Posted on 06/17/2004 8:34:47 PM PDT by Bulldogger
Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 may have scored the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, but there's one person who isn't too thrilled with the picture: celebrated sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury, whose 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 gave Moore the inspiration for his title in the first place.
"No. 1, he didn't ask (permission), and, No. 2, he took it -- period," Bradbury tells PEOPLE. " Even if he did ask, what he has done is a crime."
Speaking from his Los Angeles home Wednesday, the 83-year-old author said he never would have allowed Moore to use the name, " because it doesn't belong to him. It belongs to me. I have several new editions of the book coming out this summer. I have a new film version of Fahrenheit 451 with Mel Gibson starring, and it is going into production sometime in the next six months."
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Michael Moore don't have to follow no steeenkin' rules!
How about posting the whole article. I'm not the only one who doesn't have access to AOL.
Remember how Moore was trying to get people to believe Mel was supporting his film?
Do I smell pig fat burning???
Updated: 12:23 PM EDT
Ray Bradbury Burns Michael Moore Over 'Fahrenheit'
By Oliver Jones and Stephen M. Silverman, People
Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 may have scored the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, but there's one person who isn't too thrilled with the picture: celebrated sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury, whose 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 gave Moore the inspiration for his title in the first place.
AP
Bradbury is upset that Moore appropriated the title of his anti-censorship book, 'Fahrenheit 451.'
"No. 1, he didn't ask (permission), and, No. 2, he took it -- period," Bradbury tells PEOPLE. " Even if he did ask, what he has done is a crime."
Speaking from his Los Angeles home Wednesday, the 83-year-old author said he never would have allowed Moore to use the name, " because it doesn't belong to him. It belongs to me. I have several new editions of the book coming out this summer. I have a new film version of Fahrenheit 451 with Mel Gibson starring, and it is going into production sometime in the next six months."
Bradbury said that Moore, 50, contacted him only last Saturday -- months after the controversial movie started making headlines.
" He was embarrassed because he didn't want to call me," said Bradbury, adding that he felt Moore was " forced into" making the call and that the filmmaker hasn't offered to screen the film for him.
" He didn't want to face me," says Bradbury. " He is supposedly a big fan of mine and read my work years ago. Now suddenly he has to call someone he has been reading for most of his life and apologize for what he did."
Moore wasn't immediately available for comment on the matter.
Bradbury's novel, which deals with book burning (paper ignites at a temperature of 451 degrees Fahrenheit), is standard reading in American high schools and has fans all over the world.
" I got a letter from Paris today from a friend of mine saying, 'What about this Michael Moore? How dare he do that to you?'" huffs Bradbury. " A lot of people are on my side."
Bradbury suggests it all could have been avoided had Moore asked properly -- six months ago. When he spoke to Moore last weekend, Bradbury said he told Moore, " What I want is for you to give me my book and my title back."
Bradbury even suggested a way for Moore to handle it: " Let's have a ceremony with the press there, and at the ceremony you hand a metaphorical copy of my book back to me with the title."
That way, Bradbury told Moore, " You're a good soul for owning up to it, then I accept you giving it back to me, and I am a good soul for forgiving you."
And Moore's response? " He said, 'Well, it is an awful long way down the line for that.'"
Lawsuit time, Michael.
Thank you, sweet Julie.
I don't think these socialists will sue each other
Can I sue in Ray Bradbury's favor? Maybe I can hire Michael Newdow's lawyer...
Socialists live for lawsuits.
Just wait until the movie comes out -
If they filmed it the way I've imagined it, it will just look like a documentary of life and television today, with our attrocious "reality" shows.
This fat slug ought to have his feet put to the fire in court by Ray Bradbury.
Why not? It's the money that counts. Since when did they care for each other?
There are so many different factions among liberals---they are going to end up "eating" each other: The unions (who are supposed to be in the Lib pocket) are giving heck to the Dems in Boston. The enviro-whackos are trying to destroy the auto industry. There are more examples, but I'm too tired to think of them.
This article tones down a lot of his dislike of Mr. Moore's tactics.
He is somewhere between conservative and libertarian.
This fat slug ought to have his feet put to the fire in court by Ray Bradbury........BUMP
Crockumentary Bump!
Yes, it is a sanitized version of Bradbury's true reactions to Moore's 'theft' of his illustrious title.
Fahrenheit 911 -
The exact temperature which would have to be reached to melt all of Michael Moore's flab.
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