If you want to see the trailer for Michael Moore's Sicko without entering the internet hellhole of Moviefone - let's face it, hardly anybody can get that player to work properly - then you can now download it directly.
Jim Kenefick runs MooreWatch, an anti-Michael Moore website. Recently, he wrote about his wife's illness and the amount of money needed to get her treatment. Of course, a cheque soon arrived from a mysterious benefactor.
To cut a long story short, The NY Daily News did the necessary to discover who the cheque was from and, surprise surprise - it was Michael Moore. Kenefick has turned the whole event into a bit of spin - claiming that Moore simply must have an agenda, that this could only be preparation for a PR move. Hmmm. I don't know how Moore could ever have owned up to this. There may be some mention in Sicko of his charitable giving, there may not be - soon we'll see, with the Cannes premiere rapidly approaching, but I doubt very much that the secret origin of this particular donation is discussed.
Most importantly, though, note that no other moneyed reader of Kenefick's site came forth with the necessary donation. Not even to try and beat Moore to the punch. That's an important detail.
Tony Scott has dipped into the Scott Free discretionary fund to secure a project he seems very keen on. Pat Dollard's War on Hollywood was an article published in Vanity Fair that told of a Tinsel Town agent turning his back on coke-dusted razzle dazzle to join Marines in Iraq and has since, according to his website, learnt 'the joys of killing'.
You can read the Vanity Fair article online.
Dollard's ambition now is to become a 'conservative icon, the Michael Moore of the right'. He's hawking a documentary series, Young Americans, and according to Dollard's website, Scott is involved in that now too. I'll leave you with his latest announcement, which pretty much speaks for itself:
I’ve working with director Tony Scott on Young Americans. Tony and I are working on the current series and hope to have distribution shortly. Of course it could all blow up if we don’t see eye to eye on everything or end up hating each other for no particular reason, but he’s a bad-ass, visionary motherf***er who counts Sonny Barger among his boys, so it’s all good. We will also be working together on the next round of the series, to be shot on the next trip to Ramadi, for what will hopefully be the final phase of the showdown with Al Qaeda. The plan for that trip is to edit closer to real time, while still in Ramadi, and have episodes aired as close to days or weeks after being shot as we can. It promises to be a very exciting and groundbreaking venture which will be very insightful for the nation.
And, I’ve closed a deal with Tony, his crew, and Twentieth Century Fox to make a movie about my experiences. I’ve been hired to co-write the script. More on that later.
If I get whacked in Ramadi, you’ll all the know the ending, but go see the movie anyway. Besides, that’ll be the best ending, right? And please go in your Jihadikiller t-shirts.
