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		2009

		26/1 -	The film's release date is pushed back from 15th May 2009 to 10th July 2009. [MORE] [ADD]

		15/3 -	Cohen premieres 22 minutes of footage from the film to an audience of less than 300 at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. [MORE] [ADD]

		19/3 -	The Smoking Gun website reveals that the Bruno production team have created a number of fake production houses with websites to conceal Sacha Baron Cohen's true identity from potential interview subjects. [MORE] [ADD]

		30/3 -	The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) issues the film with an NC-17 rating, preventing anyone under the age of 17 from seeing it. [MORE] [ADD]

		17/4 -	The film is re-classified with an R-rating after Cohen edits a number of scenes. [MORE] [ADD]

		17/4 -	U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, an unsuspecting interview victim of Cohen's alter-ego Bruno, vents his anger after seeing himself in the film's trailer. 'I don't like the way he lies his way into interviews. That to me is fraud.' Paul fumed. [MORE] [ADD]

		31/5 -	In his latest publicity stunt 'Bruno,' dressed in a buttock-revealing thong, descends in a harness from the ceiling at the MTV Movie Awards into the lap of rapper Eminem. [MORE] [ADD]

		3/6 -	Richelle Olson sues Cohen for an unspecified sum after she claims she suffered 'brain bleeds' that left her confined to a wheelchair following an altercation during filming of Bruno in a bingo hall in 2007. [MORE] [ADD]

		4/6 -	Eminem reveals that the incident at the MTV Movie Awards which resulted in him storming out to his trailer after Bruno landed in his lap was staged. [MORE] [ADD]

		8/6 -	Cohen's lawyers demand that Richelle Olson retracts her lawsuit. with threats that they will pursue fines, damages and attorneys' fees if she continues with her 'frivolous' legal action. [MORE] [ADD]

		15/6 -	Cohen promotes the film in Paris, driving a car fitted with feathers and the head of a swan down the Champs-Élysées accompanied by an entourage of models. [MORE] [ADD]

		17/6 -	Cohen appears dressed as a kinky Buckingham Palace guard for the British premiere of the film at London's Leicester Square. [MORE] [ADD]

		18/6 -	Cohen appears dressed as a bull outside the Las Ventas bullring for the film's Spanish premiere. [MORE] [ADD]

		26/6 -	A joke relating to Michael Jackson is hastily removed from the film following the singer's sudden death. [MORE] [ADD]

		29/6 -	Followed by a bevy of bikini-clad models, Cohen marches down Market Street in Sydney, Australia dressed in a typically camp British Knight's suit of armour to promote the release of the film Down Under. [MORE] [ADD]

		9/7 -	The filmmakers confirm that a scene featuring La Toya Jackson which was cut from the film immediately after her brother's death will not be re-inserted at a later date. [MORE] [ADD]

		13/7 -	The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation [GLAAD] officially registers its disapproval of the film, stating that the film 'decreases the public's comfort with gay people.' [MORE] [ADD]

		13/7 -	Richelle Olson changes her lawsuit against Cohen from a charge of 'assault and battery' to 'emotional distress' after NBC Universal claim they have footage that proves Cohen never touched the alleged victim. [MORE] [ADD]

		13/7 -	Opening box office for the US release of Bruno is a healthy $14.4 million on Friday, but plummets by 39% the following day. [MORE] [ADD]

		14/7 -	Bruno goes straight to the top of the UK box office on its opening weekend with a gross of more than 35 million. [MORE] [ADD]

		14/7 -	Universal announces that the film will be released in an edited ‘15’ certificate version on 24^th July 2009 to allow younger fans to enjoy it. [MORE] [ADD]

		15/7 -	The film is banned by Ukraine's Ministry of Culture and Tourism because it is considered immoral. [MORE] [ADD]

		23/7 -	The Sun newspaper reports that the film’s production company has received a request from the British monarchy for a private screening of the film at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. [MORE] [ADD]

		23/7 -	Rumours circulate that Cohen has stepped up protection for himself and his family after receiving death threats from a terrorist group. [MORE] [ADD]

		8/9 -	Posters for the film are banned from Hong Kong’s train stations because of the Chinese wording of the title which suggests that Bruno strips naked and chases American men for sex. [MORE] [ADD]

		29/9 -	The film is banned in Malaysia because of its sexual content according to a member of the country’s National Film Censorship Board. [MORE] [ADD]

	10/12 -	A Bethlehem shopkeeper sues Sacha Baron Cohen, talk show host David Letterman and others for libel and slander after he is described as a terrorist in the film. [MORE]



	2008

	7/7 -	Cohen claims one of his first victims for the film when he tricks Israeli analyst Yossi Alpher into giving Bruno an interview. [MORE] [ADD]

	9/7 -	The Smoking Gun website posts copies of adverts placed by the filmmakers to lure unsuspecting Arkansans to events in Texakarna and Fort Smith featuring one-dollar beer, 'hot chicks' and 'hard-core fights.' [MORE] [ADD]

	28/9 -	Cohen, in the guise of Bruno, creates havoc at the Milan Fashion Show when he manages to avoid security and make his way onto the catwalk during the Agata Ruiz de la Prada show. He is quickly arrested and the video is almost immediately uploaded onto the internet. [MORE] [ADD]

	3/10 -	'Bruno' is thrown out of the Jc De Castebajac show at Paris Fashion Week after climbing onto the catwalk and attempting to pass a note to the models. [MORE] [ADD]

	Oct -	Websites around the world mistakenly announce the full title of the film to be Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt after a spoof article appears on Defamer.com. [MORE] [ADD]

	2/11	Cohen is seen at the Yes to Proposition 8 anti-gay marriage rally in the persona of Straight Dave, a character from the film. [MORE] [ADD]

	7/11 -	Filming of the NBC TV show Medium is temporarily suspended when Cohen, disguised as Bruno, repeatedly disrupts the shooting of a courtroom scene. [MORE] [ADD]



	2010

	27/10 -	Cameraman Mike Skiff sues Sacha Baron Cohen for $25,000 for violating his civil rights when he was manhandled by a film crew filming Cohen in his ‘Bruno’ character during a gay marriage rally in Los Angeles in 2008

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