After playing Signor Adolfo Pirelli in the recent movie release of "Sweeney Todd", it looks as Sacha Baron Cohen (of Borat fame) might be becoming a choice pick for directors, or maybe just the soup du jour. Steven Spielberg is making an adaptation of the "Trial of the Chicago 7" and Cohen is to be cast as the "self-identified Jewish Road Warrior, communo-anarchist, social and political activist," Abbie Hoffman. The co-founder of the Youth International......

Actor and comedian-chameleon Sasha Baron Cohen admitted in an interview yesterday that the characters that made him famous, Ali G and Borat, will be retired from his repetoire. Borat, the improbably cuddly anti-Semitic Kazakhstani innocent abroad, whose antics and exploits were made famous in a highly successful 2006 film, transformed Baron Cohen from a popular British comedian to a world-wide phenomenon. But he broke the news in a Daily Telegraph interview that Borat, he......

(l-r): Billy Bob Thornton, Marty Stuart, Porter Wagoner, and Dwight Yoakam perform a surprise set before Neko Case @ The Henry Fonda Theatre. Photo courtesy Ice Cream Man. For the first time in recent history, Hollywood was rattled by bonafide foot-stomping. Many in the audience at the Music Box last night had no idea what was taking place when Neko Case announced Porter Wagoner's intention to take over Hollywood. But a historic buzz took......

Of the three characters that Sasha Baron Cohen does, Bruno is my least-favorite. Does that make me a Tim Hardaway? I hope not. While we were watching the NBA dunk contest we started fighting about Borat vs Bruno vs Ali G and the Bruno supporters pointed to this video that just happened to be about our town.......

I have a nice friend who hooked me up to see a special screening of the new Borat movie. Not only was we able to get to go to the screening, but we were on "the list" and got to get out of the long line, bypass all the riff-raff and make our way into the theater to take the primo seats behind the super primo seats that were reserved for "PRESS". And let......

Andrew Sullivan has posted an e-mail deriding the liberal bias of HBO shows. The past two episodes of "Six Feet Under" on HBO (July 18 and 25) included several anti-Bush lines spoken by the performers, plus a prominent product placement for an anti-Republican book. None of these occurences advanced a story line or character; they were gratuitous throwaways. Here, as best as I can recollect, is what I saw: In the July 18 episode, Nat......

LAist is still sweating after last night's harrowing slate of L.A.-themed television on HBO. First off, you've got the new series Entourage, produced by Mark Wahlberg. This show covers the slice of Los Angeles that our site tends to avoid - it's about a preening, air-headed movie star who lives the good life with a posse of high school friends. It's received good reviews, but we wonder, why? It doesn't take a lot of creativity......