Moore, Michael M People

Moore, Michael M People

Moore, Michael

Michael Moore began his filmmaking career when General Motors laid off 30,000 workers in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. "Roger & Me" (1989) chronicled his attempt to find the chairman of GM, Roger Smith. Subsequent films include "Canadian Bacon" (1995) and "The Big One" (1997). Moore was elected at age eighteen to the Davison, Michigan board of education, and has served as the editor of the Flint Voice/Michigan Voice.

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- Official site of the gadfly of corporations, creator of the film Roger and Me and the television show The Awful Truth. Includes mailing list, message board, and news.

- Filmography as actor, director, producer, and writer.
- Portrait of and interview with the film-maker reveals him to be a difficult person.
- Shows how low some extremists have stooped, from pressing to have Moore arrested for treason to getting his movie banned in America.
- Gives comments by Moore before his film won the 2004 Best Picture Award at the People's Choice Awards ceremony.
- Investigates interviews with Moore that look more like baited interrogations, as well as the need of documentaries to raise issues that media will not examine.
- Production company of Michael Moore. Includes information on Moore's films, TV shows, and books.
- Moore mounts a raucous political burlesque show in the University of Minnesota's basketball arena as he watched the 2004 presidential debate with about 7,500 people.
- Open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush on the eve of the 2000 presidential election decision.
- Online petition to encourage Michael Moore to run for US President in the 2004 election.
- Editorial by Moore on Independence Day regarding the need to open a debate with flag-waving hawks who equate any questioning of authority with being unpatriotic. From the Los Angeles Times. [Free registration required.]
- Editorial essay argues that Michael Moore is an ideological con artist and that "Bowling for Columbine" is full of inaccurate stereotypes and distortions.
- Ronald Reagan's daughter reflects on the polarization of the people on war, during the 1960s and now, and sees Moore's outrage as coming from a deeper love of America.
- Michigan Republicans try to silence Moore's tour by trying to get files charged against him for election buying.
- Moore speaks to 9800 students at the University of Neveda at Reno, making it the largest event in their campus history.
- Profile, interview, and other articles and features from the UK newspaper.
- Clearinghouse with the stated goal of exposing Michael Moore as a fictitous filmmaker whose career is staged scenes, twisted statistics, faked editing, and shameless self-promotion.
- Features a filmography, bibliography, and links.
- Review of Moore's book, "Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation."
- Explores how for some people, saying "he's fat" is an adequate rebuttal of the works of Michael Moore.
- Presents opposing views and facts to Michael Moore's public assumptions and assertions.
- Protests and counter-protests erupt outside the Milwaukee Theatre before Moore even arrives to speak there.
- Moore speaks to a sold-out McKale Center to urge people to register to vote and get rid of Bush in the November 2004 election.
- Writer John Patterson salutes Michael Moore for doing the job he says the US media were too scared to tackle.
- After hearing numerous comments that Moore is lying, a viewer asks for evidence from the accusers but can't find any anywhere.
- Moore gets USC students to care about politics and come together in massive numbers to engage in important national and global issues.
- Account by Moore on how he was banned from speaking or signing books at any Borders store in the US.
- Moore gets Michigan Republicans fuming by pledging to give corn chips, clean underwear, and ramen to slackers who register to vote.
- Articles by Moore on attending the Republican National Convention in 2004, and his impressions of George W. Bush's policies.
- Moore's Slacker Uprising Tour, a movement to get couch potatoes to vote, goes to Orem, Utah and raises a tempest in the highly Republican region.

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