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Borat making book Sacha Baron Cohen, who had a stunning smash hit with his first feature, the fake Tocqueville-ian docu about America's Americanness, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, featuring fake Kazakh TV reporter Borat Sagdiyev, is writing a book. The Da Ali G Show creator, whose film made $250 mil worldwide, has signed a deal for a double book - two books in one cover! The doubly titled volume, Borat: Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A. and Borat: Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan will promote international cultural exchange.

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Borat making book

Sacha Baron Cohen

, who had a stunning smash hit with his first feature, the fake

Tocqueville

-ian docu about America's Americanness,

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

, featuring fake Kazakh TV reporter Borat Sagdiyev, is writing a book. The

Da Ali G Show

creator, whose film made $250 mil worldwide, has signed a deal for a double book - two books in one cover! The doubly titled volume,

Borat: Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A.

and

Borat: Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

will promote international cultural exchange.

More! Yes, more, more!

One child is not enough. Not nearly, says

Sheryl Crow

, 45, who tells OK! mag that her adopted son,

Wyatt Steven Crow

, who arrived on earth April 29, will be only the first in a "whole troop" of kids.

"I've always wanted to adopt," says Crow, who broke up with Lance Armstrong in February '06.

"I . . . don't feel any pressure to get married," Crow says. The singer and her "main man," Wyatt, are featured in a mondo pictorial in OK!, which Crow says she approved because the mag offered a lot of $$$ - all of it going to the World Food Program.

Kudos to Cannon

Drumline

star

Nick Cannon

is the first African American actor to receive the Breakthrough Actor of the Year Award from the Studio Magazine/Chopard Revelation Awards, one of the four official events of the Cannes Film Festival.

Cannon, 26, is no newbie: He has been around since All That and The Parkers. He was cited for his role in Emilio Estevez's tribute to Bobby Kennedy, Bobby. Cannon used the words "humbled and grateful," "coveted award," "prestigious event."

Cannon is sharing the prize with newcomer James McAvoy, who carried his own opposite Oscar winner Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland.

Mary-Kate tries 'Weeds'

Media mogul

Mary-Kate

Olsen

will join the cast of Showtime's popular druggie morality play,

Weeds

, in August as Tara, "a devoted Christian girl" who elicits feelings in Nancy Botwin's (

Mary-Louise Parker

) 15-year-old son, Silas (

Hunter Parrish

), who broods a lot.

Bindi: Miss Croc Jr.

"I'm proud to be showing kids that conservation and helping wildlife is a stack of fun." So said

Bindi Irwin

, 8-year-old daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter"

Steve Irwin

, on Friday at the Australian TV launch of

Bindi: The Jungle Girl

, the nature show she hopes will keep her dad's legacy alive. The show will appear in America on the Discovery Kids Channel starting June 9.

Lindsay goes urban, yo

Versatile actress, singer, and Maxim mag Hot 100 babe

Lindsay Lohan

tells MTV.com she plans to take a break from her usual brand of music - suburban strip-mall bubble-gum pop - on her new record, which, she says, will be "urban pop."

L.L.'s lawyer also reveals that the star's 21st birthday party in July will be sponsored by Svedka Vodka.

Sponsored!? Why not? Celebs' life events are perfect existential billboards for consumer goods.