‘Bruno’ causes British tourist boom in Austria

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - 50 Cent believes his soon-to-be-released album, Before I Self Destruct could make more impact than his debut record, Get Rich or Die Tryin', even though it may not "sell as much". The BBC quoted The New York-born rapper as saying: "I had more time to work on this record.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - Pop diva Madonna has banned Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan's entry to a VIP party in a hotel. The 51-year-old singer ordered her security team not to allow Lohan in the VIP booth at an opening party for the Boom Boom Room nightclub at The Standard Hotel in New York, reported contactmusic.com.

July 23rd, 2009 LONDON - The British Royal Family has reportedly requested a private screening of the film "Bruno", featuring Sacha Baron Cohen as a gay Austrian fashion reporter. Universal Studios was said to have received an official email from Buckingham Palace, requesting a copy of the mockumentary comedy although which members of the Windsor family will be seeing it remains unknown.

July 23rd, 2009 LONDON - The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have requested Universal Studios for a copy of the controversial movie "Bruno" starring Sacha Baron Cohen. "We often get e-mails from important people requesting prints for private screenings.

July 19th, 2009 NEW YORK - Comedy star Sacha Baron Cohen says he will say goodbye to his Bruno character once he has finished promoting the movie. In his new big screen outing, Cohen plays a gay Austrian fashionista and he has stayed in the character for almost all public appearances and interviews promoting the movie, imdb.com reports.

July 16th, 2009 LONDON - British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen's new movie Bruno has been banned by authorities in Ukraine because they feared the comedy will damage the morality of locals. Bruno stars Cohen as gay Austrian fashionista Bruno and has been a success in the US and Britain.

July 14th, 2009 LONDON - Brit comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's film 'Bruno' will now also have a special 15-certificate version, after many under 18 youngsters thronged movie theatres to view it. The move was announced by studio chiefs on July 13, after hordes of young fans had to be turned away from cinemas that were showing the above 18 version, reports the Sun.

July 13th, 2009 LONDON - Brit comedian Sacha Baron Cohen gave cinemagoers watching the New York screening of Bruno more than they bargained for, when he gatecrashed the movie. Cohen, 37, stunned fans when he stormed into Times Square's AMC Empire cinema as his gay Austrian fashionista creation, dressed in a silver uniform and revealing red thong.

July 9th, 2009 LONDON - A new version of film Bruno, with a scene featuring Michael Jackson's sister cut out from it, has been approved by the British Board of Film Classification. The scene, which showed fashionista Bruno forcing La Toya Jackson to eat sushi off the naked bodies of workmen, was cut after her brother's death on June 25.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Michael Jackson's rented Los Angeles mansion, where he suffered his fatal heart attack, may soon be put on a tour map. French fashion mogul Christian Audigier, a friend of the late singer, is said to be planning to buy the property and open it as a memorial.

July 1st, 2009 LONDON - Bruno, the alter ego of British satirist Sacha Baron Cohen, has called Madonna a 'transsexual child catcher'. The comedian used his character in the upcoming film 'Bruno' to hit out at the Queen of Pop, once a pal, during an interview, reports the Mirror.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Sacha Baron Cohen and his fiancee/actress Isla Fisher have put their wedding plans on hold, for the Brit comedian is busy promoting his new film 'Bruno', where he plays a gay fashion designer. The couple have been together for seven years and originally intended to get hitched in August 2006, reports the Daily Star.

June 19th, 2009 LONDON - Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has claimed that she is such a big fan of 'Bruno'-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest alter ego-that she has even named her son after him. Bruno is a fictional gay Austrian fashion reporter portrayed by Baron Cohen, who interviews unsuspecting guests about topics like fashion, entertainment, celebrities and homosexuality The 49-year-old British cook has two children Cosima, 14, and Bruno, 12, from her first marriage to the late journalist John Diamond.

June 18th, 2009 Baron Cohen's Bruno has military flair at premiereLONDON — Sacha Baron Cohen made a grand entrance Wednesday for the British premiere of his new mock documentary "Bruno," turning up in a skimpy variation of the uniforms worn by Buckingham Palace guards. The British comedian came in character as Bruno in a towering bearskin hat, a red military waistcoat and tight black shorts.

June 18th, 2009 LONDON - Brit comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has posed naked as Bruno for the cover of GQ magazine. The picture shows Cohen wearing nothing as he sits posing with a coiffed and highlighted fringe and pout, reports the Mirror.