumcision performed “so Pamela Anderson won’t think he’s Jewish. [Cohen] dropped his pants,” presenting his manhood for inspection, only to have the doctor recognize him from one of his earlier comic incarnations. “Wait! You’re Ali G!” the doc exclaimed, ruining the whole scene. Once again, Cohen’s own notoriety proved to be his own worst enemy, as what could have easily become one of the movie’s most memorable sequences wound up on the cutting-room floor, so to speak–and all because one savvy inverse-mohel was so familiar with the shlong-obsessed prankster’s canon, he instantly recognized him the second he laid eyes on his patient’s world famous package. Sacha Baron Cohen pads his part [NY Daily News] More »
