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MEMBER OF N.Y. FILM CRITICS CIRCLE BLASTS MICHAEL MOORE FOR NO-SHOW Tuesday, January 11 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The lead film critic of the New York Daily News has taken Michael Moore to task for ditching an appearance at the New York Film Critics Circle dinner awards ceremony where he would have picked up a Best Documentary award for Fahrenheit 9/11 and instead flying to California to receive the favorite movie award on the televised People's Choice Awards. Saying that Moore's actions deserved an award for "Slight of the Year," Jack Mathews commented, "He chose the nonaward over the award, the patronizing...

Got this from Goldderby.com, a site that monitors awards shows.: GoldDerby.com Exclusive Newsbreak: 'FAHRENHEIT 9/11' WILL WIN BEST PICTURE AT THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS THIS SUNDAY NIGHT Possible Scandal: Michael Moore Has Been Tipped Off in Advance and Will Accept from TV "President" Martin Sheen Awardwatchers Wonder: Will Controversy Cause the FCC to Investigate the People's Choice Awardcast on CBS? Oscarwatchers Wonder: Can "Fahrenheit's" Victory Bolster Its Chance to Win Best Picture at the Oscars? NEW YORK CITY (Jan. 7, 2005, GoldDerby.com) -- George W. Bush may have been the American people's choice for President in 2004, but the People's...

During World War II, Frank Capra made a series of films called "Why We Fight" to rally Americans behind the war effort. Imagine a filmmaker doing that today. Actually, it's impossible to imagine. Hollywood either prefers to stay away from the war on terrorism altogether (the film version of Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears" changed the villains from Islamist extremists to neo-Nazis) or to use it, even in its pre-9/11 form, as a morality play to warn against lost civil liberties (see "The Siege," starring Denzel Washington). The film community — whose exquisite sensibilities are routinely outraged by...

Ho / Reuters File -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Fahrenheit 9/11” (Michael Moore). Political cartoonists have won Pulitzers for more partisan attacks than Moore’s indictment of the Bush administration, yet he’s been pilloried by the right and the left. Yes, the movie is guilty of cheap shots, but in a year crowded with political documentaries (“Bush’s Brain,” “Outfoxed”), “Fahrenheit” gradually emerged as the most entertaining and the most prophetic. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6738144/

An honored friend, charging that there has been anti-Semitism on the air, sends along the offending transcript, and I read through MSNBC's Scarborough Country (for Dec. 8) and found some noisy people discussing Hollywood. The question before the house: Will The Passion of the Christ win the relevant Oscar, or will it be Fahrenheit 9/11? The seven guests of Pat Buchanan, who was the mc that evening, included a rabbi (Shmuley Boteach) and the president of the Catholic League (Bill Donohue). The Catholic League ("The Nation's Largest Catholic Civil Rights Organization") fashions itself after the Anti-Defamation League of the Jewish...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 - Are movies growing bigger as theater audiences are becoming smaller? That's one conclusion to draw from the box-office results of 2004, as Hollywood pursued its penchant for big-budget event films - from Warner Brothers' "Troy" to 20th Century Fox's "I, Robot," to Sony Pictures' "Spider-Man 2" - but the number of moviegoers in the United States dropped for the second year in a row. With nearly two weeks to go before the end of 2004, domestic box-office receipts appeared likely to top last year's total of $9.27 billion, nearing $9.4 billion, according to Exhibitor Relations,...

1. How CBS and the Kerry campaign allegedly broke federal election law in trying to defeat President Bush. This is the subject of a Federal Election Commission complaint. 2. How liberals tried to use federal agencies to delay or censor Sinclair Broadcasting's airing of Stolen Honor, showing how John Kerry's anti-war testimony led to the torture of our Vietnam POWs. 3. The lies and inaccuracies in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, including the claim that the FBI didn't screen the Saudis who were in the U.S. and left shortly after 9/11 for terrorist connections. Also, Moore's claim on his web site...

Cast Your Vote! ...Barbra Streisand Posted on December 9, 2004 Michael Moore's documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, has been nominated for "Favorite Movie" in the 31st Annual People's Choice Awards. Winners will be decided this year by online voting. To cast your vote, please click on the link below: http://www.pcavote.com/voting/film/f01.shtml

Vote so Fahrenheit 9/11 does not win!

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Michael Moore (courtesy United Artists) Don't blame Hollywood for Sen. John Kerry's defeat in the presidential election last month, says filmmaker Michael Moore, who insists activist entertainers made the race closer than it would have been otherwise. Reacting to charges that his polarizing activism galvanized Republicans, Moore -- director of the provacative, anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- contended Kerry lost the race simply because he was "not the best candidate." "For the last month, we've had to listen to a lot of conservative pundits talk about how Democrats need to run away from Hollywood," Moore told reporters before addressing...

HOLLYWOOD - Chopping logs. Taking long walks in the woods outside his home in northern Michigan. Reading the latest Robert B. Parker detective novel. Going to church on Sunday. And catching up on sleep. That's how filmmaker Michael Moore is spending his time these days. He's no longer sparring with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly or trying to sway opinion with his Bush-bashing "Fahrenheit 9/11," but is instead watching "Desperate Housewives" with his wife, Kathleen Glynn. Taking a postelection breather before launching into an Oscar campaign that he hopes will earn his documentary a best picture nomination, Moore is also preparing...

Colorado peace-niks have found a new hero. The featured speaker this weekend will be Abdul Henderson, the Marine who appeared in Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, saying that he would not return to Iraq if ordered to do so.

From the liberal left, it was the most vitriolic, vicious, and nasty campaign in history. Political opposition to President Bush evolved quickly into outright personal hatred. The liberal left went into a bizarre frenzy of multiple attacks, from MoveOn.org to ''Fahrenheit 9/11.'' It wasn’t just John Kerry doing it. It was also the people he surrounded himself with and those whom he placed on stage with himself. It went well beyond the loony left stretching the truth, making mountains out of molehills, and poking some fun at the Bush mis-speaks. The old days of challenging the administration policies and then...

DIRECTOR Michael Moore, whose anti-Iraq war film Fahrenheit 9/11 touched off a firestorm of controversy, topped an annual list today of Hollywood's least-intriguing celebrities. The outspoken documentary-maker ranks No.1 on this year's Frigid 50 published by online movie magazine FilmThreat.com. The website, known for an anti-establishment take on the entertainment industry, said its list named the stars it found to be the "least-inspiring, least-intriguing people in Hollywood". Ranked No.2 was actress Halle Berry, who followed up her Oscar-winning turn in Monster's Ball with less critically lauded roles in such films as Gothica and Catwoman. "The Frigid 50 ice pack have...

SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) - A community college instructor who was suspended for showing "Fahrenheit 9/11" in class the week before the presidential election is offering no apologies and says he was unfairly punished. Davis March showed the Michael Moore documentary critical of President Bush to his film class. Administrators pulled the plug on the movie with about 20 minutes left when March tried to show it to English composition students. "This story is now about academic freedom ... the movie is ancient history," said March, who served a four-day suspension and returned Nov. 2 to Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, about 45...

The Osama bin Laden video tape was big news in the final days of the campaign, and this news event was spun by the media so as not to benefit Bush. A Washington Post story by Dana Priest and Walter Pincus said that bin Laden had "injected himself into the final days of the U.S. presidential campaign, warning that American voters will be held accountable for electing any president who seeks to destroy al Qaeda and persecutes Muslims." But near the end of the article, if you read that far, the authors cited evidence that bin Laden was on the...

Though snubbed for a Golden Globe, Mental Moore is lobbying members of the Academy on behalf of his Kerry campain/Internationalist, socialist propaganda flickum opus, "Fahrenheit 9/11." We all know that many Hollywood careers might have been irrevocably FUBARed on November 3, 2004, but it wasn't their support for Kerry that did it. It was their vitriolic bomb tossing and distrain for 51% of their possible future audience that will come back to bite them in their ends. Those ends being their box office pull. I wonder if they, at this time, have the balls to garner a permeant boycott by...

...The ferocious partisan dissension that has broken out at home over the war on terror dangerously subtracts from the nation's war-fighting effectiveness. • Partisan warfare at home has given credibility and confidence to America's enemies abroad.... • Partisan disunity has damaged America's alliances.... • Hyper-partisanship has weakened America's own war-fighting strength.... It's essential to acknowledge mistakes and learn from them.... At home, ...Democrats will do everything they can to stop [Bush].... There are, however, some actions that might help President Bush introduce some useful bipartisanship to American foreign policy. • Listen: For months after 9/11, President Bush met once a...

By Jim Emerson Editor, RogerEbert.com October 14, 2004Who's the, uh, biggest villain in "Team America"? Kim Jong Il or Hollywood celebrities?"You should learn to keep your opinions OUT of your reviews!" Every critic I know has received at least one letter like that from an indignant reader. Of course, it's an absurd proposition; critics are paid to express their opinions, and the good ones (who exercise what is known across all disciplines as "critical thinking") are also able to cite examples and employ sound reasoning to build an argument, showing you how and why they reached their verdict. Well, since...

Well the fat SOB has finally come out from under his pile of candy bar & cheese burger wrappers to comment on GWB's victory...

11/5/04 Dear Friends, Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of life!' There IS some good news from Tuesday's election. Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists: 1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again. 2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. 3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving...

Im sure many have already done this but everyone should email Mikey moore and let him know that his movie did no good in taking down bush! Sorry but it was kind of a release just to tell him how I felt. HA EMAIL MIKEY MOORE!

Friday, November 5th, 2004 17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists...by Michael Moore Dear Friends, Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, “always look on the bright side of life!” There IS some good news from Tuesday's election. Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists: 1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again. 2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. 3. The only age group in which the...

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If pop culture is a reflection of a nation's values, then the signs of a Bush victory were there a long time ago for anyone to see. There've been two runaway box-office surprises this year: Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." The Bush political team intuitively understood the tone of the U.S. voters much better than the media did. To be honest, I still don't quite understand how certified media junkies like me could have been so wrong. I read the New York Times (NYT: news, chart, profile) and the New Yorker religiously. I...

11/5/04 Dear Friends, Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of life!' There IS some good news from Tuesday's election. Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists: 1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again. 2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. 3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving...

Disclaimer: this talkshow has no transcripts available and it was broadcasted entirely in Chinese (Cantonese). I'm summarizing the important points here for Freepers to know what this famous HK talkshow host is saying. Some of the mainpoints in the programme include: On Michael Moore and Osama bin Laden: Michael Moore is either incredibly dumb or an undercover campaigner for Bush. He (along with OBL) has unwittingly helped Bush thinking his pseudo-documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. There was a scene when Bush learned the attacks in New York on 9/11 and he was frozen and pondering. Moore remarked in the film that Bush...

I received this email because I am subscribed to the moveon.org email blast. It's always good to keep an eye on the enemy. Read and enjoy him trying to put a good spin on the drubbing they received.

From: LB Armstrong Sent: Nov 3, 2004 4:48 PM To: mike@michaelmoore.com Subject: Congrats Moore, I suppose you measure your successes by how much hate mail you receive from your "enemies". I'm the widow of a U.S. Marine and the daughter of a Vietnam hero, who died when I was 8 years old. I don't know if that makes me an enemy or not, but I'd like to say, in response to your shameful USE of our American soldiers and Marines in that pathetic display you created, that you'll go down in the anals, or maybe the anuses, as one of...

In singular moments in our history, the security of the United States hinged on a single presidential election.... Today's vote determines how the United States finishes the present war against terrorists, and, indeed, whether we continue to defeat Islamic fascism.... John Kerry sees our struggle as an unending law enforcement problem, akin to gambling and prostitution. Thus the terrorist attacks of the 1990s were not deadly precursors to 9/11, but belong to a now nostalgic era of "nuisance." In contrast, George W. Bush envisioned September 11 as real war.... Most of Sen. Kerry's allegations about this war ring false or...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Audiences will get another opportunity to view Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" on the eve of the elections when video-on-demand firm CinemaNow will make the controversial documentary available Monday via the Internet. The 122 minute-long movie will be available at 8 p.m. EST for $9.95.

The Deadly Kerry-Hollywood-bin Laden AxisHOW CAN YOU PUT YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES IN ITS HANDS? CONGRATULATIONS, Michael Moore -- America's worst enemy and one of the world's most evil men is a big fan of yours. The most startling moment on the Osama bin Laden videotape shown yesterday was his description of the morning of 9/11, which is certainly derived -- albeit in garbled form -- from a viewing of Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11." "It never occurred to us that he, the commander in chief of the country, would leave 50,000 citizens in the two towers to face those horrors alone, because...

October 30, 2004 -- CONGRATULATIONS, Michael Moore — America's worst enemy and one of the world's most evil men is a big fan of yours. The most startling moment on the Osama bin Laden videotape shown yesterday was his description of the morning of 9/11, which is certainly derived — albeit in garbled form — from a viewing of Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11." "It never occurred to us that he, the commander in chief of the country, would leave 50,000 citizens in the two towers to face those horrors alone, because he thought listening to a child discussing her goats was...

Al Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden paid tribute to leading Kerry supporter, conspiracy filmmaker Michael Moore on Friday, by invoking a scene from his movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" to attack President Bush. In his first appearance on video in more than a year, the delusional terrorist leader described the segment in Moore's film where the president continued to read the children's book "My Pet Goat" to a Florida elementary school class after he got word that America was under attack. "It appeared to Bush," said bin Laden, "that a little girl’s talk about her goat and its butting was more important...

I just visited my local Blockbuster, and I was disgusted to see that they doubled their stock of Fahrenheit 911 rentals this week (From about 20 copies to 40 or so). Now, I know that there may be a renewed interest because we are just days away from a national election, and they may just be trying to meet anticipated demand, but it still seemed a little partisan on the part of the movie rental giant. Am I being paranoid or does Blockbuster have an agenda? BTW - They have one copy of Fahrenhype 911, and another movie called Bush's...

Former Clinton adviser Dick Morris, Democratic Senator Zell Miller, and actor Ron Silver join together in a new DVD to show you the truth that Michael Moore wants to hide from you -- that his film Fahrenheit 9/11 is full of lies and distortions. The DVD Fahrenhype 9/11, featuring Morris, Miller, and Silver, shows you the real story: The footage that Michael Moore left out so he could deliberately deceive his audience about what they were seeing. The facts that he knew but lied about. As Ron Silver said on an interview on Fox News: The Democratic Party should have...

Republicans have an answer to Michael Moore's popular Bush-bashing flick ``Fahrenheit 9/11,'' and they're staging an all-out blitz this week to get people to see it.      ``Celsius 41.11 - The Temperature at Which the Brain Begins to Die'' is a 75-minute film that ``debunks the lies and propaganda'' of the Moore-made flick, according to its maker, Citizens United.      Even the new movie's title is ``a spoof'' of Moore's work, according to CU President David Bossie, also the film's executive producer. ``We think his film brings out the worst in people and that it brought the political debate in America down,...

Mr. Fieger announced that he would donate $2500.00 as a prize in an essay contest. The contest is for High School Seniors to write an essay about the Michigan Film writer, Michael Moore’s movie “Fahrenheit 9/11". Discussion further around the table about this contest being used through a State office. Further discussion on the rules of the contest. Mr. Fieger pointed out that this movie promotes Michigan in the film and to promote film makers to Michigan and hopefully private funding. Discussion on the issue of private funding. Funding to come from corporate contributions and individual contributions.

''Celsius 41.11" has an agenda that's meant to put Michael Moore's ''Fahrenheit 9/11" in its place. In doing so, it assumes the comically defensive attitude of Betty Hutton in ''Annie Get Your Gun": Anything Moore can do, this tedious Bush-besotted lecture can do better. ''Celsius 41.11" refers to the temperature at which the brain starts to die, a fact that the documentary, directed by Kevin Knoblock, is polite enough to tell us, while it shows cruddy footage of a jet flying into the World Trade Center. As you can guess from the two films' competing temperature gauges, Knoblock and Moore...

Election Day -- Nov. 2 -- is highly unlikely to end, but may diminish, the quantity of so-called political documentaries. The sheer volume of movies hammering President George W. Bush and-or defending former President Bill Clinton and presidential nominee-Sen. John Kerry seems to keep reaching a new crescendo. Those that played in Pittsburgh theaters this year alone include "Fahrenheit 9/11," "The Yes Men," "Uncovered: The War on Iraq," "Going Upriver," "The Hunting of the President, "Power Trip," "Outfoxed," "Control Room" and somewhat less directly, "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The Corporation." The few that surfaced from the right received little or...

Just saw Celsius 41.11 (first showing of the first day) and was impressed. It surely won't do the numbers "Fahrenheit 9/11" did (not much of an advertising push, not too many media mentions except maybe conservative talk radio shows) but it does provide a good "fact-checker" for the Moore film and for the current liberal movement. Celsius 41.11 wonders why President Bush is hated by many in this country, even though we seemed so "united" after 9/11. It goes back to the 2000 vote counting controversy, and points out that previous Administrations turned a blind eye to terrorism (and certainly...

Schedule of Events Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:00 pm ET - Join Mike at an old fashioned Support the Troops Rally at the Rose Street Station in Williamsport, PA. Soldiers from Walter Reed Medical Center will be on hand to tell the true story of what's happening in the War on Terror. Auction items to help raise money for our troops will be available. Friday, October 22, 2004 During the show on Friday, be a part of the live broadcast of The Mike Gallagher Show from State College, PA, at the the Holiday Inn Express at Williamsburg Square on Waddle...

ELYRIA — If you want to borrow Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” from the Elyria Public Library, get in line. And if you intended a trip to the library to watch a planned showing of the controversial documentary that skewers President George W. Bush, you’ll probably have to wait until after the Nov. 2 presidential election.

A Tucson woman has succeeded where director Michael Moore failed: She is making sure the anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" gets on television before the Nov. 2 election. Radio producer Elaine Higginbotham has Moore's permission to air the controversial film on local public-access television.

Word that Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" will be shown on cable T-V in Tucson before the November second election. Tucson radio producer Elaine Higginbotham says she's received Moore's permission to air the controversial film on Access Tucson. Higginbotham says she considers airing a film that takes a highly critical look at the U-S war in Iraq as a valuable public service.

But what interested me most was this extended quote from an anti-Bush girl whose father is a public school social studies teacher who uses Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” as a teaching tool in class. “Everything he (Bush) says is pretty much a lie,” said Julia Boyer. “My dad’s a government teacher and he and I watched the debates together and we just roll on the floor laughing. ...” ...Boyer said not only has she seen ["Fahrenheit 9-11"], her family has already ordered three copies of the DVD. “My dad’s using it in class and I am burning myself a copy...

HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- President Fidel Castro fell, possibly breaking his leg, after giving a graduation speech Wednesday in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara. Sending a buzz through the crowd, the 78-year-old leader appeared to trip as he was walking away from the podium. In an effort to calm the crowd, Castro took the microphone after a few minutes, saying: "Just so that there won't be any speculation, it seems that I broke my knee." He apologized for any concerns he may have caused for those who care about him and then joked how his spill was likely...

Michael Kurth, a veteran, said he was opposed to the film Fahrenheit 9/11 based on its R rating and political partisanship. His son, Matthew, 17, said that he put his head on his desk and tried to sleep through it. "It bothered me," he said... Michael Ryals, principal of Pathways Learning Center, said he previewed part of the film before he allowed the teacher to show it in class Friday. "I didn't hear anything that was offensive to me," he told the Beaumont Enterprise in Saturday's editions, adding that he did not know of the R rating.

Michael Moore wants to make illegal, undeclared contributions to the Kerry campaign by making copies of his Fahrenheit 9/11 video available for free. "We believe as many Americans as possible should see this film before the election, before they make up their minds," Moore said. But for some reason, Moore & Co. don’t feel the same way about the “Stolen Honor” documentary. But threats from Democrats prevented its showing at a MOVIE THEATER last night in Pennsylvania. Thus far, the media are allowing this blatant double standard (Kerry speech good, Bush speech bad) to continue unchallenged. If they do, it...

This is a list of theaters that will be showing the film in the coming week/weeks ahead! Alabama RMP Festival Plaza 16 7925 Vaughn Road, Montgomery, AL 36116 Phone: 334-244-1300 Starts on October 22, 2004 Ticket Information Rave RMP Patton Creek 4450 Creekside Ave, Hoover, AL 35244 Ticket Information Rave RMP Lee Branch 15 801 Doug Baker Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35242 Ticket Information Rave RMP Patton Creek 4450 Creekside Ave Hoover, AL 35244 [Back to top] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arizona Harkins Arrowhead Fountains 18 16046 North Arrowhead Fountain Center Drive, Peoria, AZ 85345 Phone: 623-412-0122 Starts on October 22, 2004 Loews Foot...