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Not only is producer Gavin Polone beating Michael Moore about the head and face as a hypocritical blowhard in public, he’s doing so in the pages of one of the industry’s biggest trade publications. This is not a small development.

Being a conservative in Hollywood is much like getting your face tattooed in college; it’s a lot of fun if you never want a career. Throughout the three-year history of this space, we’ve posted countless stories about the Hollywood blacklist.

From CNN: In an interview with Piers Morgan, Michael Moore was asked a question from a Twitter user who pointed out the seeming incongruity of the filmmaker’s personal wealth and his criticism of capitalism. Morgan seemed intrigued by the line

You’re not a conservative if Kim Kardashian making millions for being a half-witted, no-talent reality TV star bothers you. In fact, if you feel “there oughta be a law” somehow regulating, limiting or otherwise controlling in any manner at all

January 23, 2013 White House, Cabinet Room First meeting of President Obama’s new team OBAMA: Listen up, people. I got myself across the finish line but couldn’t bring Congress along. That’s why you’re here. Except for Defense, you represent the

Kanye “Occupies Wall Street” wearing $1,000 jeans Excellent piece at Celebrity Net Worth: #1 Yoko Ono Net Worth – $500 million. Ono stated “I love ‘Occupy Wall Street’! John is sending his smile to ‘Occupy Wall Street’. I am sending

Michael Moore, appearing live on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell last week, from the #OccupyWallStreet protests: Note the sign at above right, above Moore’s left shoulder. The left can’t seem to decide: is “occupation” a good thing, or a

The irony is that she asked Michael Moore this question.

Film maker Michael Moore complains about President Obama’s first three years in office and talks about the only GOP candidate he likes.

Michael Moore recently pontificated that under Obamacare Americans would have to wait for certain non life-threatening procedures such as a knee replacement. In his mind a “patriotic American” would be happy to do so. If one takes a critical look

Michael Moore says Obama’s tax hike plan and refusal to extend the Bush tax cuts is “music to my ears.”

Over the past few days I’ve watched anti-American filmmaker Michael Moore make the rounds on various interview shows so he can push his new book “Here Comes Trouble.” In many of the interviews, the Oscar-winner discussed the various threats and

Filmmaker Michael Moore, has just published a new book. It’s called “Here Comes Trouble” and (with his permission) the UK Guardian last week published an excerpt. The Guardian extract focused on the period after Moore’s famous 2003 Oscar acceptance speech

—- Here’s a link to what we can assume Michael Moore’s referring to when he speaks of Glenn Beck fantasizing about killing him. Ooh, menacing stuff. Moore is unattractive enough without adding “playing the victim” to the pile. Furthermore, we’d

The Washington Times is wrong. Hollywood wasn’t AWOL in the War on Terror. In fact, just the opposite is true. Hollywood summoned every ounce of financial and star power at their disposal to fight this war. Unfortunately, they chose to

For years, pundits have been trying to connect violent movies and video games with actual crimes. The arguments typically end up more theoretical than reality based. In one famous instance, the 1994 Oliver Stone film “Natural Born Killers” supposedly inspired

Just when you thought the NBC News cable outlet (MSNBC) had gone too far, they somehow find a way to out do themselves in propaganda hysteria aimed at their favorite Bogey man: The Tea Party. Martin Bashir (the reporter who

Ed. Note: Please make Amelia feel welcome so she comes back! –JN My hometown of Traverse City, Michigan has also been home to the Traverse City Film Festival (TCFF) since Michael Moore established it in 2005. When Moore announced this

In my position as writer about film, I sometimes get to interview filmmakers and performers about their work. One man I’ve interviewed twice is Errol Morris, an amazing documentarian who alternates between making films about oddballs and films about political

Box Office Mojo is a universally accepted and respected source for box-office numbers, mainly because they’ve always done a very professional job of sticking to numbers and avoiding the business and political nonsense that tarnishes so many others. As of

Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. In many popular narratives of the period, it was the Baby Boomers (born 1943-1960) who “ruined” the movies. Here’s the pretentious film snob summary of the death of Hollywood’s alleged

In 2006, the docudrama titled The Path to 9-11 was released for public viewing. It was produced by the Disney Corporation. When aired the first night on ABC, it was the second most watched show on television; soon, it became

CANNES, France (AP) – American director Terrence Malick’s expansive drama “The Tree of Life” won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, while Kirsten Dunst took the best-actress prize for the apocalyptic saga “Melancholia.” The Palme d’Or

The desperation level of teachers’ unions and their apologists is growing by the day. Ceding major ground in states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey, Idaho, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, the unions seem to be on the run. They’ve

One of my favorite directors, and one of the genuine voices of my generation, Kevin Smith has done what we all must do from time to time. He has, in just a few weeks, reinvented himself. Smith launched his own

Apparently, instead of just wallowing in the misery that must have attended getting canned by MSNBC back in January, Olbermann has spent part of his hiatus from the public eye rubbing elbows with “top progressive…voices” like Richard Lewis, Ken Burns,

Morgan Spurlock exploded on the American pop culture scene as the star, writer, and director of the humorous documentary “Super Size Me” in 2003. In that film, he ingeniously shined a spotlight on the epidemic of obesity and the rampant

So some southern Arizona lefties have launched a petition to split the state – creating a new liberal paradise, called Baja Arizona. Now this is not a new idea, but it’s still a great one -if not for a state,

No need to editorialize here. We’ll just let the man’s words, historical illiteracy and moral equivalency speak for itself. It took some work, but we were able to narrow down our list of The Stupid to 10. For context’s sake,

You’re not only able to understand people through their belief system but also through the priority of that belief system. With all the problems in the world right now, here you have an Oscar-winning, multi-millionaire film director who chooses to

You have to wonder if Truthers Charlie Sheen and Rosie O’Donnell are mourning the death of a patsy this morning. —– —– No, not partisan at all, Michael Moore. And how nice of you to declare bin Laden the winner

Morgan Spurlock exploded on the American pop culture scene as the star, writer and director of the humorous documentary “Super Size Me” in 2003. In that film, he ingeniously shined a spotlight on the epic of obesity and the rampant

There is a lot that a person can learn from watching “Scarface.” While most of the lessons involve how to build a drug distribution empire, alternative uses for a chainsaw, and what not to do with your tongue when trying

Something electrifying happened in my home state of Wisconsin Saturday afternoon, and not just Governor Sarah Palin’s grand-slam of a speech, which, contrary to Politico’s phony spin, was perfectly aimed at the smoldering and growing pile of Barack Obama’s failures.

Could it really only be 100 days? Indeed, it has been just over three months since Republican Scott Walker took the oath of office as the Governor of Wisconsin. Now known across the country as the maverick who had the