In this deleted scene from the Bruno movie, recently leaked to promote the DVD release on November 17th, baseball great Pete Rose is subjected to the same here-sit-on-my-Mexican stunt that Bruno used on Paula Abdul. To his credit, Rose doesn’t squirm or complain, he just settles in and starts talkin’ baseball. At one point the crew tries to rattle Rose when his chair starts acting uncomfortable. But Rose is unflappable.
“He don’t seem to understand that this is very uncomfortable for this guy. So get another guy here, because this guy’s uncomfortable.”
And then they swap Mexicans. See? The first step toward a post racial society is to treat every minority as an individual. Just because one Mexican isn’t good at being a chair, that’s no reason to assume that a different Mexican wouldn’t be better. Well done, Pete Rose, it seems this is not your first time sitting on a Mexican. Ahh, good times. It’s like my junior high experience in reverse.
[via /Film]
Sacha Baron Cohen has signed on to star in Borat writer Dan Mazer’s film about the Eurovision song contest, which he’s been developing since 2007. The Eurovision song contest is basically like Miss Universe meets American Idol meets Sprockets, where groups representing European countries compete with comically overproduced song and dance numbers. Past winners include Abba, and a Finnish goth band who dress like orcs (video after the jump).
Sacha Baron Cohen has signed on to join “Eurovision: The Movie,” in which he will portray a singer who enters the competition. A source said: “Mazer and Cohen thought it would be better if Sacha dreamt up another character, and the scope for another oddball creation is huge.”
The new movie is expected to be another fake documentary in the style of “Bruno” and “Borat.” The script has already been written and the film is expected to appear in theaters by 2011. [WorstPreviews]
Well the source material is certainly rife. Or is it ripe? Probably both. Anyway, the only problem I see is that most of the Eurovision entries are already so ridiculous that it’s almost impossible to do a parody version funnier than the original. Nonetheless, it’s hard to predict how Cohen’s entry will fare - tentatively titled Two Dudes Having Sex with the Holocaust.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince topped the box office, earning $159.7 mil in five days, making it the best start of all the Potter movies and the sixth highest 5-day gross of all time. It also broke a foreign box office record with $237 mil in 54 countries. But this is America, we don’t care about that.
[Pictured: Some vandals dorks in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin have spread Harry Potter fever to the city's stop signs. I'd assume they had something better to do but it was either this or butter sculpting.]
Elsewhere, Brüno dropped almost 73% in its second weekend, which is a shame because I saw it and wasn’t disappointed in the least (a talking urethra, people!). It fell to number four and though it’ll earn out, it’s not going to pull Borat numbers. Meanwhile, The Hangover is a phenomenon at this point, staying at number five in its seventh week of release (Up is the only other movie in the top 10 that’s been out longer, at eight weeks) and grossing almost $236 million total. And lastly, I Love You Beth Cooper is almost out of the top ten with just $2.7 million, which is $2.7 million more than that flaming diarrhea deserves. Full top 10 after the jump.
It’s a sad commentary on the state of terrorism when a former member of a group whose mission statement includes suicide bombing calls someone a liar and threatens with a lawsuit.
Ayman Abu Aita, who is labeled in the Brüno movie as a “terrorist group leader,” slammed Sacha Baron Cohen as a “big liar” who “made up stories” when describing to CBS’s David Letterman last week [above, via WarmingGlow] the way he met Aita at an undisclosed location. Aita said he is pursuing legal action.
Apparently Aita is offended at being labeled a “terrorist”, because although he served in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades from 2000 until 2003, he says he’s reformed after a two-year stint in Israeli prison, and is currently a representative in the Palestinian Authority, in President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.
“I thought I needed security,” Baron Cohen told Letterman. “It was in the West Bank. The guy picks this secret location. … The terrorist comes in with his bodyguard.” Aita, however, says the interview took place at a private section of a popular restaurant called Everest in the town of Beit Jala, which is in a section in the West Bank under Israeli control. [WND via /Film]
Let’s not split hairs here: Cohen called him a terrorist, and clearly, he used to be a terrorist. Does that mean he can’t still be called a terrorist? Try telling Danny Trejo he’s not gangster. He’ll cut your belly open, I’ve seen him do it. As for calling the restaurant a “secret location,” to be fair, Zagat did call it “the West Bank’s best-kept secret.” Though they weren’t huge fans of the Falafel, which they called “decent, but nothing to blow yourself up for.”
Opening this weekend:
Brüno
Duh. Of course I’ll be seeing this, not that I expect it to be half as funny as Borat. Austrian accents just aren’t as funny as Kazakh ones. Probably because of the whole trying to exterminate the Jews thing. Anyway, you can also check out Brüno doing the Letterman Top 10 List after the jump, though I must warn you that it isn’t funny at all. Maybe Paul Shaffer should’ve added more wacky sound effects. That guy sure is a character.
I Love You Beth Cooper
I’ve never wanted to punch a movie trailer as bad as I do this one. It’s so unfunny and cloying and pandering and insulting. Every high school clique comes in threes. Every bully has henchmen. Every hot chick is a cheerleader. Every nerd is a hero, even if he’s ugly and delusional and kind of a dick and the actor playing him is 27. Every time I watch the trailer I find myself rooting for the bully to catch and beat the crap out of everyone. Go f-ck yourselves, everyone involved with this smegma-filled yak placenta. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some Cheeto crumbs to suck from my fingers.
STILL IN THEATERS:
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
I DEMAND THAT YOU SEE THIS MOVIE. There aren’t a lot movies that make you laugh so hard you have to hold back while you stifle tears at the same time. I hadn’t seen it until this week and I have no idea why I waited so long. I should’ve been there opening weekend. There aren’t 30 seconds of footage in it that aren’t priceless. The drummer’s sister is named “Droid.” 80s metal. Canadian accents. This is far too little space to tell you everything that was great about it, but I’m pleading with you, see it before it’s gone.
