Where does Michael Moore get his chutzpah? Why, from Borat of course! The “rabble-rousing” documentary-maker, no stranger himself to courageous, in-your-face activity in the name of the cause, told The Associated Press last night that Sacha Baron Cohen inspired the crazier moves documented in Moore’s latest film, Sicko. The two became pals at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, where Cohen screened “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” while Moore previewed footage shot for his health-care expose, “Sicko.” They two formed a little mutual-admiration society – with Cohen declaring that Moore’s courageous activities inspired his own outrageous antics as “Borat.” “I said to him, ‘But yeah, I’ve never done anything like wrestle naked with another guy on the floor of an insurance-brokers or mortgage-brokers convention,” Moore told the AP. “So after I saw ‘Borat,’ if he says I was an inspiration for those things, I now have to up the ante for him. So we sailed into the mined waters of Guantanamo Bay with sick 9/11 workers and a bullhorn.” The question is – if each inspires the other to greater heights of outrageousness and bravery – what can we expect from the next Cohen film? We can’t wait! -- AD
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