When Frat Guys Go Wild: 2 Sue, 1 Says "It Was Fun"
BORAT’S bear has not sued the producers. Yet.
Funny, those RV-rocking South Carolina fraternity brothers seemed so eager to discuss women, minorities and the long-ago South.
But being in BORAT bites, say the two out of the three garrulous, beer-drinking So they’re suing the film’s producers, 20th Century Fox, for fraud and misappropriation of their likenesses, claiming that they signed the release to appear in the film when they were drunk. They are seeking unspecified damages.
Though the lawsuit doesn’t identify the aggrieved parties, FHM has an interview with one of the three, David Corcoran, a Chi Psi brother who says he didn’t know who Borat was until a friend looked him up on the internet. “My first thought was, ‘What if my mom finds out?'” (That’s all in November FHM with Jeri Ryan on the cover. The issue’s theme is, apparently, boobs.).
ABC News Radio also spoke to Corcoran, in a story dated Nov. 10. ABC’s item notes, “Corcoran’s recollection largely coincides with the plaintiffs’ account” of how they were talent-spotted and signed up by the BORAT producers.
According to Corcoran’s FHM interview, “This guy said they were filming a Kazakh reporter who wanted to hang out with frat guys. They met 10 of us and I guess chose the three who wouldn’t recognize Borat.”
A South Carolina news website has this story — it predates the lawsuit.
The complaint, as quoted in the Variety coverage, goes like this: “The depiction created by the defendants were offensive and objectionable to plaintiffs and to a reasonable person of ordinary sensibilities in that it made plaintiffs the objects of ridicule, humiliation (and) loss of reputation.”
For a sober look at what it was like to fall prey to Borat, read this essay by Linda Stein, who representated the Veteran Feminists of America. While she’s not pleased with the encounter, she did retain a copy of the standard release form she signed before going on camera.
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