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If my memory serves, Moore actually condoned piracy of Fahrenheit 9/11 so that his message would get out to more viewers.

This stance didn’t seem to hurt its box office. I don’t know if it will for this, either, because the in-theater watching experience is very different from the on-computer experience. Bringing a date to watch a pirated movie just doesn’t have the same appeal.

On the other hand, would you invite your date to watch a film called Sicko?

So we’ll see, but I don’t think this will hurt him as much as many here and in the ad biz believe.

Incidentally, one producer threatened to sue YouTube after excerpts from a commercial movie were posted there ... not realizing the filmmakers posted it to get publicity. So even if the production company sues it’s possible that it was a deliberate plant by Moore.

Incidentally, anyone reasonably well informed knows Cuba has a multi-tiered health system, and thanks to the publicity potential, I am sure Moore and his friends got the “head of state” version. This makes the premise of this movie entirely false.

On the other hand, if it costs $3,000 a day to keep someone in the hospital and run a few tests, as it did for me recently, there is clearly something horribly wrong with a system that is this absurdly expensive. I have yet to receive a convincing explanation of why health care is this expensive and whether we should research alternatives before we are pauperized in our old age by the present system.

i don’t think single payer is the answer, but I’d like to hear some fresh thinking about this issue.

Mee Too! AND "..The Weinstein Company, have a every film maker's worst marketing nightmare on their hands -- how to persuade people to go to the theater to see a show that's available free on the Internet..."

Harvey Weinstein

Moore and Weinstein belong together!