Reuters: Hollywood Reporter: 'Fahrenheit' Fight Nears Boiling Point This Week

Entertainment News Article | Reuters.com: "By Thursday, it degenerated into something close to self-parody as Move America Forward sent out a bulletin headlined, 'Terrorist Group Hezbollah Endorses Michael Moore Film: Offers to Help Promote 'Fahrenheit 9/11/.''
The warning cited a report in London's the Guardian, which referenced a June 9 story in Screen International. The Screen story, about plans that United Arab Emirates-based distributor Front Row Entertainment has for the film, reported 'organizations related to Hezbollah ... have rung up from Lebanon to ask if there is anything they can do to support the film.'
Reps for the film declined comment, but one can only imagine how that somewhat-hyped Hezbollah endorsement will play at the local multiplex: 'Say, Marge, what movie should we go see tonight?' 'How about that 'Fahrenheit' flick? I hear Hezbollah gave it two big thumbs up.'
It's just about now that everyone involved should take a deep breath.
But that's not likely to happen because both the pro-Moore and anti-Moore camps are convinced this one movie can somehow influence the upcoming election. Even if the movie opens to what promises to be blockbuster numbers -- at least, for a documentary -- that could prove to be a tall order. "

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