| U.S. and A. provides prime fodder for Borat's ingenious comedy | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:59:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Rated R for pervasive crude and sexual content, including graphic nudity and language; starring Sacha Baron Cohen; directed by Larry Charles; opening Friday at University Place 8 in Carbondale."Borat" is unquestionably, honestly, literally the funniest film I have ever seen.Conceptually brilliant and fearlessly executed, it rewrites the rules of screen comedy, presenting something never before seen on film: a gene-splice of Andy Kaufman's high-wire character humor and caught-on-the-street pranks from "Punk'd."The title character is a gangly, mustachioed Kazakh TV journalist traveling across "US and A," the nation he excitedly calls "greatest country in the world." What he finds in unstaged interviews with unsuspecting citizens is stranger than fiction, and pants-wettingly riotous. Some viewers will find their sensitivities too roughly handled, but even if you dislike it, you will find "Borat" to be a threshold experience.... | |
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| | | Racy new novel is focus of book club | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 3:06:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | A series of sexual encounters with several women eventually leads male model Terrance Mitchell to re-evaluate his exploits. That's the basic plot of Omar Tyree's spicy new novel, What They Want, the selection for Expressions Book Club that gets steaming along from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Sept. 9 at the African-American Library in Fort Lauderdale. .... | |
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| | | Man Charged For AOL Instant Messaging Conservation | | Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:56:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | MINEOLA---Conducting an allegedly sexually-explicit conversation over America Online's (AOL) Instant Messaging servie with an investigator with the Nassau County district attorney's office will get you arrested. Scott Widom, 44, has been charged with two counts of attempted disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree, a class E felony. The arrest stemmed from an AOL IM conversation from March. Widom was arrested Sunday night while appearing at a pre-arranged meeting location in Nassau County. At the time of his arrest, Nassau County District Attorney investigators say they did not find anything in his possession consistent with engaging in sexual activity that evening. A person is guilty of attempted disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree when knowing the character and content of the communication which, in whole or in part, depicts actual or simulated nudity or sexual conduct, and which is harmful to minors, he intentionally uses any computer communication system allowing the input, output, or examination or transfer, of computer data or computer programs from one computer to another, to initiate or engage in such communication with a person who is a minor; and by means of such communication he importunes, invites, or induces a minor to engage in sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct or anal sexual performance, obscene sexual performance, or sexual conduct for his benefit.... | |
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