Skater vs. Instigator
November 06, 2006
SHE BECAME a hero in America when she won a figure skating silver medal at the Olympic Games in Torino. He became persona non grata in Kazakhstan when he created Borat, a fictional journalist whose exploits come to the big screen this week in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Do Sasha Cohen and Sacha Baron Cohen have more in common than a name?
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Sasha |
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Sacha |
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Milk. Reflection in her online journal: "I always wanted to be in a milk advertisement." |
MOUSTACHE |
Bushy. Wrote on Maxim website: "Ladies like very much big moustache. I wishing mine was more." |
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Sequined skirt leaving little to the imagination. |
ATHLETIC ATTIRE |
Tank top, short shorts leaving little to the imagination. |
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Came in 4th in 2002 Olympics. |
FAMOUS FOURTH |
Borat's sister is "Number 4 prostitute in all of Kazakhstan." |
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Silver medal from Turin. |
PRIZED POSSESSION |
Baywatch book he stole from a yard sale. |
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Appeared at Rodeo Drive Walk of Style last March. |
RODEO INCIDENT |
Butchered national anthem at a rodeo in Massachusetts. |
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Was a guest at the White House Easter Egg Roll last April. |
MEETING THE PRESIDENT |
Showed up outside the White House in September and attempted, unsuccessfully, to deliver invitations to Borat (and a postfilm cocktail party at Hooters) to "George Walter Bush and other American dignitaries." |
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Skated to Romeo and Juliet in Turin. |
MUSIC |
Sang Throw the Jew Down the Well in Tucson. |
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Journal entry from Japan: "When I walk the streets of Tokyo I actually feel tall." |
OVERSEAS TRAVEL |
Arrived in U.S. with a live chicken in his suitcase. |
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Snowboarder Shaun (The Flying Tomato) White confessed he had a crush on her. |
RED-HEADED ROMANCE |
Cohen is engaged to Wedding Crashers star Isla Fisher. |
SHE BECAME a hero in America when she won a figure skating silver medal at the Olympic Games in Torino. He became persona non grata in Kazakhstan when he created Borat, a fictional journalist whose exploits come to the big screen this week in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Do Sasha Cohen and Sacha Baron Cohen have more in common than a name?
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