Sacha Baron Cohen is back, and he's fooling people again. His latest victim is a former Mossad agent who was duped by Cohen's character Bruno, a fictional German rock star.

In an interview with former Israeli Defense Forces officer Yossi Alpher, Cohen made light of the the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and feigned confusion over the differences between Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization, and humous, the tasty chickpea spread. Another particularly amusing exchange was when Cohen stated that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict was not so bas as the conflict between Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston. It slowly dawned on Alpher that perhaps something less than serious was going on.

popslant  is happy to see Cohen return to his roots and back in fine interviewing form. Borat had its funny moments, but was mostly insipid. Let's hope this new film production is better.

We love Photoshopped images, and one of the best places to see some good Photoshops is at Pixeloo.Blogpsot.com. Pixeloo has some great "Untooned" cartoon characters featuring some great work. The creepiest is the realistic version of Homer Simpson, but we were drawn to the Jessica Rabbit image for some reason...

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Springtime is here, Iron Man is in the theaters, but I'm already looking ahead to... Christmas? That's because that's when the Frank Miller version of the The Spirit hits theaters, and it is quite an anticipatory thing indeed.

For those of you who may not be familiar with The Spirit, let me just say that it was one of the most cerebral newspaper comic of its time. Created in 1940 by Will Eisner as the lead feature of a comic book insert to Sunday newspapers, the stories evolved from crime-fighter vs. criminal plot-lines to include such diverse themes as a momentary stoppage of time (A Time-Stop!), the tense environment of quiet sounds or the absence thereof (Quiet!) or detailed character studies of the psychosis of a criminal (The Meanest Man In The World). The artwork was executed in a dark and moody film-noir scheme uncommon in Sunday newspapers comics of the time and which suited the story-lines well.

popslant  believes that taking this character and adding the current film-noir innovation of Frank Miller should result in one of the best film releases of 2008.

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