I had my doubts about Sascha Baron Cohen being able to top Borat in his next movie Bruno - based on his gay austrian TV character from the Ali G show - but sounds like he's right on track to do just that, based on write-ups from an early screening of 20 minutes of the movie:

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The first sequence showed Bruno interviewing unsuspecting parents about what their toddlers could and couldn’t do in a photoshoot. “Is your baby comfortable with bees, wasps, and hornets?” Bruno asks. These stage moms are willing to put their children through anything just for a shot in front of the camera. Bruno then steps it up and asks how much one woman’s daughter weighs. “About 30 pounds” the woman replies. Bruno says “I’m not looking for the Scarlett Johansson type, I’m looking for the Nicole Ritchie type…can your daughter lose 10 pounds in 7 days?”

“We can try. I think she can do it” the woman responds. “Would you consider liposuction?” Bruno asks, and the woman replies “If she can’t lose the weight in 7 days we’d consider that as a last resort”. Next we find out the gig includes the girl dressing up as a Nazi officer, pushing a wheelbarrow with another 3 year old dressed as a Jew into a furnace. “It sounds theatrical. As long as she gets the gig” the woman says.

The second sequence is from later on in the film when Bruno appears on a Jerry Springer -style talk show in leather pants, looking for Mr. Right. Members of the predominantly black studio audience are appalled by his in-your-face homosexuality, and they get even angrier when he brings out his adopted black baby and shows them a self-consciously artsy photograph of the child posing as Jesus on a cross. Although it appears there are a few plants in the crowd to ask the right questions, the majority of them seem genuinely disgusted as they storm out.

www.thebrunomovie.com -- ETA July 10, 2009