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HOLLYWOOD - Ali G star Sacha Baron Cohen is under fire for playing a trick on anaristocratic family in America's Deep South, after they failed to see the funny
side of his latest race-inspired prank.
The British comic, posing as his documentary-maker alter ego Borat Sagdiyev,
descended on the impressive home of George Matthews Marshall IV, 75, who
believed Cohen was making a film about life in America's southern states.
But Marshall and his daughter Heather were horrified when Cohen started
implying they were racists.
Marshall tells Web site PageSix.com, "Our understanding was that we were going
to have a documentary 'supper' in which they would be learning about the South.
We signed a release because we were trusting. Our ancestors have been in this
house for 152 years.
"In that time, we've never had anyone try to deceive us. This turned out to
be the first unpleasant episode we have experienced since the (19th
century) Civil War.
"They tried to get us to say we approved of slavery. I was, of course,
aghast."
Matters spiralled further out of control when the cheeky funnyman introduced
a raunchy extra character into the situation.
Heather recalls, "Cohen attempted to shock (us) by introducing a black woman
who pretended to be a prostitute. She kissed and groped him at the dining
table." Marshall adds with disgust, "She was a huge woman, grotesquely dressed."
And once the furious family realized they had been tricked, they threw Cohen
and his crew out, who "stayed on the property and banged on the door,
screaming, 'I do not understand your customs!'"
Cohen's publicist Matt Labov says, "I have to give a boring old, 'No
comment.'"
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