Bruno
| 4:00PM 9/16/2009
A fresh new study about how consumers use Twitter to talk about brands is being published in an upcoming issue of "The Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology," shedding some light on how many people are Tweeting about brands and what they're saying.
The study done at...
| 4:00PM 7/16/2009
Only a decade ago, when those attending a highly-publicized film on opening night realized they were watching a bomb, they would race home and phone a friend, who would phone a friend, and in a week or so the word would have spread enough to kill sales. In the era of Twitter, that week delay has...
| 10:30AM 7/14/2009
Twitter killed Bruno in 24-hours. Or did it?
Once the negative tweets starting pouring in from cinemagoers, the much anticipated docu-comedy by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (of Borat fame) never had a chance, says Richard Corliss, Time magazine's media critic. That, according to Corliss,...
| 12:04AM 6/29/2009
Three years after playing Borat and acting like a doofus on screen, Sacha Baron Cohen is at it again, this time as "Bruno," in which he plays an Australian fashion reporter (the mind reels), which opens July 10.Free tickets to premieres of the movie are available online by filling out an online...
| 2:30PM 6/24/2009
Advertisers aren't the only ones using nudity -- or, more often, coy near-nudity -- to raise eyebrows and sales. It's also a favorite trick of magazine editors, as GQ reminds us with its July issue.
The cover features Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen in character as Bruno, a gay Austrian fashion...