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Michael Moore admitted Sunday that his "Fahrenheit 9/11" still does not have a distrib -- "Maybe some distributors are afraid of the film" -- but vowed the film must open in the U.S. before the election. "George W. Bush has to be removed from office," he declared. In his first public interview here, Moore did a one-on-one with Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart as part of the Variety Conference Series. Referring to the pic, which bows tonight in competition, he said, "From the beginning, there was pressure to try to stop it." Though Icon had originally agreed to finance the docu,...

WASHINGTON - Sen. John Edwards (news, bio, voting record), one of the first Democrats to enter the 2004 presidential race, said Tuesday his campaign raised about $7.4 million in the first three months of this year. The total was likely to put Edwards among fund-raising front-runners in what is now a nine-way competition for the Democratic nomination. Other hopefuls planned to announce their first-quarter totals in coming days. The North Carolina senator has crisscrossed the country for months, developing a national network of volunteer fund-raisers and holding dozens of fund-raising events, including stops in Democratic donor hot spots New York,...