Smoking Aces

BoxofficeMojo.com

Here's some statistics for "Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" taken from BoxofficeMojo.com.

• Production Budget: 18 million
• Opening Weekend: 26.5 million
• Domestic: 103.5 million
• Worldwide: 169.5 million

But it's not all smooth sailing for the movie. They're being sued by the Romanian village:

Two Romanians who featured in Borat are suing 20th Century Fox for $30m (£16m), claiming they and their neighbours were depicted as rapists and criminals.

...as well as the frat kids that made racist comments:

Two US students are suing a film studio claiming they were duped into appearing in spoof movie Borat starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a Kazakh journalist.

Michael Richards Racist Rant

If you haven't already seen it:



Nowadays, with cell phone cameras, you can't say ANYTHING without expecting to be caught on video. They must have really pushed him hard.

Here's his attempt at an apology on Letterman.

Forbes 11 Richest Canadians of 2006

World Rank /Name /Age /Worth in Billions
9 /Kenneth Thomson & family / 82 / 19.6
59 /Galen Weston & family / 65 / 8.4
106 /James, Arthur & John Irving / NA / 5.5
114 /Jeffrey Skoll / 41 / 5.0
174 /Paul Desmarais / 79 / 3.8
181 /Bernard (Barry) Sherman / 64 / 3.7
194 /Jim Pattison / 77 / 3.5
224 /Robert Miller / 60 / 3.0
224 /Edward Rogers / 72 / 3.0
258 /Charles Bronfman / 74 / 2.7
317 /Emanuele Saputo & family / 69 / 2.4

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