As Yahoo and others are reporting, Sacha Baron Cohen went “undercover” as Bruno to a Prop 8 (that’s the one that would ban gay marriage) rally in California.  …Except he’s clearly not dressed as Bruno and appears to be marching with the “Yes on 8″ group.  Better luck next time, Yahoo.  Mainstream journalism 0, having eyeballs 1.

Cohen, in disguise in a blond wig and preppy outfit, marched with demonstrators who support Proposition 8 while being trailed by cameras in a rally across from City Hall.  When photographers and reporters realized who he was and tried to approach the star, members of his film crew tried to shield him, and he was eventually whisked away in a van.

The more likely scenario is that Cohen was dressed as his new character, Straight Dave.  Finishing this movie is going to be hard now that everyone knows who is and the media reports it every time he shows up somewhere.

Long story short, you should vote no on proposition 8 because otherwise, as the commercial below illustrates, Mormons will come to your house and rummage through your panty drawer.

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For the second day in a row, Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) has disrupted a fashion show in Milan while filming the Bruno movie, which I guaran-f-cking-tee you will not be titled “Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt” like they keep saying.

Despite the increased security after he evaded guards and burst backstage to changing rooms he again managed to get in.
Wearing fake passes, Cohen and his film crew managed to get past security to the backstage area of Italian label Iceberg’s show.
Cohen is in Milan working on a new film called Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male.
The footage showed an actor dressed in head-to-toe velcro and wearing a blonde wig running about, screaming and hurling himself at the clothes racks.
Iceberg’s flustered stylist, Paolo Gerani, managed to stop the man and have the crew removed.
[Said a police spokesperson] ‘He did not have any id documents on him so someone was sent to his hotel when he got here to fetch his passport.
‘He was actually very funny and the first thing he said was ‘Can I make a phone call’ like they do on TV.’
Cohen was released without charge and was last night still thought to be in Milan. [Daily Mail]

Note to self: don’t get arrested in Italy.  “Aw, how cute, he thinks he gets to make a phone call.  Someone stomp on his neck again, it makes the funniest sound.”
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Three more lawsuits filed by people from the Borat movie have been thrown out of court.  This time, the suers included the driving teacher and two ettiquette coaches.

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska noted in her Sept. 3 ruling that all three plaintiffs consented to participating in a “documentary-style movie” by accepting money for their efforts and signing releases that freed the filmmakers from liability.

Presky also rejected in April a defamation suit brought by the businessman whom Borat tries to hug on the streets of New York, determining that the scene was less reputation-killer and more ironic and newsworthy commentary on social mores.

And in February 2007, a Los Angeles judge granted 20th Century Fox’s motion to dismiss a fraud lawsuit brought by two of the boorish-acting fraternity brothers who Borat hitched a ride with in the 2006 film—they claimed that they were plied with booze before signing their release forms—and refused to order the studio to excise their scene from future screenings or DVD editions. [E!/Yahoo]

The driving teacher came off as the most sane person in the entire movie, so I don’t know what kind of damages he could claim. Look, people, suing a documentary for making you look like an asshole is not the way to make money.  If you want to cash in, the best way to do it is just be the biggest asshole you can be and hope you get your own show on VH-1.

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Taking a cue from the clever guy at a law school Halloween party, Sacha Cohen has signed on to produce and possibly star in Accidentes, a film about an ambulance-chasing personal injury lawyer to be written by Peter Baynham, a writer on Borat.

The protag will be a lawyer of Latin descent who transforms from contingency attorney to hero of the working class when he helps an immigrant win a judgment against his wealthy employer after a landscaping mishap. He also becomes the enemy of L.A.’s power elite. [Variety]

This film is clearly based on Mr. Abogado here, so I don’t know how they plan to make it without paying him for the rights to his story.  He should really sue.  But where to find legal counsel, and at what phone number…

Also, I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of British Jews coming here and taking jobs away from hardworking illegal Mexican immigrants.   

A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit filed by the guy who ran away from Borat screaming like a little bitch (you can see him at 0:24 of the trailer).

Jeffrey Lemerond, who appeared in the trailer and a 13-second clip in "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," sued 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., in federal court in Manhattan in June.  Lemerond claimed the filmmakers unlawfully used his image after he was seen in the movie on New York’s streets running from the fictional Kazakh television reporter, "fleeing in apparent terror, screaming for Mr. Cohen to ‘go away,"’ court documents said.

Keep in mind that the filmmakers blurred this jackass’ face in the movie.  So, to sum up, the movie made some guy look like a douchebag, and that guy outed himself as the douchebag by suing the filmmakers for making him look like a douchebag.

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said the film fell under a broad exception to that claim because it was "newsworthy." She said while the film appealed "to the most childish and vulgar in its viewers," it attempted "an ironic commentary of ‘modern’ American culture." [Source]

Great, thanks for sharing your opinion there, Judge Prudey.  To date, the courts have also dismissed suits by the residents of the Romanian town used to represent Kazakhstan, and the douchebag frat boys from South Carolina with whom Borat shares an RV ride.  Hey, guess what, dickheads: if you looked like a dickhead in the movie, maybe you’re just a dickhead; it’s not like they used CGI. Now you see what the rest of us have been seeing all these years.