Word: cohenable
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...moment, Baron Cohen is doubtless playing the uncompromising artist, insisting that every frame of his film be shown as is; and Universal, I'd guess, is exerting its muscle both on the MPAA to approve a version with some shock value and on their star-auteur to throw the board a few boners and get the damn R. Baron Cohen shoots a lot of footage in his docucomedies, and, the studio spokesman told Waxman, "With the quantity of material available, I cannot foresee a problem. It's not even April and the film comes out July...
...part of Baron Cohen's appeal is his desire to push the envelope, and then burn it. He wants his fans to consider if his work is revelatory or predatory, and to ask, just a little, "Is he nuts?" Indeed, so fervid is the actor's belief in the cleansing power of confrontational comedy, so extreme is his commitment to the characters he plays - he's a Method farceur, a Daniel Day-Lewis with a sadistic sense of humor - that I wouldn't be surprised if Brüno did go backdoor with that guy, on camera. (The actor could...
...artistic integrity or the protection of children's sensibilities as it is early ballyhoo for the DVD edition. You'll most likely see a slightly sanitized version of the movie when it opens in July. Then, when the digital version comes out in October, you can watch Sacha Baron Cohen apparently have anal sex with a man on camera. Commerce and art - or, if you will, propriety and obscenity - will be neatly served, one on the big screen, the other on the small...
...Harvard Law School Library has established the Morris L. Cohen Fellowship in American Legal Bibliography and History, which intends to fund expenses for scholars who must travel to Harvard to access the Library’s Special Collections. Close to 40 percent of the graduate students who contact the Library hoping to consult the materials in Special Collections are not affiliated with Harvard, according to David R. Warrington, the Special Collections librarian. The department houses nearly 2,000 feet of linear manuscript, more than 200,000 rare books, and over 70,000 visual images. “The fellowship will...
...Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...