Michael Moore was born in Flint, Michigan, and attended Catholic schools, including a year in the seminary, which he says accounts for his healthy respect for the fires of hell which seem to be located somewhere just outside Crawford, Texas.He was an Eagle Scout, Newspaper Boy of the Week, and the youngest person ever elected to public office in the state of Michigan when he was 18-years old. Michael Moore is now the Oscar and Emmy-winning director of the groundbreaking and record-setting films Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, and Fahrenheit 9/11 (which also won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and has gone on to become the highest grossing... Read full bio
American soldiers serve willingly. They risk their lives so the rest of us can be safe. The one small thing they ask, though, is that they not be sent...
...pushed to the fringes." Previous award recipients include Bruce Springsteen, Arthur Miller, Joan Baez, Sean Penn, and Michael Moore. This is not the first time Maddow's name has been associated with legendary broadcaster. Maddow was awarded the The...
...included New York Times writer Gail Collins, civil rights activist Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and award-winning filmmaker and author Michael Moore. Bunker Hill Community College is the largest community college in Massachusetts...
...of Super Bowl 2012, there was an average of 10,000 tweets per second. THR: Football fans from Michael Moore to Rupert Murdoch to Chloe Moretz tweeted congratulations for Eli Manning's win over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. TechCrunch: The...
...In Love, among others. But the arrangement imploded in 2005 when Michael Eisner, head of Disney, objected to Michael Moore's anti-Bush administration documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. The Weinsteins distributed it anyway, but the relationship had broken down...
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...noon. On Friday night , you can Occupy the Movies at the Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society . Up this week? Michael Moore's Capitalism: a Love Story . Discussion following the movie. Popcorn and refreshments served. 7 to 10 p.m. Also on...
..."through a potent combination of hubris, incompetence, profligate spending, and contempt for contractual obligations" and by documentary film-maker Michael Moore for $2.7m in profits from the anti George W Bush polemic Fahrenheit 911, which Moore claimed...
...Zack Zook, from BookCourt, escorted Michael Moore to the front of the room (Photo: Daphnee Denis/The Brooklyn Ink) Michael Moore has spent the last three weeks at Occupy Wall Street, but it was a Brooklyn bookstore...
...Author and filmmaker Michael Moore visited St. Mark’s Bookshop in New York City last week, lending his support to the bookseller’s campaign for a “significant rent concession” from their landlord. In the...
...Michael Moore Backs Call to Re-Open Investigation of 9/11 Attacks In his film "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore explored the complex ties between Bush administration officials and associates, the Saudi Royal...
...Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Summit signs up to go to Area 52… Michael Moore wants his book yanked from shelves in “murderous” Georgia… A closer look at Martin Scorsese’s epic George Harrison documentary… and...
...Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore and Dr. Cornell West so far have shown up to show solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street’s two week long protest. Ms. Sarandon encouraged participation in the political...
...Anyway, nobody got arrested today (as of 8:30pm), but there were lots of hot celebrities such as Michael Moore. And the Granny Peace Squad came and helped ruin America with us. You probably already know about the Granny Peace Squad, but are you familiar...
...Documentary film-maker and leftist Michael Moore is calling for a boycott of “the murderous state of Georgia” in retaliation for the execution of convicted cop-killer Troy Davis. You can read the story on Macon.com...