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Sacha Baron Cohen recently announced that he's "done" with the characters from Da Ali G show. No more G, no more Borat and his cultural learnings, and no more Bruno.

Which makes the arrival on DVD of his latest, and last, cringe-comedy, 'Bruno', on Nov. 17, all the more precious to fans. And with many never-before-seen deleted scenes, we'll all soon get even more opportunities to groan. (Yesterday we showed you the infamous LaToya Jackson clip being restored for the DVD release.)

Sacha Baron Cohen can be rude, outrageous, vulgar and controversial ... but he also can be sensitive.

Just two weeks before Cohen's film 'Bruno' was to open around the country, Michael Jackson died on June 25 and Cohen wisely excised a scene with LaToya Jackson. The scene, which could have been deemed distasteful at the time, will return to the film as part of the Nov. 17 DVD release.

If you got hurt on the job, would you want Sacha Baron Cohen to be your personal injury lawyer?

Variety reports that the 'Bruno' and 'Borat' comic's next leading role -- and his next act of ethnic impersonation -- will be in Universal's 'Accidentes.' He'll play a Latino lawyer in Los Angeles, an ambulance chaser who becomes a working-class hero (and scourge of wealthy and powerful Angelenos) when he represents an immigrant suing his employer over a landscaping accident.

Folks, please try to hold back those tears ... but the summer movie season is officially over. That means that for quite some time to come there will be a distinct lack of $200 million-budgeted movies about Megan Fox's chest, er, gargantuan robots or about a boy wizard grappling with a messianic calling (and puberty) or about an iron-clawed mutant suffering from memory loss. And while for some moviegoers, any tears shed would be of joy over this fact, of one thing there is no doubt: Summer 2009 was epic at the box office. Get the scoop on this summer's B.O. winners ... and losers.

Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Bruno' sashayed its way past 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' and 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs' to claim the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with a fairly sexy $30.4 million opening -- and we want to know what you thought of it.

Did you enjoy the movie's envelope-pushing humor and find it to be a clever indictment of homophobia,? Or were you turned off by the film's explicit/borderline pornographic sex gags and think it reinforced the stereotypes it was trying to subvert? Sound off after the jump.

Moviefone editors Angie Argabrite and Patricia Chui weigh in on 'Bruno' -- funny, or offensive? (Or a little bit of both?)

Plus, rumors that Michael Bay made Megan Fox wash his Ferrari to audition for 'Transformers,' this week's big celeb birthdays, and what's opening in theaters this weekend.

WARNING: NSFW content below. And by "NSFW" we mean not safe for work ... not by a long shot.

On July 10, ist 'Bruno'! Moviegoers across the nation will soon meet the flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista who only wants to be a big star in America, but who instead winds up provoking, bemusing and outraging almost everyone he encounters. Public nakedness tends to do that sometimes.

But this isn't the first time that Bruno (spelled properly as Brüno, but that's a lot harder to type) has affronted and amused the American public. As many TV viewers well know, Bruno originally debuted as a sketch character -- alongside Borat and Ali G -- on Sacha Baron Cohen's series 'Da Ali G Show,' which aired stateside on HBO.

Ready to watch some of Bruno's outrageous 'Da Ali G Show' moments? Break out your headphones, keep an eye out for your boss, and let's go.

Janet Jackson is set to star in Tyler Perry's 'Why Did I Get Married Too,' 'Bruno' cuts Michael Jackson jokes in the wake of the pop icon's death, Johnny Depp and Tim Burton team for 'Dark Shadows,' and more of today's top movie headlines.

With the world still reeling from the tragic news of Michael Jackson's untimely death, Universal Pictures made a game-time decision before last night's US premiere of 'Bruno' to cut a segment of the film that poked fun at the legendary King of Pop.

If there's one thing that Sacha Baron Cohen is good at, besides making us pee our pants with laughter, it's stirring up a hornets' nest of controversy. The British comic follows up his uproariously un-PC flick 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' with the equally un-PC (and, we suspect, equally hilarious) 'Bruno.'

'Bruno' features Baron Cohen as his gay Austrian fashion reporter alter ego, instead of his awkward Kazakhstan nationalist reporter alter ego, but the formula's pretty much the same: infiltrate real-life events and elicit uncomfortable (often racist, sexist, homophobic -- or all three at once) reactions from folks who aren't in on the joke.

It's no surprise, really, that Baron Cohen's antics are the cause of oodles of controversy, lawsuits and embarrassment. Here's a rundown of the contention caused by the movie and its star -- before it's even hit theaters.