Borat

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Few movies have stirred as much controversy as the new Sacha Baron Cohen film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. There are lawsuits. The Russians have banned the film (see below). But nearly everyone who has seen it agrees it is funny.

Borat grossed over $26 million even though it was released to a limited number of theaters. The plot involves a racist post-Soviet reporter who travels across America. Cohen interviews various people who are unaware that the Russian is not really who he says he is. He isn’t even Russian, he is British.

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[Nictoe]

What I would like to have explained to me, is HOW with someone having a Cambridge education....eventually winds up behaving and talking like THAT

[Ms. Dancealot]

Have you heard on the news or read in the paper that there is some guy who has filed a lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen claiming that he was the inspiration for the character Borat? Just another fruit loop trying to cash in! If you really were the inspiration for this character would you really want to admit it??? I mean, wouldn't that be sort of an embarrassment?
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[Ms. Dancealot]

BTW, Ace told me it's a really good date movie!
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Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comedian filmmaker and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan star, was beaten up by a passer-by after he tried to buy the man’s clothing. British news paper, The Sun, reports that the star asked the man “I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it.”

The man did not think it was funny and punched Cohen, age 35, in the face. The Borat star yelled for help but the man slugged him “again and again”. One of Cohen’s friends came to the rescue. Hugh Laurie, 47, had been on his way to a New York bar with Cohen helped push the man away as Cohen struggled to his feet.

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[Ms. Dancealot]

I guess one can only play the buffoon for so long until somebody puts the smack down on yo ass!
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[Nictoe]

Be great to see Borat with his pants down underneath a hood trying to 'jump start' a stalled car.

[Ms. Dancealot]

Yeah, and speaking of pants down ... where the hell is everybody? You know, the usual cast of characters that grace the forum on a minute-by-minute basis??? I realize that I am two hours ahead of y'all, but it's like 10:30 in the morning for you guys! Y'all outta be awake already by now!
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[theLIBERTARIAN]

[Ms. Dancealot]

So ... are you saying the rest of those weirdos just used you???

I'll still be on here, but I gotta check out the other forum too. Actually, I have a whole bunch of forums I go to every day. I have the City-Data forum, which is kinda cool and of course a boatload of dance forums.
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[theLIBERTARIAN]

sites can be added to the bottom, if you want to share...

[Nictoe]

Borat's dopes mad at being duped

November 14, 2006

BY ERIN CARLSON
NEW YORK -- While teaching American humor to a gregarious and absurdly out-of-touch foreign journalist, Pat Haggerty realized something was off -- who WAS this guy?

Haggerty, a public speaking coach from Washington, is one of the unwitting co-stars of the surprise hit movie ''Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit of Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.''

Haggerty has no hard feelings toward Borat, a k a comedian Sacha Baron Cohen -- but the same can't be said for others who were humiliated, thanks to the awkward fellow with the bushy mustache.

Their embarrassment over the film's hilarious, cringe-inducing blend of fiction and improvised comedy is magnified by its success -- ''Borat'' has topped the box office two weeks in a row.

Last year, Haggerty agreed to be filmed for what he thought was a benign documentary on his client's journey across America. He hurriedly signed a release form, was paid $400, and the lesson began.

As cameras rolled, his client told raunchy stories in garbled English and laughed heartily at the expense of handicapped people. ''And then, I'm starting to smell a rat,'' Haggerty said.

Confused, he ended up playing along. He later figured out -- thanks to his son, an HBO-watching college student -- that he'd been duped.

''They were exercising a First Amendment right,'' said Haggerty, adding that he enjoyed the movie. ''And this Sacha Cohen guy's going to make 87 gazillion dollars. You know, good for him. I'm just sorry that he had to do it in such a way that he allowed people to make jerks out of themselves exposing their character flaws.''


Pair suing studio
Two of Cohen's targets -- fraternity brothers who made drunken, insulting comments about women and minorities -- are suing 20th Century Fox and three production companies. Studio spokesman Gregg Brilliant said the lawsuit ''has no merit.''
Cohen's behavior also wasn't funny to former TV producer Dharma Arthur, who claims she was duped into giving Cohen airtime on a morning show segment in Jackson, Miss. Cohen's live appearance, in which he said he had to go ''urine,'' led her life into a downward spiral, she said.

Kathie Martin, who runs an etiquette school in Birmingham, Ala., was also left out of the joke. Even though she was gracious when Borat showed her nude photos of his son, Martin admitted she was ''taken aback'' by his schtick.

''Unless you can figure it out for yourself, you have no way of knowing you have been tricked into being part of a childish prank,'' she said in an e-mail.

''And even if you figure it out, you've signed a release that Mr. Cohen's people say relinquishes any rights on your part to take action against them.''

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Woman in 'Borat' Seeks Investigation


This undated photo provided by Twentieth Century Fox shows comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, center, in a scene from his comedy "Borat:Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit of Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." At left is etiquette consultant Cindy Streit, left, and Sarah Moseley, both of Birmingham, Ala. The two unknowingly became the target of British comedian Baron Cohen's outrageous humor in his movie satire.


By PETER PRENGAMAN
Nov 16, 10:45 PM (ET)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The owner of an etiquette business who was handed a plastic bag supposedly containing feces in the hit movie "Borat" says she was told the filming would be used for a documentary in Belarus.

Cindy Streit said she filed a complaint Thursday with California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, requesting an investigation into possible violations of the California Unfair Trade Practices Act.

Streit said that a representative from a Los Angeles-based company called Springland Films contacted her Birmingham, Ala.-based company, Etiquette Training Services, about arranging an etiquette session for an "international guest from Belarus Television."

Attempts to find a contact for Springland were not successful. The company had no phone listing and Streit's lawyers declined to provide copies of the contracts allegedly signed.

The attorney general's office had not received a copy of the complaint, spokesman Nathan Barankin said late Thursday.

Streit said she arranged in Alabama both a sit-down session with Borat, played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, and a dinner party with some of her friends. Clips of both appear in the movie "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit of Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."

Though awkward at times, the dinner went well until Borat asked to use the bathroom, Streit said.

"I had taught him to excuse himself. He did that correctly and went upstairs," Streit told The Associated Press. "The next thing that happened is that he came down the stairs holding this plastic bag with whatever was in it."

"My horror was that he had brought a bag of feces to my dinner table," she said.

Springland put in writing that the second of two scheduled sessions "will be filmed as part of a documentary for Belarus Television and for those purposes only," said Gloria Allred, Streit's lawyer.

Streit, 59, said she requested an investigation by the attorney general instead of filing a lawsuit in hopes of setting a precedent that will make movie studios think twice before using other ordinary citizens for "reality movies." However, she said she wouldn't rule out a lawsuit.

Streit's demand follows complaints by others shown in the film, including a lawsuit filed by two fraternity members from a South Carolina university who appear in the film drunk.

[theLIBERTARIAN]

I would be pretty pissed if I was some of those people. LOL If the movie didn't make any money, he would not have to worry about the suits. Kinda like the DaVince Code (we just started watching that).

[Fringe]

I never saw the links at the bottom before

I just have the pages in my favorites and I'm auto logged in too. I would barely be able to find you all again if something happened to my computer