The Los Angeles Times may be in play, and three Los Angeles billionaires are reportedly in the hunt for the paper, the U.S.'s fourth largest.

But the NYT's David Carr asks why they might be able to run it better when experienced newspaper operators have struggled to keep the numbers up.

The AP story from Yahoo! News. Today's instalment: One of the dinner party guests and Pammy Anderson:

Ronald Miller, of Natchez, Miss., was baffled by the ruse. He and his wife attended a dinner at a plantation house, which they were told would be an interview with an "Eastern European television reporter coming to Natchez to film social customs in the South," he told the AP.

Borat disturbed guests, Miller said, by making anti-Semitic remarks and saying slavery was wonderful. He also invited a dinner guest — a woman posing as a prostitute — to join the group.

In another scene in the film, former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson was attacked by Borat's alter ego at a book signing, and he later chased her through a parking lot.

Did she learn of his antics in advance? Yep, claims Anderson.

"I love Borat ... Of course (Sacha) and I planned this years ago," she wrote in a recent post on her Web site. "And it turned out perfect -- I'm so happy for him."

Here's my review -- written well before I learned of all these stunning acts of betrayal. :)

 I rather suspected the black hooker was an actor, not just a regular working girl.

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