Borat and Bobcat

Chris Tilly endures a unique 24 hours of LFF madness.

Oct 27 2006

It’s certainly been a strange 24 hours in the life of The TOMB. It all started yesterday, when your intrepid online editor went to meet childhood hero Bobcat Goldthwait.

For those not in the know (ie anyone who wasn't a child of the '80s), Bobcat was a stand-up comic who found big screen fame as punk-turned-cop Zed in several of the 'Police Academy' films.

He's spent the last decade working as a voiceover artist and TV director, and he's currently in the UK to promote his third feature film, 'Sleeping Dogs Lie'.

A splendidly black comedy about a sweet young girl harbouring a dark secret from her sexual past, the film will be released next February (as the anti-Valentine movie apparently), and we'll publish the full interview nearer the time.

But if, like me, you miss those heady 'Academy' days, I've got good news from Zed himself. Were the long-mooted 'Police Academy' reunion pic ever to get off the ground, he's keen (if only so he doesn't look like the one asshole who says no). So quick – somebody call Steve Guttenberg!

Today then brought its own brand of bizarreness in the shape of a 'Borat' press conference.

A shambles from start to finish (an hour late while the writers wrote answers to his questions, no mics for the journalists asking said Q's) it nevertheless turned out to be hilarious.

Borat bounded up on stage and proceeded to discuss the pressing matters of the day, from the death of Diana and Madonna's adoption to his opinion of George W's father, Barbara (she's very strong, apparently).

Refusing to accept questions from women, he then gave the stock answers he's given at every press conference and premiere he's appeared at this past month, yet still they made us laugh. And he gave me a kiss. On both cheeks. Can't ask for more than that.

Tonight it's the 'Breaking and Entering' premiere and after party, of which I'll have a full report on Monday.

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