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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (45443)	5/7/2004 8:19:10 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

Michael Moore says distributors are lining up after Disney drops his film Thu May 6, MARKHAM, Ont. (CP) - Filmmaker Michael Moore (news) turned a scheduled appearance at a recyclers' conference in Ontario into an audio hook-up instead Thursday, as he remained in New York to deal with developments surrounding his Fahrenheit 9/11 documentary. Moore said in his address that he has many different distributors lining up to handle the film after Miramax Films was told by parent company Disney not to release it. Jo-anne St. Godard, executive director of the Recycling Council, noted Moore had delegates laughing when he said he's pretty much ready to come and live in Canada in light of everything that's been happening with respect to freedom of speech in America. Moore's film criticizes U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and connects the Bush family with Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s. Disney chief executive Michael Eisner said Wednesday the company "did not want a film in the middle of the political process where we're such a nonpartisan company and our guests, that participate in all of our attractions, do not look for us to take sides." Moore has said he believes the Walt Disney Co. is worried the documentary would endanger tax breaks the company receives from Florida, where Bush's brother Jeb is governor and where Disney World is located. "What tax break?" Jeb Bush responded Wednesday. "We don't give tax breaks, that I'm aware of, to Disney," Bush said. "I appreciate the fact that Disney creates thousands and thousands of jobs in our state." Moore said he officially found out Monday that Miramax would not be allowed to distribute the film, but his agent learned this a year ago. "They had told my agent last year - Eisner himself told my agent, Ari Emanuel - that there was no way they were going to release this film, and he told him why. Because he did not want to anger Jeb Bush in Florida," Moore told The Associated Press. "He wasn't going to let a little documentary upset the Bush family." But Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein wanted to go ahead with the film and spent $6 million finishing it, Moore said. "Harvey thought he'd change their minds. We went ahead and made the movie anyway," he said. Moore said only when it was announced that Fahrenheit 9/11 would make its world premiere as one of 18 films screening in competition at the Cannes Film Festival (news - web sites), which begins May 12, did Disney "finally decide to deal with it." Miramax spokesman Matthew Hiltzik told the AP that Weinstein remains passionate about the film, and that Miramax and Moore are working together to find another company to help release it.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (45443)	5/7/2004 9:27:14 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 89467

The barrage was delivered by more than 200 of his former comrades, commanders and fellow veterans of the boat crews that patrolled the waters of the Mekong delta. The group, calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, held a press conference, saying Mr Kerry's leadership in the anti-war movement made him unfit to be president. guardian.co.uk hanoi john is a fraud, a flip flop fraud. hanio john can only be forgiven if he goes to the Vietnam War Memorial and asks one at a time for each soldier listed their to fogive him for the evil disgusting slander he spoke against them.