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Showing posts with label Sacha Baron Cohen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sacha Baron Cohen. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Wedding days and Darren Day's bad days


What a difference a decade makes. Sacha Baron Cohen and actress Isla Fisher got married in Paris over the weekend. We met Isla, who'd gain fame in Wedding Crashers, at a wedding outside London back in 1999. She was 23 and looked about 16, still finding her way after emigrating from Australia where she was best known from appearing in a soap called Home and Away. She was with her boyfriend, Darren Day, with whom she'd appeared in the stage play, Summer Holiday. Day was a song and dance panto star and TV presenter of a type seen only in the UK and Australia. He was angry that he wasn't seated at a better table. There' are photos today of Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher as man and wife at the airport in Los Angeles on their return from Paris.


Darren Day, meanwhile, was photographed today in Edinburgh, Scotland, as he went on trial for allegedly possessing a kubotan, a type of potentially lethal weapon, in public. The 41-year-old singer denied the charge.

Monday, July 13, 2009

So Drudge, do Austrians think Bruno ist funny or ist-n't funny?


Matt Drudge and the team over at The Drudge Report make their millions by linking to other news organizations' stories so lazy and inexperienced news assignment editors can have something to cover and right wing talk radio show producers can have topics to pretend to be poutraged about.

But what about Bruno? On Sunday, Drudge linked to a Reuters report that folks in Austria think that Sacha Baron Cohen's new comedy about a flamboyantly stereotypical Austrian gay television personality is pretty funny.

Drudge gave it the headline:

Austrians say outrageous Bruno is funny.

Yet this morning, someone came into the Drudge office and changed the headline to

Austrians say outrageous Bruno isn't funny.

Again, for the record, the Reuters report says that

"Austrians say outrageous Bruno is pretty funny."


Perhaps it was confusion over the word "ist," which translates to "be or "exist"-- or "is"! Or maybe "pretty funny" doesn't count as "funny" this morning.

The film was #1 at the box office this weekend.