Woman who BORAT gave a bag full of feces to seeks investigation

[Herman Munster]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061117/D8LEJ0S80.html

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The owner of an etiquette business who was handed a plastic bag supposedly containing feces in the hit movie "Borat" says she was told the filming would be used for a documentary in Belarus.

Cindy Streit said she filed a complaint Thursday with California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, requesting an investigation into possible violations of the California Unfair Trade Practices Act.

Streit said that a representative from a Los Angeles-based company called Springland Films contacted her Birmingham, Ala.-based company, Etiquette Training Services, about arranging an etiquette session for an "international guest from Belarus Television."

Attempts to find a contact for Springland were not successful. The company had no phone listing and Streit's lawyers declined to provide copies of the contracts allegedly signed.

[madmusic]

1. Who knows? It's a gravy train now and anything is possible.

[TexasLawyer]

2. I've seen interviews where Cohen

has talked about his contracts. The contracts have terms like "to be shown to audiences in Belarus or elsewhere."

[ShaneGR]

3. ya, it's really tricky.... legally

He's basically lying to people and then talking them into signing contracts that use phrasing to distort. I think it's all really funny, but from a legal perspective you're bound to get sued by a lot of people. But what do they care, they've got the money to pay for the lawsuits.

[fujiyama]

4. He did make them sign contracts

and they were worded pretty vaguely. But I agree it's tricky. I think most of these suits will ultimately be thrown out though.