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CNN SUNDAY MORNING 07:00
May 23, 2004 Sunday
Moore Wins Palme d'Or for 'Fahrenheit 911
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SOPHIA CHOI: Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore scored a big victory at Cannes with a critical look at President George Bush. Moore hopes the attention will cut through studio problems, so he can show his film "Fahrenheit 9-11" to American audiences.
CNN's Chris Burns reports.
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QUENTIN TARANTINO, JURY MEMBER, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: The jury is proud to award the Palme d'Or this year of the Cannes Film Festival to "Fahrenheit 9-11".
CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Michael Moore's film takes the top honor at Cannes from a nine member jury, that included four Americans. Director Quentin Tarantino presiding.
MICHAEL MOORE: Many people want the truth to be put away, to be put in the closet. And you've taken it out of the closet by this act.
BURNS: "Fahrenheit 9-11" questions President Bush's election victory, contends that the Bush administration failed to connect the dots before September 11, and says the Bush family had close business ties with the Saudis, including the bin Laden family before the attacks.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In his first eight months in office, before September 11, George W. Bush was on vacation, according to "The Washington Post," 42 percent of the time.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I hit every shot good. People saying it wouldn't work.
BURNS: Well, that's the entire media clip released here at Cannes, Moore's film laces already existing news footage in Iraq and elsewhere with original film, including an emotional interview with a mother whose son died in Iraq and some ambush journalism of Moore asking congressmen why their sons aren't serving there.
Moore, who won at Cannes two years ago with his anti-gun film, "Bowling for Columbine," joked about Miramax's parent company Disney refusing to distribute his new film in the United States. Disney has recently agreed to sell the distribution rights back to Miramax.
MOORE: We have a distributor now in Albania that we just were told. So now every country in the world can see this film, except one.
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Could be. It's tough finding details for the "documentary". MM has two websites in addition to michaelmoore.com, dogeatdogfilms.com and theawfultruth.com. The last two weren't loading for me for a few hours but they seem to have come back online now.
Monday, April 07 2003 @ 10:47 AM EST
Contributed by: tomw CBSNEWS.com - Army Marine Sgt. Michael Pedersen, 26, of Flint, Mich., joined the Army right out of high school and was a great father to his 7-year-old daughter, his widow said April 5.
A Flint, Mich., native who was one of six soldiers killed in the crash of an Army Black Hawk helicopter during a fire fight in Iraq, was a helicopter crew chief with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division based in Fort Steward, Ga.
"He was a quiet person," said his wife, Chanel Pedersen, 24. "A great father. He loved his daughter. He was an excellent soldier."
She said she met her husband while growing up in Flint. She said they attended the same high school before they married in 1997, but had been separated at the time of his death.
In recent days, Chanel Pedersen said she has told their daughter, Destiny, that her father won't be back.
"She's doing fine. I explained to her that her father is with Jesus," Chanel Pedersen said. "We're pretty much coping."