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...mixture just right, he creates situations of unbearable tension that at the same time turn out to be unbearably funny. For instance, at one point Brüno does a Madonna/Angelina, coming back from Africa with a baby. Then he appears as a guest on an actual talk show and tells the mostly African-American audience that he got the kid by trading an iPod for him. He also has the boy dressed in a T-shirt that says "Gayby." The crowd goes wild - and not in a good way. Scenes like that are the emotional equivalent of Guant...
...record, Brüno, like Borat, was directed by Larry Charles. And as with Borat, the story in Brüno is just the merest pretext for stringing together provocations. At the beginning, Brüno is the hip-cocking host of Funkyzeit, a late-night Austrian TV show that tours the world of style. When he wrecks a runway show and ends up shunned by the Euro-fashion crowd, he lights out for the Middle East, Africa and the U.S. to become "the biggest Austrian superstar since Hitler." At which point Brüno becomes, again like Borat...
...introduced his best-known television show, America's Top 10, which was broadcast in syndication for a decade...
...tickets went on sale for the event. Ticket holders began arriving at Dodger Stadium at 6 a.m. on July 6 to pick up their tickets in a daylong procedure that saw more than 600 cars arrive each hour for credentials. To ensure that only the winners would attend the show, concert officials placed a wristband on the arm of each ticket holder as they arrived. "It's a deterrent against scalping," said an official...
...outburst punctured a tightly orchestrated effort to show the media the extent of the destruction wrought by the city's small Uighur community on July 5. Reporters were given a CD that showed several minutes of footage of the mostly Uighur rioters attacking civilians and destroying property. Unlike the official response to the deadly unrest last year in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, when the region was closed to outsiders for several months, journalists in Urumqi were given relatively free rein...