Posted on 02/28/2005 3:35:20 AM PST by knighthawk
First, Michael Moore threw his creative weight and his celluloid into defeating President Bush's re-election. Then he made a big push for an Oscar nomination. He lost on both counts.
So, why didn't the former golden boy of Hollywood who championed the anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-America movement with his dishonest propaganda piece "Fahrenheit 9/11" garner an Oscar nod? Is the Hollywood crowd wising up, or has Moore worn out his welcome?
With characteristic zeal, Moore campaigned vigorously for a Best Picture nomination. "He was at every Oscar party and screening," said Moore's former manager Douglas Urbanski, a critically acclaimed 25-year veteran of the entertainment industry most recently known for the movie "The Contender," starring Gary Oldman, Joan Allen and Jeff Bridges. "He took out full-page ads, cut his hair, bathed and even wore a suit. [Moore was] very present around town."
But the Hollywood elite turned their surgically sculpted noses up at Moore's flick. Urbanski explained that Hollywood has had it with Moore. Many blame him for John Kerry's defeat in the presidential election. He's become the No. 1 favorite target of leftists.
"In certain [Hollywood] circles he is a shutout," Urbanski said.
Why would Moore's former manager be so forthcoming in his criticism?
"Michael Moore makes a substantial living going into people's private lives, sneaking up on them," Urbanski said. So he feels no compunction in talking about the only client he ever fired. And he fired Moore with a ten-page letter.
"A more dishonest and demented person I have never met," Urbanski wrote me in an e-mail, "and I have known a few! And he is more money obsessed than any I have known, and that's saying a lot."
Urbanski believes that Moore hates America, hates capitalism, and hates any normal concept of freedom and democracy. This seems odd considering that if it weren't for America, freedom and capitalism, Moore's brand of expression and capitalistic success would be impossible, if not illegal. "Michael Moore could not withstand ‘Michael Moore's' scrutiny for more than fifteen seconds," Urbanski said.
Has Hollywood figured out what Moore is really about? Was that why he was snubbed?
Urbanski has given some thought to Moore's methods. "Moore has an interesting racket. A Jessie Jackson-like shakedown. He figured out he could shake down his own type of thinker, his own constituency, for his own enrichment."
Did Moore lose his golden boy status because of Kerry's defeat? The land of Hollywood is harsh, and it has been known to devour its young for lesser offenses. Or was it his nasty methods that did him in? Past history is known to be the best indicator of future behavior, so Hollywood should beware. Moore may turn his camera on them and call the film "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Narcissist Scorned."
Regardless, let's hope that the Democrats will be more discriminating about whom they seat next to a former president at their next convention. And hopefully we'll all wise up to snake-oil hucksters like Moore, who will say or do anything to make a buck.
Kathleen Antrim is a weekly columnist for The San Francisco Examiner and author of the political thriller "Capital Offense." www.kathleenantrim.com.
Star Jones proved that it's difficult to stuff 300 lbs of fat into a 200 lbs bag.....
Diagnostic criteria for 301.81---Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Hollyweird version, also applies to liberals in general)
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
(3) believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
(4) requires excessive admiration
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
You don't think the Oscar folks are trying to lure the Conservatives back to the Theater's , do ya?
You mean like Spectre's a 'Republican'?
Ya know....for a long time over the past year, I wished that someone would "silence" turds like michael moore.
Then I got to thinking - really thinking - about how much good these types of treasonous $h!+heads actually do for us - the honest, grass-roots, American Conservatives.
"Know thine enemy", the saying goes. Another says "Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer".
Idiots like moore, sarandon, robbins, et.al. make it really easy to recognize our enemies among us.
Thank you, michael moore -- for ensuring that America has another good four years to fix the problems your kind cause.
Keep up the bad work!
I think Ward Churchill already has that seat reserved for '08.
I know I would not want Moore at a party I threw......The swine can probably eat his weight in crab puffs
If you purged the snake-oil hucksters there would be no one left to lead your party.
I thought "Snake-Oil Hustler" was the job description for a Democratic Politician.
ovar analyzing the obvious: Moore was a "useful idiot" last election.
If he was a CONSERVATIVE fatass blowhard (instead of a liberal fatass blowhard) no one would have allowed him to make a movie.
Snubbed by those whose attention he coveted, he is left to spank his monkey.
Amen
Thanks for the ping.
You can't trust Hollywood: on one hand they snub MM and on the other they applaud. What is it? Mixed nuts!
Hmmn, they do eat their own. Did they serve him with Ketchup one wonders?
At your service!
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