Don’t always be so quick to sign releases to appear in films, folks — the courts seem to side with the filmmakers. They’ve thrown out three more lawsuits against the producers of the Borat film by people who either disliked the way they were portrayed in the film or wanted a cut of its profits.

The Baltimore-based driver’s education teacher who gets behind the wheel with Borat and two etiquette coaches (including the one who had to explain that human feces belong in the toilet, not at the dinner table) each sued Cohen and 20th Century Fox for allegedly engaging in fraudulent tactics to get them to appear on film.

But U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska noted in her Sept. 3 ruling that all three plaintiffs consented to participating in a “documentary-style movie” by accepting money for their efforts and signing releases that freed the filmmakers from liability.

So far, none of the unwitting stars of the Borat film have been successful in their lawsuits. All have been dismissed.

Oy vey!

Trouble abounds in Borat-ville!

Sacha Baron Cohen was supposed to get hitched to baby mama Isla Fisher this summer, but that’ll have to be postponed, because Isla’s been slacking on all the studying she needs to do to convert to Judaism. She’s doing it “part-time,” apparently, but her “full-time” job is filming Confessions of a Shopaholic.

It doesn’t seem like Sacha’s too concerned about this, but you know who is? HIS JEWISH MOTHER. Oh, yes.

Says a source: “Isla was supposed to spend her time after giving birth hard at work on her Torah studies, and that’s gone far slower than expected. It’s very much frustrated her future in-laws, especially Sacha’s parents, who were really hoping for a wedding this summer … Right now there’s no wedding date set because Isla hasn’t fully converted yet, and even though she’s working at it part-time, she’s far from being close to completing her studies.”

I guess Isla just wrapped filming on Confessions, and now her soon-to-be in-laws are expecting her to hunker down with the Torah hardcore.

Continues the source: “Sacha is not as worried about the relationship between his parents and Isla as everyone else is because he’s extremely devoted to her and their child. He also believes that putting too much pressure on Isla is only going to make the wedding happen later rather than sooner. He is happy taking his time to get married the same way he was happy having a long engagement. But in the meantime Isla’s had to endure a lot of awkward moments with Sacha’s mother, who just doesn’t seem to understand her future daughter-in-law’s drive to become a big star.”

Ugh. I had to go to Hebrew school (in addition to regular school!) for YEARS when I was a kid so that I could become a full-fledged Jew and then spend the majority of my adulthood attempting to explain to my mother that, yes, Judaism is nice and all, but Jewish men are skinny, short and/or nerdy and I don’t want to go out with them, Mom, even if you are going to pay for the JDate subscription, and yes, Mom, I know there are lots of nice Jewish boys in Los Angeles and maybe if I went to temple more often I’d meet some of them but, see, let me reiterate, Mom, that I don’t really want to date a Jewish guy. Sigh. I kind of represent the reason that old Jews are sad about my generation of Jews. Mainly, we want to date anyone other than our fellow Jews. All that Hebrew-learning, wasted. If I could just hand it over to you, Isla, I would.

Heh.

Anyone know any tall, hot, ripped, funny, smart and awesome Jewish guys living in Seattle? My email address is on the Contact page.

Sacha Baron Cohen makes a rare out-of-character appearance at the press conference for Sweeney Todd.

He’s a cutie!!!

I know he’s not gorgeous in the traditional Brad Pitt sense, but there’s something absolutely adorable about him. Then again, I’m a total sucker for tall, geeky Jewish guys. What can I say? Isla Fisher is a very lucky girl.

This time it’s that driving instructor, who’s suing for $100,000 in compensatory damages and unspecified punitive damages, claiming the producers used fraudulent means to get him to sign the release forms.

He actually came off just fine in the film, but I think he’s pissed that the film made so much money, and he saw none of it.

“There is no way I am going to worry about missing out on work or the pressure to lose weight. At the moment I am not even planning any work. As far as I am concerned I am fully booked up in my personal life and I can’t see beyond that. I plan on just colouring in books. I’ll focus on that for the next few years.”

Isla Fisher, who gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday night. The baby daddy is her fiance, Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Borat).

So I obviously was watching The Golden Globes with a gaggle of women and gay men who all took a collective gasp when hottie Sacha Baron Cohen stepped on stage and began to give his acceptance speech with that super cute accent. Outside of his Borat persona he seems to be a lovely man who is generally humbled by his success.

He is a devout Orthodox Jew who is also engaged to the “crazy chick” from “Wedding Crashers” Isla Fisher. She has recently converted and they will be married this coming year. Me, the ladies and the gays all agree he is quite the dreamboat and cleans up quite well.

Now here’s something you don’t hear a lot of around Hollywood: someone actually asking to have their scene cut. The frat boys who sued 20th Century Fox and the producers of Borat last month have asked a judge to order that their scene be removed from all future copies of the film. While the students signed releases allowing themselves to be used in the footage, they argue that they were drunk and misled when they signed them. The film footage shows the boys making racist statements.

The judge did not issue a ruling on Thursday, but will take the matter under advisement. “I don’t see people falling down or unable to articulate what they were saying,” he said. The students’ lawyer argues that the boys have lost opportunities as a result of being portrayed so negatively in the film. He says one was forced out of a prominent position within his fraternity, and the other missed out on a “prestigious internship” because of the film. “There are a lot of real-life problems raised by the movie,” he said.

“It’s like the Mel Gibson defense,” said an attorney for 20th Century Fox. “I only say the things I did when I’ve had a few drinks.”