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  Friday  October 18  2002    02: 13 AM

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Bowling for Columbine

"Bowling for Columbine" has set the new all-time opening weekend box office record ($27,000 per screen avg.) for a documentary in the United States! Thank you SO MUCH -- all of you who stood in those enormous lines in Los Angeles and New York trying to get in but couldn't. The unprecedented outpouring of support for this film sent a shock wave through Hollywood. An astounding 18 films opened last Friday in NYC and L.A. -- so, for a documentary to do this well in such a crowded field, it was the last thing anyone expected. And? to break the record set nearly 13 years ago by "Roger & Me" -- it was the only way it should have happened! (From Michael Moore's newsletter) [read more]

The Bowling for Columbine site has clips. Vintage Moore. I can't wait.

thanks to Politics in the Zeros