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Originally posted by Warren Dew:
Turns out Miramax decided not to distribute that film a year ago. Moore spun it to look like Disney was censoring him to build publicity for the film, and Disney apparently didn't begrudge him that publicity.
Originally posted by Warren Dew:
I think it was in a Wall Street Journal article last week. But if it's as good as "The Passion of Christ", it should be a success without a big name distributor, right?
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
What's not fiction to some degree?
One thing I see a lot in MD is this idea that if you mention someone controversial, it's assumed that you're a groupie.
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Originally posted by Bert Bates:
I may be mis-remembering, but I thought a high level Disney official said just that, that they were afraid of losing millions in Florida tax breaks if they pissed Jeb off.
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So should Disney open a porn site since they do so well? Where does Disney get off not making X-rated movies when they could make a fortune making them?Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
If it has a property that can make money -- and every indication points to Moore's work being profitable stuff -- where does Disney get off trying to suppress that property by a) refusing to distribute it and b) seeking no buyers for stuff it doesn't want to be associated with?
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Where does Disney get off not making X-rated movies when they could make a fortune making them?
Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
So should Disney open a porn site since they do so well? Where does Disney get off not making X-rated movies when they could make a fortune making them?
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Originally posted by Marcus Green:
who was the hollywood star?
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Originally posted by Joe Ess:
Dick Clark. Michael Moore was persuing Dick because a restaurant franchise Clark owns was participating in a Michigan welfare-to-work program which gave tax breaks to employers if they offered jobs to the "less fortunate". One of the emloyees was the mother of the kid who found a stolen firearm which had been traded for drugs in his uncle's crack house. The child took the firearm to school and shot another student. This entire incident is, in Moore's mind, the fault of Charlton Heston. The final scene of BFC has Moore placing a picture of the child in front of Heston's home after ambushing him with questions about the incident.
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Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
I dimly remember the movie. Too lazy to put it on the player right now, but as I recall, Moore asked Heston why the NRA chose to hold an important meeting in or near the town where this incident took place. I'm guessing Heston appeared at that meeting. Moore's questions, if memory serves, really pointed to Heston's a) lack of sensitivity to appearances; and b) apparent lack of awareness of anything but where the NRA tells him to go and speak.
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Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
No one else ever pulls stuff like this, of course. It's just Moore.![]()
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P.S. When you hear the wackos on Fox News and elsewhere refer to this prize as coming from �the French,� please know that of the nine members of the Festival jury, only ONE was French. Nearly half the jury (four) were Americans and the President of the jury was an American (Quentin Tarantino). But this fact won�t stop the O�Reillys or the Lenos or the Limbaughs from attacking the French and me because, well, that�s how their simple minds function.
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Originally posted by Jason Menard:
Hell, he could blow his nose, stick the used tissue to the wall, tell people it represents the evil of conservatism, his fans will call it art and he'll get an award for it.
Originally posted by Jason Menard:
It's not a surprise simply because anecdotally it seems that the film and art-house crowd, those who give such awards for example, are Moore's type of people. European or not isn't the issue, but it should be obvious that Michael Moore will always be recognized by his type of people, no matter what he does. Hell, he could blow his nose, stick the used tissue to the wall, tellll people it represents the evil of conservatism, his fans will call it art and he'll get an award for it. He speaks a language they like to hear and they will use every opportunity to applaud him for it, regardless of any merits his work may or may not have standing on its own.
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Originally posted by Damien Howard:
There are conservatives out there that can do the same thing. People support their kind regardless of what there kind is.
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