Thursday, October 14, 2004
Oooooh, Moore
Disclaimer: I think Moore is an asshole, independent of his politics
Will Harper's Bottom Feeder in the EBX has an interesting story about, well, Moore:
It looks like Peralta Community College District will have to scrap its plan to run Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 on its public-access cable channel prior to the election. According to district propagandist Jeffrey Heyman, the movie's distributor, Lion's Gate Films, won't let Peralta air the anti-Bush feature for fear of jeopardizing a $15 million cable deal. This struck Heyman as odd since Moore had just sent out an e-mail exhorting his followers to buy or rent the DVD and show it to as many people as possible. "Nothing would make me happier than to have you share it with everyone you know," Moore wrote in his October 5 missive. "All surveys have shown that, the more people who see it -- especially those still sitting on the fence -- the more likely we will have regime change come November 2nd."
Heyman says when he called the distributor, Lion's Gate rep John Ferro told him, "Fuck Michael, he doesn't own the rights anymore." Heyman calls the snub the "ultimate in hypocrisy," given Moore's call to spread the word however possible. "Isn't this just what the Peralta Colleges are doing by showing the film on its public cable station?" he said in an e-mail.
Let me make sure I'm reading Heyman's statement right. One person said "distribute this film widely." Some other guy, who actually had rights to the film, said "No, don't distribute this film in a manner which might hurt us." Heyman concludes that this is hypocrisy, because the statements of two different people contradict each other.
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