Have we forgotten that Borat is still really funny?
I really think that I saw something eerily like this at a reception dinner in Croatia.

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Every few weeks The Beet will get an email from someone upset at something that we have written. We secretly love these emails because we know that we are hitting a nerve. For the famous, and want to be famous, really any publicity is good publicity. Don’t believe me? Paris Hilton is the best example. Linsday Lohan secretly owes the paparazzi for her career. Getting your name out there is the name of the game.

The President of Kazaskstan thankfully has realized this idea that any publicity is good publicity and in an article for The Hollywood Reporter he has stated, “This film was created by a comedian so let’s laugh at it, that’s my attitude.”

Finally somebody gets that this movie is a joke. Though, “Baron Cohen’s jokes have become a public relations headache for Kazakhstan as the former Soviet state seeks to portray itself as a modern nation of well-educated professionals and a major non-OPEC oil exporter,” the President Nursultan Nazarbayev thankfully has taken the high road and simply enjoyed his country’s name recognition in the world.

If you haven’t seen this movie it is worth the hype. Plus, I heard “Babel” was the worst movie ever.

Rachel Weisz says it’s okay to drink while you’re pregnant. “Amen to that,” says Lindsay Lohan’s mom. [Cele|Bitchy]

If there is, in fact, a way to get America to a film version of Sweeney Todd, it’s probably Borat. [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]

Shocker of shockers. Justin Timberlake is out and about, being a self-absorbed ass. [Girls Talkin' Smack, Pop on the Pop]

Oprah and her couch are not invited to the TomKat wedding. [Bossip]

If Paris and Nicole can be BFF again, perhaps there’s hope for Britney and Madonna? [The Bosh]

You should return that bulk purchase of lube to Costco, guys. There won’t be an Eva Longoria/Beyonce lesbo flick afterall. [Junkiness]

Michelle Trachtenberg and DJ AM? In my mind, this is the definitive answer to “Which B-list celebs do you care about the absolute least?” But apparently they’re also banging. [A Socialite's Life]

Sacha Baron Cohen, who stars in the Borat movie, may want to consider breaking character every now and then. Cohen approached a man on the streets of NYC and said to him, in character, “I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it.”

The man was not amused, and promptly punched Cohen in the face. Who came to his rescue? Pal and fellow Brit Hugh Laurie, who plays the title character on Fox’s House. Laurie was on his way to a bar with Cohen. Hm. Borat and House. That’s a spinoff I’d watch.

Here’s what I want to know: how come this shit never happened to Tom Green?

Sacha Baron Cohen’s film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, will only open in 800 theaters, as opposed to the previously planned 2000. “Our research showed it was soft in awareness,” says Fox’s distribution chief. A recent survey revealed that only 27% of moviegoers were aware of the Borat movie.

Honestly, I’d make a Borat-related joke here, but I’m with the rest of the country: I’ve got no idea who this character is. So the headline’s as good as it gets.