Less Moore Is More
Ok, as noted here more than a few times, I am not Michael Moore’s biggest fan. I’m not his harshest critic either, by any means. But one of my problems with Moore is that I feel he lets himself get in the way of his own stories. So it encourages me to read in this Yahoo! News item that he’s letting Bush be the “star” of his new film.
That said, I don’t think I’d go so far as “James Rocchi, film critic for DVD rental company Netflix, [who’s quoted in the story as saying] he found Moore too smug and stunt-driven in past work. ‘There’s no such job as a standup journalist.’
Sure there is, we just don’t have a lot of ‘em alive, well and working right now. Bill Hicks, when he was alive, did a fine job of it. Richard Pryor, too. On rare occasions even Jay Leno gets quoted on WorkingForChange.
