Word: borat
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...Borat CELLULOID GOLD Makes me want to get up and cheer. Patton Oswalt—the funniest stand-up comedian in America—saw a preview screening of this and said that he made the projectionist stop midway through because he was laughing too hard. I don’t actually laugh at the trailer, I just marvel at it. It makes you forget about the inevitable pain that you’ll feel when you have to sit through the build-ups to the punchlines in the interviews. Just enough to entice, not so much as to disgust...
...Kazakh. What he represents is a country of Boratastan, a country of one." ROMAN VASILENKO, Kazakhstan press secretary, on Borat Sagdiyev, the bumptious, fictional Kazakh TV reporter created by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Borat, whose antics have drawn the ire of Kazakh authorities, was turned away from the White House during President Nursultan Nazarbayev's visit to Washington...
...BARRING BORAT...
...haven't met Borat yet, well, you're just like the President. The English-mangling, sister-snogging, horse-urine-drinking (and fictional) Kazakh journalist played by British comedian SACHA BARON COHEN is on the wackiest publicity tour in history for his movie Borat. Last week he caused a minor security kerfuffle when he tried to personally deliver a screening invitation to "President George Walter Bush." Good to know our nation's leader is safe from practical jokers...
...Seventh Seal ("Ingmar Bergman's going to be jealous of this one," co-director Gilliam promised during the filming) - had not been deemed worthy of inclusion in the Festival proper. Such is the tardiness of official culture in understanding radical popular art. (The same thing happened this year with Borat. Sacha Baron Cohen, mocking the Festival's fabled history of topless starlets, paraded down the Croisette in a chartreuse G-string, but the film had its one showing off-campus.) It takes a while for the art burghers to catch up with important bumps in the comedy curve. Eight years...