I kind of forgot about the whole Justin Bieber Baby Daddy fiasco of last year, but then he had to go remind us all over again on Twitter. Justin published multiple confusing tweets this past weekend, but the most bizarre was directed to Mariah Yeater, who claimed Justin fathered her baby.
On Saturday, Justin tweeted: ”Dear mariah yeeter …we have never met…so from the heart i just wanted to say…,” and then he linked a video of Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat saying “you will never get this” in a loop.
Last year, Mariah Yeater claimed she had a backstage romp with Justin in October 2010, and that he was the father of her son Tristyn. Bieber denied the accustations and eventually agreed to take a paternity test to disprove her. Yeater’s ex Robert Powell eventually told the press he was actually Tristyn’s father.
Now that it’s behind him, why would Justin bother to bring it up again 5 months after she dropped the lawsuit?
Justin sent out so many confusing tweets, some fans asked if he was drunk. Read some of them below:
i discovered matt damon
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) April 21, 2012
my loins
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) April 21, 2012
Just got finished building a birdhouse with @bubbawatson . What a craftsman …
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) April 21, 2012
stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) April 21, 2012
The incredibly funny and talented Sacha Baron Cohen has made two feature films based off of his characters on Da Ali G Show. Now, he’s back for a third film, only this time it’s an original character.
In “The Dictator”, Cohen plays General Aladeen, a leader of a made-up country of the middle east. He is sent to New York City to wreck a lot of havoc. This havoc includes forcing President Obama to demand his resignation, shooting others in the foot while running a race and paying to sleep with Megan Fox.
“A ruby? Is this some kind of a joke?” Megan asks. “What am I, a Kardashian?”
“No, you’re much less hairy!” Cohen’s character says.
The Dictator won’t make its way in to theatres until May 11 next year but you can watch the hilarious and ridiculous trailer right now.
Less than a week after it was reported that Beyonce was forced to severely tone down her liberated, subtly sexual performance in Malaysia , Kuala Lumpur officials deemed Bruno inappropriate for the population’s viewing, thestar.com reports. The National Film Censorship Board in Malaysia has cut off the public viewing of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s portrayal of a flamboyantly homosexual Austrian fashionista. The barrier-crossing film contained numerous clips of Cohen’s Bruno engaging in sexual acts with another man, along with scenes that included full frontal nudity and plenty of other excessively sexual scenes. Despite criticism of the films gratuitous sexual content, it was commercial success across North America.
In a rare interview with Sacha Baron Cohen, yes Sacha, not one of his alter egos, the comedian revealed that he will be forever saying farewell to Borat, one of his most celebrated characters. He spilled the beans to the British News Paper “The Telegraph” earlier this week.
According to Cohen, Borat, the star of 2006′s “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” is too well known by the public, and it is impossible for Cohen to successfully trick anyone in costume.
Being that the bases of the comedy behind Borat and the Borat phenomenon was founded on the reactions of others, and because people are finding it easier to spot out the con, there have been very few chuckles coming out of it.
Even though Cohen announced that there would be a Borat sequel to follow the original, the actor now says that it is highly unlikely.
Bye-bye Borat. Adieu Ali G.
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has announced he will retire his two outrageous but wildly popular alter egos.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Cohen says he is no longer able to dupe unsuspecting interviewees because the two personas ? hip-hop interviewer Ali G and Kazahk reporter Borat ? have become too well-known.
“The problem with success, although it’s fantastic, is that every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I ‘get’ with Borat again, so it’s a kind of self-defeating form, really,” Cohen said.
“When I was being Ali G and Borat, I was in character sometimes 14 hours a day and I came to love them, so admitting I am never going to play them again is quite a sad thing.”
The Cambridge University-educated Cohen first found fame with his cult hit “Da Ali G Show,” which featured amusingly politically incorrect interviews with unsuspecting guests ranging from David Beckham and Donald Trump to the Bishop of Horsham.
But it was “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” that catapulted Cohen to international stardom in 2006. The hit film saw the uncouth Borat journeying through the United States, gleefully offending people left and right.
Those mourning the farewell of Ali G and Borat can still catch Cohen in a cameo apperance in “Sweeney Todd,” Tim Burton’s film adaptation of the stage musical. Another one of Cohen’s alter egos, gay fashion reporter Bruno, will appear in his own big-screen production in 2008.
Borat’s summer blockbuster, entitled “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”, left audiences in stitches, however many people were also left with questions regarding the film’s participants. Were they really as clueless as they appeared, or were they just actors or eager civilians let in on a joke?
Well, look no further. The proof is in the lawsuit.
Michael Psenicska, the driving instructor who Borat innocently asks to be his boyfriend, is filing a formal lawsuit against the actor who played Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen, and 20th Century Fox.
Psenicska’s lawyers are arguing that the driving instructor, a math teacher who has also taught driving for 32 years, would have never agreed to participate in such a film had he known what it was. According to Psenicska’s lawyer, the crew had asked Psenicska to sign a release stating that the major Hollywood film was actually a documentary about new immigrants to America, and would only be shown overseas.
“He signed a release, and we have an agreement,” 20th Century Fox spokesman, Gregg Brilliant, said. “Now, two and a half years after giving his consent and more than one year after the movie was released, Mr. Psenicska has decided to file a lawsuit, citing the financial success of the film, in spite of our agreement.”
Psenicska is asking $100,000 in compensatory damages, despite the fact that he was one of the only misinformed participants who was actually depicted in a favourable light.
Johnny Depp won Best Performance and Sacha Baron Cohen won Best Comedic Performance at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday night.
Winners:
BEST MOVIE
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Walt Disney Pictures)
BEST PERFORMANCE
* Johnny Depp- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Walt Disney Pictures)
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
* Jaden Smith- The Pursuit of Happyness (Sony Pictures)
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
* Sacha Baron Cohen- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (20th Century Fox)
BEST KISS
* Will Ferrell & Sacha Baron Cohen- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Sony Pictures)
BEST VILLAIN
* Jack Nicholson- The Departed (Warner Bros. Pictures)
BEST FIGHT
* Gerard Butler vs. “The Uber Immortal”- 300 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
BEST SUMMER MOVIE YOU HAVEN’T SEEN YET
* Transformers (Paramount Pictures)
mtvU BEST FILMMAKER ON CAMPUS AWARD
* Josh Greenbaum (University of Southern California) – “Border Patrol”
BEST MOVIE SPOOF
* United 300 – Andy Signore, Ambler, Pennsylvania
Borat star SACHA BARON COHEN has dubbed the preparation for his role in TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY as “the worst experience” of his life.
The comedian/actor, who plays Frenchman Jean Girard in the Will Ferrell-fronted movie, insists posing as a racing driver was a tough task – because the high speeds were frightening.
He says, “The first thing they did was to get a driver to drive me around the track. You sit in the passenger seat and you are going 180 miles per hour. I was screaming like a little girl.
“For the film, I had to turn it into a ‘Yes! Yes!’ It was the worst experience of my life.”
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Borat star SACHA BARON COHEN has reportedly emerged as the frontrunner to portray tragic QUEEN frontman FREDDIE MERCURY in a biopic produced by ROBERT DE NIRO.
The funnyman has beaten his Sweeney Todd co-star Johnny Depp for the lead role after impressing the film’s producers, reports British newspaper The Sun.
An insider says, “Filmmakers are working flat out to get the best possible script. Sacha loves the idea he can get away with playing Freddie after modelling Borat’s look on him.”
Mercury died from an AIDS-related illness in 1991. He was 45.
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BORAT star SACHA BARON COHEN is to be honoured with the first Outstanding Achievement Award from the organisers of Hollywood’s Israel Film Festival.
The Jewish funnyman will be the guest of honour at the launch of the 2007 festival next week.
Israel Film Festival director MEIR FENIGSTEIN says, “This was his year and we couldn’t have chosen a better person to recognise.”
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SACHA BARON COHEN will not be a presenter at Sunday’s Academy Award ceremony, because he could not appear as his famous character BORAT SAGDIYEV.
Baron Cohen has been reluctant to make appearances as himself, preferring to do interviews as the star of the faux documentary BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN.
Oscar broadcast producer LAURA ZISKIN tells the Los Angeles Times, “He was asked, but he declined.”
There had been speculation that the comedian’s participation in the ceremony would bring a welcome shot of excitement to the broadcast.
Baron Cohen’s acceptance speech at the Golden Globe ceremony last month was one of the most talked-about events of the night.
When he won an acting award, he paid homage to his co-star KEN DAVITIAN’s naked backside, which was part of a memorable moment in the film.
Although Baron Cohen passed on presenting, he could still appear on stage if the film wins for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Talks of a sequel to blockbuster comedy BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN are premature.
On Thursday media tycoon RUPERT MURDOCH revealed Borat, which made $250 million worldwide for the boss of distributor 20th Century Fox, would be back.
However, a spokesperson for the film company stressed they have yet to strike a deal with funnyman SACHA BARON COHEN to reprise his wildly successful alter-ego.
He says, “We’re eager to work with Sacha again, and we’ve had casual discussions about a sequel, which we’d love to do, but at this point, it remains too preliminary to discuss.”
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Funnyman SACHA BARON COHEN will revive his cult Kazakhstani TV reporter BORAT for a sequel to hit movie BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN.
Media tycoon RUPERT MURDOCH, who made a fortune out of the quirky comedy as the boss of distributor 20th Century Fox, revealed Borat would be back during a keynote speech at the McGraw Hill Media Summit in New York yesterday.
Murdoch confessed he was a huge fan of the film: “I’ve seen it about three times and laughed like hell.”
The film made almost $250 million worldwide, which prompted 20th Century Fox bosses to beg Cohen for a sequel.
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Ken Davitian is an overnight success with 30 years of acting experience.
Davitian did everything he had to do to remain and survive as an actor, from opening his own restaurants to working in the waste removal business.
Then along came a fictitious Kazakhstani journalist.
In Borat, Davitian played Azamat Bagatov, the Armenian-speaking producer. And now that the film has grossed over $125 million in the U.S., Davitian’s life will never be the same.
“Where I would have done the same one day’s work on a movie set, they would have called it a day player. Now they call it a cameo,” he proudly tells andPOP.
“This is what they call the stuff you dreamed about, the stuff you worked for. Now I’m inside the bubble instead of outside.”
Even the most hardcore Borat fans are surprised to learn Azamat was not who he appeared to be, but rather he was played by Davitian, an American actor. While promoting the film, he had to be in character for every interview and appearance. Now, Davitian is able draw back the curtain, essentially introducing himself to his new fans who know little about him.
But Davitian was almost too good for the role of Azamat.
When he auditioned in front of Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) and director Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm) for the role, Davitian never broke character.
From the time he entered the room, Davitian was Azamat. He knew they were looking for someone to play a frumpy, fish-out-of-water, Eastern European, and they didn’t realize he was acting. He handed them a wrinkled 8×10 photo of himself that he had folded in his pocket. Davitian realized that he had the room fooled and had to reveal his true identity.
“They were concerned that, ‘gee the guy is perfect but he’s so green, he won’t be able to last the 18 hours (of filming each day). He’s just a nice old man and to drag him around for four months,’ I think they thought it was a bit overwhelming for that person. I heard one of them say, ‘he’s still taking classes?’ Because they had said, ‘can you do improvisation,’ and I said (with the accent), ‘oh yes, improvisation, I take it in classes,’ and the reaction was, ‘oh my god, what’s he doing in an audition at this level and he’s still taking classes?’ So I knew I had to give it up at the end.”
Even once he won the role, Davitian was told that Azamat was going to have little-to-no face-time on camera. His voice was to be heard, but for the most part, he wouldn’t actually be seen in the film. “It was out of (Cohen) being gracious to share the screen with me that I got that part in the movie.”
| Want to know how Azamat really sounds? Listen to a clip of Ken Davitian discussing the Golden Globes and appearing in the movie. ( MP3 ) |
It would be shocking if Davitian were to get recognized for anything other than his role in “Borat,” but playing Azamat was hardly his rookie experience.
He’s had small appearances in such television shows as Becker, E.R., Arliss, Gilmore Girls and Boston Leagal, and in films like Holes and S.W.A.T.
With a plethora of actors trying to secure one of the scarce roles that the Hollywood machine has to offer, Davitian was happy to accept whatever he was offered – until two weeks ago.
“It’s the first time in my life that I passed on something,” he says. “My work ethic doesn’t allow me to pass on things.” But he has to now that he has a stack of scripts to choose from.
He can decide his next role – and he hasn’t decided yet – but Davitian hopes he can work with the Smashing Pumpkins again. Davitian had a creepy role, playing some sort of dominatrix-like character in the Pumpkins’ 2000 music video, “Stand Inside Your Love.”
With the Pumpkins on the verge of getting back together, Davitian hopes frontman Billy Corgan is reading this article. “Tell them I want to do another video!”
“Billy is a type of guy that he explained all of the emotions that were going through his head that he wanted to see in this character,” Davitian recalls.
(Rumour has it, Sharon Osbourne hated that Pumpkins video so much that it was one of the reasons she quit as the band’s manager. This is the first time Davitian has heard this. “Now when I meet Sharon Osbourne, she’s not going to like me!”)
In the meantime, Davitian is spending some time at his restaurants, “The Dip,” one located in Sherman Oaks and the other in Los Angeles. He suggests ordering the pot roast or pastrami. “All of the meat is cooked there, and it’s all my recipes. A dip is a French role that’s cut in half and it’s either single dipped in the aju, double dipped which is the standard, and we also do submerged, where the sandwich is made and it’s put into the aju and it’s very wet, tastes great, and you get a bib.”
Davitian is also ready to focus on Borat for a little bit longer. He’ll be doing the rounds again when the DVD is released in March. He was told that his original audition tape would be one of the extras, though that feature isn’t listed in a recent Fox-distributed press release about the DVD.
Last month, Davitian was the subject of Cohen’s acceptance speech when he won the award for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical at the Golden Globes. His completely nude and improvised wrestling scene with Cohen could be justifiably regarded as the funniest scene in the history of film, but Cohen reminded the star-packed audience that creating humour has its price.
“I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America. But I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America. A side of America that rarely sees the light of day,” Cohen said in his speech. “I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian. Ken, when I was in that scene and I stared down and saw your two wrinkled Golden Globes on my chin, I thought to myself, ‘I better win a bloody award for this.’ And then when my 300-pound co-star decided to sit on my face and squeeze the oxygen from my lungs, I was faced with a choice: death or to breathe in the air that had been trapped in a small pocket between his buttocks for 30 years.”
A big deal is being made about Cohen having to endure Davitian’s “Golden Globes” in his face, but remember, it was no picnic for Davitian either.
However, Davitian reveals, that scene had one deception in the form of a strategically placed black bar.
“I can tell you,” he says, “that the black bar that you saw while he was running was an exaggeration and not necessary.”
Check out andPOP’s Blog for a “behind the scenes” report of this interview.
Comedian SACHA BARON COHEN has been named as one of the most powerful 100 men in Britain.
The survey, carried out by British men’s magazine GQ, ranks BORAT creator Cohen as the 19th most powerful Briton, cementing his place in the rankings through the $254 million grossing global success of BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN.
A spokesperson for the magazine says, “Not since JOHN LENNON has an English entertainer had such an effect on the world.”
British Chancellor GORDON BROWN tops the poll, with Prime Minister TONY BLAIR voted into second place.
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British funnyman SACHA BARON COHEN has hit back at claims he hoodwinked members of the public to make BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN a more shocking and controversial movie.
Several members of the public exposed as racist and anti-Semitic in the film claim their actions were taken out of context, but the 35-year-old Golden Globe winner insists the film was edited fairly.
He insists, “There were two large cameras in the room. I don’t buy the argument that, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t have acted so racist or anti-Semitic if I’d known this film was being shown in America.’ That’s no excuse.
“If you saw all our footage with the gun shop owner, for example, we had a whole conversation about the right gun to use to shoot a Jew’s horns off his head.”
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SACHA BARON COHEN’s BORAT co-star KEN DAVITIAN wasn’t invited to the Golden Globe Awards ceremony on Monday night, but ended up stealing the show.
The pair star in the hit film, BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN, and share a memorable scene where they wrestle on a bed naked.
Davitian was spotted by a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Beverly Hilton Hotel the afternoon of the awards show, who insisted on giving him a tour of the ballroom set-up.
The star explains, “He asked me where I was sitting later, and I told him I didn’t have a ticket. Immediately, he ran and got me two tickets.”
At the ceremony, Davitian met up with Cohen backstage, where the pair worked on the hilarious acceptance speech that Cohen used when he won best actor in a comedy or musical.
Cohen described being face-to-face with Davitian’s “dark side”, his anus and testicles, and the horror of breathing in air from a “rancid pocket.”
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Two fraternity brothers who appear in “Borat” have lost a court case against the movie’s distributor and producers. They’re shown drinking heavily and making racist and sexist remarks in the film.
The suit was brought to court last month, with the South Carolina college students claiming that filmmakers got them drunk before filming and promised that the movie would never be shown in the U.S., reports Reuters.
The men say the scene has tarnished their reputations. One lost his job at a major corporation while the other lost a prominent internship.
They initially tried to have the footage removed from the film, but that request was denied. This latest loss was their second shot at an injunction, and focused more on the eventual DVD release of the movie.
Sacha Baron Cohen and his character Borat topped the box office for the second week in a row, beating out films starring the likes of Russell Crowe, Will Ferrell and Brad Pitt.
The fake Kazakh reporter brought in $29 million over the weekend across North America, with an additional $15 million from other foreign markets, according to Reuters.
In fact, the other spots in the top three also stayed the same for a second week. Disney’s “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause,” starring Tim Allen as St. Nick for a third time, earned $16.9 million. Third place was held by followed by “Flushed Away” with $16.7 million.
The big names disappointed. Ferrell’s “Stranger Than Fiction” did best, coming in fourth with $14.1 million.
Meanwhile, Pitt’s “Babel” took sixth with $5.7 million in its first weekend of wide release.
Crowe’s “A Good Year” fell far short of the top spots, though, coming in tenth with $3.8 million.
Borat beat the battle at the box office, earning $26.5 million in its opening weekend.
Now the movie’s star, Sacha Baron Cohen, is going to face a different kind of battle.
Mahir Cagri 44, a Turkish internet celebrity, is positive that he was the inspiration for “Borat.”
He’s so convinced that he’s travelling to London seeking an apology and a wants to get paid in lieu of the movie’s success.
Cagri, in broken English proclaims, “I am not saying this–the world is. I have received so many e-mails from people in the United States who tell me he is imitating me.”
Cagri gained his internet popularity after posting comical pictures of himself on his self-created website in 1999.
Borat was first created for “Da Ali G Show” on HBO. In an archival track from the show, Cohen says Borat’s character was influenced by someone he met in southern Russia.
