Woman fired because of Borat

The new comedy Borat made some audiences double over with laughter this weekend, but a Florida woman who was part of one of his dupes was not among them. TV news producer Dharma Arthur said she lost her job and nearly driven to financial ruin because of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's tricks.

In the Borat movie, the fake Kazakh journalist runs amok during an interview with a local Mississippi news program by making scatological and sexual remarks, wandering around the studio, and interrupting a weather report. Arthur was the producer who booked Borat onto the show, and she claims that her boss lost faith in her abilities after Borat struck. She was let go from her contract early and was forced to move in with her father in Florida. Arthur wrote in Newsweek, "I spiraled into depression. It took me three months to find another job, and now I'm thousands of dollars in debt and struggling to keep my house out of foreclosure."

Baron Cohen and producers of the Borat movie have not commented on Arthur's claims, or on complaints from other people duped for the sake of the movie.

Speaking of movies, Borat told reporters recently that he was a fan of American films and Eddie Murphy: "We are huge fannies of U.S. and A movie films. And we have shown this by manufacturing pirated DVDs of many of them. We like movies of funnyman Edward Murphy. We in Kazakhstan love very much when we see his chocolate face, yes? It is unusual, the color. Not so funny?"
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