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More money coming for Moore

Published: Friday, Sept. 17, 2004 8:57 a.m. MDT
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"I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? Cause multi-millions like what I do."

The author of the above, one Michael Moore of Davison, Mich., will add to his bankroll on Wednesday, Oct. 20, when he picks up a $40,000 check, not counting travel expenses, from the student body at Utah Valley State College.

Moore has agreed to speak in the 8,000-seat David O. McKay Center on the UVSC campus, and although he hasn't, as far as I know, delivered in advance the text of his speech, a good guess is that he will talk about what a bad man President Bush is.

Another reasonable guess: his warm-up act will not be the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Moore is the documentary filmmaker who, in 2003, won an Academy Award for "Bowling for Columbine," a film about America's obsession with guns and violence, and used his acceptance speech to thank mom and dad and rip Bush. As a sequel to that, this past June he released "Fahrenheit 9/11," his documentary that criticizes the war with Iraq and Bush's handling of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and has already made nearly $120 million to become the highest-grossing documentary of all time.

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"Fahrenheit 9/11" has gone around the world. It won le grande prize at France's Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d'Or, becoming the first documentary ever to do so, and received a 20-minute standing ovation from the couldn't-agree-more French. It was also well-received at its premiere this past week in Tehran, Iran.

The movie even drew a crowd in Crawford, Texas, just four miles from the front gate of Bush's ranch, where it was shown in late July in a parking lot, and 3,000 people, counting those who thought with a crowd that big it must be a George Strait concert, attended. Across town, several hundred of Bush's neighbors staged a pro-Bush rally by not attending, including one farmer with a truck full of manure.

Anyway, now it's Orem's turn. Not to see the film — which appeared and disappeared from Utah County movie houses faster than Gary Crowton's offense — but to see the man who made it.


Back to the $40,000.

$40,000!

For two hours' work!

And you thought Greg Ostertag had a sweet deal.

In two hours, Michael Moore will make more money than a UVSC student working 20 hours a week in the cafeteria will make in seven years.

And he didn't even graduate from college. According to his biography on the Internet, Moore dropped out shortly after enrolling at the University of Michigan-Flint "to focus on activism."

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