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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 »

5:15AM Mark Graham | Good news to pass along on this Monday morning. We are pleased as punch to announce that Douglas Reinhardt has been added to the Defamer roster, where he will be serving in the role of contributor. Some of you may recognize Douglas’ name from his blog, Skeet On Mischa, where he has been keeping tabs on pop culture ephemera since 2004. He will be penning a new short burst feature for us called “A Call To The Bullpen”, a feature that will run thrice daily here on Defamer, beginning today. But before we debut the feature, here’s a quick bio of Defamer’s newest contributer: Douglas Reinhardt is a writer who grew up in Orange County as well as the South Bay area of Southern California, which ironically was where they filmed the show, The OC. He would like you to believe that his favorite films and TV shows are, but not limited to Days of Heaven and The Wire, but actually he really enjoys Step Up 2 The Streets and Randy “The Dawg” Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew. Reinhardt has overwhelming fear that Nikki Finke will not like his posts and that she will crush him much the same way she crushed the career of Eli Roth. When not listening to the Howard Stern show or hard at work on a Diablo Cody knock off screenplay, Reinhardt enjoys jogging and drinking with friends and strangers. More »

2:46AM Mark Graham | When Lindsay Lohan shows her boobs and it’s not by accident, when David Archuleta rockets to front runner status on American Idol merely by gazing into the camera and when Larry The Cable Guy is poised to set the box office afire with Witless Protection, that’s a signal for us here at Defamer to call in some big guns capable of helping us cover all the goings-on in the pop culture universe. Unfortunately, none of those big guns returned our phone calls, so we went to Plan B and called Nick Malis instead. You may know him from his previous guest blogging stints on this site or, perhaps, from his recently re-launched blog, Cute Things Falling Asleep. Regardless of how much you know about him, know that he’ll be here for the rest of the week covering all the stories that the other editors don’t feel like getting around to. We kid, we kid! We think Nick is fab and are extremely grateful that he’ll be popping in to lend us a hand for the next few days while we continue to conduct our search for America’s Next Top Defamer. Enjoy! More »