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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Moviegoers interested in seeing Michael Moore's U.S. health-care expose, "Sicko," could find it easily on YouTube this weekend. Two weeks before its June 29 opening, a 124-minute version of the film was available on the popular Web site, posted by at least two users in 14 consecutive video chunks. (The film clocked in at 113 minutes when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.) The YouTube appearance comes on the heels of a fairly high-quality pirated version available via BitTorrent file-sharing software and peer-to-peer Web sites last week, first reported by Advertising Age on Friday....

"Sicko" director Michael Moore let's it all out on Monday June 18's "Democracy Now!" program with like-minded ultra-lib hostess Amy Goodman. The following is a partial transcript.... AMY GOODMAN: Michael Moore is on the move. On Wednesday, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker will testify on Capitol Hill. He then heads to New Hampshire to challenge presidential candidates -- Democrat and Republican -- over the nation’s healthcare system. Oh, and his latest documentary, Sicko, is being released in thousands of theaters next week. The film is a seething indictment of the US healthcare system. It focuses not on the more than 40...