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MICHAEL MOORE - BOWLING FOR HIMSELF (and who couldn't see it?)

Less than 24 hours after accusing the Walt Disney Company of pulling the
plug on his latest documentary in a blatant attempt at political censorship,
the rabble-rousing film-maker Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year ago that Disney had no intention of distributing it.

The admission, during an interview with CNN, undermined Moore's claim that Disney was trying to sabotage the US release of Fahrenheit 911 just days before its world premiere at the Cannes film festival.

Instead, it lent credence to a growing suspicion that Moore was
manufacturing a controversy to help publicise the film, a full-bore attack
on the Bush administration and its handling of national security since the
attacks of 11 September 2001.

In an indignant letter to his supporters, Moore said he had learnt only on
Monday that Disney had put the kibosh on distributing the film, which has
been financed by the semi-independent Disney subsidiary Miramax.

But in the CNN interview he said: "Almost a year ago, after we'd started
making the film, the chairman of Disney, Michael Eisner, told my agent he
was upset Miramax had made the film and he will not distribute it."

Nobody in Hollywood doubts Fahrenheit 911 will find a US distributor. His
last documentary, Bowling for Columbine , made for $3m (£1.7m), pulled in $22m at the US box office.

But Moore's publicity stunt, if that is what is, appears to be working. A
front-page news piece in The New York Times was followed yesterday by an editorial denouncing Disney for censorship and denial of Moore's right to free expression.

Moore told CNN that Disney had "signed a contract to distribute this [film]"
but got cold feet. But Disney executives insists there was never any
contract. And a source close to Miramax said that the only deal there was
for financing, not for distribution.

Love his work! cant wait to see this movie.

It won the palm d'or, so hopefully it should be a great movie.