I knew all of those except the breakdancing, and it doesn't really surprise me.
This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Oct 07, 2009 6:43:41 pm PDT #12763 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
amych - Oct 07, 2009 6:45:43 pm PDT #12764 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Definitely knew kibbutz, model, history (oddly, in spite of not being much of a fan -- I must have read some article). The theater roles were totally unsurprising for the kind of shows that seriously talented people do in college. And I'd heard but didn't actively remember the breakdance thing, which I find hilarious because I knew so damned many affluent white suburban Jewish kids with a deep connection to performing hip-hop on the bar mitzvah circuit.
DavidS - Oct 07, 2009 6:55:35 pm PDT #12765 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Okay, did you know that "Baron" isn't his middle name?
His last name is "Baron Cohen."
SailAweigh - Oct 07, 2009 6:58:02 pm PDT #12766 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
His last name is "Baron Cohen."
Huh. I would expect it to be hyphenated.
amych - Oct 07, 2009 6:59:14 pm PDT #12767 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yes. They're a ridiculously talented family. Why are you trying so hard to impress with the Baron Cohen knowledges?
Hil R. - Oct 07, 2009 7:02:06 pm PDT #12768 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yep. His cousin is the Simon Baron Cohen who's really active in research into autism.
DavidS - Oct 07, 2009 7:05:01 pm PDT #12769 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Why are you trying so hard to impress with the Baron Cohen knowledges?
I'm not trying to impress. I'm just trying to figure out what is close to common knowledge. I have to write something on him and don't want to lead with the equivalent of: "Though he has played antisemitic characters he is in fact an observant Jew. Shocking!"
Hil R. - Oct 07, 2009 7:06:14 pm PDT #12770 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I have to write something on him and don't want to lead with the equivalent of: "Though he has played antisemitic characters he is in fact an observant Jew. Shocking!"
At the beginning of Borat, the conversations that he has with his wife in Khazakh are actually in Hebrew.
beth b - Oct 07, 2009 7:07:39 pm PDT #12771 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Doe it help that I know none of this?
or am I just tragically unhip?
erikaj - Oct 07, 2009 7:09:17 pm PDT #12772 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I did not know these things, Hecubus.