'Bruno' Enrages LA Schools Chief

LOS ANGELES — The chief of the nation's second-largest school district is fuming over comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's magazine photo shoot with high school football players.

Los Angeles Superintendent Ramon Cortines isn't amused by the GQ magazine photos shot at Birmingham High School that feature the "Borat" star in his new incarnation as gay Austrian fashionista "Bruno."

The GQ cover story features pictures of Baron Cohen wearing shoulder pads, tight red shorts, an athletic cup and little else as he poses with football players at the school in the San Fernando Valley.

Cortines says the district "allowed our students to be used." He says the photos violate the district's policy on use of the school's name, and he has punished the principal and athletic director. Cortines would not provide details.

Comments

[JailNeoconVicts]

Oh, for heaven's sake, grow a sense of humor. I bet that was the highlight of the year for those students!

[Dannydel]

Stop having FUN you kids!

[JailNeoconVicts]

Get off my lawn!

[useyourbrain]

"And, no talking!" (Robert Klein routine about public schools)

[Marcus Hopkins]

You can bet that there'd be no faux outcry if the centerpiece of the photo had been Megan Fox. Christofascists, go home!

[Feanor]

Bingo!

[maxwellinformed]

Soo you're comparing 'Bruno' to Megan Fox? Interesting.

[JumpDownTurnAround]

No just pointing out the double standard and the hypocrisy!

[Knowledgeseeker]

maybe these kids parents are religious conservatives.

[BikeFreak]

This is getting so old.

How much can you beat a dead horse?

[JumpDownTurnAround]

Apparently until the movie opens!

[redsongia]

SBC doesn't stay in character as Bruno as much as with Borat. He was on Conan and kept slipping in to a British accent.

[vedder110]

It's his least funny character, but it's still pretty funny nonetheless.

[MyrtleJune]

Who give a crap? This is stupid.

[Jason Abdon]

Bruno!

[PresidentRobertBooth]

Would they be whining about being "used" if they were posing with a bikini-clad woman?


I think not.

[redsongia]

so true!

[GoDogGo]

Clllllassic! I love that this stuff makes news! It's a great idea and the players in the photo are clearly along for the "disruption" involved in this gag.

Sasha Cohen is surely among the great performance artists of the century.

[alliee hope]

you're kidding, right?

[someotheroxford]

No, really, I agree, he is. For a while, anyway. As long as he can keep making some of us laugh while simultaneously making others of us highly offended, the statement is true.

True Art always subverts accepted taboos somehow. Go study Marcel Duchamp for a few months, then you'll get it.

[moonflowerjewelry]

who cares?

[DrJon]

If public education wasn't already a joke, this would be even funnier.

[hunt49]

Thanks for perpetuating a right-winger talking point. Care to discuss educational policy? Or just being flippant and fallacious?

[DrJon]

No, not flip or fallacious, I just hate school teachers!

[PresidentRobertBooth]

***If public education wasn't already a joke, this would be even funnier***

You're right.

If only public education could match the educational standards of private institutions, like Liberty University.

[williamina]

weird

[SkuddGobang]

Not sure what there is to be "enraged" about, but considering how f@#$%ing over-exposed he's become, I'm really looking forward to that movie being over and done-with.

[SlimPickins79]

if only it had been sarah palin exploiting them it would have been more acceptable

[OliverTwist]

Ziiing!

[Forester]

Those kids know whats up. Its a joke on the establishment.