Great success! Borat actor will make benefit glorious music of Queen!
Sacha Baron Cohen the English actor/comedian behind such characters as Ali G, Bruno, and everyones favorite Kazakh reporter, Borat is gearing up to play another larger-than-life character. Things will be a bit more serious this time, though, since Cohens role will reportedly be that of Freddie Mercury. Thats right: Borat will star in the upcoming Queen biopic.
Johnny Depp was originally considered for the role, but the films producers were more impressed with Cohens physical resemblance to the Queen frontman. Is this too good to be true? Didnt we learn anything from those rumors about Christopher Walken playing Ozzy in the Motley Crüe movie? The BaebleBlog is steering itself for a hard rose of reality
but we can dream, and until somebody tells us otherwise, well be preparing ourselves to watch Cohen sing Fat Bottomed Girls in a spangled leotard. That would be one solid movie-film. Niiice.
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Today in rock 'n' roll history:
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1964: The Moody Blues form in Birmingham, England.
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1972: Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt is born.
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1973: Led Zeppelin embarks on a U.S. tour that will soon be called "biggest and most profitable rock & roll tour in the history of the United States."
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1974: Grand Funk Railroad chugs into the #1 spot with "Loco-motion,"
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1997: Courtney Love places an ad in the
Seattle Times to sell the house she had shared with husband Kurt Cobain. The carriage house in which Kurt shot himself had previously been torn down.
