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Echoing the success by “The Da Vinci Code” producers to lure Catholic viewers by drawing attention to that film’s taboo themes, Cohen (star of HBO’s cult hit “Da Ali G Show,” and Class Day speaker at Harvard in 2004) and his backers at Fox have been focusing attention in their promotional materials on the protestations of the Kazakh government, and of Cohen’s hilarious replies. One recent television spot for the film explicitly refers to the news coverage of Borat, urging...
With Kazakhstan, Cohen has found the perfect fall guy; a nation so unknown that no one in the Western world minds his jokes, and just stiff enough themselves that they respond to his satire with lawsuits and press releases, only further fueling Cohen’s hype machine...
...Reviewer Patrick R. Chesnut can be reached at pchesnut@fas.harvard.edu. Dragon Fire By William S. Cohen Forge Books...
...While Cohen may not be alone in turning to fiction over fact and discourse over substance, his ineptness is on a level all its own. Say what you want about the Bush administration—at least they can tell a good story...
...rare occasions that Cohen does move beyond this tedium, the novel feels like something a fifth grader would write. When Santini arrives with his six-pack abs in Tiananmen Square, he kills several soldiers single-handedly, shoots down a helicopter with a handgun, and then proceeds to kick the rogue general in the balls. If this is the way our leaders see the world, is it any wonder that things are such a mess...