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wonderings
Would Brüno Be Possible Without Borat?
Finally Brüno comes out today, earning only middling praise from Borat-chuffed critics. And it makes us wonder: What if Brüno had come out first? Would Sacha Baron Cohen exist in the same way he does now? More »
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Comment by RollsRoyceRevenge: What lesson are we learning, Richard? That some people hate gays? I think everyone knows that. That... 10 Responses | Other threads
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the gays
'Bruno' Bestows His Top Ten Upon America
Earlier in the week Sacha Baron Cohen shockingly appeared out of character on Letterman's show. Tonight he returned in character as "Bruno" to read the Top Ten—"Top Ten Reasons to See The New Movie Brüno."
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Comment by semiserious: Out of all the major chat shows I'd think Letterman has the least amount of pull in middle America. Then... 5 Responses | Other threads
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humor and homophobia
Perez Hilton, Brüno, And "The Gay-Panic Offense"
Perez Hilton is getting a storm of publicity after calling someone a faggot, and Brüno, a movie that Dennis Lim calls a "big gay joke," is advertising everywhere. What does this mean for gay stereotypes in the media? [Jezebel]
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By Anna N.Comment by Dodgergirl: "Is any viewer really going to think that..." Yes. That's the problem. Some WILL believe it. and... 9 Responses | Other threads
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wonderings
Why Wasn't Sacha Baron Cohen In Character on Letterman Last Night?
Not that we minded, because the real guy is pretty charming and a great raconteur, but it was just curious because in the past the comedian, currently promoting Brüno, has been so committed to in-character appearances. More »
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Comment by snugbug: Ha! That was slippage on Sacha's part.. True story: At LA awards event hosted by my at-the-time place of employ, where... 5 Responses | Other threads
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clowns
'Bruno' Strips For Conan
Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno doesn't open in the U.S. until July 10th, but he's already out doing press for the film. Tonight he was the guest on The Tonight Show and, of course, he was utterly ridiculous. More »
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Comment by Freddie DeBoer: I've never heard Conan fake laugh as hard as he did for the Orlando Bloom joke. 6 Responses | Other threads
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impending doom
Aren't You Getting So Freaked Out About Brüno?
You ought to be! Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous new comedy Bruno has dipped its balls on Great Britain, and early reviews are trickling in. The across-the-pond verdict? It's just a crazy good time. Emphasis, you know, on crazy. More »
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Comment by TroisFilles: Someone had better put up guardrails on the Tallahachee bridge. (Obscure 70s reference. Bueller?) 9 Responses | Other threads
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lawsuits
Bruno Lawyers Will Send Mean Letters To Anyone Who Dares To Sue Them
Last week Richelle Olson filed a lawsuit against the producers of Bruno, claiming she was injured during filming. Bruno's lawyers say ich don't think so: they're threatening a countersuit, claiming it was actually Olson who assaulted Sacha Baron Cohen. More »
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Comment by Slovenly Muse: Wow, I never would have expected SBC to put so much work into covering his ass (so to speak). 2 Responses | Other threads
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solved mysteries
Eminem 'Thrilled' To Have Had Sacha Baron Cohen's Butt in His Face
There are some people who still insist that the Bruno/Eminem bare-ass "69" thing was not staged. These people are idiots. Eminem confirmed this for us once and for all tonight. More »
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Comment by ellagood: of course it was fake. but it was still funny as hell. next, i want to see will smith butter up... 1 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood
The First of Many Future Bruno Lawsuits Filed
Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat produced a number of lawsuits filed by people who were duped by Cohen and humiliated on a broad scale. Now Bruno hasn't even been released on theaters yet and he's already being sued. More »
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Comment by chazified: i am starting a web show pulling pranks and embarrasing the hell out of "celebrity's" so they can see how... 3 Responses | Other threads
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introductions
'Bruno' Gets Up Close and Personal With Eminem
It's generally a pretty safe assumption that something ridiculous will happen each year at The MTV Movie Awards, and tonight's version of the show did not disappoint. Sacha Baron Cohen just descended bare-assed from the ceiling as "Bruno" and landed in Eminem's lap in the "69" position. Hilarity ensued. More »
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Comment by ArtemisSparkledust: The best part was watching everyone on Twitter get all excited about it as if it were real. 9 Responses | Other threads
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hoaxes
Paula Abdul Thinks She's Huge in Austria
Hah, oh dear. It seems that Paula Abdul, cat-litter-mouthed judge of American Idol singers, was duped by Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno character in his new film. And she still doesn't know it. More »
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Comment by Plawf: I haven't slept in a couple of days, so rather than trying any poorly executed attempts at sarcasm, i'm just... 1 Responses | Other threads
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trailer park
Bruno Trailer: Attack of the Dildos
The red band trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen's new sorta documentary Bruno, about a too gay Austrian fashion reporter, has finally been released. And it looks pretty good! More »
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Comment by everfade: Words cannot describe how hugely unpopular I was, with my friends, when the Borat movie was released. I watched about... 14 Responses | Other threads
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previews
New Bruno Movie Hilarious, Familiar
So say the early reports from a 20-minute screening that played at the SXSW festival in Austin over the weekend. Said a THR reporter: "It's funny deja vu, but it's still deja vu." More »
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bruno
'Bruno' To Highlight Best of Spring/Summer Urban Crucifixwear
True—horrifying Southern socialites by wielding a bag of your own feces at a dinner party might be a showstopper, but what to do for an encore? That's the dilemma facing Sacha Baron Cohen. More »
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By SethComment by StylusPictures: Will it be "Ach Yah" or "Nish Nish"? Time will tell, but I am hopeful. 1 Responses | Other threads
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sacha baron cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen Apparently Unaware of Dutch 'Borat' Spin-Off Premiering Next Week
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 »
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By STVComment by Cultmember: But isn't the Borat character itself lifted from Turkish personality Mahir Cagri? more » | Other threads
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bruno
Meet Tomorrow's Asher-Shtupping Stars Of 'Bruno' Today!
As we've learned from his last big screen effort, Sacha Baron Cohen employs a wide variety of low-tech tricks to sell his comedy illusions. For example, to create those Borat Polaroids in which his face grazed his teenage son's exposed manhood, a gay porn star was hired who looked young enough to be the Kazakh's spawn. But with follow-up Bruno, the stakes and degree of technical difficulty have upped considerably. More » -
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Bruno Protests 'Asher-Shtupping' At 'Yes On 8' Rally: Now With Video!
Video has surfaced of Sacha Baron Cohen's storming of a Yes on Prop 8 rally outside City Hall over the weekend, posted by an irate Third Rail Media who claim the British comedian's crew physically pushed their cameras out of the way. As it's hard for us to get too swept up in the struggles of guerrilla videographers attending a rally protesting basic human rights for gays, we'll instead focus on the antics of the Austrian fashionista: Yet again, Bruno risks his own bodily safety in the name of his higher prank-comedy calling, and in the process secures some mildly amusing footage in which he explains to an angry religious zealot that his sign, "ASHERS ARE FOR SCHEISSING, NOT FOR SHTUPPING," actually places both men safely on the same side of the Gays Are Sinning Sodomites Who Must Be Stopped At All Costs debate. More »
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By SethComment by jessedir: Seriously, why does the "assualted" cameraman keep trying to expose Bruno and ruin the funny? Let the man at least... 1 Responses | Other threads
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sacha baron cohen
Bruno's Straight Man? A report this morning suggests Sacha Baron Cohen did not visit yesterday's Yes on 8 rally as the flamboyant firebrand Bruno, but rather as the comic's newer, closeted character Straight Dave. While that would no doubt explain his mall-refugee threads, confusion persists about the language barrier that would influence Straight Dave's placard to reject gay marriage "even zough zey're nice." And that is Bruno's Milan-crashing coiffure. Yes? No? Make your voice heard — the issues can wait. [Filmdrunk via Spout Blog] -
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Bruno Lends His Support To Fashion-Challenged 'Yes On 8' Rally
In Pershing Square yesterday, Defamer stood alongside fellow Californians waging war against the evil Prop 8, hoisting placards and cheering wildly as passing vehicles (including city buses and cop cars) honked their support for equal civil rights for all. Meanwhile, at a Yes on 8 rally outside City Hall, none other than Austrian fashion journalist and trendspotter Brüno had infiltrated the scene. (Amazingly, The Sun once again reports he was there to shoot footage for "Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt," our own parody title that simply refuses to die.) People reports that once Sacha Baron Cohen was discovered, his "own camera crew worked to shield him. Eventually, he was escorted away inside a van"—the suspiciously swishy hunter became the hunted! We salute what must have been an incredibly difficult decision for Bruno to wear Dockers, a Men's Warehouse shirt, and no hair product in order to blend with the unfabulous crowd more efficiently. More photos after the jump: More »
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By SethComment by Kyle Buchanan: I don't want to say that the "Yes on 8" protester in the third pic has gayface, but... 2 Responses | Other threads
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sacha baron cohen
'Bruno' Takes Milan: A Sacha Baron Cohen Couture Scrapbook
After a lull in Bruno sightings that felt like an unfabulous forever, Universal's $42-million dollar man leapt back onto the publicity hamster wheel Thursday with an appearance at Fashion Week in Milan. From the looks of the accompanying news video, things probably could have gone better with the police (have you ever spent the night in a squalid, rapey Italian jail?), but from the looks of the wire photos snapped before security shot out the lights, Sacha Baron Cohen's trailblazing German model clearly outmatched any of the dingy frocks in Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's spring collection. More »
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By STVComment by JudyPaceFace: Better than most of the stuff on Project Runway this season! more » | Other threads
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borat
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] -
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Sacha Baron Cohen To Explore His Serious Side In Searing Immigration-Law Drama, 'Accidentes'
Always on the lookout for the next bushy-stashed, swarthily complected foreigner to add to his comedic repertoire, Sacha Baron Cohen has attached himself to a comedy pitch snapped up by Fox Atomic. From Bruno co-writer Peter Baynham, the movie is based on those ubiquitous billboards and DASH ads you've likely idled behind in traffic countless times before. Yes, Accidentes, the adventures of "el mejor abogado," is coming to a cinema near you: More » -
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Hellos and Goodbyes
· Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno exploits took him from Israel to Arkansas; his Sherlock Holmes adventures to come may or may not include the missus. More » -
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Isla Fisher Chooses Stardom Over Judaism, But All The Other Converted Actresses? Some Fine Lookin' Jews
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 wine glass led to a happy ending... More »
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robert downey jr
Robert Downey Jr. Vs. Sacha Baron Cohen: A Tale Of Two Holmes
With today's Variety report that Robert Downey Jr. will star in a mildly distracted Guy Ritchie's upcoming Sherlock Holmes for Warner Bros.—by all accounts, a much more reverential take on the mythical detective than the Columbia comedy announced just last week starring Sacha Baron Cohen—we thought we'd celebrate this latest Elementary! edition of our ongoing The End of Ideas series by comparing and contrasting the two competing projects: More » -
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Gay Wrestling And Rioting Rednecks: We're Going Out On A Limb And Guessing Sacha Baron Cohen Is Involved
Just one day after an Israeli political blogger's account of being ambushed in Jerusalem by Sacha Baron Cohen's voguing/strudel-loving alter ego was devoured by the Bruno-obsessed internets, comes news of strange events going down at a fair grounds in Little Rock that would appear to have the swarthy British prankster's riot-inciting fingerprints all over it. Arriving for what was billed on posters (pictured above) as "Blue Collar Brawlin': Hot Chicks, Cold Beer, Hardcore Fights," local cage-match fans instead got a generous helping of a different kind of man-on-man action: More » -
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Bruno Wondering How And Why A Delicious Chickpea Spread Would Call For The Annihilation Of Israel
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: More »
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Will Ferrell To Play Drunk, Naked Watson To Sacha Baron Cohen's Sherlock
If you've been longing for a re-pairing of rival NASCAR champions Ricky Bobby and Jean Girard, only this time in something a little more fog-enshrouded, well, then, hold on to your pipes: It was announced today that Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell will star in the working-titled Sherlock: Elementary Deductions For Solving Puzzling Murders Throughout Queen Victoria's London in a Deerslayer Hat—an updating of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic mysteries. From Variety.com: More »
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By SethComment by raincoaster: Well, THIS should be a cavalcade of subtlety. more » | Other threads
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oscars
Ex-Stripper, Sadist Among 105 New Invitees to Join AMPAS
Hollywood's power list got a little more diffuse Monday when Diablo Cody, Marion Cotillard, Judd Apatow and Sacha Baron Cohen were among 105 new invitees to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The number is the lowest since 2004, when the Academy instituted its "Riff-Raff Rule" limiting the annual invitee total to 137; that said, we're not sure what kind of internal politics and/or pledge drives would necessitate inviting Michael Haneke and Jet Li to assume even 1/6000th of the Oscar vote. Follow the jump for more of this year's celebrated AMPAS Cub Club! More » -
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The Curious Case Of The Fake Defamer 'Bruno' Title That Ate The Internets
One of the on-the-job hazards of being a composite industry blog/nonsense repository is that occasionally, something we may have intended as a puckish, lightly satirical jab—a joke, if you will—is misinterpreted as fact. One memorable instance had The Australian soberly repeating our take on Mel Gibson's pitch for an ABC Holocaust movie, featuring a "Braveheart-style battle with thousands of Jewish and Nazi combatants rushing at each other across an open field." In that vein, while researching a post on the release date of Universal's upcoming Bruno movie, we were taken aback to find that our proposed mock-title for the summer 2009 release—Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt—had been picked up by a vast array of sources, including: More » -
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'Bruno', Universal's $42 Mil Gay-Austrian Gamble, Gets His Release Date
We now know when to expect an answer to the "Bruno: Borat-level triumph or $42 million Universal folly?" question eating at Hollywood since first learning that the studio had shelled out that unconscionable sum for a feature-length prankumentary starring the heterosexually-threatening Sacha Baron Cohen character. From Variety: More »
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By SethComment by itmustbeken: R rated? I'm guessing we'll get to see his 'Bruno'. more » | Other threads
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lists
Top Five Most Cringeworthy Facial Hair Moments In Cinematic History
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 »
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bruno
Sacha Baron Cohen Plays First Gay Man To Visit Kansas
Sacha "Borat" Baron "Ali G" Cohen is working on his upcoming flick about his character "Bruno," the supergay Austrian fashion reporter. Since everyone on both coasts (except for Ben Affleck) is obviously too familiar with his work to be punked, Bruno has traveled to the heart of flyover land, Wichita, Kansas. Where he was captured on film doing supergay stuff! His act reportedly "almost looked like pornography," at least to Kansas sensibilities. After the jump, video [via Towleroad] of Bruno and his funky pants dance, which brings joy to the dreary confines of the Wichita terminal. More »
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Comment by SwainPolar bear: Personally, I am not offended by Gay stereotypes when they are not presented as a purely negative plot device. I see... more » | Other threads
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hollywood privacywatch
Gay Austrian In Sherman Oaks Looks Suspiciously Like Sacha Baron Cohen
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week, so send them in often—the fate of the universe relies upon it! Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line so we don't lose them) and tell everyone about how the sound of Mickey Rourke's loud snoring prevented you from getting any work done at the Santa Monica Public Library. More »
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By SethComment by kit10indublin: I've almost given up trying to prove to people why SBC is unfunny, very unfunny, deeply unfunny and has stolen... more » | Other threads
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defamer
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'sShe's one featured role away from earning a SAG card. Think about it. Link NSFW. [WOW Report] -
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Book: Sacha Baron Cohen Rendered Involuntarily Aroused By Ken Davitian's Fetid Taint
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: More »
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By SethComment by UnklStinky: I went skydiving once and, quite naturally, experienced a profound "adrenaline rush." Had another fella strapped to my back,... more » | Other threads
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trade roundup
Record-Breaking Six Studios Join This Year's Billion Dollar Club; Cries Of Impending Poverty To Follow
· While the AMPTP's member companies insist that internet will remain a revenue-deficient wasteland in perpetuity, they seem to be doing quite well in their multiplex-based lines of business, as an unprecedented six major studios have crossed the $1 billion threshold in 2007. Fox joined Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, Sony, and Universal in the Billion Dollar Club behind this weekend's Alvin and the Chipmunks performance, while the 'Mount won the overall market share title thanks to DreamWorks-supplied Shrek and Transformers. Congratulations to all of the faceless corporate entities further enriched by the bad taste of the American moviegoing public! [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by DrFeelgood: @wendykroy: Agreed. Stars don't open movies, stories do. And tits, never underestimate the power of tits. more » | Other threads
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moving on
Sacha Baron Cohen Mourns The Death Of Borat
During a rare interview in which chameleonic prankster Sacha Baron Cohen answered questions without retreating into one of his ego-protecting characters (apparently, the marketing team for Sweeney Todd felt that conducting junket appearances as singing, enormously beschlonged barber Adolfo Pirelli wasn't the way to go for their film), Cohen confirmed that he has no choice but to kill off both Ali G and Borat, the alter-egos he used to torment scores of clueless politicians, intolerant frat boys and litigious driving instructors. Laments Cohen about the old friends he now must sacrifice upon the altar of success: More »
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By MarkComment by Trixie from Toronto: @Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.: For me, it's the scene where he takes a dump in front of... more » | Other threads
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junk
Secrets Of Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Sweeney Todd' Package Revealed!
Of the many surprises in Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton's musical ode to early-Victorian cannibalism, the appearance of Sacha Baron Cohen as barber rival Adolfo Pirelli is one of the most pleasant: The British comedian ably tackles the part's considerable vocal challenges, and cuts a fine figure in a form-fitting, periwinkle dandy suit, beneath which protrudes a bulge even more distractingly prominent than the one poking out of Borat's signature neon nutthong swimwear. E Online's Planet Gossip caught up with the movie's costume designer to find out where nature ended and package-enhancing magic began: More » -
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Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen had a bouncing baby...um...baby. (Reports are still sketchy.) We've shelved the Borat jokes, so guess it's time to break out the Bruno ones! Here's hoping the little one doesn't grow up to be a Scheißendummführer, and if it's a boy, winds up with a large schwanzenstück like his father. [People]
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