FEATURED ARTICLES
- Reviews of Mike Moore's, "Fahrenheit 9/11," Time, Toronto Star, UK Guardian, Hollywood Reporter
- Memos Reveal War Crimes Warnings, Newsweek
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
- - Malcolm X
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - MAY
1925 -- Malcolm Little is born in Omaha, Nebraska. Malcolm X lives.
1992 -- Papa Bush's Vice Pres. Dan Quayle attacks TV character Murphy Brown for having a baby out of wedlock.
RHINO HERE:
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It seems like springtime to The Rhino. What contributes a bunch to the feeling that new energies are springing forth is the fact that many contingents of the major media seem to be awakening and doing some good ol' investigative journalism, and being willing to print stories that challenge the shrub gang.
Today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE is a breaking story by Newsweek Magazine about an internal White House memo they found revealing that the gang had ongoing discussions about whether breaking the Geneva Accords was the right thing to do & about what the consequences might be for the administration members should the truth come out. In the memo, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales focused on a 1996 law known as the War Crimes Act, banning Americans from committing war crimes (defined as "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions). The law applies to "U.S. officials" and punishments for violators include the death penalty.
But first, a smattering of excerpts & links to reviews of Michael Moore's new movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11." It premiered at The Cannes Film Festival this week receiving the longest standing ovation in Cannes history.
A First Look at "Fahrenheit 9/11"
Controversy aside, the new Michael Moore film is a fine documentary
Time Magazine, by Mary Corliss at Cannes, May. 17, 2004
A few years ago, Michael Moore spoke with then-Governor George W. Bush, who told the muckraker, "Behave yourself, will ya? Go find real work." Moore has made trouble for so many powerful people he has become a media power of his own. He can even make celebrities of mere movie reviewers: When his latest cinematic incendiary device, "Fahrenheit 9/11," had its first press screening Monday morning, American critics emerging from the theater were besieged by a convoy of TV and radio crews from networks around the world who wanted to know what they thought of Moore's blast at the Bush Administration... ..."Fahrenheit 9/11" may be seen as another example of the liberal media preaching to its own choir. But Moore is such a clever assembler of huge accusations and minor peccadillos (as with a shot of Wolfowitz sticking his pocket comb in his mouth and sucking on it to slick down his hair before a TV interview) that the film should engage audiences of all political persuasions...
MORE: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,638819,00.html
Moore Rant Wows Cannes - Anti-Bush polemic funny, emotional yet very powerful.
Confident it will be released before the U.S. election
by GEOFF PEVERE, The Toronto Star, May 18, 2004
It took five separate screenings to accommodate the press demand to see Michael Moore's heavily anticipated anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday, and when it came to turning up the political heat here, neither the movie nor its maker failed to disappoint. The audience at a afternoon gala screening responded with a 20-minute standing ovation. Festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux told the New York Times it was the longest he had ever witnessed in Cannes.
Moore Rant Wows Cannes
The Bushes and the Bin Ladens: passionate anti-war film is a tale of two families
by Peter Bradshaw, UK The Guardian, May 18, 2004
The Passion of Michael Moore could yet be a hot ticket. It was strident, passionate, sometimes outrageously manipulative and often bafflingly selective in its material, but Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 was a barnstorming anti-war/anti-Bush polemic tossed like an incendiary device into the crowded Cannes festival...
MORE: http://film.guardian.co.uk/cannes2004/story/0,14498,1219269,00.html
'Fahrenheit' Lights Fire In Cannes Debut
By Gregg Kilday, Hollywood Reporter, May 18, 2004
CANNES -- Michael Moore brought his own shock-and-awe campaign to Cannes on Monday... ...Because Harvey and Bob Weinstein have not yet completed the deal to personally buy the film back from Disney, they have not yet struck a deal for a new distributor. On the Croisette, speculation over who will eventually snatch the distribution rights, even under the tough terms that the Weinsteins are said to be commanding, rages... Said Weinstein: "Things are being worked out. It will be announced shortly."... ...While some journalists complained that the movie provides no surprises for those who have followed the growing criticism of the war closely -- it draws, for instance, from material cited in "House of Bush, House of Saud," by Craig Unger, who appears on camera in the film -- Moore argued that it serves plenty of new information and footage that will prove startling to moviegoers. One sequence, for example, shot for Moore by free-lancers in Iraq, shows American soldiers in the field humiliating Iraqi detainees... ...It also includes interviews with soldiers voicing opposition to the war... ...For all its poignant moments, "Fahrenheit" also includes plenty of laughs -- mostly at Bush's expense...
MORE: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id?00512310
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