'Borat' draws another lawsuit in New York

June 08, 2007 NEW YORK - The hit movie and lawsuit magnet "Borat" has drawn yet another court action, this time from a man filmed running away from the fictional Kazakh television reporter on the streets of New York City. Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was driven by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's improvised encounters with ordinary Americans who become his unsuspecting comic foils. A man anonymously identified as John Doe sued 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., in federal court in Manhattan last week over the scene in which he is seen "fleeing in apparent terror, screaming for Mr. Cohen to 'go away,'" court documents say.

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