Space Tourist Blasts Off: US Billionaire Charles Simonyi in Orbit

An American space tourist was thrust into orbit today, his second trip into outer space.  It was blast off time for US billionaire Charles Simonyi and the crew of the Russian rocket Soyuz, Thursday, amidst...

Borat's mankini banned at football match

Borat's green mankini was not be allowed to be worn by England fans at their match with Kazakhstan at Wembley Stadium today.The green thong, which was made famous by Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat, was banned...

Sacha Baron Cohen Disrupts Fashion Weeks Worldwide for Spoof Film

Spoof character mastermind Sacha Baron Cohen, of Borat and Ali G fame, is busy filming his next film and posing as a flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter named Bruno and crashing fashion weeks around the...

Kazakh Man Avoids DUI Charge By Drinking Fermented Mare's Milk

In what seems like a scene out of the film Borat, a court in Kazakhstan has dropped drunk-driving charges against a man because he was drinking fermented mare's milk rather than beer. The drink, called kumys, is...

Kid Rock: No Contest on Fight Charges

I personally think Kid Rock has a huge anger management problem. I remember hearing about the reason to his divorce with Pamela Anderson is because of him being jealous and angry at her role in the movie Borat....

Sacha Baron Cohen Incites More 'Bruno' Controversy

You'd think that by now the infamous Sacha Baron Cohen, of Ali G and Borat fame, would have a tough time arranging (ie. staging) crazy interviews without the interviewees immediately realizing they were being...

U.S. and A human rights

this was a good start visiting NOWPUBLIC today. flickr: Racist and Homophobic, or Scamming? you can, for instance, try to enter various body parts, or some scene slang into flickr's search engine, and then you...

"Borat" Lawsuit Dismissed By Judge As Journalism

'Newsworthiness' saves the day. Verrrrry niiiiiiice!"A judge has tossed out a defamation lawsuit brought by a businessman shown in the movie "Borat" as he is chased down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue by comedian Sacha...

Mike Myers' latest spoof hits 'Ohm'

"Mike Myers' latest spoof hits 'Ohm'"

Vancouver: Serial Drug Additiced Bank Robber Sought by Police

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThis man picture is wanted by Police for a string of bank robberies in Vancouver. But then the VPD will be forced to hand him over to our Justice system who may need to...

The Death of Borat and Ali G

Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comic actor who created the hugely entertaining, and often ridiculously offensive characters of Borat and Ali G, has decided that he will no longer play them.Having developed a...

Borat's driving instructor sues

"A US driving instructor who appeared in the Borat movie has taken legal action against its makers, claiming he thought he was taking part in a documentary."

Condi Rice Defends Borat

Condi Rice may not be a fan of Borat, but she and the U.S. State Department have something to say about the fate of his web page: it was taken down by the Kazakh censors. While not giving him top diplomatic billing in the latest State publication on human rights in...

Laura Schlessinger and baby of the deceased, Anna Nicole

UPDATE March 23, 2007: Laura Schlessinger, the Santa Barbara News-Press, Saks 5th Avenue and the recent tragic murder of a child in broad daylight. IT DOES MATTER WHAT PUBLIC FIGURES SAY AND DO. Schlessinger...

Santa Barbara, What Went Wrong?

"Up in sunny Santa Barbara, the plucky editors of the Santa Barbara Independent publish a letter from former NewsPress editor Bob Guiliano to Mayor Marty Blum. Seems Wendy McCaw(ful) wasn't happy with a story...

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