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Two of My Favorite Curmudgeons

Mark Evanier linked yesterday to two good articles, one on comedian Lewis Black and the other on the distribution difficulties for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911. Update #1: More on the Disney flap from Tom Burka. I don't know if I trust a bunch of drawings with no pants... Update #2: Apparently it was all a cheap publicity stunt dreamt up by Moore (thanks for the tip, Alex!), which obviously worked even though I should think it's cost him some more credibility. Which you'd think a documentarian wouldn't want to risk, but what do I know? Update #3: Okay, Moore was aware of the possibility of Disney not distributing the movie at least a year ago, but says it wasn't a done deal until they met last week. So I don't know whether to characterize this as a publicity stunt; if the basic fact that they're blocking Miramax from distributing the film (which isn't necessarily censorship, just a stupid and petty business decision) remains, then when Moore suspected the possibility and when he knew for sure is all rather secondary, isn't it? And of course he's going to shout about it more on the eve of its release than during the time he was putting it together...