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...FACT VS. FICTION: Clarifying some of Moore's dubious claims...
Other filmmakers might have followed Roger & Me's success to Hollywood. Moore did direct one fiction comedy, Canadian Bacon, starring John Candy, but he realized that his true status was as the outsider banging down the doors of the insiders. He hatched a political show, TV Nation, which somehow managed to run at one time or another on NBC, Fox and Comedy Central. His 1997 film The Big One took a smart swipe at Big Business...
...combat Fahrenheit 9/11, White House communications director Dan Bartlett quipped at a press briefing, "If I wanted to see a good fiction movie, I might go see Shrek or something, but I doubt I'll be seeing Fahrenheit 9/11." Otherwise, the Bush team's policy is public silence. "We thought about what they would want us to do," says a top adviser, "and then we did the opposite...
...least Moore supports gun control. In the novella Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker, below, a man named Jay, who has a gun, sits in a hotel room and hashes out a plan to assassinate Bush. (It's illegal to threaten the President in real life but not in fiction.) The title refers to a real incident in which an Iraqi family was gunned down by U.S. troops at a checkpoint. In the graphic novel In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman (Maus), the cartoonist ruminates on feeling equally terrorized by al-Qaeda and by his own government. And many...
...Kerry knows other parts of the world," says Brice Lalonde, a former French Environment Minister who is Kerry's cousin. "Bush does not care if people like or don't like America. Mr. Kerry's worldview is wider." Maybe so. But is Europe's view of Kerry an overeager fiction? What would President Kerry really mean for Europe? Richard Holbrooke, President Clinton's ambassador to the U.N. and an informal Kerry adviser, says Kerry "would make rebuilding our alliances with Europe his first priority." So the tone could only improve - but what about substance? During the primaries, Kerry tacked away...