Flamboyant Austrian fashion guru Bruno (comedian Sacha Baron Cohen) shared his dreams of fashion fame with Matt Lauer on The TODAY Show Thursday.
The back and forth barbing ended in tears after Matt informed Bruno that the Austrian Minister to Great Britain had called for a boycott of his new movie, Bruno, do to its misrepresentation of the Austrian people.
Emil Brix, who was recently appointed Austria’s top British envoy, has said the star’s gags about his country are “cheap”.
“It’s totally inappropriate. Everybody should speak up against that.”
Bruno sashay chantes its way into theaters everywhere this Friday, July 10.
The Los Angeles high school at the center of a controversy over a racy photoshoot featuring Sacha Baron Cohen’s alter ego Bruno has broken away from the nation’s second-largest school district.
Birmingham High School had already been planning to become a separate charter school, but made the move before one day after officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District disciplined two administrators for violating the district’s policy on using the school’s name in the film.
The photos feature the Cohen as gay fashionista Bruno, wearing shoulder pads and tight red shorts as he poses with student football players on the school’s field.
Bruno, the alter ego of British satirist Sacha Baron Cohen, has slammed Madonna in a new interview hitting newsstands in the UK this week. Read the rest of this entry »
Los Angeles Superintendent Ramon Cortines is fuming over a GQ Magazine photoshoot — featuring comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in character as gay Austrian fashionista Bruno — that took place at Birmingham High School in the San Fernando Valley. Read the rest of this entry »
Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as gay fashion journalist Bruno, dropped by The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien on Thursday, where his childhood, a sex tape, and his hatred for Paris Hilton were big issues of conversation.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s nude appearance on the July 2009 issue of GQ Magazine — in character as gay Austrian fashion journalist — has ruffled the feathers of some commuters in airports and train stations across the country.
According to The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog, Hudson News has covered up Bruno’s bare bottom with a black pane on the more than 500 newsstands it operates in order to avoid offending people. Jennifer Aniston’s racy cover shot on the Decemeber issue of GQ — which inspired Sacha’s recent cover — was censored in the same way.
The nation’s leading gay rights group, The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), is asking the studio heads behind comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie, Bruno, to add a tolerance message at the end of the film.
GLAAD activists fear the Golden Globe-winning star’s stereotypes of gays in the film go too far. The group insists that Cohen uses every negative depiction of homosexuals in his portrayal of the materialistic Austrian fashion journalist Bruno. Read the rest of this entry »
Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as our favorite Austrian fashion journalist Brüno, appears naked on the July issue GQ Magazine in an ode to Jennifer Aniston’s nude necktie cover for the men’s mag last December.
Bruno is on-hand to answer all of your style-related questions, as GQ turns their advice column to the fashionisto.
Times are hard, but if you shop around und are prepared to vear some things twice before throwing zem avay, it is still possible to look good on a clothing budget of about $20,000 a veek. Ich mean, obwiously you vill need a bit more zan zat if you are planning on leaving ze house.
Paula gets Bruno’d. Find out how American Idol’s Paula Abdul got punk’d by Sacha Baron Cohen’s gay Austrian hairdresser in the upcoming summer comedy Bruno.
In last night’s interview on Letterman, Paula also revealed that she is stil “negotiating” with producers about whether or not she will return to American Idol.
The singer, who has served as a judge for the past eight seasons, has yet to renew her contract for next year.
“I never said [I wasn’t returning]. I just said that I’m not sure. It’s called negotiating.”
A California woman has sued comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, accusing the British star of assault in a Palmdale bingo hall encounter she says occurred during filming for the upcoming movie Bruno that has left her in a wheelchair. Read the rest of this entry »
