betsy Posted October 4, 2006 Report Share Posted October 4, 2006 AMERICA’s efforts to secure future energy supplies — the “Great Game” of 21st-century global diplomacy — became entangled yesterday with an even greater game: that of poking fun at Kazakhstan, as played by the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1711094/posts After years of getting wound up by Borat, Kazakh officials have finally changed tactics and admitted that they see the funny side. BBC News report that the Kazakh embassador to Britain said "People in Kazakhstan laugh at the same things as people laugh at everywhere in the world". He went on to say that the film could actually be good for Kazakhstan "I believe that all publicity is good for business, so indirectly people are encouraged to explore the country for themselves". The Kazakh press secretary Roman Vasilenko actually made a joke about Borat, "He is not a Kazakh. What he represents is a country of Boratastan, a country of one". This is all a big change of direction from the legal action Kazakh officials were threatening after Borat's appearance presenting the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2005. http://www.boratonline.co.uk/ Borat shuts down TIFF Posted by Matt in Toronto Film Festival 2006 Even before "it" happened, tonight's screening of Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazhakstan - or simply Borat to those in the know - would have been the single strangest Midnight Madness I had ever attended. A three hundred person rush line, a throng of people outside the Ryerson chanting "BORAT! BORAT! BORAT!", and Sacha Baron Cohen arriving on the red carpet in character... and riding a horse. Then the projector broke. http://www.blogto.com/toronto_film_festiva...huts_down_tiff/ I couldn't help laughing about his character...his antics and jokes are wickedly funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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