Standing O for Al Gore's film on global warming at Sundance

[G_j]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012502230_pf.html

Al Gore, Sundance's Leading Man
'An Inconvenient Truth' Documents His Efforts To Raise Alarm on Effects of Global Warming

By William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 26, 2006; A01


PARK CITY, Utah -- Has ever a little indie film faced a greater hurdle? Imagine this sales pitch: Babe, it's a movie about global warming. Starring Al Gore. Doing a slide show.

With charts.

About "soil evaporation."

Improbable? Perhaps. So it's all the more amazing that "An Inconvenient Truth" had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday night before an enthusiastic audience that gave the former vice president and his movie a big standing O.

Among the film's lessons: Earth's glaciers are melting, the polar bears are screwed, each year sets new heat records. Al Gore sometimes flies coach. He also schleps his own bags.

The morning after his debut as leading man, Gore pronounces this whole Sundance thing "a most excellent time." He is wearing earth tones again. He seems jolly . He brought Tipper and the kids. He is attending parties and posing for pictures with his fans and enjoying macaroni and cheese at the Discovery Channel soiree. He's palling around with Larry David of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," who says, "Al is a funny guy." But he is also a very serious guy who believes humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan.

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[quiet.american]

1. This is so great!

I attended Al Gore's speech on the environment in New York -- it was so powerful and moving, I saw tears streaming down the faces of many who were there. I wished then that his incredible presentation could have a wider audience. Some wishes come true.

[G_j]

2. wow, thanks

maybe you are in the film!

[quiet.american]

3. Hmn -- hadn't thought of that! :) n/t