George Saunders doesn't seem to much like Borat.

The people of Glod, Romania, are surprised and unhappy to learn of the Borat movie. Though the vice-mayor downplays the newspaper's reporting, in a Borat-like statement: "They got paid so I am sure they are happy. These gypsies will even kill their own father for money."

Bonus factoid: "Glod" means "mud" in Romanian.

Newsweek's web site on Adrienne Shelley's death and her undeserved obscurity before her murder became tabloid fodder. Her best movie, "Trust", still isn't available on DVD.

Salon also has a good roundup of Borat links.

And Overlawyered has links to the latest Borat lawsuit. Apparently, brotherhood only goes so far, though Chi Psi is sufficiently unconcerned by sexism to, say, end its discriminatory admissions policies.

He relies heavily on editing. Here's a tale of an interview where the target held his own, and, thus, missed out his chance to be in the #1 movie in America. (via Kevin MD)

She was one of my favorite actresses. I learned about it only through a google search that hit my blog by accident.

Prosecutors have charged a man with murdering actress Adrienne Shelly, who was found hanging from a shower rod in her West Village office last Wednesday, CBS 2 News has learned. Sources tell CBS 2’s Ti-Hua Chang a construction worker has allegedly confessed to the crime.

Police have charged 19-year-old Diego Pillco, of the 300-block of Prospect Avenue in Brooklyn, with second degree murder.

Sources tell CBS 2’s Ti-Hua Chang that Pillco, a construction worker, apparently confessed to the crime.

Pillco was expected to be arraigned Tuesday on the second-degree murder charge, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office said.

Pillco allegedly punched the 5-foot-2 actress after she complained about the noise he was making in the West Village apartment building where her office is located, killing her.

He then allegedly admitted to dragging the body up to her office, and positioning her in the shower to make her death look like a suicide.

The medical examiner's office had not yet ruled whether the death of the petite actress best known for her roles in the Hal Hartley films "Trust" and "The Unbelievable Truth" was a homicide or a suicide.

Police had been hesitant to label the case a suicide after no suicide note was found and sneaker prints that didn't match Shelly's shoes were found in the bathtub.

Shelly, whose birth name was Adrienne Levine, was found by her husband, Andy Ostroy, Wednesday evening hanging from a shower rod in the bathtub of a Greenwich Village apartment which she uses as her office.

New York Times obituary. MeFi discussion.

A Chi Psi frat-boy asks for advice after unwittingly being in the #1 movie in America, refuting Richard Roeper's claim that that scene was staged.

One scene that was not staged was the dinner party; this year-old article indicates how much editing was done. Though I think Borat's closing line as leaving was looped in later.

Here's contemporaneous news coverage of Borat's appearance at the rodeo; the paper figured it out a week later.

Borat's appearance at WAPT got a producer fired (scroll down, third story). Always google your guests.

Where's the definitive answer on whether Pamela Anderson was in on the joke at the "Kazakh wedding ceremony"? Wikipedia says staged and ad-libbed. A companion thought that improbable because Anderson's not that good an actress, but Anderson is not unfamiliar with Cohen in real life. Kenneth Turan's review suggests it was not staged.

The tie-in book will not be sold in the US because of nudity.

Borat-related litigation, including a suit in Germany that resulted in censorship of the film there.

Other deleted scenes. Repetition is funny. Repetition is funny.

Update: Still more links to victims at the USA Today Blog, including a link to a MTV.com Pamela Anderson interview on one of the world's most annoying websites. This post has links USA Today doesn't, though.