Sacha Baron Cohen at the premiere of Bruno held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood (6/25)
A scene featuring La Toya Jackson was cut from
Bruno just a few hours before the premiere in Hollywood yesterday. From
The Sun:
The scene was axed just a few minutes before last night's premiere of the movie in LA after producers heard of MICHAEL JACKSON's death. In it the gay Austrian fashion reporter pesters LaToya repeatedly about Michael, as he uses a Mexican immigrant for a chair.
The studio confirmed the cut to the Wall Street Journal, with a source saying: "Even in the often-shocking comedy, jokes at the expense of the late Mr Jackson would have been in poor taste." The studio added that they did not expect the scene to be restored for the film's worldwide release on July 10.
After reading this story, there was a brief moment where I thought to myself: "Wow, Sascha Baron Cohen does have a heart." But then I read it again and noticed something -- HE WAS USING A MEXICAN IMMIGRANT AS A CHAIR! If you think they took this scene out of the movie for something altruistic like "avoiding jokes at the expense of the late Mr. Jackson," you're kidding yourself. They took it out so they wouldn't have the expense of using Union labor on the sequel.
Sacha Baron Cohen at a photo call for Bruno at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (6/21)
I'm about as straight as a guy can get (I went deer hunting on Saturday . . .
with my bare hands), but I think even I would fuck Bruno. God damn, what a hot piece of ass.
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Here's Sascha Baron Cohen's (aka Borat) speech after winning the award for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical at this weeks Golden Globes. The only reason I'm posting this is because this might the only time you hear someone use the terms "anus and testicles" in an acceptance speech. Bravo Sascha, bravo.
According to Pamela Anderson’s "close pal," the reason Pam filed for divorce from Kid Rock (aka Bob Ritchie) is because of Kid's "male insecurity and major anger issues." What pushed Pam over the edge was when Ritchie blew up during a screening of Borat at Universal Studio chief Ron Meyer's house. In the movie, Sasha Baron Cohen, playing the part of Borat Sagdiyev, travels across the United States to propose marriage to Anderson:
Her friend tells Page Six, "Bob started screaming at Pam, saying she had humiliated herself and telling her, 'You're nothing but a whore! You're a slut! How could you do that movie?' - in front of everyone. It was very embarrassing. Pam thought he could have a sense of humor about the movie. She was in on the gag from the very beginning and loved doing the movie. And on the eve of what was supposed to be a very positive thing, he made it an awful night. Ever since that night, it has been icicles between them."
Hey Kid, YOUR WIFE WORE A BIKINI TO YOUR WEDDING. You can't get mad at her for acting slutty when that's the only reason she's famous (aside from her obvious skills as a thespian). Seriously, the argument begins and ends there. You don't see me getting mad at my wife because she always smells like tuna. It's what I expected when I married a fishmonger. Which is weird because I live in Nebraska.
The producers of hit-comedy Borat are facing yet another lawsuit, this time from the tiny Romanian village of Glod, which acted as a stand-in for a Kazakhstan village in the opening scenes. One local leader remarked, "These people are poor and they were tricked by people more intelligent than us."
Others accused the film's producers of paying them just $3.30 to $5.50 per day.However, studio spokesman Gregg Brilliant told A.P. that locals were actually paid twice the going rate in Romania for extras, donated $5,000 to the town, paid a location fee and bought it computers, school and office supplies. The wire service said that residents of Glod would be meeting with a public ombudsman to map out their legal strategy against the producers.
And you thought the OJ Simpson trial was entertaining. Wait until you see Hollywood take on a small town in Romania. Inside the courtroom, I'm predicting a bunch of frantic pointing and stick waving as 20 Century Fox's lawyers attempt to make their opening statement. Outside, it'll just be a mass of townsmen holding pitchforks and torches. It's gonna be like an episode of Law & Order where half of the actors are from the 1400s. In other words, yeah, I'll probably be watching.
