Moore is never enough - Film - www.theage.com.au

Moore is never enough - Film - www.theage.com.au: "He claims to be a slob at heart but right now Michael Moore may just be the hardest-working man in showbusiness. He spoke with Stephanie Bunbury about why he just can't stop - until George W. Bush is gone, at any rate.
Michael Moore is trying to tell us, between long melancholic pauses punctuated with manic jabs at his yoghurt, that he's the world's laziest man. 'My nature,' he says in the familiar mid-western drawl we usually hear slinging off at George Bush, 'is to sit in a chair and watch four hours of TV a day, as much sports as I can and not think about anything.'
Weirdly, though, all this stuff has got between him and the Jason recliner. By his own calculation, he hasn't had a minute's time out in over two years. It started with Bowling for Columbine, his film about America's gun culture that went on to win the Oscar. Back home, he was promoting his book Stupid White Men, four million copies of which are now circulating; he followed it up with Dude, Where's My Country?, an anti-Bush tract that immediately topped the lists everywhere"

It is one thing to aim, as Moore frequently says he does, to make a documentary so entertaining that people will go to see it at the multiplex. At this, indeed, he is the undoubted maestro: audience surveys in the US showed that 70 per cent of the people who saw Bowling for Columbine had never seen a documentary in the cinema before, and last week, Fahrenheit 9/11 became the first doco ever to top the US box office. But there is no excuse for intruding on an ordinary person's grief in the style of tabloid TV, just because that sort of thing is lowestcommon- denominator popular.



Stephanie Bunbury
The Age