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...envoy Lakhdar Brahimi spoke with TIME's Vivienne Walt in his makeshift office in the Republican Palace in Baghdad last week. Excerpts...
...million Amount Michael Ovitz pocketed from his severance package, which included 9 million stock options, after being fired as Walt Disney Co.'s president...
...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...
...like the truth. Take Michael Moore's new 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...
This week the Walt Disney Company reaffirmed its intention to block Disney-owned Miramax from distributing Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Fahrenheit 911, through Disney’s distribution channels. The film takes issue with President Bush’s decisions before and after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks and examines Bush’s ties to powerful Saudis, including the Bin Laden family. Disney, as a result, has argued that Moore’s film is too political and partisan for its company to distribute—defying its contract with Miramax. Even more disturbing than...