Straight.com: Cannes Oohs Over Moore's Bush-Whacking Doc

Straight.com: Cannes Oohs Over Moore's Bush-Whacking Doc: "The Disney corporation might be caught up in (and losing out on) the controversy over its adamant decision to forbid subsidiary Miramax from distributing Fahrenheit 9/11. But that didn't keep the Dubya-bashing film's director, Michael Moore, from walking away with the Palme d'Or, the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, when the event wrapped on May 23. And it certainly won't keep him from thumbing his big fat Flint, Michigan, nose at the increasingly flailing U.S. president, whose family he depicts as being symbiotically connected to that of a certain Osama bin Laden.
The film was the first documentary to be so honoured at the French fest, and Cannes jury president Quentin Tarantino was subsequently forced to defend his group's decision to fete the hot-potato flick for 'its merits as a motion picture', as he said in an open press conference the next day.
Todd McCarthy, chief critic for the industry mag Variety, posted one of the few non-rave reviews of the film, which details the odd business and personal relationships between the Bushes and the bin Ladens, among other prominent Saudi families. He didn't quibble too much with the jury's choice, however, when reached by the Straight at his home in Los Angeles. "