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Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?
| Tue, 06-29-2004 - 1:31pm |
Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?
- No
- No, but I plan to
- Yes
You will be able to change your vote.
| Tue, 06-29-2004 - 1:31pm |
You will be able to change your vote.
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It's possible that Moore still had a comfortable childhood. I don't know what his grandfather and father did for GM. One of them or both could have had an executive position. He may have lived in one of the bigger houses in the town, I don't know. That doesn't mean that the loss of income from something like this wouldn't have been equally devastating for all employees when it came. His whole town was impacted and he probably saw friends in even more dire circumstances than himself.
You have to admire someone who tried to bring this to the attention of a wider audience (and try and do it with a little humour).
I do admire humor, and I must say that I enjoyed the film many years ago because of the humor. It did nothing to change my POV, though. Michael Moore's films expose him for the socialist conspiracy chasing nutcase that he is. ;)
"Without music, life is a journey through the desert"...
I'd thought so. Thanks :o)
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Well there's a market for that. And there's quite often a kernal of truth in the things that he says. You don't have to agree with everything. After all nobody's perfect, including Michael Moore.
*singing* God Bless America.
;o)
No sarcasm intended either.
:oD
Edited 9/9/2004 12:12 pm ET ET by suemox
Times: Moore Can't Reprint Article
Sep 10, 11:39 AM EST
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The New York Times will not permit Michael Moore to include an article criticizing its own reporting for an upcoming companion book to the DVD release of the filmmaker's "Fahrenheit 9-11."
"We strongly value The Times's neutrality in its election coverage and we are determined not to associate ourselves with any work in film or print that attacks either candidate," New York Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said in a statement released Thursday.
Moore's "The Official `Fahrenheit 9-11' Reader" is scheduled to come out next month in conjunction with the DVD release of "Fahrenheit 9-11," Moore's take on President Bush, the Iraq war and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The movie, which relentlessly criticizes and ridicules the president, has earned more than $100 million at the box office, a record for a documentary.
The Times article, published in May, was a self-analysis of the newspaper's pre-Iraq war reporting, including Bush administration claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
"In some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged," according to the article.
Moore's publisher, Simon & Schuster, said several other publications granted Moore permission to use material, including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Only the Times refused.
"Michael Moore attracts controversy and this is no exception," David Rosenthal, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and publisher, said in a statement Friday.
"Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival in May, was controversial even before it reached theaters, in July. The movie lost its original distributor when the Walt Disney Co. refused to let subsidiary Miramax Films release it because of its political content.
Miramax chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein bought back the film and arranged for independent distribution through Lions Gate Films and IFC Films.
http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=168465
The last time anyone listened to a Bush, they were lost for 40 years! Looks like we're doomed to "wander" ano
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