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trade roundup
If Will Smith Won't Come to Manhattan, Manhattan Will Come to Will Smith
Today there is news of: Will Smith and a new awful-sounding sappy movie, New Line's new lady policy, a Steppenwolf legend going to TV, and Michael Moore has made a big fat new movie about fat cats. More » -
self-aggrandizement
Why Didn't We Listen to Michael Moore?
"Twenty years ago when I made Roger & Me, I tried to warn people about what was ahead for General Motors. Had the power structure and the punditocracy listened, maybe much of this could have been avoided." Hah, really? More »
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By PareeneComment by Preopsician: He is so full of it. If the well-educated, well-off bunch that loves his movies would actually have bought American... 21 Responses | Other threads
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betrayals
Rachel Maddow and Michael Moore Say Barack Obama Is Just Like George Bush
The attack from Obama's left flank began in earnest yesterday, as two reliably liberal forces openly compared Barack Obama's plan for escalating the war in Afghanistan to Bush's fiasco in Iraq. More »
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By John CookComment by Novaload Misses Murilee: This is insane. One billion a year to Pakistan--to win their hearts and minds? It's a good thing to know... 7 Responses | Other threads
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gossip roundup
Oprah Has Seen Rihanna's Future. It's Grim.
Also: Britney Spears will scare you, Gossip Girl stars are better than you, Michael Moore will make a fool of you, and Scarlett Johansson will drink with you (if you are an old man). More »
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Comment by tudobem: I am not a big Oprah fan, but honestly someone needs to say it. The whole story makes me ill,... 7 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
Stop The H8 With Super-Breath!
· Showtime and Stan Lee are indeed developing a drama about the life of a gay superhero, as Hero author Perry Moore hinted back in May. And he just happens to be gay, OK? He's not, like, Poppers Boy or Wonder Trannie. [Variety] More » -
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Michael Moore's "Slacker Uprising" kind of available free online
The latest shockumentary from portly auteur Michael Moore, Slacker Uprising, has launched today. To watch the film, you have to sign up with an email address. While Moore says his fans should go ahead and download it, there's no actual link to do that. And you can't embed the whole film on third-party sites without pulling some code from the bowels of the HTML source — which I've done here, while also restoring the "share" button so you can easily post it yourself wherever you like. Heck, if Moore just wants the film out there, why not distribute it on BitTorrent and save on bandwidth costs? More »
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By Jackson WestComment by colonelpanic: But go ahead, Jackson, and continue your Valley-esque wank/rant about how techies are superior and old media tycoons like Weinstein... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Mike’s Election Guide 2008 by Michael Moore
“Outrageous humor, passionate partisanship and common sense.” —St. Petersburg Times More »
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Mike’s Election Guide 2008 by Michael Moore
“Outrageous humor, passionate partisanship and common sense.” —St. Petersburg Times More »
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Michael Moore's latest agitprop will be free at Blip.tv
Slacker Nation, which focuses on chubby doc jock Michael Moore's trip around the country to drum up support among the youngs for "voting," will be distributed online for free. Online video site Blip.tv will be hosting the download in a nice little marketing coup (the fact that Blip.tv cofounder and CEO Mike Hudack loves him some Obama couldn't have hurt in striking that deal). "This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans," Moore said in a prepared statement. Time will tell if it's a gift to the Democratic party — Moore's stunt tactics, like his ramen noodle giveaways featured in the trailer, often galvanize older Republicans who actually do show up to the polls on election day, unlike young Democrats.
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By Jackson WestComment by Rachel Marsden: SICKO was actually good - until he got to Cuba and started laying on the propaganda so thick that I... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Blabbermouths
Michael Moore: Hurricane Gustav Is Gift From God
So what if Hurricane Gustav displaces thousands, destroys their homes, and further devastates an already devastated region of these United States? Filmmaker Michael Moore sees a silver lining around the eerily quiet eye of the disastrous storm: It will screw-up the Republican National Convention. Already, John McCain is saying his party might have to postpone the Convention. And Moore couldn't be more tickled. He told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, "I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven. To just have it planned at the same time, that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for Day One of the Republican convention, up in the Twin Cities, at the top of the Mississippi River.” More »
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Comment by surfacenoise76: @blakely: you are correct, sir I'll one up Michael Moore on callousness: The thing I worry about is if... 10 Responses | Other threads
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God Save Us, Every One
Where Do We Even Begin With This Trailer For 'An American Carol'?
We have learned a great many things during this election year, but chief among them is that Republicans hate Hollywood (though not really). In fact, their vendetta against Tinseltown is so strong that they have now seized the means of production, which would at least explain the trailer for the upcoming right-wing comedy An American Carol — that is, if anything could explain An American Carol. A spoof of The Christmas Carol from Republican director David Zucker, it's the story of a Michael Moore-resembling filmmaker who is shown the error of his ways by a cast made up of Hollywood's biggest Republicans. If that description sounds a little dry, try these details on for size: the Moore stand-in comes to his senses when he is taught to kill members of the ACLU, and George Washington is played by Jon Voight. A closer look at the insanity, after the jump: More » -
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Michael Moore Starts New Dictator Dating Trend
When it comes to the Oscars, who you bring is just as important as who you wear. And sure, it used to be cool to take your significant other or your mom, but now, thanks to one little off-the-cuff remark from Michael Moore, you're nobody unless you bring a dictator. On Tuesday, while walking the red carpet at the Semi-Pro premiere, the rotund documentarian joked about wanting to take the newly retired president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, as his date to the Academy Awards. As he says: More » -
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Harass Michael Moore This Afternoon
Did you know that documentarian Michael Moore's recent film SiCKO is nominated for an Oscar? As part of his effort to publicize this fact while still acting like he is attempted to do good crusade-y liberal things, he is holding a conference call this afternoon. It is about how unfair it is that his film might win an Oscar but the subjects profiled in it are still sick. Would you like to dial into this conference call and maybe ask Michael if he regrets making his film available for free on the internet, resulting in no one going to see it in theaters? Or just say something snide about Castro? Here is your opportunity! We'll leave it to you to debate the relative dickishness of crashing a phone press conference featuring an ill 9/11 rescue worker. Press release, with call-in info, after the jump. More »
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By PareeneComment by MadamButterfloozy: @BettyCrocker: It's very disheartening to see people shooting the messenger - particularly when it's not on the basis of the... more » | Other threads
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stop her now
Michael Moore Endorses No One, But Especially Not Hillary
Roly-poly propagandist Michael Moore wrote to his email listserve acolytes that, sadly, he would not be brainwashing them into supporting the candidate of his capricious choice in Iowa tomorrow. Because he's not endorsing any of them! That's the short answer. The long answer is that he's not endorsing any of them but super especially not endorsing Hillary Clinton. Because of Iraq, sure, and also maybe kinda because she was the only one who refused to sit down with him for a Rolling Stone interview two months ago, thus killing his piece. So: anyone but Hillary! Do it for Uncle Mike! [Drudge, letter posted below the jump because his link will last another hour or so] More »
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By PareeneComment by Mediahohoho: @Chief Wahoo: Hah, hah. What a dunce. So happy to see OSU get their asses handed to them again. Pussies. Anyway,... more » | Other threads
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reality check
Tech blogger on HuffPo: "Can you say IPO?" Answer: "No."
The new editor at TechCrunch, Erick Schonfeld, has gotten a little IPO-crazy in these heady days of Bubble 2.0. The best guess we've seen on a Huffington Post valuation is $60 million which, for a media company, is a drop in the bucket. We can't remember a tech or media company going public with a valuation anything like that. Huffington Post is the most unlikely IPO candidate since Wired in 1996 — and Wired had substantially more revenues and a real magazine business. Maybe we were onto something with the whole cheese thing. More likely? An acquisition. More »
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Comment by OaklandTechie: Believe it or not, there is a precedent for small publishers going public. My old employer NewMedia Magazine (part of... more » | Other threads
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BP buys into Google's propaganda for their own propaganda
Remember the controversial Google Health blog post that suggested the best More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by Philipp Lenssen: Well, that Chicago Tribune page hosting the letter to the editor also shows "Ads by Google". One of the ads... more » | Other threads
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defamer
When Michael Met Sacha
What, you may or may not find yourselves wondering, could agitprop documentary director Michael Moore possibly have in common with guerrilla-comedy king Sacha Baron Cohen? Quite a bit, it just so happens, as a chance encounter at last year's Toronto International Film Festival led to a mutual gush-a-thon between the two mischief-making filmmakers: More » -
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On Broadway, Aaron Sorkin Rekindles Tumultuous Love Affair With Television
· Aaron Sorkin returns to Broadway with The Farnsworth Invention, a play about the birth of television, the deliciously flawed storytelling medium he recently sought to redeem with a little-seen primetime serial about the life-or-death stakes involved in producing a weekly sketch comedy show. [Variety] More » -
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Michael Moore rips off Spy. To be fair, Spy invented every joke ever, so it's hard sometimes. [Radosh]
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By abalkComment by MisterHippity: @trix-are-for-kids: I miss "Admit It Sucks." more » | Other threads
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Owen Wilson To Meet His Ghost Of Hollywood Future
· Watch out, Hollywood, because here comes Mitch Albom: Adam Sandler has acquired the rights to feature-writing debut (an untitled baseball comedy, if you must know) of the Five People You Meet On One More Tuesday With Morrie author, whose treacly bestsellers have been previously adapted into housewife-narcotizing TV movies. [Variety] More » -
steal this film
"Michael Moore's new documentary "Sicko" has been pirated and is now widely available for download on peer-to-peer content sites like www.thepiratebay.org. ...If the breach is as wide as it appears — and this reporter downloaded a copy and watched it late Thursday night with ease — Moore, and his distributor, 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." [AdAge] -
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Most Expensive Comedy In History Balances Wastefulness With Environmental Awareness
· Universal is partnering with environmentally conscious marketers to promote Evan Almighty, culminating in a spectacular stunt in which the studio will flood its Universal City theme park, washing away thousands of tourists to emphasize the film's uplifting, "green" message that God will kill us all if we don't take better care of our planet. [Variety] More » -
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'The Jetsons' One Step Closer To Becoming Ill-Advised, Live-Action Motion Picture
· The Weinstein Co. (with help from their besties at Lionsgate) will release Michael Moore's documentary Sicko on July 29th, which should do for America's health care system what Bowling for Columbine did for a senile-seeming, rifle-loving Charlton Heston. [Variety] More » -
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' Soldier Fails To Prove Michael Moore Made Him Propaganda Pawn
Michael Moore, the poster boy for anti-establishment doc makers with woeful personal grooming habits, must be feeling extremely relieved today, as the amputee war veteran who was suing over some interview footage of him shot for an NBC Nightly News segment, but which turned up in Fahrenheit 9/11, has had his case thrown out of court:
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celeb jurisprudence
'Fahrenheit' Shocker! Michael Moore Accused Of Exploiting Out of Context Video Clips
Michael Moore's Palm d'Or-winning indictment of the Bush administration, Fahrenheit 9/11, is still a source of controversy two years after its release. Sgt. Peter Damon, a mechanic who lost his arms in a freak accident repairing a Blackhawk helicopter, is suing multiple parties including Moore and NBC (to whom he gave the interview) for $175 million for misrepresenting his position on the war: More » -
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Gossip roundup
AIIIEEE! I almost forgot the gossip roundup! How did you survive all day without it?! Dear god—you probably had to actually do work! I'm SO sorry! More » -
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Gossip roundup
· Novelist Michael Crichton is paying $31 million to get out of his fourth marriage. [Page Six] More » -
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More from Radar
More from Radar magazine (launching April 22nd). Gossip items from an article titled, "Monsters, Inc": More » -
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Dennis Miller on Michael Moore
Comedian Dennis Miller on Michael Moore's Oscar speech: "He's going to wake up every day for the rest of his life, and he's going to tell us how he hates everything about this country except his right to hate it. And then we say that we love it and he's going to tell us what naive sheep we are and that he's the true patriot because he hates it and he sees all the problems in it. Yeah, right, Mike. You know something, if my yawn got any bigger they'd have to assign it a hurricane name, okay? Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron's right to be that utterly, completely wrong." More » -
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FOX's news ticker
Media Notes' Howard Kurtz reports that FOX News' outdoor news ticker displayed the following yesterday: "War protester auditions here today...Thanks for coming!" And: "How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them." And: "Attention protesters: The Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street." More » -
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Banned from MTV
Last week we reported that MTV Europe had banned certain videos from their playlist because they contained references to war—in particular the System of a Down video, "Boom," directed by Michael Moore. Journalist Bill Werde followed up on the story for Rolling Stone in an article that didn't make it to publication. He reports on his blog that the decision to cut the video wasn't an issue of programming directors being concerned about content, but about the ad sales department being concerned that it would offend one of their major advertisers—the U.S. Army. More » -
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The Michael Moore moment
In case you missed Michael Moore's speech last night at the Oscars, A.O. Scott chronicles the events: "...Michael Moore, who won for best documentary for Bowling for Columbine, asked the four other nominees in his category to come up on stage with him. 'They are here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times,' Mr. Moore said. More » -
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Gossip roundup
· "Porcine provocateur" Michael Moore (Page Six's description, but we kinda like it) is whining that he's not going to win an Oscar because the whole thing is rigged. Expect an "investigative documentary" about it next year. [Page Six] More » -
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Gossip roundup
· Michael Moore horrifies Londoners by saying that people on the hijacked September 11th planes were "scaredy cats because they were mostly white." [Page Six] More »
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