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Borat is bad karma for Dharma
Posted on November 6, 2006 1:54 PM
Sacha Baron Cohen may be topping the box office charts as Borat in "Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (not to mention pissing off movie ticket clerks who have to hear that title repeated by moviegoers for several hours each night), but he's persona non grata to a former US TV producer named Dharma Arthur, sez Fox News (scrolling on down please)...
“He started acting crazy. For a minute I thought he was going to open his shirt and pull out a gun. I thought, oh dear, I’ve let a lunatic in.�Dharma would have lost her job sooner, but then Hurricane Katrina hit and she stayed on a few more months before losing her job and becoming unemployed for three months...
Arthur tried to abort the live interview and switch to a commercial, but there was a problem. “The equipment had frozen up. We tried to do it, but couldn’t.�
McMullan managed to end the interview, and Arthur — as you see in the movie — thought that was it. But as an intern escorted Borat out, he headed into the live weather segment and continued to upset the apple cart, so to speak. The weather guy pushed Borat off his set toward the female anchor, who was offstage. “She panicked slightly,� said Arthur.
The three months of unemployment was a disaster. Thanks to Katrina, Arthur’s home in Jackson had substantial damage. She moved to another small home in Panama City, where she grew up. But she missed mortgage payments on both. “I had to borrow money to get out of foreclosure,� she said. “My credit cards were cancelled.�Need I say she won't be going to see Borat in theaters?
All told, she was in the red for about $6,500. “That’s not a lot in New York,� she said, “but here it’s everything.�
Arthur still cannot get a home phone in Panama City, and of course she has no cable. She says she has a hole in her car “the size of a serving tray� that’s patched with tape.
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