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Jim Quinn was just reading from a Wall St. Journal piece explaining how Michael Moore's works all suffer from considerable inaccuracies, in other words, are a pack of lies. I remember reading a movie review in the school paper where Mr. M works. The student writer thought "Bowling for Columbine" was just so insightful and hard-hitting. Of course, it is a pack of lies, but how would this thoroughly indoctrinated college student know that? The movie was categorized as a documentary, not fiction, even though it mostly certainly is the latter.

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THE band played "God Bless America" at Miramax's big pre-Oscar party. Michael Feinstein, who was singing the Irving Berlin classic, urged everyone to join in. Their silence was deafening. Some of the hundreds gathered in a ballroom at the St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles actually got up and walked out in mid-verse.

This is the party where Miramax co-chairmen Harvey and Bob Weinstein hand out chocolate statuettes to all their Oscar nominees the day before the Academy Awards. http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm