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...modestly encouraging $7.4 million. Moore's docu-frolic Capitalism: A Love Story just about equaled the opening for his previous screed, Sicko, by banking a conservative $4,850,000. That number tied the reported earnings for Whip It, the roller-derby sisterhood comedy directed by Barrymore. All three star directors have carpeted the TV talk-show circuit lately, but none could lure many paying customers. Then again, they couldn't match the break that Zombieland caught on Oct. 1, when Harrelson was the first guest after David Letterman told his sextortion story to millions of avid tuner-inners. Once...
...Capitalism proclaims, "the most feared filmmaker in America." Certainly the most provocative: there are nearly as many movies attacking Moore (mostly docs but also David Zucker's anti-Moore comedy-satire An American Carol) as there are films directed by him. Yet to his kind of movie star, any mention, whether deferential or defamatory, is free publicity. Not that Moore needs others to do the work he's so accomplished at. He was the star guest on the second episode of Jay Leno's new prime-time show, flacking for Capitalism and singing two verses of Bob Dylan...
Michael Moore is many things--filmmaker, TV-show producer, best-selling author, hall-packing lecturer--and has been called many other things by his detractors. But first and foremost, he's a movie star...
...Wall Street critics and the working-class folks whose lives were ruined as they lost their homes. But Casino, which plays like a superior edition of the PBS series Frontline, can now be seen in just a few theaters. It seems that doc films can thrive only if they star Michael Moore...
...audiences are attracted to and entertained by Moore--but what is the political effect of his star quality? In Capitalism, after cogently diagnosing the collusion of Wall Street and Congress in cooking this mess, he ends not by urging tough legislation but by calling for community activism and labor-union muscle. The problem is that movies, even Michael Moore movies, aren't an efficient method for rousing a constituency. Fahrenheit 9/11 didn't do half the damage to George W. Bush that the Swift Boat smears did to John Kerry. Sicko couldn't change lawmakers' minds on health care...