Word: frats
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...wake of the movie “Borat,” two cases are being brought against four companies involved in its making for causing humiliation and distress to its alleged victims. One lawsuit is from a group of frat boys who drunkenly embarrassed themselves by spewing up sexist rubbish before international audiences. They blame being drunk—caused, they say, exclusively by the production team buying them rounds—and seem to think that signing contracts and behaving stupidly in public while inebriated entitles them to monetary compensation...
Stranger Than FictionDirected by Marc ForsterColumbia Pictures & Mandate Pictures3 starsSorry, frat-boys. “Stranger Than Fiction” isn’t the sequel to “Anchorman” that you’ve all been waiting for. Though its trailer frames it as a typical Will Ferrell comedy, he spends an astonishingly small amount of his screen-time screaming wildly. Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), “Stranger Than Fiction” centers on Harold Crick (Ferrell), an obsessive-compulsive workaholic who suddenly discovers that his life...
...suited for shooting a Jew, a gun salesman answers with similar assuredness, and points him towards an appropriate weapon. Another American urges Cohen to shave his mustache so that he looks less like “terrorist.” Upon hitching a ride from a caravan full of frat brothers, amid the generic male jostling, one youth takes the chance to gripe to Borat about how minorities are always “on top” in the United States. The shouts of support when he yells to a crowded stadium that he supports President Bush?...
...with water diverted from the cleaner Yangtze - enforcement of environmental laws at the local level remains spotty at best. Local government officials often have a stake in the very factories responsible for the pollution. Typically, officials from Beijing announce a plan to visit, and their local counterparts scramble like frat boys preparing for a parental visit after a keg party. The mess is temporarily tidied and offending factories closed for a few days, but when the Beijing officials depart, the party resumes...
...most of us have come to realize, though, the “I was drunk” defense is bogus, not only for inebriated frat boys, but also for Foley and Gibson...