Kazakh Attack
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
NOT NICE Sagdiyev • Kazakh'd: How does it feel to be on the receiving end of Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat Sagdiyev character? "I thought I was talking to an uneducated man, maybe from a tribal community ... I mean, that's how it seemed to me," says Linda Stein, an unwitting straight woman in a Borat segment. "I knew something was going on but I didn't know what it was. I'm looking at the cameramen and everyone was stony-faced. And then he would come out with outrageous things," says Grace Welch, another mark. No word on what this dupe thought.
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