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...speech won him icy stares and undeniable celebrity as a fearless am-Busher. It helped propel his books Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country? to the top of the best-seller lists. And it provided the emotional foundation for his latest, most audacious film. (At Cannes, Quentin Tarantino called Fahrenheit 9/11 "the first movie ever made to justify an acceptance speech.") By now Michael Moore, lone wolf, has morphed into Michael Moore Inc. And also Michael Moore, target. He is the subject of a book-length blast from the right, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid...
...schools hit by bloodshed, the effects linger long after the police have done their job. In Stockton, Calif. a playground shooting last January left five pupils dead. Fred Busher, the head of the school district's psychology staff, says students "realize now that school is not the safe place it used to be and that something terrible can happen at any instant." The youngsters, he adds, are "dealing with things that we hoped they'd never have to face, or at least not until they were adults." He concedes that healing "will take months, even years...
...easy ones, just to give the fringe fans some cheap, undeserved thrills. But we know better. Let those "acquainted" with the sport get lulled into complacency by the pee-wee league questions...and then get crushed when Judgment Day comes and they can't even tell you that Harvey "Busher" Jackson led the league in scoring...
Lisagor modestly attributes his popularity to the fact that he works for a provincial paper. None of his sources, he claims, ever see what he writes. But being a "busher" in the bailiwick of the Eastern press giants has had its drawbacks. Lippmann or Reston could get a Cabinet member by phone, but Lisagor once waited weeks trying to see John Foster Dulles. He got an interview immediately when, on the strength of a New York Times Sunday Magazine assignment, he identified himself as Mr. Lisagor for the Times...
...Walter Alston confines his criticism of Howard to such laconic reproaches as, "Wait until you see the ball before you swing." Shrugs hard-bitten Veteran Outfielder Carl Furillo: "Now it's all brotherly love with the Dodgers. I've got to pat the head of some goddam busher who'll take my job away...