Word: sacha
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...calls "Whitopias": melanin-deficient exurbs and towns that have grown at least 6% since 2000, as whites have fled more ethnically diverse areas. "They are creating communal pods that cannily preserve a white-bread world," he observes, "a throwback to an imagined past with 'authentic' 1950s values." Like Sacha Baron Cohen, Benjamin can lull people into saying the most appalling things, as with a new friend who tells him, "I never know what to call you. So when I'm around my buddies, I just use the N-word." The author's conclusion: while explicit racism is no longer acceptable...
...feel about the way you were shown in the Sacha Baron Cohen film Brüno? -Matthew Thacker, Bowling Green, Ohio I don't feel good about it because I was the subject of a trick, and nobody likes to be tricked. I understand they're not making a tremendous amount of money off this movie, so maybe the American people aren't as cynical as they assumed. (Watch the conversation with Ron Paul...
...TIFF chose Tel Aviv as the 2009 city, controversy erupted. "Tel Aviv is the military center of Israel," said Canadian author Naomi Klein, "a place from which fighter jets departed on their missions to Gaza last December-January." Soon it was mandatory for politically active stars to take sides. Sacha Baron Cohen, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Voight and Oprah Winfrey voiced their support for the program; Harry Belafonte, Julie Christie, Jane Fonda and Viggo Mortensen were all for a boycott. Politics aside (which it never is at a film festival), the protesters ignored Israel's recent emergence as a vital national...
...Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous Brüno promotions...
Last week's winner, the shock-mock-doc comedy Brüno, fell a calamitous 73% to about $8.4 million. It's as if the well-liked Borat, the character from Sacha Baron Cohen's previous hit, had come to a party with a new guest - "Say hello to my little friend Brüno" - and seen him greeted with a hail of bullets. The Friday-Saturday data show that Brüno was not even the top live-action comedy about a non-American who has sex with a man: it finished behind The Proposal, which has been...