Friday, March 16, 2007
MOORE QUESTIONS
It took a while for leftist Canadian doco makers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine to wise up:
After four months of unsuccessfully trying to sit down with [Michael] Moore for an on-camera interview, they realised they needed to approach the subject from a different angle.
They began looking at the process Moore employs in his films, and the deeper they dug, the more they began to question him.
Moore proved more elusive than former GM chairman Roger Smith, famously pursued by the Michigan Meatscoop in Roger & Me - described at Moore’s site as a film in which Moore “attempts to meet” Smith. Turns out he actually did:
The fact that Moore spoke with Smith, including a lengthy question-and-answer exchange during a May 1987 GM shareholders meeting, first was reported in a Premiere magazine article three years later ...
Moore also reportedly interviewed Smith on camera in January 1988 at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.
Since then, in the years since Roger & Me put Moore on the map, those details seem to have been suppressed and forgotten.
"It was shocking, because to me that was the whole premise of Roger & Me,” Melnyk said.
Moore often forgets things himself; for example, in November he forgot that he campaigned for Ralph Nader in 2000.