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On his TV shows, "TV Nation" and "The Awful Truth," Michael Moore has always cast himself as the champion of the common working man in the face of moneyed interests. But the anti-corporate crusader narrowly avoided getting arrested recently after running afoul of a middle school janitor at a book signing in San Diego. The signing was scheduled to end at 11 p.m., and at 11:15, custodian George Waller asked Moore to stop signing books so he could clean the auditorium and go home. Moore, seeing that there were still hundreds of people in line, ignored the request, and Waller called the police, who arrived 15 minutes later. On his web site, Moore says the police entered shouting "VACATE THESE PREMISES IMMEDIATELY OR YOU WILL ALL BE ARRESTED!" "I have never been arrested, strange as that may seem," reads Moore's on-line diary entry. "I could not believe that, of all I have done, all I have stood for over the years…I was about to be hauled away for autographing books!" Waller told the San Diego Union-Tribune that he saw it differently. "He didn't care that I had already put in a full day. I think he just wanted to sell books. He was all about the money." |
The next Alec Baldwin movie?
Didn't Baldwin (has he left the country yet?), also shut his message board down?
If memory serves, too many people wanted to discuss his homicidal rant on some late night show, rather than his
"acting" in films.
I'm not sure if Moore is better or worse for calling his close down "temporary".