New York Daily News : Moore's message delivered, big-time

New York Daily News: "You could have heard a tear fall.
As an American mother named Lila Lipscomb drowned in anguish over the death of her son in Iraq, the packed Loews Bay Terrace theater in Queens was so silent at the 11 a.m. show of 'Fahrenheit 9/11' on Friday that all you could hear was the rustle of tissues. I sat in the back of the theater, with an unemployed construction worker from Brooklyn, and as the movie played, I watched men and women, young and old, wiping their eyes in silhouette.
They were the tears of the nation this weekend as 'Fahrenheit 9/11' blazed from sea to shining sea as the No.1 movie in America.
This was a brand-new moviegoing experience.

Back in Brooklyn, the unemployed construction worker bought a bootleg copy of "Fahrenheit 9/11," shot with a camcorder in a movie house.

He called to say, "Even the audience in the bootleg film applauds at the end."


Denis Hamill
New York Daily News