Oprah Puts Michael Moore In Deep Freeze
Apparently science has discovered the one force in nature that can silence Michael Moore: The Oprah Winfrey Show.
With the premiere of his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, looming on September 16 at the Toronto Film Festival, normally you’d expect to find Moore filling up every inch of media, shocking the bourgeoisie with his trademark Angry Guy Banging on the Palace Walls shtick, providing Matt Drudge with a new outrageous quote every news cycle.
But Moore has been strangely silent in this run-up and the LA Times‘ Patrick Goldstein has learned that he plans to keep a lid on it for weeks to come no less.
When Goldstein called Overture Films, Moore’s distributor to arrange an interview, he was told that the filmmaker would sit for interviews after the premiere, but the pieces would all be embargoed September 23, the day the film opens in New York and Los Angeles.
Why? Because Moore is doing a sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey, which won’t air until Sept. 22. And if Oprah wants an exclusive, she gets it, since when it comes to books, movies or music, no one offers a better promotional platform than La Winfrey.
There is perhaps no bigger winner here than Barack Obama, who is trying to persuade America that his health care package is not a socialist takeover of their lives. He will get a precious few weeks wherein Michael Moore is not clogging up the airwaves with his caricature of Middle American GOP fears. A conspiratorial mind might even wonder of Miss Winfrey is slyly doing her old pal on Pennsylvania Ave. a solid.
But for Moore himself, it turns out, even when you are peddling an attack on the entire economic underpinnings of our civilisation, there is no place to get that message out like the couch of the Grande Dame of the Midwest, Our Oprah.
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The billionairess pop-Queen of Corporate Capitalism interviews the megamillionaire pop-King of anti-Corporate Capitalism -- all brought to you by PEPSI and ACTIVIA…To warn everyone about the "unforgivable" corporate capitalist GREED ON WALL STREET…All seductively interwoven with the subliminal appeal of a red, white, and blue fizzing%exploding can of sparkling brown sugar versus the intimate-honest-best-friend-bubbly-squat... ass of Jamie Lee Curtis pumping-out yet another pseudo-healthy $tar-bangled-boobed-te$timonial CRAPola! Only in America. Bravo, and hats off to Hollywood. And a special "hello" goes out to schlock-saleswoman-of-the-century... and graceful, aging starlet Sally BONIVA Forrest Gump Field.
wonky-tonk
@itmustbeken: The diseased and damaged!
Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock!
Who's there?
A guy with Parkinson's!
Caption: OM NOM NOM NOM
@baconismyaesthetic:
Who needs to make fun of his fat when you can make fun of that hair?
@baconismyaesthetic: If we cannot make fun of the morbidly obese, who can we make fun of?!?!?!
@NigelAstydameia: Omaha, Oprah. Omaha, Oprah. Oprah, Uma.
Senor_Macho_Solo
Awesome. A bunch of fat jokes. I find Moore a combination of master manipulator, insufferable, and brilliant. None of my opinions are based on his weight. And Sicko isn't any less or more for the fact the director is carrying extra weight. Fat jokes are the path of least resistance.
Media is not the only thing he's filling every inch of. Ya hear me?!
HandsomeBwonderful
Wow, one can see the remnants of this morning's Krispy Kreme in his yap if you look closely.
Martiniman
In a future movie, perhaps he intends to shock the bourgeiouse (sic) with his spelling.
ZacharySkunk
@yourfriendandneighbor: L'Oprah?
Heywoodjablome
The craft services table is going to look like Omaha Beach that day.
NigelAstydameia
I'd like to see Michael Moore rendered down for biofuel. It would be his greatest contribution to society.
Michael Moore should do a film about obesity in America. Oh wait....
Hooray for Oprah, she has an exclusive on a guy whose been making the same move over and over and over and over...
@uncivilly obedient: Shhh, it's my parent's turn to watch Sicko tonight. Thank you, Mr. Moore!
RheaPollstry
@TabithaIapetus:
Uou're not kidding gets everything!
She got our asshole mayor for life to close off a half mile of Michigan Ave. so she can do her season opening show, outdoors, on the street, right at the Chicago River.
For three day, 15 of the busiest bus routes in Chicago have to be rerouted!
Plus tens of thousands of cars will be forced onto other streets.
Greasy Thumb Guzik
He has a fat baby fist. So cute!
LeeMarvinsPants
I don't know about you folks, but every time I look at Michael Moore I can't help but see Cartman.
saya
Oprah and Moore should both wear very revealing outfits to motivate the American public to lead healthier lives.
All that flesh exposed to a mass audience would do more to lower health care costs than anything some clueless politician could concoct.
Peoplefamiliarwith
Does anyone see the irony of using Oprah -- a billionaire entrepreneur who's beloved by her audience -- to promote a movie about how capitalism sucks?
@RheaPollstry: I guess Moore getting your sister to move thousands of miles from the US is an accomplishment.
Is that whay you meant?
@uncivilly obedient: He completely changed my sister's mind about healthcare. Now she wants to go live in France.
RheaPollstry
If Oprah came calling me for an exclusive, I would give it to her as well.
Just plain ole common sense!
So Michael Moore, who doesn't suffer PR fools gladly in his films... agrees to this stupid embargo, for the sake of good PR?
Do Oprah's folks really think that people will tune out if they've read or seen stories about Moore's film elsewhere?
I did not think that Michael Moore needed to be (or could be)silenced. What exactly has his voice ever accomplished?
Same exact way he orders his whoppers and then devours the Burger King kid.
That pic is priceless and disgusting all at the same time.
First snagging the only EA interview and then shutting Michael Moore up?!
Oprah's throwin' rocks out there this season.
paxcincinnatus
Very nice, but it should be La Oprah.
Gah! The Oprah gets everything...
TabithaIapetus
@wonky-tonk: Just curious: Before composing that rant, how many cocktails comprised of GORDON'S GIN and CANADA DRY TONIC did you consume?
@MrInBetween: Everyone knows Sapphire and Schweppes is preferred GNT mix.