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Even by Washington standards, the D.C. premiere of Al Gore's new global warming film, An Inconvenient Truth, was lit by some very low-wattage celebrities: political journalists, Congressmen, people from National Public Radio. Also: Moby. Those concerned about greenhouse gases would have done well...
...Gore, Movie Star His new documentary on global warming is a great campaign ad: "Elect me or we will...
...there was rock star in the room: Al. As soon as the lights went up, dozens of Washington's media elite (bureau chiefs, New York Times columnists, magazine editors) began to nonchalantly position themselves for an audience with Gore, forming an consciously indifferent crowd that engaged in minimalist small talk while waiting for the moment to edge in. Everyone was at once eager to be noticed and trying not to be too obvious, a gaggle of awkward preeners whose self-presentation wouldn't get past the first walk-off on "America's Next Top Model...
...mini-anecdotes - "He said he owed me a story," "He still hates me from that piece I wrote in '96," "I haven't seen him since Kyoto." - that were brought to the adjoining reception and then recounted and analyzed as part of the night's real entertainment: the Al Gore presidential run Ouija board. When people asked, "So, what do you think?" after this premiere, they weren't talking box office but Oval...
...movie offers few clues. It is, essentially, a two-hour PowerPoint presentation, enlivened - if that's the right word - by periodic shots of Al Gore staring pensively out of plane windows, Al Gore frowning contemplatively at computer screens, and Al Gore pacing thoughtfully through airport terminals. The man could make playing a kazoo look like meditation. The movie is about the threat of global warming, and it is full of dire predictions and horrifying scenarios for the Earth's future should we not change our fossil-fuel-guzzling ways. Rising sea levels, hordes of refugees, parching draughts: Call...