{"id":184,"date":"2007-12-04T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=184"},"modified":"2018-12-08T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:02:58","slug":"late-entry-in-the-borat-lawsuit-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/04\/late-entry-in-the-borat-lawsuit-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Entry In The BORAT Lawsuit Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although more than a year has passed since it first hit theaters and became the surprise comedy hit of the season, Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan<\/strong> has attracted yet another lawsuit.<\/p>\n

This time driving instructor Michael Psenicska is claiming he was duped by the production, stating he was told they were making a “documentary about the integration of foreign people into the American way of life” according to a report from Reuters<\/a>. The lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court and names British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays the title role, One America Productions and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., a unit of News Corp. and Todd Lewis, a representative of One America, as defendants.<\/p>\n

Psenicska stated he was paid $500 to give Baron Cohen’s obnoxious and oblivious reporter character Borat a driving lesson, during which Borat swerved crazily, drank and tried to proposition passing female motorists for “sexy time.” The lawsuit seeks $400,000 in actual damages and additional punitive damages for misleading Psenicska and for alleged emotional harm he continues to suffer.<\/p>\n

This marks the fifth time that a lawsuit has been filed against the movie, Baron Cohen and Twentieth Century Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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