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More on ‘Bruno’
When members of the press were walking out the Alamo South Sunday night after a sneak peek at footage from the upcoming “Bruno,” Michael Hogan of Vanity Fair asked me whether I thought the footage was made up, or whether Sacha Baron Cohen was still able to fool people as he did in “Borat.”
Despite Cohen’s fame, the answer, apparently, is that he’s still able to fool people.
Longtime friend and reporter Michael Granberry of The Dallas Morning News wrote last year that Cohen and his associates paid $50 for people to show up for the taping of what was described as a new TV talk show.
Footage from that taping in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton was included Sunday night in “Bruno.” The scene was described earlier on this blog and involved Cohen, dressed as a gay fashionista, describing how he adopted a baby from Africa as a fashion accessory, much to the audience’s outrage.
The taping occurred at TWL Studios-Productions, Granberry reported.
And now, from The Associated Press, comes word that Cohen “tricked the Alabama National Guard into allowing him onto a post, giving him a military uniform and briefly letting him train — all, supposedly, for a German TV documentary.”
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