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Overheard (and paraphrased) on day two of Toronto:
“Were you at that midnight ‘Borat’ premiere last night? It was like a rock concert, so many people trying to get in.
“But the projector broke down after the first 20 minutes. [Sympathetic groan from listener.] No — it got better: Turns out Michael Moore was in the crowd, and he thought he could fix the projector. That didn’t work, but he and [“Borat” director] Larry Charles got on stage and talked to the audience for a long time.
“When that petered out, and the projector still wasn’t fixed, Sacha Baron Cohen came out on stage in character as Borat! He said, ‘They must have the same projector here we have in Kazakhstan.’ He was hilarious — people were going crazy. When he showed up on the red carpet before the screening, he was in a cart pulled by donkeys.
“They’re rescheduling a make-up screening for tonight. I don’t mind re-watching the beginning: That 20 minutes was the funniest thing I’ve seen in decades, and people were laughing so loud I missed half the dialogue.”
Nice surprise unrelated to “Borat”:
Sitting down for the Will Ferrell comedy “Stranger Than Fiction” and hearing the opening scenes accompanied by the familiar chords of Spoon’s “The Way We Get By.” Britt Daniel gets credit as the co-writer of music for the movie, but fans shouldn’t come expecting lots of new material — for the most part, the filmmakers just took familiar Spoon tracks and stripped the vocals out.
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