Michael moore biography book
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Michael Moore
American filmskapare and author (born 1954)
For other people named Michael Moore, see Michael Moore (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Michael Moorer.
Michael Moore | |
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Moore at the 2009 Venice Film Festival | |
Born | Michael Francis Moore (1954-04-23) April 23, 1954 (age 70) Flint, Michigan, U.S. |
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Years active | 1976–present |
Spouse | Kathleen Glynn (m. ; div. ) |
Website | michaelmoore.com |
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American spelfilm director, producer, screenwriter, and author. Moore's work frequently addresses various social, political, and economic topics. He first became publicly known for his award-winning debut documentary Roger & Me, a scathing look at the downfall of the automotive industry in 1980s Flint and Detroit.
Moore followed up and won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine
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Michael Moore: A Biography
Schultz’s biography covers the life and work of the increasingly
infamous documentarian and political activist Michael Moore. The author
provides a brief examination of Moore’s childhood and early days in
journalism, and then goes on to explore each of his major works,
focusing especially on their reception by critics and the general
public.
This is a thoroughly mediocre, even submediocre, biography. Schultz
delivers very little information about Moore that is not already widely
known, and she is reluctant to engage seriously with any of the ideas
forwarded in his films and political screeds. In reviewing his work she
is happy to conclude with variations on the observation that, love him
or hate him, the man certainly creates a stir. In place of considered
analysis of the man or his ideas, Schultz favours a kind of
cheerleader’s approach to the drama of his provocations: “[I]t
is,” she writes, “fascinating to see the hubbub.” Many of
Moore’s highly sus
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Cuidado conmigo: historias de mi vida
. The picture of Michael Moore as a toddler, on the cover, under the title, of HERE COMES TROUBLE is perfect. You should have learned better by now, young man.. After a time, he should have known what to say to Kurt Vonnegut when Vonnegut, who befriended him, wrote Moore was his “hero” and when John Lennon talked to him offering to help.. “You guys are passé. That stuff is gone, that part of my life is over. The ideals of America, the integrity of a person. Forget it. Believing if you are k