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Michael Moore is apparently so desperate to dig up dirt on drug companies and health-care providers for his next documentary, "Sicko," he's asking visitors to his Web site to help him out. But given the glaring conflict between what the filmmaker says about drug companies and how he invests in them, the title of the movie might well apply to Moore himself.
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There have been many attempts to define Michael Moore in both books and films. The latest attempt is with the new film Manufacturing Dissent, which was produced by husband and wife filmmakers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine from Toronto, Canada. It recently premiered in Texas on March 10, 2007. The films producers used multiple film clips of my various worker activist groups and our meetings and demonstrations throughout the film and this film does do a credible job in questioning Moore's ethics.The producers put Moore in the same hot seat he has put his victims for many years.
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Moore's body of work has attracted criticism from both conservatives and liberals. On March 12, 2007, Canadian filmmakers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine appeared on MSNBC's Tucker to talk about their documentary Manufacturing Dissent, which investigates Michael Moore. They reported to have found that Moore talked with General Motors Chairman Roger Smith at a company shareholders' meeting, and that this interview was cut from Roger & Me.[1][2] However, the actual encounter was not captured on camera by Moore, and occurred before he became a filmmaker.[3] Moore told the Associated Press that had he met face-to-face with Roger Smith during production and tried to keep the footage secret, General Motors would have made it known through the media to discredit him. "I'm so used to listening to the stuff people say about me, it just becomes entertainment for me at this point. It's a fictional character that's been created with the name of Michael Moore."[4]
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Moore is a frequent speaker on college campuses, which pay dearly for his celebrity presence and speeches. The Federal Election Commission launched an investigation into Moore's 2004 "Slacker Uprising Tour" of dozens of colleges and universities, most in swing states, during the closing days of that year's presidential campaign. The filmmaker, who exhorted young voters to support Democratic candidate John Kerry over Republican incumbent George W. Bush, charged the schools or student organizations up to $30,000 per appearance. "The slacker motto," Moore told one cheering crowd of college students, "is 'Sleep till noon, drink beer, vote Kerry November 2.'" He added, "'Pick nose, pick butt, pick Kerry," and ended with an echo of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels from the Communist Manifesto: "Slackers of the world, unite!"
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After the box office failure of Canadian Bacon (1995), a very depressed Moore briefly contemplated early retirement. However, famous producer rep John Pierson and filmmaker Kevin Smith changed Moore's mind and gave him inspiration during Pierson's "Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes" book tour. Smith could identify with Moore's grief, having just experienced the box office failure of Mallrats (1995).
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Moore spent the rest of the year on a soapbox in an attempt to derail Bush's eventual re-election, after which he laid low and began work on another ambitious project called Sicko. This time taking on the American health care industry, Moore found it harder than ever to infiltrate his chosen subject, as the major HMOs and drug companies organized Moore-avoidance seminars and kept their employees sworn to silence with any camera crews. The filmmaker was once again able to drum up a significant body of disgruntled former employees and current victims of HMO malfeasance, enough to make Sicko's debut at the 2007 Cannes Film Fest a heartrending popular favorite.
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