Witness: He Fired Two Shots
BLITZER: Here's a look at this hour's "Hot Shots". In Tunisia, families of people killed during the revolution demonstrate outside the Ministry of Defense. In Senegal (ph) people line up to vote in one of the most fierce presidential elections in that country's history. In Burma a woman arranges dozens of fish at a market. And in South Korea, presidential body guards trained in marital arts rehearse security procedures. "Hot Shots", pictures coming in from around the world. He wasn't nominated for an Academy Award, but the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen made his presence felt literally on the red carpet. Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.</s>JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He may be best known as Borat, but when Sacha Baron Cohen has a new character to publicize it's time to kick some ash at the Oscars.</s>MOOS: This time he's a dictator.</s>MOOS: And it was fake ashes from a fellow dictator, North Korea's Kim Jong Il that got spilled on the host of E!'s red carpet coverage.</s>MOOS: Ryan Seacrest later told CNN that when he agreed to interview Baron Cohen in character, he figured something would happen though he says he didn't know what.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If somebody asks you what you're wearing, you will say Kim Jong Il</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Have fun this evening.</s>MOOS: And though some reported Seacrest was angry --</s>MOOS: -- the E! producers milked the moment with slow-motion replay.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh my --</s>MOOS (on camera): Now just to be completely accurate, if you asked Ryan Seacrest what he was wearing, it wasn't Kim Jong Il. It was actually pancake mix. (voice-over): Seacrest seemed fine about the prank afterwards, tweeting a joke about hosting a pancake breakfast. Actually, the person most put off by the stunt seemed to be Donald Trump.</s>DONALD TRUMP: I thought it was a disgrace. That security guard on the right was pathetic. He wouldn't work for me for 15 seconds. That guy, they should have pummeled him, pummeled him to the ground.</s>MOOS: But instead of getting pummeled, Baron Cohen attended the show. Oscar producer Brian Grasher (ph) told E! he dropped by Baron Cohen's (ph) dressing room, worried he'd interrupt the actual show.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But he promised me that he wouldn't.</s>MOOS: Stunts on the Oscar red carpet are rare and relatively tame. For instance, there was the time that creators of "South Park" cross dressed as Gwyneth Paltrow (ph) and J-Lo.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a night of magic.</s>MOOS: Actually, the real J-Lo's dress this year was one of the hottest topics. Did anything show? Angelina Jolie showed lots and lots of her right leg. Both Angelina's leg and J-Lo's nipple soon had their own fake Twitter accounts. Did you see me? Is there a best undressed? J-Lo met Seacrest minutes after he was dusted --</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What happened?</s>MOOS: And Tina Fey posed reverently bowing to Kim Jong Il's fake ashes --</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're a victim of comedy.</s>MOOS: Comedy that had to be vacuumed up. It was the urn that kept turning and earning laughs. Jeanne Moos,</s>CNN. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dictator, look this way, give us that love right there, man.</s>MOOS: New York.</s>BLITZER: That's it for me. Thanks very much for watching. I'm Wolf Blitzer in THE STIUATION ROOM. The news continues next on CNN.