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...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 viewers to see what all the fuss is about...
...film, ostensibly a serious documentary about life in the United States commissioned by the Kazakh government, is nothing of the sort. In a mocking odyssey from his provincial hometown to New York City, and then across America, Borat interviews Americans of all walks of life, with gut-splittingly spectacular results...
...course, every time the country responds seriously to these fabrications, Cohen issues a hysterical counterstatement and rakes in more free publicity. After a recent Kazakh advertising supplement in The New York Times designed to show the world how modern and business-friendly the nation really is, Borat responded with a statement blaming the campaign on neighboring Uzbekistan, and threatening a “catapult war” if it did not stop. Luckily for Fox, and unlike “Da Vinci,” Cohen’s film is worth the three-ring press circus; it?...
...unsuspecting people to his characters' horrifying behavior since 1998, when he started on England's short-lived The 11 o'Clock Show, and later on HBO's Da Ali G Show. His characters--aspiring rapper Ali G, gay Austrian fashionista Brno and Borat Sagdiyev, the U.S.-loving Kazakh--get away with astonishing rudeness because people are too weirded out by youth culture, flaming gay guys and foreigners to question them. When one of his guises gets too famous to sucker people into being interviewed, he molds himself into another one. He could be any outsider society avoids by giving...
...recommend to kill a Jew?" with a nonchalant "I'd recommend a 9-mm or a Glock automatic." (Baron Cohen is Jewish.) The detailed legal releases, which it seems no one ever reads, were presented to people as if they were permission forms for being interviewed by a Kazakh TV show...