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"What if," wonders Michael Moore, just asking, "George Bush filed a Writers Guild grievance against my film. Because the funniest lines in it are his, not mine."
Never mind Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks, Cameron Diaz and Angelina Jolie, this almost willfully unglamorous man in jeans, sandals, pullover shirt and "Made In Canada" baseball cap is the center of the Festival de Cannes' biggest media storm. Variety cheekily calls him "Fest's fave pest," while a French film magazine more grandly insists he's one man "Contre L'Empire," against the American empire.
"It's a product of the times we live in, not me," Moore said. "With what's going on in the world, in the States, this becomes a focal point because I'm willing to put my toe in the water and make a movie about something."
That movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11," which had an unprecedented five same-day screenings today, four of them for the press, became a cause celebre even before it got here when the Disney corporation refused to allow Harvey Weinstein and his Miramax division to distribute it because of the film's partisan political nature. That led, among other things, to a political cartoon with a "Snow White and the Six Dwarfs" marquee and a man saying, "Sneezy's A Bush Critic, So Disney Dumped Him."
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