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...acceptance speech, Moore exhibited his usual showmanship. He joked about the Walt Disney Co.?s decision to forbid its subsidiary, Miramax Films, from releasing the film in the U.S.: ?I?m happy to announce we have a distributor in Albania. So you can now see this film in every country but one.? He quoted ?a great Republican President? - Abraham Lincoln - on how important it is to ?give the people the truth.? As for the current Republican President, Moore said at a subsequent press conference, ?I would love to have a White House screening of this film? and quipped that...
Some grown men have trouble embracing their fathers in public. Russert hugs his for 21 chapters in Big Russ & Me (Miramax Books; 336 pages), a memoir that is part tribute to his dad and part guidebook for the author's college-age son Luke. The elder Tim Russert nearly died in World War II, but his namesake celebrates--more than the moments of high drama--the grace with which his father fulfilled his daily obligations. His principles are as simple as the book's chapter titles: "Work," "Faith" and "Discipline." Big Russ worked for the sanitation department in the morning...
...cocktail, Fahrenheit 9/11, long before it won the coveted Palme D'Or award on Saturday evening. The film's first screening, on a Monday at 8 a.m., got blanket news coverage; a dozen or so radio and TV crews circled the U.S. critics to get their early reaction. Meanwhile, Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose Disney bosses had forbidden him to release the film, was dealmaking with a flock of U.S. distributors hoping to profit from the film's marketable notoriety. Fahrenheit 9/11 more than lived up to its advance rep. The film details, in Moore's usual...
...docucomedy, Fahrenheit 9/11, which--like his best-selling books and Oscar-winning movie, Bowling for Columbine--details what he considers the corrupt ethics of conservative politicians and Big Business. Just before its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, word emerged that Walt Disney Co. CEO Michael Eisner had forbidden Miramax Films, a Disney division, to distribute the film. Eisner told reporters last week that he had rejected the movie because he did not want Disney to get dragged into partisan battles in an election year. But the Miramax camp scoffs at that claim, pointing out that Disney's radio...
Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the Miramax bosses who earlier chafed at Eisner's overruling of their plans to release Kevin Smith's religion spoof Dogma, are said to be outraged that he dismissed the Moore film without having seen it. The Weinsteins are looking for a new distribution plan, but according to a Miramax source, they may also evoke a little-used clause in their contract to arbitrate the matter with Disney. Publicly, Moore is steamed. But as he doubtless knows, the clouds of this stormy controversy have a silver lining: free publicity. --By Jeffrey Ressner