It'll be Oscar time soon, and already the infuration (is that a word? it should be) is starting. Exhibit A: Michael Moore's opus Bowling for Columbine has been nominated for "top screenplay" by the Writer's Guild of America. Funny, I thought a "screenplay" was this thing where you either wrote, or adapted from another work, a bunch of dialogue for different actors to say, along with a bunch of scenes, with the result being, oh, something like this. I didn't think that some guy filming himself going around the country being obnoxious to real people fell under this definition. That goes to show you how little I know of screenwriting, I guess.
Speaking of Fat Mike, I was at my friend's house the other day and we were watching tapes of The Daily Show (he tapes it because he's at work when it's on, and asleep by the time it repeats -- having a small child will do that to you). He had about a week's worth of the show on tape that he hadn't seen yet. The interviewee on the first episode we watched happened to be Mr. Moore himself. Someone had managed to stuff Moore into a halfway-decent looking suit, that even managed to fit his vast bulk (man he has porked out since that TV Nation stuff), and they had hosed off his flop-sweat and scraped the five-o'clock shadow down to a mere mist. In other words, he looked halfway decent and not like one of the scary Mumbling Starers that you encounter at the bus station at dawn. I wonder if the ever-more-distinguished John Stewart had anything to do with getting Moore to spiff up. Anyway, Stewart asked Moore how he was feeling about all his success yadda yadda. Did he feel great about it? Well, fuck me if Moore didn't go into this shoulder-hunching, downcast-eyed, fame-ain't-what-it's-made-out-to-be act. I swear he was actually going to say "I feel humble, Jon," but some last shred of decency in the man stopped him. After this bit, my friend decided life was too short to bother with this fellow, and hit the fast forward button.
Posted by Andrea Harris at February 7, 2003 11:34 PMMoore has a shred of decency? Who would have thought so? Don't worry, it will pass.
Posted by: Michael Lonie at February 8, 2003 at 01:48 AMWell, Bowling For Credibility is fiction...
Posted by: Craig Ranapia at February 8, 2003 at 04:22 AMI think that Michael Moore has more guts than anyone I know. People talk about how free America is but just can't seem to take the heat when someone enacts that. It is unfortunate that America still lives in a bubblel not wanting to discuss the real issues.
Posted by: Sherice at March 24, 2003 at 10:50 AMSherice, honey, calling someone out on their lies and propaganda disguised as "non-fiction," or even simply disagreeing with them, does not at all encroach upon their ability to continue to lie. It's too bad you seem to live in a "bubblel" (sic) and can't handle it when your hero gets some well-deserved criticism. And speaking of guts -- yeah, he sure does have a lot of those. How does he find belts that fit? Oh -- you were talking about his character. Never mind.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 24, 2003 at 12:31 PMIn fact, Sherice, it's the other way around: Michael Moore and club are mortified and threatened by the fact that the freedom of expression includes the ability to tell someone that they're full of it, heckles and all.
Posted by: Michael Ubaldi at March 24, 2003 at 02:08 PMmichael moore is one of the few decent ppl left in the world. perhaps when you all learn to read you might just pick up some of his works and learn something. stop pretending that its all fine, and that your media is telling you the truth. wake up, before you fall into that deep hole of inanity that the rest of america is already in. you may be the most powerful country in the world, but you certainly aren't the brightest
Posted by: janie at March 24, 2003 at 09:19 PMJanie, hon, Mr. Moore is already married, I believe. By the way, if we're so dumb, how come you haven't discovered the shift key yet? Here's how to use it: you hold it down and depress one of the letter keys at the same time, and you'll get the upper-case version of that letter! It will make your little admonishments on other people's intelligence or lack thereof rather more persuasive if you use correct grammar.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 24, 2003 at 09:47 PMAndrea, biach, I mean hon, your condesending attitude will never win others to your side. You want to change someone's attitude, show some class and lose the 'tude.
Posted by: Vance at March 25, 2003 at 05:58 PMAndrea, biach, I mean hon, your condesending attitude will never win others to your side. You want to change someone's attitude, show some class and lose the 'tude.
Posted by: Vance at March 25, 2003 at 05:59 PMAndrea, biach, I mean hon, your condesending attitude will never win others to your side. You want to change someone's attitude, show some class and lose the 'tude.
Posted by: Vance at March 25, 2003 at 06:00 PMAndrea, biach, I mean hon, your condesending attitude will never win others to your side. You want to change someone's attitude, show some class and lose the 'tude.
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Posted by: Kevin McGehee at March 25, 2003 at 06:30 PMMust be the effects of that echo in Vance's empty skull skull skull.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 25, 2003 at 10:58 PM