Published since 1915 by the students
of Xavier University
Published since 1915 by the students
of Xavier University
Brandy Williams
Asst. Diversions Editor
Newswire Official Rating: 4/5 stars
“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” has to hold the record for the longest movie title as well as the funniest movie of the year. This knee-slapping film pushes every envelope and leaves nothing to the imagination.
Borat The comedy is about a character named Borat Sagdiyev who is a fake Kazakh reporter sent by the Kazakhan government to visit America on a cultural learning experience in order to bring back information and ways to better their primitive country.
Throughout the movie, Sasha Baron Cohen, who plays Borat, a clueless, smelly and mustached moron, plays jokes on the American society in a type of comedic documentary. Cohen’s character points out and underscores issues of race, class, religious tolerance and all manners of American societal ills.
Borat, along with his obese producer Azamat, arrive in New York with a bottle of gypsy tears to protect them from AIDS after traveling from their third world type home where Borat’s sister is the number four prostitute in all of Kazakhastan.
When Borat finds out that his overweight and ugly wife has been mauled and eaten by a bear, he jumps for joy and becomes infatuated with Pamela Anderson after watching his first American television show, “Baywatch.”
The direction of his journey changes as he attempts to travel to Anderson’s California home to “sack her” into marriage. Along the road to discovery, Borat makes several “journalistic” appearances and meets with a group of feminists, with whom he compares the size of the female brain to that of a squirrel.
He accepts an invitation to a racist Southern dinner party to which he invites a black prostitute as his date. He also stumbles upon a Pentecostal mega-church service and begs to be saved by Jesus after he learns from a group of fraternity boys that Pamela Anderson is not a virgin.
Borat also engages in hilarious “learning experiences” as he passes through a gay pride parade, an urban neighborhood and a rodeo show where he proclaims that he supports America’s “war on terror” and that Bush should “drink the blood of every single man, woman and child” in Iraq!
This edgy movie pokes fun at America and foreigners, but if you can take a little senseless humor then it is a must see. Just when you think it can’t get any more ridiculous, it does and you’re left laughing your head off.
Emily Hoferer 
Diversions Editor
Need a good laugh? Come out to Ryan’s Pub at 8 p.m. on Nov. 16 to help decide who is the funniest Muskie on campus and who will take home $400 in cash money!
“The Price Is Right”
Come on down! “The Price is Right” returns to campus so make sure that you get your free ticket from your RA’s office or the GSC by Nov. 17 to win a chance to get great prizes. The event will take place at 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 in the GSC Theatre.
Happy Wok
Late Night Snack
The GSC Late Night Snack will have the tasty food of Happy Wok. If you love Chinese food, you won’t want to miss it at 10 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16 in the GSC food court.
“Animal House” Showing
Looking for something to do after the Late Night Snack? Head over to the GSC Theater to catch a free showing of “Animal House.” The movie is featured as the GSC Classic College Movie at 11 p.m. on Nov. 16.
Musketeer
Masquarade
Get dressed up and put on your masks! The 2006 Homecoming Dance honoring Xavier’s athletics will take place from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18 in the Cintas Banquet Rooms. The dance will feature jugglers, a beer garden, video dj, tarot card readers, caricature artists and more. Tickets are $10 and are on sale now from 11 a.m.-2 p.m in GSC and from 5-6:30 p.m. in the caf Monday-Friday.
