This is almost without question a staged "controversy," what with Eminem screaming "get this motherfucker off of me" after the cameras had already focused in on him in the audience while Cohen was still in the air, but it's funny as hell nonetheless. We had tears in our eyes. Enjoy.

Sasha B. Cohen
London

Amsterdam 17th of November 2008

Please mister Borat,
Will you come to the world premiere of Carmen meets Borat, so that we can discuss our film? [...] A nice town and accommodation will be provided.

Awww! The ad leads to the sales agent's Dutch-language Web site, but as the ad notes (and as the festival's site confirms), Carmen Meets Borat premieres next Sunday at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam — plenty of time for 20th Century Fox to draft a cease-and-desist note defending its Borat brand from the doc's portrait of "chaos," "Jealousy" and "suspicion," and hopefully enough time for Cohen to plot a way to introduce the scenario into Bruno. Does IDFA have a Fashion Week or Yes-on-8 component?

• 'Carmen Meets Borat' [IDFA]

Amy is a Bostonian-turned-Angeleno who graduated from the journalism program at the University of Southern California last spring. During college, where she was one of the rare pale-skinned brunettes, she had a column in the school newspaper entitled “Fish of Out Water” in which she wrote about finding her way in L.A. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, where she interviewed Sting and penned profiles of the likes of Mandy Moore and Kat Von D. She recently finished a stint at the Wall Street Journal, covering topics including a potential California state ban on helium-filled foil balloons (you know, the ones shaped like Hannah Montana sold at hospital gift shops) to the trials of the modern-day ‘indie’ musician.

Please give Amy a warm welcome! One last thing while we've got your undivided attention. You may have heard this already, but after months of hard work and dedication on the part of our design and tech department, we are introducing — wait for it — threaded comments sometime later today. What does that mean, exactly? Follow us after the jump for a long-winded explanation. MORE >>

What's threaded commenting?

Threading is a way to make comments read more like conversations instead of a bunch of disconnected single replies. Now, when someone says something interesting enough to get replies from other readers, all those replies will appear directly below the original comment. Each of these blocks is called a "thread"—kind of like in Gmail.

The first comment in a thread will have a few distinguishing features, among them, the number of replies in the thread along with the time of the most recent reply.

Click the arrow on the lower right side to open a reply input box directly underneath the comment—there's no need to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to reply.

Once your reply publishes, you'll notice that like in an IM conversation, your avatar will appear on the right.

Replies to replies—sometimes known as second or third (or fourth) level replies—will not be indented as is the custom in most forums. Instead, second and third level replies will be collapsed.

What happens when you reply to a reply? Why aren't threads indented like in most tech forums, like Digg?

Replies to replies—sometimes known as second or third (or fourth) level replies—will not be indented as is the custom in most forums. Instead, the avatar will switch sides again—like in an IM conversation. All even numbered nested replies (second, fourth, etc.) will appear on the left side, while odd numbered replies will be on the right. Second and third level replies will also be collapsed.

Are threads still displayed in chronological order?

Each conversation will be displayed in chronological order. But organization of the conversations overall will be displayed based on popularity. The most popular conversations will migrate to the top. The most recent comment that has no replies will appear on top for 15 minutes before being filtered down. If a more active conversation receives a reply within those 15 minutes, that conversation will overtake the stand-alone comment.

Where did the plus and minus go?

The plus and minus, which was used to friend or un-friend a fellow commenter, has been replaced by a heart. Your friends will show up with a red heart, and the rest are empty.

What's the deal with the star again?

Star commenters were readers who have 25 or more followers, or were designated as stars by a comments admin. With the introduction of threading, the number of followers required to attain star is increasing to 40. Commenter admins also hand out stars to commenters who may not have 40 followers, but illuminate our lives with flashes of brilliance.

Ack, change scares me. Is there a way to view comments the "old-fashioned" way?

You can switch to the old style comments layout by clicking the "classic view" link in the comments bar at the top of the threads.

More info when it goes live at 11am!

My name is Sarah Regan, and I'm really excited to be here for the next couple of days. Get ready, because unless there's a gallon of hummus and a Quantum Leap marathon involved, nothing thrills me more than sharing my thoughts on all things entertainment and gently mocking your common, crap-bag celebrity. Born and bred in New Jersey, I did not sport gold chains, wife-beaters or Z.Cavariccis, although I do now, exclusively. I lived in Boston and worked in advertising where much of my bitter sarcasm was lovingly nurtured and honed due to the apparent lack of various harassment policies. Eventually, it became too exhausting having to continuously argue that calling sprinkles "jimmies" is not only retarded, but it's also pretty gay, so I moved west. Since landing in LA, I've worn various production hats in the worlds of scripted and documentary features and reality television, but most recently I decided to flex my long-tenderized writing muscles and started a blog called Prongs Of LA. But more often than not, I can be found lazing around on my Barcalounger, yelling at the TV, and consuming unfathomable quantities of filet mignon. What do you expect from a 400-pound recluse?

Lovely, isn't she? Her first post will be going up in a few minutes ... be gentle!

Hi. I'm Tricia Romano. I moved to Los Angeles four months ago from New York, a city I famously loathed, where I spent 8 years in the trenches at the Village Voice. I wrote the nightlife column, "Fly Life", for five of those years, and have the damaged liver to prove it. I also wrote features and cover stories for the paper, one of which won an award. I grew up in Las Vegas (no, we didn’t have slot machines in our classrooms), and lived in Seattle when it was trendy (i.e. after Nirvana broke) where I wrote for both the Stranger and the Seattle Weekly, and was an unabashed raver, before moving to New York. Since I am brand, spanking new to L.A., I have not yet soured on this whole spending-hours-of-your-life-in-traffic thing, and am excited to have summer all year long, and concur with Randy Newman: I love L.A.! I am currently living by the beach, and scraping up a living by penning articles for Radar, the Advocate, and MTV, among others. You can also find me hooking on Main Street.

And with that, please give Tricia a warm and rousing welcome!

[Photo Credit: Nikola Taminzdic]

And with that, please give Sara a warm Defamer welcome (meaning, please save the expletives until after noon).

To that end, we have enlisted long-time Friend Of Defamer Megan Lynn to fill in as a guest blogger for the next two days. Megan has been making your links work in the Trade Roundup since this party started way back in Aught Four. In the other 23 hours and 40 minutes of her days since then, she's assisted no less than six television execs, producers, writers and/or assholes with serious Napoleon conflicts, compiled the world's largest private collection of Dick Cheney photos at her blog, Overeducated and Underemployed (a title which has, since chosen, become less and less true), was a staff writer at Usmagazine.com and, until its fresh and untimely demise, wrote for PageSix.com. Sigh. That's what she gets for putting her trust in Rupert. Again.

Please give Megan a warm welcome; now, on with the show!

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.

Wow! Defamer. It's an honor to be with you for the next few days. My name is S.T. VanAirsdale; I'm the editor of the New York film culture site The Reeler and a recent alumnus of Vanity Fair's Little Gold Men blog. I've also done some writing for The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Village Voice and a bunch of other places that leave me uniquely underqualified to join the Hollywood fray. But that's OK! Really, we're in this together: The film industry is an enduring wonder of cash, craft and clusterfuckery regardless of your coast, so let's assume we have our fascination in common and maybe share the magic for a little while. I'm looking forward to it — many thanks for having me.

TelevisionWeek: What are your goals for NBC?

Ben Silverman: To continue the great legacy of NBC and its unbelievable quality of programming. To be the No. 1 network. To be the absolute biggest and best brand in broadcast television. And more important, to be the most lucrative network. [...]

TVWeek: What's your take on the pilots and fall schedule?

Mr. Silverman: I have not seen all the pilots yet. I thought Zach Levi, the star of "Chuck," was phenomenal and really fun, and that show had the kind of environment I want to be in. I always loved "The Bionic Woman" growing up and eagerly await seeing her powers come to fruition, but have not watched it yet. And I'm excited to see "Journeyman," which I hear is phenomenal from everyone I know who has seen it. I'm sure we're going to get some hits out of them.

Now installed in his new position, Silverman should have some time to breathe and catch up on his pilot-watching to see if Bionic Woman actually feels like a hit, and, in the interest of properly instilling the culture of "peace, love, and understanding" discussed in the interview, finally get someone to clean the blood of freshly slaughtered predecessor Kevin Reilly from his office walls. There's nothing like the lingering stench of a recent
execution to stifle an otherwise aspirational, positive atmosphere.

[Photo: Getty Images]

• Silverman Setting New NBC Agenda [TV Week]

To put it simply, Jezebel is a blog for women that will attempt to take all the essentially meaningless but sweet stuff directed our way and give it a little more meaning, while taking more the serious stuff and making it more fun, or more personal, or at the very least the subject of our highly sophisticated brand of sex joke.

Basically, we wanted to make the sort of women's magazine we'd want to read, a magazine that would never actually see glossy paper because big-name advertisers and the publishers who kowtow to them don't much like it when you point out the vulgarity of a $2000 handbag.

Do drop by and say hello, resisting the temptation to leave inappropriate comments underneath their introductory GlamourShot.

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• Jezebel
• The Five Great Lies Of Women's Magazines [Jezebel]
• Meet The Editors [Jezebel]