Can't he come up w/ anything original????? It's this the name of a new movie??
Oh, and I hope this tape does come out..
CARMICHAEL/LOESSER
According to FoxNews the director of that movie is a Kerry donor:
In case you missed it in this column last Friday, you might like to know that the director of a new feel-good documentary called "America's Heart & Soul" — embraced by some right-wingers as the anti-"Fahrenheit 9/11" — has a secret for his new supporters.He's only made two contributions in the last decade to a politician, and that politician was none other than Sen. John Kerry.
Out of the blue last week came "America's Heart and Soul" from Disney, directed by a guy named Louis Schwartzberg, who has done cinematography for movies like "Men in Black" and "Any Given Sunday," but who has never directed a movie until now. This is the same Disney that rejected Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and usually never releases documentaries anyway. ("F9/11" would have been a Miramax movie.)
Never mind. Last year, just as Disney was busy telling Miramax it couldn't release "F9/11," the Mouse House signed up "Heart & Soul" so it could play the patriotism card in case Miramax wound up having to release the Moore film.
A Disney publicist said the Schwartzberg film has been on its release schedule for over a year, but it had not a bit of media attention until a few days ago. Unlike every other god-awful Disney release this year, "Heart & Soul" never had what's known as an "all-media screening" for the press. It just sort of popped out of nowhere so that almost no critics could see it.
In the meantime, a conservative group called Move America Forward embraced the film as the anti-"F/911." Disney had a special screening for Move America Forward, the chairman of which is Howard Kaloogian, a former Republican state assemblyman in California who takes credit for starting the successful effort to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis.
But here's the punch line: I guess no one at Move America Forward looked into Schwartzberg's background before adopting him. It turns out that he's only made two political contributions in the last decade - and they were both to likely Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
Schwartzberg, who lives in California, sent Kerry a check for $250 in 1997 and another one for $1,000 in 2002. When I asked Schwartzberg by phone last Thursday if he was a Kerry supporter, he replied, "I can't confirm or deny that."
On June 15, Move America Forward president Melanie Morgan wrote an article on the Web site called "Despite Hype, Movie Theaters Are Rejecting 'Fahrenheit 9/11.'" The film opened eight days later and broke the box-office record for a documentary.
As for "America's Heart & Soul," The Hollywood Reporter called the glossy 88-minute film a "flag-waving, unanalytical celebration of patriotism" and added that "the film would make a better fit on television or at one of Disney's theme parks." Reviewer Kirk Honeycutt concluded: "Had he [Schwartzberg] dug deeper into the individual stories and been willing to share in his interviewees' frustrations as well as their joys and triumphs, he would have presented a much more rounded portrait of what drives such eternal optimism."
Picture the GOP ad:
music and image: sweet child (Shirley Temple type)playing "Heart and Soul" on the piano
voice: John Kerry claims to know about America's heart and soul
cut to photo: of Whoopi grabbing her crotch and acting all ghetto
voice: just another one of John Kerry's outrageous claims
Cut to flag with campaign theme fading in "Bush/Cheney: Steady Leadership in Times of Change"