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Similarly, Mel Gibson and Michael Moore launched movies outside the big studios, deploying amateur word of mouth to juice the box office. The audiences caught on--showing up not just to see movies but to send a message. They weren't alone. In the spring, the mayor of San Francisco began his doomed assault against the existing order by simply declaring he would ignore the law and grant marriage licenses to gay couples in city hall. Thousands lined up day after day for a simple civil rite most Americans--Britney Spears included--tend to take for granted. They knew...
...tone and content of these films neatly bisected the mood of this year?s electorate. Moore?s documentary was angry, skeptical, wide-ranging, skipping from topic to topic, using comedy and sarcasm to convey moral rage; its hero was a grungy fat guy who ambushed his adversaries. Mel Gibson?s docudrama was stolid, bloody, humorless, remorseless, sticking to its micro-subject with macro implications, staying obsessively on point; its hero was a stern thin man who endured scourging and calumny in order to fulfill His mission. In other words, Moore embodied what the Right saw as Kerry?s base; Jesus...
...liberal king and, even more, a kingmaker. Two: no ?Passion,? no way. The reflexively liberal Hollywood elders hated the movie (usually without seeing it) before it opened - that has to be why they refused to distribute it - and they hated it more when it became an indie blockbuster. So Gibson has as much chance of getting a top nomination from the Academy as Moore did of getting a ?Fahrenheit? screening at the White House...
...sarcastically thanked Yanukovych and Putin for having achieved the impossible. "They finally forced the Ukrainians to unite to become a nation," he said. But that unity was not in evidence last week, and it may still turn out to be an impossible dream. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Helen Gibson/ London, Valeria Korchagina/ Moscow, Tadeusz L. Kucharski/Warsaw, Andrew Purvis/Vienna and Jonathan Shenfield/Paris
...have episodes of sleepiness or a feeling of major fatigue throughout the day, it means you're not sleeping enough." You don't have to know what sleep is for to know that it's good for you. --With reporting by Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Simon Crittle/New York, Helen Gibson/ London and Grant Rosenberg/ Paris