Borat's Movie Film

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I loved Borat's first "movie film," but I think I have had my fill of Borat and will probably skip this one.

Also, given the mess that one can charitably call my country's politics, and what I've heard of the Giuliani scene, it would probably cut too close to the bone this time. So I'll give him a "thanks, but no."

It is funny how Giuliani is talking tough about a lawsuit, though. That's not going to happen. Not in the USA, which can still boast a system that resists the attempts the efforts of the publicly powerful to silence their critics through defamation suits. I haven't heard that even the three Trumpets of the Supreme Court have any interest in erasing the line of precedent that began with Times v. Sullivan.

Maybe that is even one of those "super precedents" one hears about. You know, the precedents with a cape and tights and the word "P" on their chests?

But I wander.

Maybe Giuliani will have to wait until the film opens in England. Isn't that the usual destination of the libel tourists?

But be wary, Rudy. Recently a Hollywood star sued a London tabloid that had called him, in exactly these words, a "wife beater." He lost the suit. The court found that the tabloid had told the truth. So now there has been a formal judicial determination that the Hollywoodite in question IS a wife beater. Not the result he had hoped for

But of course that can happen. Ask Oscar Wilde. Ask David Irving. Okay, the heck with it, sue Borat in England!

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