Borat Threatened By Scandalized Etiquette Coach, Hammer-Wielding Abortionist
With many of Borat's unwitting co-stars lining up to demonstrate their displeasure with their on-screen roles as sister-sexing anti-Semites or alcoholic slavery enthusiasts in lawsuit form (with the notable exception of that one frat boy who officially remains pretty psyched about being paid $200 to get shitfaced in the number one movie in America), it seemed inevitable that Sacha Baron Cohen would eventually be hearing from the etiquette expert who patiently tried to explain the workings of American indoor waste-disposal systems after being presented with a bag brimming with the faux-Kazakh's bowel movements. Court TV reports that she's asked the California attorney general to investigate whether the releases that each "victim" apparently signed without reading (after being promised that the footage would only be used in an industrial training film for a scrap-iron disposal facility in Belarus, of course) constitute a deceptive business practice:
"I am mortified at forever being portrayed in an R-rated movie with the most horrifying, pornographic scene imaginable to me," etiquette consultant Cindy Streit said Thursday at a press conference held by her attorney Gloria Allred. [...]
"Ms. Streit certainly had no idea that an actor called 'Borat' would be coming and discussing defecation with her and be presenting her with what were allegedly his feces at the dinner party," [attorney Gloria] Allred said.
Meanwhile, the resident of Glod, Romania (the village's problems with the film were previously mentioned here) whom Baron Cohen memorably cast as the fictional Kuczek's town welder/abortionist informed ABC News of his intentions to seek extralegal remedies should a formal court action not go forward:
Spiridon Ciorbea is portrayed as the local mechanic who performs abortions on the side in the movie. We found him welding a green iron gate. He told us he was paid $70 for his role in the movie and had no idea what his cameo role was in Cohen's fictional road trip. ''Yes, I fix cars and I'm a welder, but I know nothing about abortions. How can I do anything like that with these hands that are full of scars?'' The grandfather of 11 children threatened to attack "Borat," if Cohen came back to face him. "If he does, I will hit him over the head with this hammer.'' With a wide smile, his teeth brimming with gold, he added, 'If a lawsuit goes ahead, I will sue.''
"I was stunned. How could he show my father in such a way?'' asked Ciorbea's son Ion. He too has a message for Cohen: ''If I see Borat, I will kill him with my own hands,'' he said.
Unfortunately, the reporter was unable to locate the armless man previously interviewed by the Daily Mail and ask him if he'd be interested in seeking a similar form of justice, putting the "prosthetic forearm" (possibly NSFW?) that Baron Cohen tricked him into attaching to his stump to its intended, colon-probing use should the comedian ever return to their village.