[Sid Rich]

"The filmmaker is also planning Sicko, a documentary about health maintenance organizations and the health care crisis."

It would be better as a Moore bio-pic.

[freekitty]

This guy really believes his own bs. Too bad.

[lilylangtree]

"As uncomfortable as it might have been for some people to hear, I said things that needed to be said," the filmmaker told the paper." Who determines what things are needed to be said? Hollyweirdos like Moore? The ceremony became a platform for all of Hollyweirdos to vent their own personal beliefs. The event is a sham and a disgrace just like Michael Moore. Any fallout as a result he deserves it.

[JennysCool]

"I heard someone yelling and someone shouting 'No! No!' as I started my speech," he said, adding that there is proof on tape. "Those boos were amplified through the house. And yet, as I looked out at the audience, no one was booing."

Moore also charged reactions shots were cut to make it seem the crowd was more anti-Moore than it actually was. "Martin Scorsese was going to applaud and they cut away from him. You could see the camera desperately trying to find people who were disagreeing with me and they couldn't."

WHAT a loon!

[arly]

Micael your an insignificant tur@ ! get used to it!

[dead]

Moore's next project will be a documentary about the "the murky relationship" between former President George Bush and the family of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden… The filmmaker is also planning Sicko, a documentary about health maintenance organizations and the health care crisis…”

Lumpy Riefenstahl, cranking out the leftist propaganda as fast as he can make it up.

[unsycophant]

What you saw at home was absolutely representative of what took place in the theater.

Ahh, but no one at home was watching for the very reason that many people have had enough of Hollyweird because of people like Moore (is he even a Hollywood type? Doubt it.).

[Az Joe]

Does Moore make the rounds, say on press/movie junkets?

Sure like to know when he's in town.

[SteveH]

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/columnists/glenn_lovell/5498704.htm

Thu, Mar. 27, 2003

Moore says speech didn't hurt his popularity

By Glenn Lovell

Mercury News


How costly was Michael Moore's ``Shame on you, Mr. Bush'' Oscar speech on Sunday -- the speech that elicited what sounded like more boos than cheers from Hollywood's A-list?

Did the professional provocateur who won the best-documentary award for ``Bowling for Columbine'' burn what remained of his bridges to the industry?

Quite the contrary, insists Moore in his first print and online interview since Oscar night. He's never been more in demand, he says, pointing to new production deals and increased sales of his non-fiction ``Stupid White Men,'' back at the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

``I've had zero hostility from anyone in the Hollywood community,'' says Moore from his New York home. ``As uncomfortable as it might have been for some people to hear, I said things that needed to be said, and those same people who cheered me on Oscar night have been extremely supportive all week and enthusiastic about wanting to work with me or produce my projects.''

As for those Oscar-night boos, many came from Kodak Theatre stagehands backstage and were oddly ``amplified,'' perhaps by microphones, contends the filmmaker. ``I heard some yelling and someone shouting, `No! No!' as I started my speech. The boos were amplified through the house. And yet, as I looked out at the audience, no one was booing.''

Does he have proof of this? ``If you've got a tape, look at the tape,'' he says.

``That's bull! He's totally, totally incorrect,'' fires back Gilbert Cates, who produced the Oscar telecast. ``I take personal umbrage at his accusation that we manipulated the sound for political purposes. The sound in the audience was consistent for everybody's applause and boos, which seemed about equal to me.''

Crowd reaction shots during his anti-Bush speech were cut to make it appear that the audience was more anti-Moore that it was, Moore charges. ``Martin Scorsese was going to applaud and they cut away from him. You could see the camera desperately trying to find people who were disagreeing with me and they couldn't.''

``The man is paranoid,'' says Cates, who cued the music when Moore got to ``Shame on you, Mr. Bush'' because ``I felt that was enough.'' Cates adds, ``It's a live event. We shot a lot of people responding to him. What you saw at home was absolutely representative of what took place in the theater.''

Moore says he was as surprised by what took place after the show as he was by the standing ovation that greeted his win. ``At the Governors Ball afterward I thought that at least one person was going to say something negative. Nobody did.''

Instead, Paramount Pictures boss Sherry Lansing greeted him with a hug and academy president Frank Pierson said, according to Moore, ``Way to go! That's what America's all about.''

In the days since the show, he has received calls and e-mails of support from the Rev. Jesse Jackson and an Oscar-winning actress he chooses not to ``out'' by ``dragging her into my thing.'' Harrison Ford, who smiled at Moore comments but did not applaud, offered kind words before the show, says Moore, and ``told me how proud he was of me.''

To those who contend that his comments were both ill-timed and unpatriotic, Moore responds, ``I was being honored for a film that deals with the American culture of violence, both at home and abroad, and it felt like the perfect things to say . . . the appropriate thing to say.''

Was he disappointed that more Hollywood actor-activists, such as Susan Sarandon, didn't voice their anti-war feelings? ``Look, they're actors, OK? I don't expect them to make any kind of political statement. Susan introduced the part of the show that honored those who died in the past year and it wouldn't have been appropriate to do anything there.''

Since the Academy Awards, Moore says he has heard from one major Hollywood studio and a production company run by an A-list star. They want to back his next two projects -- ``Fahrenheit 911,'' about the United States after the Sept. 11 attacks, and ``Sicko,'' about health maintenance organizations and the health-care crisis. Moore's most recent projects have been financed in Canada and Britain.


Contact Glenn Lovell at glovell@mercurynews.com or (408) 920-5639.

[Revolting cat!]

The best thing that could happen now would be for him to become so well known that the doors of his interview subjects will be shut in his face. (I understand that he had sneaked on Charlton Heston during the shoot of his last movie.)

[TontoKowalski]

According to Variety, Moore's next project will be a documentary about the "the murky relationship" between former President George Bush and the family of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The pic, Fahrenheit 911, will suggest that the bin Laden family profited greatly from the association.

Honest to goodness. I didn't think there was anything I could find out about this asshole that would make me literally GASP!

[January24th]

"Moore said he has not felt any hostility from the Hollywood community and is more in demand now than before, pointing to new production deals."

There it is: motive, opportunity, and execution. Verdict: guilty of political grandstanding for personal gain at the expense of innocent Iraqi lives.

[arly]

has everbody seen the pole at billorielly.com ?.. do you agree with michael moore?.. last I checked they had 109,000 responses 97 percent No.

[pepsi_junkie]

Relax everyone. This guy has floated under the radar screen for a long time, appearing occasionally on sympathetic TV outlets claiming to be an underdog who cant catch a break who was succeeding only because of this great underground movement. The reality is that he is a disgusting poser, a troll of a gasbag who espouses flat out marxist dogma and who completely fabricates his entire opus of work. But as a sort of fringe character in American culture, all most people knew of this clown was his appearances on TV shows like "Today" and that ancient "Roger and Me". Now he gets the big spotlight on him, I guarantee it will wither him. People who had taken his "I'm just a fighter for the little guy against big business" persona on faith will soon see him as a left wing kook of the first magnitude and he will be marginalized more than he can imagine. Sadly, this will actually please him in a perverse way, as he'll see it as proof that "they" are trying to silence him. Nutcase. Oh well, he'll always be able to count on standing ovations at Cannes.

[amused]

I was in the studio audience for Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday 3/28/03. Even though we were told explicitly not to boo and only to cheer, I was heartened that a few in the audience joined myself and my friend in booing when his name was announced for the first interview. Even Bill took Moore to task for his rant saying it basicvally made the anti-war people look silly and probably pushed fence sitters to other side. Jeanenne Garafolo was her usual hypocritical, dupliciitous self.

[usastandsunited]

Moore, whose documentary Bowling for Columbine won the best documentary award, added that the Oscar night boos came from Kodak Theater stagehands and were oddly "amplified."

Imagine that. Hollywood distorting something.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Roger Ebert was on Leno last week, and called Moore a liar in regards to the number of people booing.

[lonestar]

Is Molly Ivins Moores mother?