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Well, that's one way to turn heads on the red carpet.

When Sacha Baron Cohen made his much-anticipated arrival on the red carpet Sunday night outside Los Angeles's Hollywood and Highland Center for the 84th annual Academy Awards, the Dictator star carried an unexpected accessory: a prop urn filled, tongue-in-cheek, with what he said were the ashes of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who died last December.